Three episodes into Starfleet Academy, and I'm finding it Muppet coded and pretty fricking delightful.
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Three episodes into Starfleet Academy, and I'm finding it Muppet coded and pretty fricking delightful.
Hello, please enjoy this semi-literary nonsense while I continue learning that you cannot cough sexy. You just can’t.
Spines, NyQuil, and Staring At the Ceiling. open.substack.com/pub/jackiepi...
I'm not holding anyone's hand when I say this (because I have the flu), but if the only reason you don't vote for a woman is because you don't think she'll get enough votes to win, may whatever God you believe in bless you with some common sense upside the head. Maybe twice.
ICYMI
I regret to inform you that I still have not been crowned Queen of the Gym Bleachers, Sovereign of Decorum.
This and other nonsense in my latest post:
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Opening the door while you're knocking (or a microsecond after) means you don't understand knocking.
Hello! Please read this reheated piece if you are (or are not) attending a dip-centered gathering today.
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Drinking a soda that has a little icon saying it’s Vegan and that’s probably why I don’t like it, it’s missing the gristle.
He is vile. He is despicable. He is rancid.
In case you need a brief and possibly funny break from The Horrors, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago about Norway OBVIOUSLY rigging the Winter Olympics.
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You may now resume doomscrolling.
This may not make sense to you until Sunday night. Even then, it may not make sense.
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Please enjoy my nonsense about reading in the Time of Monsters while I track down who replaced my brain with pudding.
WARNING: I used the phrase, "Well, smack my jukebox and call me Fonzie," and I'm not apologizing unless my lawyer suggests otherwise.
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Bernice king’s message about the shooting of Alex Pretti
Minnesota 💜
With all apologies to Rousseau, Hobbes, and pretty much everyone else.
What Dangles From Your Trailer Hitch (Encore Post)
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"If you even cast a glance at something that may or may not make you look like some sort of elvish tart in a middling fantasy series, a sales associate will apparate and ask if you’ve considered a serum."
ICYMI
They say dress for the job you want, so idk
Today I'm dressed as a partially unraveled skein of yarn.
Please enjoy the following nonsense while I negotiate a peace treaty with my hair.
Face-Planting and Whatnot
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As we look for what we can do, we can promise each other that no one stands alone when they are brave and afraid.
Thanks! And yes!
Please enjoy the following nonsense while I finish laminating this card with my intentions printed on it in a tasteful serif.
Auld Lang Sigh
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Willing to work in a very sweary division of Hallmark.
Happy Gotcha Day to this fuzzy muggins who has at least one screw loose.
Fun fact: I dashed this one off, and boy, it's almost impossible to tell.
ICYMI.
While you all participated in Whamageddon, I just won Noggonnadrinkit.
It's 2026 and I'm still writing checks.
Or something.
Look, they can't all be gems.
This month, I read three books that prove words can absolutely ruin an otherwise pleasant life.
Check out my new post! ⬇️
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We've hit the time of year when every other email is about a "New You."
Cool. New Me is wearing a suit of bees in 2026.