I just described something as "a disaster turducken - a dumpster fire inside a trainwreck inside a nuclear explosion" - and I'll be honest I have maybe never been prouder of a metaphor.
Sunday Blessings---a nun at the Saint Michael Monastery in Odesa, Ukraine. They've taken in many cats displaced by the war. That's what real Christians do.
I wish I could accurately convey the amount of work certain things that “look easy” require, and how tiring it is to have to do that much work just to get to a baseline that others take for granted.
Reading, PA. Also Susquehanna, Lancaster, Schuylkill and a bonus shout-out to any place with “water” in the name because I get called out as an Eastcoaster for that regularly now that I live on the West Coast.
On this International Women's Day I want to make it clear that trans women are women, they are welcome here, and any bill that harasses or threatens their safety will swiftly meet my veto stamp.
Shoutout to everyone who wants to burn it all down but also wants to curl up into the fetal position under a weighted blanket because they don’t have the bandwidth to fight ALL THE THINGS wrong in this world.
If you’re thinking of getting Girl Scout cookies please consider Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters girlscoutsnyc.org/en/whatgir…
New middle-of-the-night Discord chat realization: It’s amazing how much of being an adult is going back & trying to fill in the blanks in whatever random worksheet of childhood formative experiences you were dealt by the universal equivalent of an inattentive substitute teacher…
big news for font freaks: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department & replaced by Calibri. Secretary Blinken sent a cable to all embassies today directing staff not to send him any more papers with Times New Roman. Subject: "The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin"