Jan (née ZetteZelle)

Blurb: “First, Pluto left. Then it came back, along with Ceres and Eris...and now Haumea and MakeMake, too! …”

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I named my fists Bert and Ernie because one’s a little bigger than the other. Wait. That’s my boobs, not my fists. My bad.

It's so funny when someone writes a song to try to get someone to have sex with them. That's what a bird would do!

Red Canyon,
11/29/2025, 10:25:20 AM

Much of our current timeline would be dinged for being unrealistic

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

I mean obviously we all already knew, but still.

Between that and Vance etc ir's almost like someone at the Kremlin just decided they needed to publicly burn a bunch of assets for budgetary reasons.

My mother had a very hard time buying gifts for her sons-in-law and used this technique for my older sister’s husband—every gift for 2 decades somehow involved a depiction of a wolf. When my husband and I married, he denied liking any animal, even a little bit, to escape the pattern.

As depicted in the books, Laura was a constant disappointment for her inability/refusal to give up pursuits like climbing trees and sliding down haystacks, and refused to include “obey” in her wedding vows (even as she promised that she didn’t want the right to vote). So a bit of a mixed bag.

18: My dictionary NEVER has a chance to get dusty!!

Flying out of DCA tonight for a long weekend in Portland. We’re just assuming that we’ll be able to return…

It’s going to be cool when Trump hops on Air Force 1 to go golf for the weekend while everyone else is checking to see if their flight was one of the canceled ones.

Some people might ask, who reads poetry really? Well, judges do!

Thanks!! I was imagining a concordance and thinking that Jefferson wasn’t quite *that* revered. Sometime between 1995 and now I seem to have forgotten all about the index…

Amelia Bedelia was an outlier adn should not have been counted

I was raised Protestant and tied myself in knots when, in my 40s, felt unable to pray and contemplated using the rosary as a tool to get back into it. Saying “mother of God” was heretical, but maybe it was ok since the rosary predated the Reformation? No idea how I saw that as a mitigating factor.

How possible might that sort of research have been without digitized & searchable copies of the relevant works?

33. All the great stories are about loneliness. Because that's the most relatable thing.

34. Only a very small number of friendships are evergreen. But deciduous friendships can still be beautiful, important, and unforgettable. A chestnut tree isn't a broken pine tree; it's just a different thing.

You really shouldn’t include single-Congressional-seat Vermont* in an accusation of gerrymandering.

* one of two U.S. states with a population smaller than that of “too small to deserve two Senate seats” D.C.

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Nobody ever wrote a song called Fuck the Fire Department

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

"look, Pope, the two natures of Christ are kind of like the two teams of Chicago, you wouldn't want anyone to confuse them, would you?"

I don’t think that Joe would, but when he passes you know that Hunter will sue on behalf of the estate…

If only they’d been proclaiming their love of Hitler, they could count as children well into their 40s.

All US-RU sanctions program depend on one national emergency declared under the International Emergency Econ Powers Act, which Trump could revoke any time (as he did with the Syria sanctions). Every action, including designations made under the Biden admin, could be wiped out in a moment.

The US could have done a LOT more than they did today, and I share your mistrust of Trump’s intentions. But today’s action is pretty typical.

As is typical, today’s GLs prohibit the flow of any funds to designated entities.