Shelly

I just want to take a second to tell you that my son was born via c-section. He was completely healthy, and the c-section went great. I say this just because I know so many people tell terrible stories to pregnant ladies. I have a daughter too and that birth also went really well. You got this.

❤️❤️❤️

Pre-ordered from @flyleafbooks.bsky.social!

Ooooooh.

Okay, but today my brother said something that makes me worry that Severance is an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling and god I hope not.

This was such a great time, it reminded me that not everything is terrible in the world. Also, agh, that's me on the right in the front row.

The surety when people like that say shit like this kills me. How can he think he knows? Probably he's telling on himself, here.

There was a stray extra word here, but that tracks.

This has been a particularly heinous solo Mom kind of morning. Bad enough that I feel compelled to complain and to the void. Good morning, void. Sometimes single parenting is hard.

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years' US Vice President JD Vance said the only way to secure lasting peace in Ukraine is to grant the US an economic upside - and slammed the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years'

this guy is such an arrogant little prick. he’s done nothing in his life but suck up to a progression of would-be daddies but he struts around like his shit doesn’t stink.

Your line from your newsletter about rebuilding yourself every day echoes in my head constantly. Because dear god you're right it's fucking work.

Oof. That stings.

Spiritfarer, for content more than graphics, though it is lovely to look at. That said, I still haven't finished it because it made me too sad at one point.

Also, there is this little canon ebook called The Lexington Letter that I learned about only tonight!

This is not a spoiler because I've believed this since early season 1.

My Severance theory is that it's somehow aliens. The Board is on a space station or mothership. The whole Kier thing is an evolved version of the people dancing on rooftops from ID4. Possibly it's aliens and the whole of our cast and where they live is on another planet. Possibly it's on Earth.

"it is so clear that the reason he cannot perceive discourse is that it is not happening in a register he is capable of hearing."

This is my new favorite insult.

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Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

On the positive side, my 13 year old son uses "you're an AI" as an insult. On the negative side, he keeps calling his sister an AI.

an administration consisting entirely of guys who think Skyler White was a bitch and Walt was real cool

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How was that not a larger statement? Jesus.

I want someone to do annotations!

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Michelob Ultra and Pickleball are
perfect for each other because they both are similar to something that’s actually good.

Are the commercials always like this and they get more interesting with social media mediation? This is the first time I've watched this live in years.

Vittoria Elliott Leah Feiger Feb 7, 2025 2:47 PM A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...

They possibly inflated the number. But wow.

From tiny to vast, living systems are interconnected ecologies. Therefore, changing one aspect of a system without understanding its larger network of relationships can cause severe repercussions. For example, in the 1950s a tribe in Borneo had an outbreak of malaria. The World Health Organization (WHO) sprayed DDT, which killed the disease-bearing mosquitoes and things improved. But the DDT poisoned the insects eaten by geckoes, which in turn were eaten by cats. When the cats died, the rat population exploded, which lead to other plagues. To resolve the problem, the WHO ultimately parachuted 14,000 live cats into Borneo (Hawken, Lovins, & Lovins, 1999).

Parachuted cats!?

(This is from the book Internal Family Systems Therapy by Schwartz & Sweezy.)