Sara Cress

This is good advice and I will try to get there tomorrow to enhance our scheduled movie night.

You’re going to be planted so hard tomorrow, lads.

Check out this cute resin tarot deck holder I bought.

Idk who needs to hear this but: consider blocking any account that promotes what prediction markets say about elections. Elections are already a monetized hellscape without people suddenly pretending that betting provides political insights. We literally can't afford for things to get worse.

Oh I was for sure in the primary and will continue to advocate for Letitia Plummer in the runoff. Regardless, I think the Dem will keep the office.

In fact, this just made me send a little money to Plummer.

This is our traditional "treat yo self" weekend. This started because we both worked for the same place and got our bonuses at the same time. It's this weekend.

So, what would you buy yourself?

I want some new velvet blackout curtains that his cats have slowly destroyed.

Lina is her own thing, but I don't think whomever wins the primary (I hope we can pull through for Plummer) will be bested by Orlando Sanchez or whatever.

Ten years ago, I saw my dream @cbbworld.bsky.social lineup at SXSW.

Looking for volunteer opportunities to take my mind off of the horrors, and this one is grim. But hell, I could hide. I'd meet some dogs.

I MEAN bsky.app/profile/effi...

Thank you, Ann Powers.

Husband and friends in IT and it's definitely happening to them, too.

I completely spiraled today in therapy about the fact that I'm becoming more and more replaceable by the day and society doesn't care. Being a writer was a bad idea. Too bad it's all I can do.

His fucking smirk. He's only fit to be a high school bully.

I keep seeing these, like, male children who were given control of our government and I'm stunned.

I am now just worried for Lina Hidalgo and her mental health.

I learned SO MUCH ALSO. Cannot be understated how valuable customer-facing jobs are for a young lad.

It's good!

Related: I think every kid should have to work in food service at some point. I don't care how good your kid's grades are, they should be forced to spend a summer dealing with random weirdos and juggling trays of food. Builds character.

I formally renounce the summer when I was 18 that I worked at Chili's and will immediately take it off of my resume.

John Cornyn: Profiles in Courage

LICK THEM BOOTS, JOHN.

Six years ago today my husband’s young coworker died after a brief illness. He’d just traveled with his family, was a smoker. I saw what was happening and went to the store. This poem was the result.

And then what? Diversion programs. Work programs. Actual mental health assistance, long-term. Medication. A robust social services net. Housing for survivors and their children.

We do ourselves such a disservice by underfunding everything BUT cops, who are the last responders to violence.

The path to mass shootings often begins with domestic violence | Opinion As court records show with the gunman in Austin's West Sixth Street shooting, the warning signs often emerge in private relationships long before a crowd becomes the target, Lesley Varghese writes.

1. Proud to have worked with Lesley.
2. Proud to work with SAFE.
3. We really gotta sit with the fact that violence against women and animals is a pretty fucking good indicator that the violence will continue in bigger and bigger ways.

I was just thinking about this. If all those CEOs really want to bring office culture back, they're going to have to bribe employees with gas bonuses.

Ironic, is it not?

No, I am not asleep. I am watching young musicians discover Queensryche’s Silent Lucidity and reacting to its grandeur on YouTube. This is the scourge of Daylight. Just fucking Daylight that had gone on too long.

(I am currently medicated properly and I am fine, as much as anyone can be. I just need to shout a bit. Thanks.)

The suicidal ideation that I've had to struggle through that is solely related to socio-political situations is NOT GOOD, FOLKS. I'm supposed to be halfway through my life and this has been with me since I was TWELVE YEARS OLD AND HASN'T LEFT.