An accurate representation 😭

Intern asked if what they were holding was a floppy disk (it was) and now I must walk into the sea

Every. Year.

One thing I wasn’t expecting when we got a cat was having to hide our shoes. I thought that was more of a dog issue but apparently cats also like to steal shoes 🥲

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK

T4 was an absolute mess around 6pm today. Sky Priority ~30 minutes, Pre check ~60 mins, the regular line? I overhead people who got there 4 hours early and were nervous about missing their flight… YMMV since it all depends on terminal and time of day

The No. 1 reason aviation is so safe is that there are at least two of absolutely everything, redundancies on the redundancies. No single human should have ever been expected to perform this perfectly, it isn’t possible and shouldn’t even be legal.

We need hearings now.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.

ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.

The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.

Budgets are moral documents.

Heading to JFK tomorrow night and anxiety is already through the roof 😭

I thought the cat was sick because she let me sleep in but it was just daylight savings

Oh never mind, the mayor said no work

I got my hopes up for remote work tomorrow but the snow is not snowing 😭

Tennessee** sorry!

Made it 17 minutes in before I had to step away. Seeing a side by side if Nazi Germany/Texas book burnings is a bit too much for a Tuesday morning 😭

Dilute tortie cat laying on a blanket covered couch with a “I’m not impressed” look on her face

Dina is not amused by the puppy bowl

There’s finally 40 degree weather in the forecast and people are going to get feral

I know so little about curling that I NEED that commentary to know to feel 😅

Never thought I’d see a curling throw described as “disaster”

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I have yet to encounter a working escalator today - maybe @mta.info can focus on actual upgrades instead of new entry turnstiles?

Between the guy aggressively flossing on the subway and getting a senior discount at Dunkin - I don’t know what the tone of the day will be

Tortie/tabby mix cat laying on her back with her paw in the air. She has her eyes closed and looks cute which is deceiving because she is sometimes a monster

The cat went to the sitter for the first time and she was described as “talkative” which I’m pretty sure is the polite way of saying “screaming goblin monster” because sometimes that’s what she is

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor

Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes

Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day

Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

And when we can buy again it’ll be with increased prices because capitalism

I dunno, a computer supplier halting all sales for a month because there’s a memory and storage shortage due it AI seems bad

NYAM has some amazing stuff and lovely people (me admiring from my small medical archive)

These are the Sunday-est scaries to ever Sunday scary

2/3 of the cookies done (lemon crinkle and m&m sugar) - up next is peanut butter blossoms!

::shudders in archivist::

Tortie/tabby cat on the ground with a blue feathered fish in her mouth and laying in front of a stuffed penguin.

The gremlin got her first holiday presents tonight and immediately started listening to her demons