Colleen M

Put 80% of your salary in VTSAX until 29 then peace the fuck out into the woods forever.

I’ve made my peace with having to reenact The Road.

I mean, I was very aware, but I shouldn’t have dived back into the New Yorker piece. I’ve lived under the threat of The Big One for 20 years now. What’s a little liquefaction among friends?

a woman with the word the on her eye Alt: a woman with slightly terrified eyes and a fake smile with the words, “the WHAT” superimposed.

This was the kind of week that has had that inexplicable tension in it that’s left me pretty sure we’re about to get blindsided by a natural disaster or civil war side quest. Maybe I shouldn’t have spent the morning reading deep shit about the Cascadia subduction zone.

Identified with Corey Haim when this was released and all, but have identified strongly with Grandpa since about 1996. Holds up!

Legit LOLd at this. Poor girl.

a white cat is laying on the floor next to a fan Alt: A white fluffy cat lies on its back in front of an oscillating fan, looking melted.

July to October =

It's weird to look back on this now and be like, well, it did end up being a really big deal 🤔

[Unix bros collective yells fill the skies]

Mine was delivered today (!), and that post...woof, you are very heard. As a former LA Times employee that spent ~80% of her hours working on the Festival of Books, a very professional, only-if-it's-ok, goth-about-to-turn-45, :::hug:::
Happy release day, and may the luck bubble up to meet you.

Having to tell your age 50+ guitar-industry colleagues, that are all guitarists and drummers, that Ozzy just died is a 0 out of 10.

Precisely this. Homeboys LIVE to buzz the tower. #Jerks

🫣🫣

a white dog with its tongue out and the words happy birthday written on it Alt: Happy Samoyed pupper with it's mouth open having his ears fluffled to look like they're dancing with the caption HAPPY BIRTHDAY

@theoutregirl.bsky.social HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAY!🥳🎊🎉🥂🎉❤️🎂
You're the best and I can't imagine how all this insanity would have gone without you. Thanks for being the kindest, funniest, smartest, and most-game ride-or-die homie for 30 fucking years. Here's to 30 (60?! Bish we just gettin started) more!

nooooooo

And the "Jackie Treehorn" user name?! *chef's kiss*

This doesn't even need the original context. It describes everything from my day at work yesterday to :::broadly gestures::: everything.

I've always aspired to write a novel that goes on to be described as....."big." (sighs)

The Pour-igin of Species We used ChatGPT Vision to identify animals on close to 1,500 wine labels to see if we could predict the price and quality of a bottle based on the animal on the label.

An excellent, wine-based example of why data is cool.
pudding.cool/2025/04/wine...

🤔🥴😂😂😂

Yessss. The best fluffy supergroup/crossover!

Some good news amongst all this bad:
Yesterday in a fit of desperation, I emailed a civil servant who's email is listed publicly (read: I'm sure gets a ton of insane, shitty emails) and she not only read it, but resolved the issue for me and kindly WROTE BACK.

People are so much cooler than AI.

Love me a good strong hot.

a man is reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee . Alt: Brad Pitt raising an espresso cup in a cheers motion, because jazz and coffee on the weekend are excellent

Hahaha this is excellent

Sargent is in my top 3, easy and unabashedly. If that is art basic, then I am happily basic.

The dog days cometh.
(The dog snoring next to me argues lo, they are every day.)

I had no idea everyone in my neighborhood was 43-50! Crazy.

Stay east, always.