A skater coming off the ice and saying “THAT’S WHAT I’M FUCKIN’ TALKIN’ ABOUT!” makes me so happy, given how punishing the ladylike discourse of my youth was when it came to this sport.
19.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 1541 🔁 158 💬 20 📌 6@elldotcoff.bsky.social
Librarian, geocacher, Sacred Harp singer, opera fan. Go Ballers, dale Bay FC. Bay Area native. She/her/hers.
A skater coming off the ice and saying “THAT’S WHAT I’M FUCKIN’ TALKIN’ ABOUT!” makes me so happy, given how punishing the ladylike discourse of my youth was when it came to this sport.
19.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 1541 🔁 158 💬 20 📌 6Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.
19.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 621 🔁 67 💬 8 📌 5There’s a reason why 193 Huntington is one of my favorite calls. It’s just so much fun singing “but oh their end, their dreadful end” in a major key and twirling around to bring the parts in.
19.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can we please do away with the expression “on the shelf” for someone who isn’t in a relationship? Human beings do not have an expiration date.
18.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re feeling bad about yourself today, I just want you to know that for the second time in my life, I have ruined a moka pot by trying to make espresso without adding water first.
17.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0RIP Reverend Jackson.
17.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you do not have any pictures of yourself on your dating profile, I will automatically swipe left.
17.02.2026 06:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the greatest gifts of my life at this moment is that I have both the means and the time to do things I love with people I care about.
16.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, so it’s okay when a white male figure skater does a backflip, but when Surya Bonaly did it she was a big meanie who hurt Katarina Witt’s fee fees. Cool cool cool.
13.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Farewell, vain Bay, I’m flying up
To sing from the Sacred Harp.
Seattle beckons me away,
To sing from the Sacred Harp.
RIP James Van Der Beek. For everyone else, please make sure you get regularly screened for colon cancer.
11.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
Unidos somos América.
09.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 26191 🔁 4131 💬 224 📌 136Oop lil earthquake
02.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0This Black History Month, read, watch, or listen to something that makes you uncomfortable. Then sit with that discomfort and interrogate it. Then figure out what you can do to not be part of the problem.
01.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My niece, who is in high school, walked out today to participate in protests. I’m so proud of her.
31.01.2026 00:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Going to rewatch a Catherine O’Hara movie tonight in her honor.
30.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I always like it when there’s snow on Mount Diablo.
29.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I want to state for the record that when I was a kid, the temperature in the Bay Area in January would occasionally dip below freezing and we’d wake up to frost on the lawn. Today it is in the fifties (Fahrenheit). This is not normal and I refuse to accept it as such.
29.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Female characters on Shoresy: conventionally attractive, perfect hair and makeup, always dressed to the nines.
Male characters on Shoresy: mullets, missing teeth, questionable hygiene.
I love the show, but it has a serious problem with double standards.
Thy foes profanely rage.
24.01.2026 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Minnesota Nice is a misnomer. They should change it to Minnesota Kind.
24.01.2026 00:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A faint line is still a line. #covid
22.01.2026 16:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We told you so.
We fucking told you so and you mocked us.
May everyone have the day they voted for.
A million thank yous to the Los Angeles Sacred Harp folks for putting on a great singing this weekend. My heart is full.
19.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Color me impressed by the LA Metro public transit system. I’ve been able to get around the Pasadena area in decent time for little expense.
16.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me too! People always thought they were bugging me with their questions. Answering questions is literally my job!
16.01.2026 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What’s that quote from 1984 about a boot stomping on a human face forever?
15.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RIP Claudette Colvin.
13.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can’t believe this is how I found out he died.
13.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0