Ellie F

If you start writing a novel about a middle aged college professor and a problematic student who thinks he is endlessly interesting, a commando squad should crash through your window and taser you.

In the Church Left we gotta beg for forgiveness to God for "that which we have done and that which we have left undone" every week, so that kind of nonsense is highly discouraged. It's not a perspective that is good for the whole Faith of Good Works thing we're going for.

Having just gone through it, a lot that you think about IVF is twenty+ years out of date. They don’t do multiple transfers anymore, they’ve dialed in on appropriate hormones and dosages, the research is in on the cancer risk (no cancer risk)

My nephew’s school sent a message home to parents asking them to remind their kids to stay inside during recess if it’s raining and not to take their chromebooks and textbooks out in the rain. In case anyone is wondering how it’s going in LA right now.

They did this in Afghanistan at the start of Trump 1. And I can't help but have the same feeling here, they are talking down the president from pressing The Funnee Button by giving him something big and flashy as a distraction

As a DC resident I couldn’t agree more. I shouldn’t have to walk by a bunch of armed goobers just to go about my daily business. Especially when said armed goobers aren’t accountable to anyone I vote for. That the armed goobers are mostly very expensively standing around doing nothing is secondary.

On top of all the substantial comments on this list: whoever decided how they were going to record each name and then alphabetize them is insane.

Touching grass will not be enough, I need the bastards ruling over us to [TOS violation] and [TOS violation] until they [TOS violation] [TOS violation] [TOS violation]. [TOS violation]ly.

Linus Pauling was a brilliant chemist who ended his career pursuing crackpot ideas about vitamin-C deficiency causing all sorts of ills from the common cold to cancer. www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

My cat is going to be so pissed when I get out of the hospital and her dry-food dispenser goes back to its normal schedule and she has to eat the stupid healthy wet food for her main meal.

Joanne and Benny from Rent looking at their friends and lovers and wishing they’d get their shit together instead of wallowing in squalor.

I’m currently pregnant and buying all the baby things. I have friends who had a child right around the time the tariffs first went into place. The increase in costs between what they paid and I am now paying is astounding. And baby products aren’t cheap to begin with!

A lot more people need to think through what a military coup would actually be like. 😬😬

This article barely scratches the surface of problems for makers of all kinds on Etsy. If you’re going to buy a pattern on Etsy, make sure you check for non-AI images of completed projects from customers in the reviews.

If my text messages are any indication, the political fundraising season is open in earnest today. 😒

I used to work at a major museum. At our all staff meeting one year the director was talking about attendance, and apparently we had, plus our minus a couple thousand, the exact same number of visitors every year for like fifty years. The ONLY year that was different was the year we had King Tut.

Having a half hour conversation with my wife at too early o’clock on a Sunday morning in which we both ultimately agree that it’s better for people to not be randomly killed. Glad that’s a point we agree on.

Watching Ever After as an adult and, uh, Henry sure does a lot of refusing to listen to Danielle or take her emotions and reactions into account. Sir, shut up and listen to the person who you are claiming to love instead of bulldozing over her.

There’s something about this line of thinking that’s very much like a toddler having a tantrum because their mother offered them spaghetti or unseasoned tofu and broccoli, but they want pizza so they’re not going to eat anything and they’re going to make everyone else miserable, too.

Incidentally the folk tale about John Henry is basically this, except for tunnel boring. It encapsulates the anxieties of the blue collar worker, but it’s also wrong about the merits of automation.

It’s 10pm on a holiday weekend and the cat is scolding us for not being in bed.

The group chat has apparently been converted into a hot Spaniards appreciation space, and I’m not sure how we got there, but I’m also not mad.

I’d be about as likely to eat something with a skull and crossbones on it.

also while I'm here, why is it called "Omarchy", is it TRYING to have vibes of a word that only gets used by the kind of scrungly libertarian boys I had the wisdom and clarity to stop dating back in college

This is a really good thread on Emanuel’s worst actions as mayor. But it doesn’t get into all the little things that made him suck as a mayor. Like when he publicly cussed out the leadership of the teachers union for striking. I still can’t believe we re-elected him over Chuy Garcia.

“A random point, if you are still my friend” is honestly the first time I’ve ever related to Kissinger. You asked me to read your draft, please don’t be mad at me. 😭😭

You gotta go out in the world and just have conversations with strangers, now and again. It can really help stop you from spiraling out into madness.

There’s at least 14 LEO’s from various agencies across the street from our house right now, clearly trying to get some kind of probable cause to manifest itself so they can get into some guy’s sedan.

An old man reminisces about fishing with his father and brother.

Whole we’re here, the importance of family is the overarching theme in Sinners and it’s what gives the film its structure and elevated it above “vampire film” or “historical drama about racism” and stitched the two parts together.

No more, no more.

I could have gone my entire life without hearing Will Buxton say “a motorcar race conceived in liberty” and been ok. 😬

Now that’s citizen science.

Every dude on this site needs to write “I can’t fix her; I won’t stick my dick in crazy” one hundred times on a lined piece of paper.

Was literally in the group chat before bed talking about how disappointed we are with Bass and mocking “large asphalt repair” (aka avoiding compliance with ADA and other laws on a technicality). To think Mike Bonin was bullied off the council by a pack of racist homophobes but she’s still mayor.

The weird thing about working for the National Weather Service is you can pop onto a meeting and say something innocuous like “they keep saying it’s going to rain, but it hasn’t started yet” only to realize you’re meeting with “they.”

There’s a reason the last president to even toy with invading Iran before this one was GWB, and he never got anywhere close to serious about it. And that this one threw the invade Iran Warhawk (Bolton) out of his last administration. If you wanted more proof his brain turned to pudding.

Some people lose pens. I amass them, slowly in a collection on my nightstand.