s.m.p.

I *really* wanted to like The Witcher books bc someone I don’t like said they’re trash. I wouldn’t go as far as that as some of the stories in The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny weren’t bad, but I did almost drown the book when I read this:

Wow, @msnbc.com done effed up so much that my parents are no longer going to watch anything, including their beloved @maddow.msnbc.com
Maybe it’s just a ratings issue but all POC anchors? That’s suspicious.

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

The more I read the news, the more I think I should at least foster a younger cat and see if Lulu will approve. This is sound logic.

Meet the "LinkedIn Catfish" Whose Fake Profile Is Exposing Racial Inequity in Hiring Aliyah Jones created a fake LinkedIn featuring a white woman with her same resume.

Link: www.teenvogue.com/story/meet-l...

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

Ok, so apparently Johnson died in 2017, which would explain no-follow up. 🫣

The back of a tabby cat sitting next to the book The Gender Knot by Allan G. Johnson.

I’m trying to regain brain cells lost from working in corporate America by reading more non-fiction. As a former academic, reading a book about gender pre-Trump feels almost outdated 😭
(Bonus Lulu photo)

I watch what people have sent me, but this may be the catalyst for me to leave Insta. Already deleted FB a long time ago. And moving the group chat to Telegram.

Tacos, Water and ‘Homies’: A Gas Station Becomes a Uniquely L.A. Relief Site Out of desperation and a need for social bonding, volunteers have banded together to help Altadena residents.

For the last week, @kenbensinger.bsky.social and I have been in Altadena, to report on the devastation. But we kept coming back to an Arco gas station, which a group of locals have turned into a beacon of hope with tacos, clothes and community. This is their story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

My job may not give me that time, but am I really working even if I’m at the office?

Watching an episode of Death in Paradise S13 that involves crypto and as they try to explain it I still don’t get it…

Lobizona by Romina Garber.

I’m sure others have already observed this but it’s hilarious that an efficiency commission requires two co-chairs

I know this is the *least* of all our worries, but who proofreads these?

No thoughts. Just vibes.