Talitha Amadea Aho

True.

President Elon is so precisely what the Framers were worried about that it feels like a hypothetical even though it's real life

Signpost with distance to London (600) on top, France (100) below it, and a pair of underpants below that.

Bravo, anonymous hero.

Long term love is 60% chores, 20% crisis management, and 20% doing little bits with each other.

A big deal:

It’s scary to think that if anything happens to Elon Musk, JD Vance would become president.

Writing a chart note on a young patient and had to choose between “patient engaged in imaginative play” and “patient made animal sounds with chaplain.” Chose the latter in case a speech language pathologist was reviewing notes. Love my job!

reminder: this is the point of the barrage of batshit appointments

if you are a tiny bit freaked out by each of them it will add up to “too freaked out to do anything about anything”

pick ONE thing at a time to be upset about, decide what action to take on it, then follow through, repeat

Your annual reminder that Thanksgiving was invented by Abraham Lincoln to buoy the spirits of the Union during the Civil War. When I celebrate Thanksgiving, I'm celebrating that the Union won the Civil War. And now we have to win it again, hopefully with words and votes this time.

Article screenshot. Title: “Trump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”

The Onion. 👏😂

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

anyway I am falling for the trick of getting mad about something he and his shitty people are threatening long before they can actually do it, and wasting my energy when this is an ultramarathon. ugh.

Bluesky? This feels nice. Like the old Twitter days. Hello Presbyterians and various other nerds.

a ww told me after the 2016 election, “don’t worry, the majority of people live just fine under authoritarianism” - i didn’t know what to say - i’m realizing how messed up that sentiment is and perhaps that ww mindset is how we got to be here in the groundhog day that is 2024

Trump announces Sauron will head up the Department of Destroying Powerful Rings...

Hiiiiiiiii I finally made it here