Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

I am in Santa Fe for my wedding anniversary — which is today! — and instead of luxuriating in bed with my husband I’m at urgent care waiting to be tested for strep throat. This is bullshit!

We finally spent an absurd amount of money on one that’s repairable/has replacement parts available because we had several cheaper ones that died after less than a year. It seems like the smart and sustainable thing to do!

I love Jeeka! I go to her for waxing. I’ve been meaning to try a facial with her.

Small child looking out the window at the desert as we were landing in Albuquerque: Are we gonna stay somewhere with trees though??

Cosigning this comment 💕

Trying to pack for a trip whose temperatures will range from 27 to 89. This is tricky!

"Rowan Pelling writes expertly on culture, sex, and social mores."

That's actually not how I would describe it!

Me, justifying my next tattoo my husband: this is medically necessary preventative healthcare!

Nothing beats Zing Zang!

I bought some pleated khaki shorts and a gauzy white button down shirt and my husband said I look like an East End mom but I sort of like it and am thus having an identity crisis right here in my Old Navy quiet luxury outfit

Screenshot of a headline from the AP reading "House Democrats will try anti-corruption message to again traction against Trump"

Oh, really, you guys are going to try that? You think you should try that? It's maybe time to try that?

Springtime PSA: if you have crusty feet get some Amlactin lotion. My feet were significantly less crusty after only two applications!

I'm real curious about where your new gig is because these people sound pretty awesome!

Goddamn, DTF St. Louis. Oof.

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

I have just been informed that at the end of “Sledgehammer” Peter Gabriel is in fact saying “I will show for you,” not “I will chauffeur you.” Little disappointed tbh

Oh no! Sending healing vibes! 💕

I've been interested in and learning from the recent Catholic discourse, but my god, some of these atheist reply guys are fucking insufferable.

The longer I live, the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less less irrational) shamanism of a book, i.e. that the writer is first of all an enchanter.

- Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, 27 Nov. 1946

Driving around with the sunroof open listening to Jodeci, as 17-year-old Erin would have wanted it.

Maxine’s replacement, a 2023 Mazda CX-5. It has a lot of technology I don’t know how to use. Things have changed since 2011!

Photo of a blue 2011 Toyota Matrix

I bought this car 14 years ago when it was a year old, a couple months after I got my first social work job. It saw me through two dogs, three moves, a divorce and a wedding. Almost half my driving life was in this car. Today I traded it in.

Farewell, Maxine. You were solid through the very end.

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

What’s MY credit score? Do you even HAVE a credit score, buddy?

Look, I know young people need jobs just like everyone else, but I refuse to let some car salesman named Branstyn who’s barely older than the car I’m currently driving try to manipulate me into spending too much on a car. It’s insulting.

This was the post that pushed me over the edge into tears this morning.