Screen shot of ticket for Stuff You Should Know live in Madison, WI… I totally forgot I bought 2nd row

So excited for this!! Weirdly, my second live podcast in the space of a week

A proscenium stage with a screen showing the graphic of the Rob Words YouTube channel

This show was a delight! So glad I got to see @robwords.bsky.social in person (and there was even a Jess spotting) 🙂

Looking clueless and sad and incompetent I got an airline employee to put my bag tag on for me. Success! (I really am so useless at this because I rarely check bags)

Why is your toddler in charge of pushing your rolling case through one of the busiest airports in the world? This is NOT the time to delegate! 🤣

An map of Bath showing the streets around Camden Crescent (fka Camden Place) with the location dot on the Crescent

Okay, now I get the full meaning of, “a toilsome walk”

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

is that AI stuff still around

A pair white oxfords with flowers painted on them

Spring shoes 🌼 🌺

The price of menstrual products is skyrocketing from inflation, tariffs With rising inflation and changing tariff policies, menstrual products have seen a drastic rise in price over the past few years.

Menstrual products have become more expensive over the past few years, in part due to rising inflation and new tariff policies. The average price of those products — which includes tampons and sanitary pads — has risen nearly 40%.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/m...

huh.

#time_flies ⌛

I’m so sorry 😞

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

I need to finish two assignments (one I missed due to covid last week and one for this week) for an online course I’m taking and l have a migraine and I hate my life. I have all the info spinning in my brain but I just can’t focus enough to put it into writing.

Extra whispers: planes don’t actually need it either

Whispers: Trains don't need heavy security

I don’t even care about the address that much since I’m in a big apartment building, but the back and forth negotiations on timing, etc are so frustrating

I feel stressed on your behalf. Airport “security” is like a sys designed by a human who doesn’t understand anything about actual security or human experience

despite being concentrated in ameria’s
largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

I love the idea of freecycle and buynothing. I’ve been a freecycle user since 2003; buynothing since 2018(?). But I really wish there was an amazon locker equivalent for community gifting because the stress and annoyance for a giver organizing pick up is a barrier and disincentive to trashing stuff

Pregame 2oz Cocchi Americano 1oz Campari Blood Orange Wheel.

Everything Just Got Better.

A Costco cooler case with boxes of pretzel bites

Pretzel bites back at Costco made my weekend 💕

High thin clouds in a blue sky

What do these kind of clouds portend? #mnwx

20 years ago, Steve described this new thing called Twitter to me, and I literally laughed out loud. "I'll give it six months," I believe was my reply. In my defense, he had been on AOL, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and maybe more by this point.

A whiskey sour in a coupè cocktail glass garnished with two cherries sits on a cafe table with a balcony railing and the skyline of Minneapolis in the background

I guess a cocktail on the balcony will help

Screenshot of Wunderground app showing current temp in Minneapolis is 78F

It’s fucking March

I felt a little guilty, sort of, almost. Something was wrong, and I hoped it wasn’t about me.

The cover of a trade paperback of Designs on the Past by Lloyd LLewellyn-Jones

I really like his podcast with Helen Bond and have his book Designs on the Past in my “to read” stack

LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES PERSIANS THE AGE OF THE GREAT KINGS

I really liked this recent book on the ancient Persian empire, if you’re seeking a grain of long-distance Context on current events

Idk why I’m still awake. Except, actually, I totally know: recovering from covid and having a bunch of weird med interactions alongside messed up sleep patterns. At least it’s almost the weekend so I can sleeeeeeeeeppppppp 😴

It’s that time again: I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE!

Donations are down, but ICE is still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help?

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛