This tracks with my experience of reading it! Can't wait to hear your thoughts.

JRR Tolkein, inventor of the Wife Guy TM.

This is such a good idea. I haven't read the books since I was in late elementary school and my mom read them to me over the course of an entire winter- the ideal reading experience, tbh.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

A tinned mussels label in English and Spanish, bright yellow and red. Two pelicans look on, saying they like to mix the mussels into warm rice.

A collage in blue and grey tones, with a Norwegian Sea herring label.

A circle cutout of a spiced tuna pate label with multicolored circles overlapping in the background.

A hand is holding open a small journal with "Tinned Fish of 2026" written on the left inner cover and a list of types of fish stamped on the right page.

Combining two things I really like for the new year: tinned fish and art journaling.

- because this morning when I told him I had to clean some cat throw up he insisted "NO, that's not throw up, that's just their PRESENT. Why are you cleaning up their PRESENT??" Little arms crossed in indignation. I had nothing prepped for that!

Parenting a small child is just constant improv with someone who doesn't know how to improv and takes everything way too seriously. My kid has apparently overheard us sarcastically saying the cats left us a "present" when they have vomited somewhere-

I think about that ALL THE TIME, what the fuck. Like the weirdest most fucked up thing to think in the first place, and then to just say it out loud unprompted??

Oh to be a pigeon painstakingly building a flimsy nest of paper with my true love.

*Victorian London Fog, excuse me.

I love Harney and Sons- their mint is superb, and London Fog is incredible. Plus, when you finish, you have a very nice, good sized tin!

I will die on the hill of stuffed artichokes being the perfect T-Day side. The secret ingredient for the stuffing is anchovies. Don't ask me to explain, it just works.

Boundaries! Gone! Wild! (AKA the bare minimum of decent parenting and treating children like human beings with rights.)

LFL people who police their books are the weirdest little freaks. You cannot put things out for the express purpose of people taking them for free ans then be mad that people take them! Free items cannot be stolen!

Every year we have one friend who has never tried it and I get to introduce the horror and strange culinary compulsion to a new unsuspecting victim.

We always did T-giving with my dad's family, which is the Jewish side of my family (heavy emphasis on the "ish"). We always had gefilte fish on the table. No idea why, no one liked it, but it HAD to be there. Now I too find myself compelled to serve it at my friendsgivings.

Two pigeons sit in the background, looking at their nest made of strips of paper on a fabric bed, while their single egg sits in the foreground on the cage floor.

These birds spent all day carefully and lovingly building their little nest of of paper strips and q tips only to lay their first ever egg right on the floor. Pigeons are terminally silly.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Hey @teenvogue.com, firing all your politics writers (including apparently all of your Black and trans writers) is the silliest move you could possibly make in the face of everything that is happening in the world. Until they are all made whole, I won't be reading anything you publish.

Monty is the best. I feel bad that the "jobs for the weekend" were so stressful for him; they got me through some awful depression times a few years back.

We told them we could take them for the night and get them to a shelter, so they handed them over. One kitten escaped during the handover and the whole group of kids went after it and got it back safe. After of all this, they started to leave without even taking candy!! I had to push it on them.

Teens are always the sweetest, most polite trick or treaters we get. Our first Halloween at our house, a group of teens were carrying around two stray kittens (from different places) they found and were desperately trying to figure out what to do with as none of them were allowed to being them home.

I just read these books for the first time and this is how I've been explaining it to everyone 😂 "Okay, so there's this girl, and she's secretly a Greg but she doesn't know it, and then she finds out she's a super special Greg and all the other Gregs are kind of weird about it..."

Report their posts and block this nonsense.

Hey, it's actually really weird to bury the lede that this woman was killed by an ex partner who stalked her. Domestic violence is a really serious thing that should be reported on accurately and fully, not used to make sensational headlines about "crime in Silver Spring".

I'm screwed- I saw Cynthia Nixon get torn apart for her order and mine is similar. But to be fair, cinnamon sugar bagels with lox cream cheese are delicious! If I'm getting a meal rather than a snack, then it's lox, plain cream cheese, onion, tomato, and capers on everything or cinnamon raisin.