It’s also difficult to do this when your desk job demands Constant Productivity.

I probably wanna make it an overnight to make the drive worth it, but I *could* do a day trip.

They can’t make me pay for garbage I wouldn’t touch for free.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i'd love it if today could be just a little less fucked up"

Yeah I’m cranky today, the barometric pressure is being bullshit and I can feel all my bones.

Trying to aim it in reasonable directions.

Conservatives claim they don't care about "identity politics." Yet they are the ones who think anyone who isn't a cishet, white, Christian, able-bodied man is inferior. They have a certain identity that if you don't fit, you are seen as worthless to them. They certainly care about identity.

Unless it’s a sex thing in which case I simply request that the tuba be thoroughly cleaned before returning it, but I assume sex things would generally fall under “too weird” so. Probably not a sex thing.

I mean, same except I want in on the shenanigans, the weirder the better!

And anyone who wants to get shitty about how SNAP shouldn’t buy “convenience” can suck the fattest part of my ass, god forbid a tired single mom take one fucking night off from cooking.

100/100 insight

Don't let them gaslight you

This made me think about how I could actually quantify my earring-weight sensitivity bc I do in fact own a jeweler’s scale. Just gotta pick out the earrings that are on the edge of my tolerance and weigh them…

How are we defining “too” weird here…

You have a hyphen already!

GOOD. Let poor people have a fucking rotisserie chicken if they want. It’s good protein.

"Stop making me fathom stuff." 😏

Wife: The way you know AI is a scam is that the same party and people who have been waging war on public school funding for 50 years are now pushing to spend tax money to get AI into public schools and saying they're doing it to "level the playing field" or so "kids don't get left behind"

They already have a hyphen! Oxford doesn’t have a hyphen.

To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022.

The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

I like my cities to be sittable, shittable, and public transittable.

FBI Investigated NYT Reporter Who Wrote About Kash Patel’s Girlfriend WTAF In March, the FBI began investigating NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after...

In March, the FBI began investigating NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after her February story on the use of bureau resources by Director Kash Patel's girlfriend.

My book is Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora (yeah I’m a nerd)

Aw, Pando! I keep meaning to go visit Pando, I’m close enough to make it a day trip

"Traders placed a series of bets worth $430M on a drop in crude prices just 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump ​said he would extend a ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday."

Reminder that the top official at the SEC responsible for investigating insider trading was recently forced out.

Hello?

Also take a solid break from doing the impression before you do lasting damage. Losing your voice from strain is a warning!

I am not even a little bit joking about “keep your neck warm”. Wear a scarf. Even if it’s only a tiny bit nippy out and you really don’t think you need one. It makes more of a difference to your voice than you think.

Sorry for the am*zon link, please seek the product at your local music store first, IME most carry it or something similar. Don’t buy the mint flavor though, it tastes terrible, and I usually quite like mint!

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If it’s not out of line to drop a suggestion (hi, vocalist here!) - green tea with ginger, honey, and lemon. Warm, not hot, and sip, don’t chug. Keep your neck warm (seriously!)

Also, this stuff is a godsend for managing vocal irritation: www.amazon.com/Clear-Voice-...

AI fans have told me that my job (writer) shouldn't exist and that they're looking forward to seeing me begging for change on a street corner, and yet I'm part of a hysterical screaming mob when I say "actually, fuck you."

If you got to know Beyoncé really well and found out her secrets that might damage her public persona if everyone knew, it would in fact be a selfish asshole move to use that to brag about how well you know her! Even if her public persona was a double-edged sword and she wanted to retire.

If he just wanted attention for himself, talking more about Ed would have been a great way to keep his audience’s attention and build himself up in their eyes. But it would have cost Ed’s safety.