Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
I can't say that I'll be boycotting Chili's as it has been years since I've been in one, and you can't really boycott a restaurant you already don't go to. That said, I'll be happy not to change my habits, transphobia leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
On a related note, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, how do you make me feel badly for fire?
The mice I get, but FIRE?!
It's nice when a new @seananmcguire.bsky.social book comes on a Wednesday because that's P's night to make dinner anyway.
All I have to do is wave the book at him and say, "New Seanan" and he knows to not talk to me til I'm done.
"Negotiating with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird furiously flaps its wings, knocks over all the pieces while cooing with delight, then defecates on the board and says, "I won!" In reality, Trump has lost a lot at this game."
I'm trying to like pu'erh, I really am.
The one I tried today was described as "earthy, fragrant, strong, smooth"
My brain said, "Hey, that's what the rabbit tent at the county fair smells like!"
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
If I could run 5 miles, I would definitely do this.
Source: Runner's World
search.app/WcAeo
in which i got so le carriéd away i wrote some spy fiction of my own
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
The New York Times Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡
Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡
Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡
farm to tablespoon
Are they having a splash fight?
Who wants to tell the NYT about 18C cafe culture and the fact that all of the people we might imagine to be stentorian floating heads expounding the wisdom of the ages were likely overcaffeinated and/or on some form of stimulant?
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
I guess being the comic relief C plot on Grey's Anatomy is better than being the tragic A plot
A tree who was alive during the 90s, but, due to working too hard, missed out on much of the best of its popular culture, and has only recently watched The Simpsons for the first time.
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I thought that was an Onion headline
The video is graphic.
We all need to call Schumer and demand he force accountability for Sheehy.
Here's a list of his offices:
www.schumer.senate.gov
Then call your Dem senators and demand they force Chuckie's hand
Unclench your jaw.
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
Somehow, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, there is always some new mark who thinks they will be the first to survive a Chotiner cross-examination
It's been the kind of week where I feel a bit weird doing book promo because of everything that is on fire. Nevertheless book promo is part of my job.
So: maybe it would cheer you up to listen to the IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS official playlist!
open.spotify.com/playlist/1fi...
It shouldn't be hard. And yet
This is in fact a perfect cartoon
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
