Jenn

Also, as a reader… I’m not mad.

Your editor didn’t know this about you ahead of time?

I love this so much!!

“ok” is the new “no”

May their souls mingle within the stars. I’m sorry for your loss sweet friend. My heart is with you.

This is the best news!!!

That’s weird on both accounts.

It just sucks but your work is so good, I understand why you want to distance yourself.

Ohhh that’s huge, I’m so excited and cannot wait to read.

It’s so unsettling to have so many conflicting feelings about one person in such a short amount of time.

Oof. That’s fucking heavy.

Murder.

I think about the fucking asshole who told me that no laws protecting women’s rights or LGBTQ+ rights would even change in January of 2017 and I should calm down every fucking day.

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That's it from me (got a date with my Bar Keeper's Friend) except to wish you peace and solidarity, and to share this Reddit post I rediscovered while researching today. It reminded me how grateful I am for the work we get to do and the people we do it for. Thanks, y'all.

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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I just wanted to say, I have seen you on threads and I love how much joy and positivity you put into the world and I’m glad that we are connected here.

The bottom seems endlessly low, doesn’t it?

Man, I cannot begin to describe the complete lack of motivation I have to do anything today. I mean, I know those words tell you that I feel like I have no motivations but they just don’t seem adequate.

Yeah, the same here.

Myles went to the vet this morning. We got some antibiotics for the infection in his mouth, we’re gonna do the carprofen every day, and we got the dose of Pepcid for him to help with the upset tum from the meds. He was a good boy at the vet, and we are hoping these things make him more comfy.

Love the Penzey’s!!!

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That is so sweet. I feel the same way about your horse friends and Echo. Myles sends his love.

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Ibarionex is an alumnus of the Maximum Fun production fellowship program. He took most of the staff headshots on our site and graciously edited a janky necklace clasp out of mine. I'm still grateful.

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The Davidges have been pouring heart, soul, blood, sweat, and whatever else they'd got into the L.A. Derby Dolls for probably a decade or more. These are folks who go all out for others, who could use some of that energy coming back their way.

Black and white senior terrier chihuahua mix is curled into an oblong shape with his ears up on a grey pillow

Tiny bean.

Exactly. It’s quite unsettling.

Two weird email things lately. 1) someone must have signed my personal email up with a conservative MAGA list because the disgusting emails I have gotten recently-EW!!!-block and unsubscribe. 2) four emails in the last three days about buying burial plots and prepaying cremation services… um what?