“Mahler devoured all of music history and funneled it to an inflection point. To me, this is like a madrigal on acid.”
- Our director, describing a particular segment of Mahler’s 8th Symphony.
Come hear me, my 17yo, and 150+ of our closest friends on Sunday afternoon!
#baltimore
My nurse practitioner formally screens for depression, anxiety, and substance use at annual checkups, & asks about social support, sleep, and stress.
She told me she does it because it’s evidence-based. Interestingly, she doesn’t make me get weighed - because that *isn’t* evidence-based.
Rear of a Honda Odyssey with a bumper sticker that says “my other car is an Iliad”
Client’s dad: “Is that your van? You seem like you might have that sense of humor. When I was here with our other kid, I took a picture and sent it to all my friends.”
So, you know, I’m killing it with the dad-joke demographic.
One of the people who liked this post KNEW 12-year-old me. 🫣
Just got done teaching my grad students about social assessment.
I would REALLY like to go back and tell my 12-year-old self that one day she will be considered an expert in social skills.
#therapistsky
A younger and less-gray @Rivka-otter on the set of Jeopardy, with Alex Trebek. She’s wearing a red sweater with black trim, and beaming. He’s wearing a charcoal suit and a blue tie.
…and some us have been flying under the radar.
Guys, there is no shortage of mediocre white dudes out there. If your electoral politics require you to vote for some mediocre white dude, and one of them turns out to be awful, say a sex pest or a Nazi or some other kind of milkshake duck, you can just find you another one. There's no shortage.
Context for the “peace deal” with Iran.
Smoked salmon salad sandwich on toast with a buff-colored iced beverage.
I told myself I could EITHER argue with people on Bluesky OR get a treat for lunch, and Neopol Smokery had ginger cardamom lemonade.
So, uh, I’m now obligated to log off this app for the day.
Just another one of the many situations that could be solved by MOAR LEECHES.
What’s it about?
Yes, he’s a liar and a criminal. He encourages war crimes. He’s enriching himself corruptly. He takes bribes. He violates the Constitution daily. He doesn’t understand the basic elements of his job. He has no empathy.
See how easy it is to criticize him w/o focusing on physical attributes?
Health isn’t a sign of virtue. Trump is unimaginably awful, but not because he can’t walk six miles.
(I can’t either, but I’m good at my job nevertheless.)
It turns out that being ruled by a mad king is not nearly as much fun as Regency romances led me to believe.
I am channeling all my energy right now into being overly emotionally invested in this book. Highly recommend.
ABC news headline Artemis 2 crew faces mental physical strain in deep space
Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.
We discussed this at our house last night after seeing that comment! We think the issue with remoulade would be the hot sauce, because chili peppers are a New World food.
I need to know the specific nature of your judgment, so we can have a proper cross-Baltimore argument!
This is how I do it. Foil-lined pan makes the cleanup less of a disaster.
I made crab cakes and remoulade last night to show off for a visitor from out of state.
Ten small crab cakes frying in a pan of bubbling oil.
Don’t @ me about the amount of visible bread crumbs unless you are willing to finance crab cakes for five people including two teenagers.
Close-up of a metal bowl full of crabmeat and binding ingredients.
17yo daughter has an important friend visiting from out of state, so we’re commencing to show off a little. Crab cakes, remoulade, cornbread, all from scratch.
A sheet of black paper showing an image of Nikki Giovanni and this text: "There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world l do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect." ~ NIKKI GIOVANNI
From today’s Black Lavender Healing Symposium at UMass Amherst 💜✨
Amy Sherald painting of a nattily dressed young black man seated on a construction girder, surrounded by brilliant blue sky
Amy Sherald painting of a young black boy poised at the top of an old-fashioned playground slide, looking like the master of all he surveys
One of Amy Sherald’s best-known paintings, of two black men dressed as sailors replicating the iconic V-J day kiss photo
We had the massive good luck to get tickets to the Amy Sherald portrait exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Blown away. Did not realize the heroic size of her work!
Graph indicating how much money, in billions of dollars, the US spent on humanitarian aid vs. Halloween candy between 2019 and 2025. Between 2024 and 2025, the amount of humanitarian aid plummeted to less than the value of Halloween candy purchased.
Here you go, the most horrible graph you’ll see today. I don’t know how to look at this and not feel despair about what we’ve become.
(Via @mollyruhlman.bsky.social )
SO APPLICABLE! 😍
I didn’t think it was possible to love Justice Jackson more, but here we are.
No one was supposed to say out loud that the “originalists” on the court are picking and choosing which precedents count. She’s RUINING EVERYTHING. 😍😍
Seriously impressed that you started reading “Markwayne Mullins fingered…” and had the stomach to continue to the end of the sentence.
Real “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” energy.