Noren

My wonderful husband walked into the living room and announced with confidence and pride, "I just remembered my dream last night: I had procured a fistful of single-origin Slim Jims."

Yes, thank you! This was clearly aimed at disabled people and it's not that he's not racist, but it's just that he is also ableist and a threat to access and basic employment rights for countless people.

In the middle of a conversation about where to go after we see a musical a couple weeks from now, my husband blurts out, "You know, I just thought of a great name for a grocery store. Broceries: Food for Dudes."

It is vital that we give big ai trillions of dollars and let them burn through billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day so that students are able to get a passing grade without having to learn anything

The "do audiobooks count as reading?" debate is weirdly persistent and also pointless because no one ever argues that the audiobooks aren't literature.

Also, reading doesn't "count" anymore--I haven't been able to use it as currency for pizza in over two decades.

and I wasn’t going to speak up, but I read a description of Gaiman survivors as “rabid fans,” as if that makes them more vulnerable or culpable. I wasn’t a fan; I was there with my boyfriend who liked comics. Nothing makes us more vulnerable than being young, not being a man, and not having power.

Speaking as a middle child in particular, inviting your parents to see King Lear feels passive-aggressive.

What kind of frozen pizza are we getting while we pick up the antibiotics for my sinus infection?

So anyway 12 years ago today someone shot 6 teachers and 20 kindergartners in their classroom and America deemed them as acceptable sacrifices to its misinterpretation of some sketchy sentence fragments and I’ll never forgive it for that

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

My husband wants me to watch "A Christmas Story," which he swears is amazing, but it just seems so tedious and I don't want to watch it.

When you "share" a streaming service with your brother, you make your profile picture Will Smith and his Carlton.

Annual reminder that It's a Wonderful Life received mixed to middling reviews on its initial release, losing its studio half a million dollars, in case you've gotten "doesn't suit our needs at this time" lately.

Can I pet that dog?

My perspective on my romantic partnership is mostly just a loving and deeply appreciative application of the Muppet Theory, and this gives me the great confidence only possessed by a cheerful chaos muppet.

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

Hi Mr. Kinzinger. I can't share this with people who use a screenreader because there's no alt text. In future, could you put one on there?

My favorite city in the entire world. To see the crowds against the night lights all the way to the hills gives me hope for its freedom. The people of Georgia are amazing.

This protester throws some of their own water back at a policeman. Unsure how effective but nevertheless I’m very impressed. #GeorgiaProtests
📷 Tabula

Be the change you want to see in the world.

One of my students doodled on their test a fairly non-specific animal wearing clothes and holding a cup of coffee and wrote next to it that it was "extremely Mrs. [Noren] Core."

Honestly, this is very fair

As someone with diagnoses of complex grief and PTSD, I was not anticipating the profundity (nor being racked with emotional sobs of acceptance as the credits rolled) that is the film "My Old Ass."

It seemed so pedestrian a premise, but it was beautiful.

I have weird feelings about posting wedding photos from 6 weeks ago, but here's the New Yorker bringing this one out again.

Taking it further, audio description isn't just for the visually disabled and blind among us! It's really helpful for me when I tend to get distracted/confused by a show... or frankly if the production is just too badly lit/dark to follow (True Detective).

hey, to make this place beautiful for everyone, could you please put alt text on your images? something like "a tiny buff-colored kitten peeks out from between the legs of its similarly colored mother who has a protective look on her face." thanks!

What's worse about vouchers is that public schools still have Child Find responsibility for these students in private schools, even though the private schools can get away with discrimination like this.

my husband and his side won't do this so my side of the family has access to even more breakfast pie

thank you! I've asked prominent people to turn it on multiple times and they just... don't. But they're on here 24/7 so I feel like they check their mentions enough to see it.

This post makes me need to lay down.