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A stack of pink books that say OBSTETRIX * Naomi Kritzer on the spine.
My birthday is this week! (I'm turning 53.) And to celebrate, I'd like to do another fundraiser so how about I give away another pre-release copy of OBSTETRIX?
If you are also the kind of person who takes antidepressants, it might be worth looking at Cymbalta. It helps with my nerve pain, and also with the depression. It is apparently a joy to get off of, but since I don’t plan on not needing an antidepressant, I can put up with that.
Share an 80s movie that you will always love.
I’m sorry. Pain is crap.
That’s Rob’s side of the bed! You sleep on the close side so you only fall in the bath on purpose.
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
So hey that's eugenics
Rao’s is over twice as expensive. So.
i'd love a mayor who wants to make minneapolis better for minneapolis residents, but i guess i get jacob frey, who takes away lesson of slick vides from zohran mamdani rather than being inspired to improve the city
he looks to bring in surbubanites rather than appeal to 60,000 downtown residents
iphone screen with a notification at the bottom that says Signal New Message!
iPhone. Like this.
Where are the Signal notifications stored? I am wondering if they can be wiped. I mean the pop up message that either says “Signal: New message!” or something more useful but possibly damning like “Signal: Betsy: Where is my wood chipper?”
Tell your dentist about your book!
Sam grinning and holding up a copy of Rabbit Test and Other Stories
Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳
This is like the linguistics version of the paperclip game.
Okay yes but road trip. If we time it right, we will be there for breakfast on some day in the future.
You misspelled “to be abolished, arrested, and tried”.
Centrists on the Minneapolis city council are not writing legislation, not leading with bright ideas on any of the issues in the city, not calling any experts to the table, not studious or showing any depth of intellectual curiosity, they don't excel at anything but the status quo
I don’t live in NYC and can’t speak to Mamdani. Frey could have told his cops to not help 🧊. But he didn’t. Frey could have been for the eviction moratorium, knowing that people were behind on rent because they were trying to not get abducted. But he wasn’t.
There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.
Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.
1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.
hey twin cities people, this auction has 4 or 5 decent looking sewing machines available. might be able to get one for a helluva deal. www.k-bid.com/auction/6396...
Oh, hon.
The Boy Mayor told ICE to fuck off. But then he didn’t do anything to follow that up.
That is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Oh, they totally didn’t spend $50k on bullshit. Some large number of them spent $100k.
I need an “all the public transit train lines of the GTA” map. GO, TTC, whatever service provides the zoomies. If it also had buses that would be lovely but I expect that’s too much to ask for. Anyone?
fuck ice.
A seal point siamese with short ears who gets crystals when she gets stressed.
Had a slightly different problem here, and my best advice is to make 100% certain which cat it is (cameras?) and have the vet see if it’s crystals. If it’s crystals, it’s a different impossible problem to solve. [sighs]
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Aw!