tommy in boots

dear autocorrect while it's true my grandfather came from poland most of the time i'm trying to text about NAIL polish

Platitude - Having the attitude of a rude platypus. Example: “Billy’s got a real platitude today huh?” “Yeah. Like he’s an egg laying mammal or something.”

yes!

once, i was trying to explain this to a cousin at a restuarant, and i said, "if you overheard one of the waitstaff say to another, 'bring this soup to the woman in the blue sweater,' how would that feel? basically okay, or some form of terrible/incorrect?"

i have a french toast topping to recommend!

1) sprinkle dark brown sugar on your french toast

3) squeeze a lemon over the brown sugar

4) with the back of a spoon, gently integrate the lemon and brown sugar. they will already have mostly done that for you.

it makes a tangy sweet syrup!

i just rewatched one about pottery last week. so good.

"there were no books" is going to stick in my head for a while.

a small, clear glass bottle with a cork stopper and old-fashioned twine round the neck. brown label on the bottle says "fucks to give." inside the bottle are many, many (possibly wooden?), all-caps carve-outs of the word "fuck." my bottle isn't full, because i have (literally) given some away.

truly one of my favorite things

one of the funniest wikipedia sentences i've ever seen:

"Nigel Slater was born on 9 April 1956, in Wolverhampton, then in Staffordshire."

found a portal to another dimension at the bottom of my coffee cup quick hop in

i'm not saying things wouldn't still be royally fucked if it were to happen today

i'm just saying it would feel nice

This is so wholesome! I feel like I should invite some wolves over for blueberry pancakes.

and while they eat, read them Blueberries for Sal!

i honestly think all of our mental bandwidth is so overtaxed right now that it's making us forget things

this is so lonely sometimes, i am glad to have both of you around 💛

What's your sign?

i still have the 45.

ladies of london straight out of the gate sprinting towards the prize of most racist bravo show of the year

(there are many contenders)

transcription of above skeet:

“I know thing are rough, but keep going. It’s gonna get better. I promise.”

this message matters both in and of itself and because it's from our dear josh.

transcription in the next skeet.

A short message.

i love you, dear friend.

this in itself is horrifically upsetting.

but not more horrifically upsetting than the horrors themselves.

i don't think they're committing horrors to distract from other horrors or to avoid consequences from previous horrors. i think they're committing horrors because they enjoy it. some people are like that.

Before this International Women’s Day ends, shout out to all women labelled by the patriarchy as bossy, bitch, nasty, wicked, difficult, loud, aggressive, unsubmissive, hysterical, emotional, manly, witch, cold, angry, and slut! Celebrating you always. Keep your knee on the neck of the patriarchy.

i hear you! it's so complicated. i can't drive but can only ride in cars, and nowadays can't walk very far at all.

sometimes a person's access needs are incompatible with somebody else's, and sometimes a person's access needs are incompatible with their own!

we definitely need myriad options.

baseball making it REALLY hard for me to wanna come back. 😡

thank you. nowadays i have two PlusLife machines in my life, living at other people's houses, so i get more visitors than in the early pandemic days. 💛

it's still a beast, though.

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ICYMI

i wrote a simple answer to this very common question, with a TL;DR at the bottom.

every month i write one fat politics post. society's framing of fatness affects everyone of every size, so we analyze political cartons, social media, sitcoms, ads, book covers, etc.

come get free. 💛

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you're welcome. the matching days/dates get to me too. that happened to me before with other trauma, so as soon as i realized what was going on with the covid dates, i figured i might not be the only one.

you got your first covid infection this week, now, 2026? i hope you get better really soon. 💛