Feeling ambivalent about the fact that the service I paid $50 to find a pharmacy with my ADHD meds in stock hasn't done any better than I have. (Obviously my predominant feeling is: fuck this country's broken medical system.)
Screenshot of USPS tracking info claiming: Dec 24, 3:38 am: Arrived in Phillipsburg, NJ Dec 24, 7:23 am: Arrived in Sacramento, CA Dec 24, 8:50 am: Departed Phillipsburg, NJ Dec 24, 12:49 pm: Arrived in Washington, DC Dec 24, 5:51 pm: Arrived in Sacramento, CA Dec 25, 1:44 am: Departed Sacramento, CA
I ordered this package on Dec 10. It's been sent out twice and according to the tracking data, has been to 7 states and DC. Hoping it's not actually traveled cross-country twice in two days, but who knows??
Screenshot from the metropulse app showing an alert. The alert says: Trains are single tracking between Medical Center and Friendship Heights because of a track problem outside Bethesda. Customers will experience delays in both directions. Some trains will offload at strategic locations to minimize train traffic.
Yesterday evening I lied about a metro delay because I was running late to a meeting. Today this is happening. So, basically, it's my fault everyone on this train is late to work, I think.
Logged in this morning to see what the updates were in the Brown mass shooting case, and instead see there's an entirely different, even deadlier mass shooting in Australia??
Having gone to a women's college, I've come around on "alums." (I like "alumnae" too, but feel "alums" is more neutral without defaulting to masculine.)
But no, apparently there is a celebration of Dickinson's 195th birthday that is simultaneously a celebration of Austen's 250th birthday. Quite confusing. www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
Photo of some text from the Washington Post Weekend Section describing upcoming events at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The final sentence reads: "The annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute on Dec. 9 celebrates Jane Austen's 250th birthday, with scholars discussing the 19th-century author's work and legacy." I've highlighted the words "Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute" and "celebrates Jane Austen's 250th birthday."
Found what I thought was a typo in the Washington Post this weekend.
Image from behind a crowd of people at the NIH metro stop, trees in background. Signs are visible saying "Science makes the USA great" and "Got Cancer? We are furloghed!!"
At the NIH #NoKings
Lol not a surprise that the replies on this text-based social media site are on the side of reading over video.
Yes! If something as straightforwardly non-violent as, e.g. occupying a campus building to demand your university divests from a genocide is painted as "violent protest," then non-violence feels like a synonym for easily-ignored and ineffective. We shouldn't accept that framing.
My dad, an 82 year old man, sitting in a computer chair facing to the left, with his calico cat Ruby perched on the back of the chair, right by his shoulders, staring directly into the camera.
You in ~50 years? (my dad and his cat.)
Both immigration bills will lead to many more people being detained without access to bond and will have a disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities as well as survivors of domestic violence.
🚨Take action: contact your representatives regarding H.R.30: www.tahirih.org/action_alert...
This week Congress is fast-tracking two immigration bills that will vastly expand the incoming Trump administration’s ability to carry out its mass deportation plans.
🚨Take action now: contact your members of Congress to stop S.5: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
And, if some federal bureaucrat were to decide, "hey, maybe it's a bad look for us to deport this kid from a war-torn nation merely for taking a snickers bar," Ken Fucking Paxton could sue the federal government for not being inhumane enough.
Politicians presumably support this bill as an easy "win" on immigration, because it's targeting "criminals," but it's so broad that, as the article says, it could be used to deport a refugee kid who steals a candy bar.
Contact your senators and urge them to vote against this bill. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
A small bowl of salad containing fresh spinach, goat cheese, walnuts, roasted golden beets, and a roasted purple sweet potato in a balsamic vinaigrette.
The silly thing that delights me about this salad is that the beets look like sweet potatoes and the sweet potatoes look like beets.
Screenshot of sponsored results to my google search of classic kids books Book 1: title: The Legend of Naranja cover: an illustration of an "orange man" that looks like Donald Trump. As in, it's an orange with a face that has somewhat trump-like features, and a hairstyle that looks like his famous hairstyle, only green and made out of orange leaves? He had stick-figure arms and legs. Book 2: title: Brown Bear Brown Bear by Eric Carle. cover: illustration of a Brown Bear. (This search result actually makes sense, unlike Book 1.)
Sponsored search results to Google search for classic kids books Book 1: title: Mommy Why Don't We Celebrate Halloween? cover: cartoon style illustration. Little boy leaning out the windows with a tear in his eye looking at 3 other little kids trick-or-treating. Thry are dressed as a ghost, a witch, and frankenstein, holding paper bags full of candy. Book 2: title: New York City Zoning Code for Babies cover: simple black and white crayon drawing of apartment buildings on a yellow cover.
Sponsored search results to Google search for classic kids books Book 1: title: Jesus and my Gender cover is an illustration of a white boy and a black girl sitting together on a tree stump. Boy is on the left wearing what looks like a blue baseball uniform. His side of the picture has a bike in the background, what looks to be a ladder up to a tree house, and the tree it's in has yellow/brown leaves (as if it's fall) Girl is on the right wearing purple pants and a white shirt holding a flower. There's a hula hoop in the background and green vegetation with a lot of flowers in it. Boy's side of the cover has muted colors, while girl's side is bright and colorful. Book 2: title: My First Shapes with Frank Lloyd Wright civer: Four circles in red, yellow, blue, and green with straight lines sticking down as if they're balloons.
Sponsored search results to Google search for classic kids books Book 1: title: Balls Deep Subtitle in much smaller text: A tale of stormy days and ballpit plays Illustration: three young kids playing in a ball pit. Result 2: a collection of 6 different classic Eric Carle board books. Illustrations are of a gorilla, a kangaroo, a spider, brown bear, ladybug, and the very hungry caterpillar.
Google serves weird ads sometimes.
I feel like it might actually be easier for Nanny Ogg? For Granny it would be an incredible feat of willpower, of which she's obviously capable, but for Nanny? It'd somehow turn out that loudly singing a dirty song off-key was ancient folk magic that protected her from temptation.
![Picture of the duolingo owl facing away, with its small, shiny butt facing you, right below the avatars of me and one of my duolingo "friends."
Text says:
[Crossed out] was your bestie of the year! Together you slayed 16 Friend Quests.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zhjjmb7wzvon5njm5a7wq2wl/bafkreiclpivz6ajpvfebbedmz4qrwzne6b4k6lk6zizcg3p6pqwv6lvbrq)
Picture of the duolingo owl facing away, with its small, shiny butt facing you, right below the avatars of me and one of my duolingo "friends." Text says: [Crossed out] was your bestie of the year! Together you slayed 16 Friend Quests.
I didn't even notice this one!
Cartoon of duolingo owl showing off his butt. Text says: 2193 days was your longest streak. Okay, hot stuff! Can you keep the flame lit?
Cartoon of duo the owl lying face down with a huge french flag pinning him down. His butt is shiny and prominently displayed. Text: You completed 2948 lessons in French. You absolutely crushed it.
Why does the duolingo owl keep showing off his butt?
A long 6 braided challah. It's shiny.
The other challah.
A round loaf of challah shaped like a cartoon turkey. Its eyes are cloves. It's on a red plate on a white, speckled counter top.
The turkey challah.
a calico cat with a red collar facing to the left and sitting balanced on the back of a computer chair making a huge yawn.
I'm not really planning on posting to bsky much, just as I never really posted to the other site much. (I am not good at being a poster.) here's a cat.
tangentially, I just now learned that aliyah (the creepy "israel is your homeland and you should move here" thing that birthright folks push) and Aaliyah the singer are not spelled the same.
I feel like if this were true, Birthright wouldn't be such a big thing? Isn't the whole point of it to make American Jews feel connected to Israel, because we wouldn't otherwise? (ok not the whole point, but like, a lot of it.)