Janet

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Not to be a pedant, but the theme in today’s NYTXW is a sequence, not a series.

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing it!

Wait, there hasn’t been a Paso Doble yet on this season of DWTS, has there? (Those pink and green capes in the opening number reminded me)

I keep thinking about the folks I know who had Harry Potter tattoos removed or covered because (among other reasons) they don’t want trans folks to feel unsafe around them. Seems like a Nazi one would be an easy decision?

Bodies are a scam. Just eternal upkeep and expense.

IN *FAIRHOPE* ?!?

Whenever I hear that bullshit, I like to remind people that more people voted for Harris in Texas than in any other state except California.

Sara Whitmer • •• 1h • I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

with alt-text.

I have occasionally run into a sign in a yarn shop that says something like “your husband called and said buy whatever you want” and it’s always an ick.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

a man talking on a phone with the words " oh there 's just one more thing sir " below him Alt: Columbo

Happy Columbo Day to all who celebrate

Who among us hasn’t eaten themselves sick on gummy cola? (3kg is a LOT though)

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine featuring General Martok. The text says "If you're still alive, you're not struggling with depression. Depression is struggling with you."

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Martok is speaking. the word box says "the battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. it is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. battle against a doe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind... every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. there is no more honorable combat."

Even Klingons know the value of Mental Health.

World Mental Health Awareness Day. 🖖🏻💚

They’re all vibes judges now. I miss Len and his proper ballroom rules endlessly.

There is one central, core truth to hold on to:

Most Americans don't actually know most of what's happening. But they still don't approve of the slice they do know about.

Well, it happened. I’ve been worried all semester that I’d mix up my TR 2pm class and my MW 2:30, so here I am in an empty classroom at 2:05 on a Wednesday. (Honestly best case!)

My wedding rehearsal dinner was catered by Dreamland. I miss good barbecue.

Are you familiar with the work of @thelatestkate.bsky.social? I love her stuff and it often reminds me to be kind to myself. I love your work and what you share too. ❤️💙❤️

If you go to the gym most days it’s hard to go to the grocery store when you haven’t just been to the gym! An eternal struggle!

I love Chawne Kimber’s work, heres her instagram www.instagram.com/cauchycomplete

A great book relevant to this:

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

lol I’m going tomorrow and the way I don’t know how that one or father figure will work…

The Yankees and Dodgers are the Poochie of the postseason.

Oh, I too had this conversation yesterday.

So thankful for another lesson on how people lie with statistics.

I wasn’t gonna vote this season for DWTS because this season makes me feel old but Andy Richter made me.

My first season was Helio’s win, then I went away for a while but I’ve been back since Hinch.

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