I heard the phrase "righteously belligerent" in a documentary recently, and I think it's my new motto.

No spoons left, only knives.

Oh that's smart!

Chores exist. But so does spending the day in front of open windows, under a pile of handknit blankets with a ballpoint pen and crossword puzzles.

Current work #knitting. Feather and fan baby blanket in #hobbii Carnival. Lots of muttered reminders that lace looks like shit until blocked.

Music blasting when I get in a fight with toxic masculinity driving a mustang? Taylor Swift

Driving through downtown, calmly yielding to pedestrians and confused tourists? Metal

This makes sense.

Funny how the people flying "Don't tread on me" flags are usually the same one wearing the boots doing the treading....

It's pouring down rain in Asheville, I stayed up too late watching Wolf Hall, but I'm blasting music and drinking coffee (or what's left after spilling it in the car anyway). Monday.

Cory. Booker.

Damn.

That's it. That's the post. No more words to be said. He used them all. Bravo.

Hahaha. What. The. Fuck. Sorry PBS, that's as polite as I can be.

6 months ago today I was watching a couch and dumpster float down the road after #HurricaneHelene dumped 30" of rain, had no running water, and no clue what was going on. Today I'm watching the smoke float over the mountains from fires. Hey nature - cancel my "apocalypse" free trial, thanks.

Ok, I don't have an air fryer, but I bet I could do it in my oven

Back on my bread bullshit. Brand new #sourdough starter. Let's see how this goes.

Very true. It could been worse. And stickier.

I put too much creamer in my coffee and my water spilled on my purse #knitting. How's your day going.

Haha. We used to call Jim Pierotti Jimothy!

Stop with the reframing and sane washing headlines. He's not reframing - he's gutting and destroying.

This is in addition to the NCGOP hamstringing the new Dem Governor, and ensuring that the new AG (the incomparable @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social) can't challenge them or Trump. To which he is going, "watch me".

How can I possibly be expected to go to work when this is snoring on my lap? #MoiraRose the #dog

My "nope, we're done" is weary and wary. THEY MEAN VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.

Same.

Vow renewal, GO!

Is the show jackass or the mainstream liberal?

Ugggggh. I'd say let's rewind and start over, but frankly, we still are at a place that the founders would prioritize rich white men, so.

Ellen Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election Commission, announced that President Trump sent her a letter declaring her immediate removal. However, Weintraub rejected the action, stating it was not legally valid.

a LOT of those scientists, code breakers, spies, etc were women, queer people, & POC. You discount a brain because of the body it's contained in, you discount potentially winning a war.

Yeah. We're *blessed* with Tillis and Budd who are both just proud little snakes in the grass. They don't even pretend to give a shit.

This. And don't rely on what they ask you to read. Find what they don't mention. Read the books. All the books. If they ban it - read it. If they tell you you don't "need" to read it. Read it. Listen to the podcast. Watch the movie. They don't own your inquisitiveness.

Tonight's palatte cleanser, brought to you by a bottle of rose and too much doom scrolling on Reddit.