Jamaila Brinkley

Getting mad about people being mean to my friends, while cooking vast quantities of food: the Jamaila Brinkley lifestyle

lol shoutout to my fellow only children of narcissists

Me, enormously pregnant and lying down in a hospital bed with a scrub cap and hospital gown that barely fits, with a dubious expression in a darkened room.

Two very fresh babies, asleep and facing each other in a single hospital bassinet, each wrapped in a blanket and wearing a pink and blue striped hat. Bonus points if you know which is which kid.

Twelve years ago right around this time, my husband took the single most unflattering picture of me that has ever been taken. (Turned out okay a couple hours later, though.)

A grocery store display stand from the spice brand McCormick advertising a line of limited edition “finishing sugars”.

This is not a media tie in I expected to see in the grocery store.

does the grink live there too

A bag of Starburst FaveReds jelly beans sitting on a white countertop.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

DUN3

Watched the new muppet show. My only note is that there should be more of them.

We saw The Great Gatsby musical yesterday and it was great but the hook of the song ‘New Money’ sounds exactly like the Fairly Oddparents theme song and now my brain is doing some VERY strange associations. (Also good luck getting this out of your head if you’ve seen both. Sorry.)

how dare

Listen. The greatest moment of television in my personal lexicon is an episode of Barefoot Contessa in which Ina’s friend Susan brings a ‘surprise guest’ - the doorbell rings, Ina opens it, flings her arms in the air, and shrieks “IT’S MEL!!” upon finding Mel Brooks on her doorstep. AS WE ALL WOULD.

Haha and I just realized I reflexively still call them retweets, whoops

This retweet is how I found out someone I went to high school with is on bsky, talk about doing it for the people! Hi @otherrbg.bsky.social!

LOL Z can tell me juicy details about every teacher’s divorce and D is startled every time he has to be reminded that someone changed their name

This sounds genuinely amazing, no notes

It’s the Patapsco now but growing up it was the Spokane!

It’s a solid strategy

My Bluesky strategy: occasionally retweet things, then disappear for a month, the show up to make one (1) post about food and reply to a million posts. Repeat.

put that back in the freezer, it’s melting

huge if true

Haha my brain went here AND to Mystique from the X-Men, fanfiction always has the answer 😂

Cosmo! D&D! Heist novel! You are livingggggggg

I genuinely hope that whatever food scientist came up with Nerds gummy clusters is getting some kind of real reward from it, monetary or career or whatever they want. They deserve it.

This remains one of my favorite things.

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

My response to anything over the next two weeks

The last one applies to all the other ones!

I am also tired and absolutely parsed this as “oh, Bree is 3D printing some curtains, that tracks”. I should go to bed.

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing Alt: Leo, pointing at the TV

Me, finally watching Ahsoka multiple years after everyone else, shrieking “IS THAT @vinnythomas.bsky.social?!” during three crucial seconds to the extreme befuddlement of my significantly less Online spouse and children

BRB gotta go make a tshirt that says WOMAN OF LOW MERIT but the Os are all Mickey ears for my next trip to WDW

also they have good cheese