Emily

This is sort of a rugby-like basketball.

I really, really want Bubba to win this. A lot.

Sounds like an automatic add to my TBR list.

You guys, the kids are doing the Macarena. 😵

Why don’t we have dance halls anymore as a society?

We’re waiting for show choir awards to start and there’s an impromptu (but organized) dance party going on and this is what teens need. It’s pure fun and exercise and socialization.

And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all!

Transcribe the Colored Conventions
www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

I’m dying to listen to the Portuguese call of his victory.

Human skull wreathed in flowers inside a golden oblong reliquary.

Happy Valentines Day from the skull of St. Valentine himself at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin.

My husband just had his 2nd, I’ll have my 2nd later this year. It’s impossible to get insurance to cover them if u are in your 30s or 40s. And I would even classify our insurance as typically ‘good’ compared with other people’s.

It’s impossible. We pay out of pocket.

15yo is schooling my husband about Lifetouch people being in the Epstein files.

Oh lord I just heard her mention the island.

The kids are hip to it all, folks. That means it’s all spreading like wildfire, now even to people who don’t watch/read the news.

I can hear 15yo singing in the shower.

She’s singing “Let it go.”

Someday, down the road, an academic will study the influence of that movie on her age group and I don’t think society will be prepared for those findings.

(Her singing voice hasn’t much improved since she was little, lol.)

The industries and innovations that developed in response to the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts are big business now. If we nix those regulations, our health will suffer AND so will the economy.

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This group was founded by a local pediatrician and I love that it uses stories from the elder generations to educate about what it was like before vaccines. There are chapters around the country.

grandparentsforvaccines.com

I guess I’ve never really been into the Olympic figure skating once I left my teens, but this is the first time I’m actually annoyed by it. (Don’t ask me why; it might be because of the way it’s been marketed.)

(I’m annoyed by a lot of things these days though.)

We have a curling club not 5 miles from our house so I’ve tried to get my son to try it. He’s not a sports-sports dude and kinda nerdy so I think he’d like it.

Yesterday, while we were watching it, he claimed if curling is in the Olympics, billiards should be too.

“Thinking time? What?”

Huge win for the American curling women!!!

I don’t believe them. They can say what they want; lots of things can be agreed to behind closed doors after all of this has blown over.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was caught on camera telling Kur Teng in a huddle: “Kur, you can’t guard my mother.”

That snippet took on a life of its own, culminating in Izzo sending a poster to his 99-year-old mother at her retirement home

Short track speed skating makes me so anxious.

East Cleveland passes ‘GT*O’ legislation related to ICE agents On the heels of two shooting deaths involving ICE agents in Minneapolis, followed by protests and unrest, the city of East Cleveland has passed its own ICE legislation.

This is actually amazing. www.cleveland19.com/2026/02/12/e...

Chloe! She’s amazing!!!

And now we already have one serious injury. Hoping this young lady is ok. Scary stuff.

If your man won’t wear your photo on his shirt, get a new man.

This snow is causing problems. 😢 I want to see these women in all their greatness and it’s just going to be tough for them.

Get your asses off speaker phone. If I can't hear you, I'm going to tell you and I'm going to ask you to turn off the speaker phone.

The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)!

aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

Words cannot describe my joy at the fact that we are on the right side of Harden's ability to draw fouls. It's magical. #cavs

Woo, Sam Merrill with the moves! #cavs

Anyway, get a colonoscopy any way you can. Knowing how fast things change for us, we would put it on a credit card if we had to.

The polyps ended up being benign, but they were on the larger side and who knows what would have happened to them in the next 5yrs. I’ll have one done later this year, also out of pocket. Health insurance companies want to let us die, I’ll work extra shifts to pay for it. This country is a joke.