Ace

YOU HEARD ME

If we believed in marriage, I'd loch his shit down.

Update! He has delivered a plate of chocolate chip pancakes to my office.

My boyfriend brought me coffee in bed (which tbf he does everyday), then he shoveled the walk and now he's making pancakes.

I do not have children. I have 2 cats and they are *thrilled*.

Mental Health ProTip: build a blanket fort in your living room and do everything in there.

There is precisely one YA author who ever had anything useful to say about the real world, rather than posing exciting thought experiments, and that is because he took a deep breath and set out to kill God and the Catholic Church with a girl and her animal familiar.

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

You might be interested in this from a JHU history faculty: www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

This is partially a getting older thing and reevaluating my parents as perhaps not as adriot as I thought, and realizing maybe my lit and media diet is setting me up for better outcomes re: critical thinkings. But it also feels like a dire warning. Don't get stuck in the rut, examine everything.

Their inability to square the idea that there are no guardrails is frustrating. They seem constantly surprised by the world we find overselves in, when I feel like the signs have been screaming for my entire life. What is that?

But I am also living in a completely different world re: informational imput, which makes talking with them feel like talking to someone from an alternate reality. And they are not MAGA. We largely agree on human rights and dignity. Yet.

Watching the way my parents' lives and interests have shrunk as they have aged is frankly terrifying me about my own cognitive longevity.

Union Strong: IAM Local 4538 Members Win Jobs Back at BCPL YouTube video by IAM Union

A dozen Baltimore County librarians got fired for organizing their union and then won their jobs back with their union. youtu.be/eAMK9ugqqhc

Took an hour to get home last night, an hour to drive in this morning. 30% of lanes still blocked by ice mounds, but it is 36 degrees outside rn and I want to take off my shoes and put my feet in the mud.

I went to Safeway yesterday and left with only olives and yeast.

Power to the striking workers of Minneapolis today!

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Boyfriend making serious plans about how to smuggle the max amount of cheese into the theatre for the LotR 25-year re-release.

Yes!!! The non-chronology and the disappearing posts makes it near impossible to plan or remember actual live events. I briefly had an IG for the community fridge I ran, but people would see posts days later after the food was long gone.

Makes me so angry to come back to cause I can see how much of an attention suck it is, and for me the useful aspects - seeing posts from local groups and people I know IRL - does not outweigh the mental cost. Feels like they are trying to bribe me to use it by holding useful info hostage. Fuck Meta.

But the more you use it, the more you watch, the less critically you think about each post. Same with the ads. They wear down your critical thinking skills to a smooth, credulous stone.

I'll get fucking drowned in the tik-tok-ification of IG. I will loose hours of time to sheer mindlessness and I am tired of random people's heads talking to a screen, telling me information in 30-second bits. Who are you? What're your credentials on this? Just a dude in a car.

Yeah I'm on one app bitching about another app, but for me Bluesky has an end. There is a time at which I think "no more" and I put it down. The use cycle is brief, there's no infinite scroll.

I briefly got back on IG cause my friends still communicate thru it and the amount of psychic damage I took ruined my evening. An absolutely insidious app.

I'd watch the hell out of Shire Columbo.

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

Two lemons with toothpick legs. One on left is ripe and has a coin in it's mouth. One on right is horrifically dessicated, mouth screaming.

2025 lemon pig had a rough year, but 2026 lemon pig is looking fresh and sassy.

Today a friend told me he fast forwards thru slow scenes while watching Pluribus and I said, "oh, so you don't watch it then."

I keep recommending Pluribus and people keep complaining that it's slow and yeah it is slow that doesn't make it bad? I love a slow show it makes me pay attention.