possum? i hardly know 'um!

bad bunny paving the way for a cocteau twins reunion super bowl halftime show

not interested in "ai" unless it is immediately preceded by "jargalant alt-"

I love that she's clearly reading off prepared notes, like she prepped for the hearing by frantically compiling facts that she thought she could use to deflect scrutiny over Epstein in the absolute most Methinks The Lady Doth Protest Too Much way imaginable

hard to overstate what an absolutely dogshit movie that was except for the cars go vroom parts

yeah but genuine question, given the many many ways in which he's been able to arrogate powers held pretty explicitly by other branches without even bothering with a constitutional fig leaf, why should we believe that he won't do the same thing this time? why would this be any different?

top brass saw one too many videos of agents slipping on icy ground and falling on their asses wile e. coyote style

all that to say: sometimes life gets scary and you won't know what to do or what will happen. later, you won't remember that time with fondness, but you will remember the individual moments of grace and love that sustained you and carried you through to the other side.

holding him for the first time a week after he was born. K singing "you are my sunshine" to him. O's big hand holding him so gently while he lay in the isolette. finally seeing his whole face when he made it off respiratory support. the limitless care and kindness of everyone around us.

friend of mine just had a baby ~6 weeks preterm and hearing about it is bringing back a wave of memories from B's NICU months. it was a stressful, intense, uncertain time generally, so it's surprising that the individual moments i'm remembering 2 years later are full of joy, hope, and gratitude

"no i'm not vaping, i've just been eating an ungodly quantity of cotton candy lately and it's giving me the sugar toots. fog? what fog? no idea, man, maybe your hvac is on the fritz or something"

new stress dream just dropped

if the second-oldest dwarf from the hobbit had an ass baby with stephen miller, it would come out looking like this guy

prayers and blessings

hell yeah this rules

narrative dissonance all the way down. you're telling me a lady who wears a tutu in full public can't at least appreciate the high camp of judith lieber??!?!

they should talk more about the plastic surgery she underwent to make her look less like ron perlman. it would humanize her in the eyes of the american public.

hand foot and mouth is the keyser soze of childhood maladies. oh it's just a harmless lil ole minor cold, no big deal...until it walks away at the very end, revealing its true and diabolical identity (this post courtesy of the four non-contiguous hours of sleep i managed to get last night)

Also generally speaking I consider all ai use to be scabbing which is Not For Us! We don't do that!

santa claus could simply never

a hillbilly got me apocalyptically crossfaded off whiskey and ale-8 followed by gravity bong rips out of a five-gallon home depot bucket

that would be so good in a mai tai

where exactly did this reduction in open-air drug use happen, bc i live a few blocks away from north aurora and the reduction sure as shit didn't happen here. if anything, it got worse.

yeah there are somewhere between 500k and 1m native neo-aramaic speakers across 5-ish linguistic subgroups. the jewish mourner's kaddish is spoken in aramaic, too

we gotta retire the borat "my wife" and replace it with the laszlo cravensworth "my good lady wife." i'm sorry. it's time.

there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’

Stone tablet with engraved Aramaic script (sick nasty)

ancient aramaic. sounds cool, alphabet looks absolutely sick nasty. it was the lingua franca in the fertile crescent AND forms of aramaic are still spoken in the region.

i assume this means he's now the weird burgermaster (i.e. the one on 100th and aurora)

Danger! High Voltage by Electric Six

if you're on a "books about the tragic impact of systemic ineptitude and austerity on british sea power" kick, The Wager by David Grann would be a perfect follow-up if you haven't read it already

imagining a Department of Toddler Parents: The morning meetings are mostly footwear-related struggle sessions, the filing cabinets are full of sheets of paper with a single crayoned squiggle on each, and the coffee urn is the size of a nuclear cooling tower