Rachel

uh hey yeah quick quesh are we all supposed to just keep doing this or what

You can't doxx a govt employee. If I, an employee of the State of Illinois, can have my salary publicly listed and my emails FOIA'd, then these jerks can show their faces.

This is Lainey, she’s what my friends call an ethically sourced goldendoodle (her mom was rescued from a puppy mill and Lainey was born in the shelter) and these are her two roommates Luna and Salem. They’re both indoor cats but Salem enjoys supervised sun time outside.

One lobotomy is not enough to watch the bloodthirsty coverage of this nightmare without going insane.

My dog got to spend the day with my mom’s dog and the pictures are literally so cute I can’t handle it

Jazz Chisholm Jr. and his cat, Oliver

Jazz I need to know everything about your cat

If you are arrested today protesting the Trump administration in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

Hi my dog is incredibly cute and photogenic. I envy her for a multitude of reasons.

My dog got a pup cup today

I went to the white sox game, got a campfire milkshake, saw the pope mural, and took one of my favorite pictures ever. Good day.

It’s been such a busy week that my first thought as soon as I woke up this morning was “okay what do I have to do today” and then I remembered it was Saturday and it was amazing

You make sure there are consequences for lying and everyone else will fall into line immediately

We as a society wouldn’t let girls act this way, it’s not “ladylike”. And it’s not even all of my boys. But when every chance for redirection or correction in your life has been glossed over by “boys will be boys” why change your behavior? The consequence is that you eventually fall behind.

And I want to note that these are to my knowledge neurotypical boys. I have ND boys too. I can see the difference between truly being unable to control hyperactivity and simply not wanting to. Generally speaking, the truly hyperactive kids don’t feel the need to engage/intentionally distract others

Now all of this is one thing. But I think issues like this are compounded because this anti-social behavior that they’re demonstrating so often gets excused as “oh they’re just boys being boys” or “oh they’re just busy/active/whatever sugar coated term you want to use for impulsive.

They are constantly pushing, shoving, hitting, reaching to touch each other’s Chromebook, and usually it’s all playful until it’s not. But I truly mean it is constant. I can hardly take my attention off them for a minute. I tell them literally every day they need to keep their hands to themselves

When they’re not playing they’re talking about their conquests or watching youtubers play fortnight. It consumes their entire existence. This group also cannot for the life of them keep their hands off each other. Or each other’s things.

I know reason 1 sounds very boomer but the problem is fully unrestricted game time causes developing minds to constantly be seeking their next dopamine hit. I have a group of bots this year who are constantly on fortnight. It’s literally all they talk about.

From what I can see, boys have a noticeably diminished ability to regulate their emotions and impulses and demonstrate self control. There can be a lot of variables here but anecdotally I see two constants. 1) video games/screen time and 2) the adage “boys will be boys!”

Hello I have A Take on this. Source: me, a 4th grade teacher.

You know how there’s always that one kid in school who everyone is making fun of all the time, but they just think everyone is nice? Yeah we’re that kid now.

I actually looked it up because I didn’t really know either but I knew this one felt wrong. Wally’s head is more of an oblong oval shape

It’s the head of the Boston Red Sox mascot but it’s probably from temu. It is lurking in the corner of the dugout half shrouded by shadows.

This is a Venn diagram of my interests that is almost a perfect circle

Went to Starbucks for breakfast and they accidentally doubled our drink order. Chicago and its suburbs are officially God’s favorites.

Is my oura ring telling me not to push it a valid reason to call out sick just wondering

I redownloaded Bluesky to read all the pope memes

What if I spent winter break learning the choreography to Dancing Through Life from TikTok videos

I’m not doing a vision board, not eating any grapes, not manifesting, not writing down any goals, not getting a new planner, just bring your ass in quietly 2025.

Thank you! It was “dress as your favorite holiday character” day and though I don’t feel too strongly about Cindy Lou I do like that she wears pajamas.