Dixie! At home.

Im not stressed, im simply a person experiencing 2026

Turkey, stuffing, Mac and cheese. I like what I like.

What a weird person to have known and liked two decades ago. I didn't think I'd be thinking of her at 40, but here we are.

So yeah, the past few days have been incredibly weird, as I married the smart girl I thought would positively change the world with the intensely conservative anti feminist essayist. I'm glad to have heard Moira's takes from this episode, as they helped me figure this out, but it still hurts a bit.

Like I was the theatre and GSA kid who pivoted toward goth and punk culture, but we were still cool. Her mom used to drive me home. She lived a block away. We talked about Elvish and fairy tales. We listened to Rent. It's always been incredibly odd that she turned out this way in my opinion.

I knew Helen. It's been years, but I find it hard to reconcile who she was to who she became.

I loathe what she became. I have no idea what she encountered in college, but I listened to @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social twice today, and it's stil a matter ofl cognitive dissonance to reconcile them.

I'm very sorry for your loss. She personally impacted multiple people I work with who knew her and Jennell, and the loss is a real blow for all of them, too. I wish I had known her, seeing all the lovely words people are saying about her. 💚

I'm sorry, and a correction, Helen's father and sister have passed, but I don't know about her mother. Got my wires crossed there, and I apologize.

Like, her mom (who has since passed away, sadly) was a liberal/leftist second-wave feminist hippie type, and it's incredibly weird to see what Helen became at and after Yale. I still have a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales she lent (oops) to me in like 2001. It's truly bizarre to read her current stuff.

I'm coming to this late because I don't check bsky as often as I should, but I went to school (Enloe High, class of 2003) with Helen, and we rode the same bus.

The more I've watched her over the years the weirder it's gotten, as the Helen I knew got me into protest music and the Elvish language.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

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When they're babies we had to discourage them from hanging off our necks and arms with their prehensile tails because we don't want them to try that when they weigh 70+ lbs.

Honestly I'm 40 and didn't think I'd recall this stuff. Do you want facts about binturongs or kinkajous or large cats? I'm your girl.

He is seven years my junior and I'm an elder millennial! What is this shit?

Also as soon as she mentioned the tiger Romeo, my autistic ass started spitting facts about him that I learned when I was 12. He was half a ton! His paws were the size of dinner plates! He had a whole acre to himself! (Why do I recall this? Neurodivergence.)

One of the women in my happy hour group also grew up in Cary, NC (we even worked at the same mall, which has since become the Epic Games campus), but we knew no one in common.

Tonight, we discovered we know the same tigers, as we both did stuff with Carolina Tiger Rescue. I find this hilarious.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…”

@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.

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Alt text, because that’s what Mr. Rogers would do.

With alt text.

I saw "have pride June" out of order to the other skeets and was like "yeah, June is Pride month, obviously. We're all gonna have a pride June"

I might be very tired.

fighting depression is sort of difficult when it feels like the best future we have to work toward is "maybe it wont be *that* bad if we're lucky". like whats the point

Anyway I'll be on I street later if anyone is bored I guess.

It's honestly weird living in an area where I have to go to a place a couple of blocks from the White House to pick up my partner's contacts.

Like, it's so mundane but also horrific? Living in the DC area is kind of a nightmare?

They're coming after gay and interracial marriage.

Just like we said they would.

Just like we said they'd overturn Roe.

And you said we were hysterical.

I hope you choke on your wrongness.

Just saw someone refer to Grimes as Manic Pixie Eva Braun, and that's going into my personal lexicon immediately.

I should be in Chicago in October or so and this is on my list if you want to double date!

Years ago a friend and I half-joked about creating a tech consultancy that just told companies "No" every time they contemplated jumping on new trends. It is wild to think, even if we charged $1mil per meeting, we would have saved so many companies so much money.

As a creative who occasionally has people going "why are you having a life, make my book!" I had initial sympathy.

As a person living in the US in 2025, how dare they take a fucking break. What are they even doing.