Wendi Aarons

Wendi Aarons

@wendiaarons.bsky.social

Humor writer. Austin.

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There's such a dissonance between Ken Paxton the criminal mastermind who parties with felons in Dubai and Ken Paxton the public speaker who appears to have just been plucked out of a pumpkin patch and given a de-licing and clothes from the lost and found.

People are talking about Melania, Natalie and Trump like it's some modern day "Dangerous Liaisons" when it's more like two insane seagulls fighting over a rotting piece of chicken in the Dollar Store parking lot.

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"Just like the 1890s and the 2020s, they’ll play with the unvaccinated kids down the street and drink raw milk until dark. Then at daybreak, I’ll hand my children their metal lunch pails, button their fifty-button shoes, and they’ll shuffle off to their factory jobs." buff.ly/EOw4Nr5

mcsweeneys.netI’m Giving My Kids a ’90s Summer—the 1890s“Just like the 1890s and the 2020s, they’ll play with the unvaccinated kids down the street and drink raw milk until dark. Then at daybreak, I’ll hand my chi...

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These are all so damn good @wendiaarons.bsky.social "Josh Mandler, who was tasked with chasing a bat out of the garage, even though he has zero wildlife-wrangling experience and was just as freaked out as everyone else."

Today I went on a guided hike at a gorgeous nature preserve as my Mother's Day activity with my son, but there was a "guy that thinks he's hilarious" with the group and seriously, CAN WE JUST HAVE ONE DAY?

"If you worked at Walter Reed, would you tell someone what was going on with the president?" I used to call my mom from the walk in freezer at my grocery store job to tell her what the neighbors were buying.

I wrote this for those of us who've told a loved one to get down from a ladder, and those of us who will soon be told to get down from a ladder by our children. Stay safe, people.

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"Now there’s a better way to deal with a senior parent or relative that won’t wait just a goddamn hour until you’re there to help them get something from the top of the closet." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

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I can’t unsee it 😫

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“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”

Honestly, we should all be kinder. Perhaps his ear injury is acting up after it regenerated itself lizard-style, or he suddenly developed an allergy to the ketchup used in the assassination attempt. Show some compassion, people.