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of my favorite, easy Halloween costumes is wearing all black and putting my hair in pigtails. Instant Wednesday Addams. My hair is now so grey that I should probably call it Thursday Addams.

When your team scores 8 runs in an inning in the World Series, but you are two of the outs. Sending love to Jake Bauers, anyways. ⚾️

Sweet lord mother of God, there is so much kitsch involved in looking for a simple Mary medal. ⚓️

Just saw a Waymo with a jack-o-lantern wrap, which seemed an appropriate symbol: scary on the outside, empty on the inside.

Dr. Dread Pirate Richardson chats with Dr. El-Sayed. 12pm mountain. Can’t wait to listen, @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Happy 229th, Old Itonsides.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

me as fuck holy shit lol

I propose that the entire country gets a two-week vacation to recover from the current trauma.

I propose that the entire country gets a two-week vacation to recover from the current trauma.

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.” ~Eugene O'Neill Happy 138th, dear playwright.

I’ve seen so much about Scaramuccis today that I have “Bohemian Rhapsody” on permanent loop in my head. The Muppet version.

Pretty sure I’ve had avocados that lasted longer than Zacharia.

Sending out high appreciation to the fellow driver this morning, with their windows open, blasting a thumping club beat, and a sunglasses-wearing, dancing skeleton in the passenger seat.

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I cleaned up my TBR tag in @libbyapp.com today and reduced the number of books from 160 to 175. Wait a minute…. #booksky

Congratulations on making the NLDS, Atlanta. 167 days until Opening Day. “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” —Rogers Hornsby ⚾️

Great….

The swing will happen. Just a matter of protecting the ones everyone else chooses not to care for until the pendulum swings back their direction.

Next stop: NLDS.

New listings available at Mother’s Manna. mothersmanna.etsy.com #episcopal

Often an image comes to my mind that I feel just needs to be drawn. In many ways, this cartoon doesn't make sense. In many ways I wish it did. There aren't seven men by accident.

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. The Ordering of Love

The joy of listening to a Scottish person talking about anatomical forensics. She just noted that the sternum offers an excellent springboard for using CPR to “kickstart a dicky ticker.”

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." — Euripides (The Bacchae) Happy 2506th birthday!

an autumn it was That grew the more by reaping.

So, dropping a glass lunch container and losing my keys while I’m using them are signs that I should go home and go back to bed, right?

When my maters do their ombré thing. Tacos this week!

Yf thys skeet doth recevye 10,000 reposts ther wil be a *Ted Lasso* and *Slow Horses* crossovir episode.

“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage” I sing along as I mildly select a butternut squash at the grocery store.

The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Sarah Longwell has conducted more than 400 focus groups with thousands of Americans across the political spectrum. Democratic voters have a clear message for their party, she writes: theatln.tc/u7lcGLQl

Today’s letter is a doozy. Forewarned may be forearmed. But who will take up the defense? We all have to do our part, yes. But who with their fingers of the levers of power will actually do the right thing? Thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social for your tireless work

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Best laid plans. I tried to add ras al hanout to my shopping list for a dish for the week. Autocorrect gave me raw al hangout.

Pretty baseball is pretty.

Mine from the AJC.

Wordle 1,910 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally got my start word.

Can't believe we've rebranded flip phones as foldables.

That moment in a stomach bug when you can’t tell if you’re hungry or if your stomach is upset because you haven’t eaten much but bananas and saltines in 48 hours.

Straight of Warm Ooze.

The teen is watching an NCAA football game and I can tell the relative score by the the number of swear words coming out of the living room.