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Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.

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Can’t argue with that

08.12.2025 05:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So that’s who the Christmas Shoes were for, the child’s momma was an opossum.

08.12.2025 05:57 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Europeans on here: now’s probably a pretty good time to create / update / promote useful starter packs that could help X-addicted opinion leaders set up a presence here

08.12.2025 05:49 — 👍 142    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0

Might be time to rewatch the episode where he meets his Jewish girlfriend’s mom

08.12.2025 05:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cropped image of Trump glowering in his presidential phot

Cropped image of Trump glowering in his presidential phot

Dropping a more importantly in my mentions?

08.12.2025 05:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also, more importantly, if you’re not a US citizen get it before the end of the year because the price jumps to $250 for non-citizens

(though the fine print is a little iffy, not sure how they enforce this beyond showing a government ID, which quite a few states already give to immigrants)

08.12.2025 05:42 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

07.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 9081    🔁 3907    💬 77    📌 136
It’s a mockup of the America the beautiful pass for 2026 - the resident version. It celebrates 250 years of America with a boring white panel on the left where a park background could go but does not. Instead there’s vast white space and then an “America 250” logo made out of script that looks like ribbons. Then on 2/3 of the card is a portrait of George Washington and then the official portrait of Trump where he’s smizing at the camera but his face can’t do that anymore. The whole thing looks like a power point slide. 

Yes to answer your next question you can deface it and still use it but I bet if it happens enough it will be deemed “voiding the pass” or some shit.

It’s a mockup of the America the beautiful pass for 2026 - the resident version. It celebrates 250 years of America with a boring white panel on the left where a park background could go but does not. Instead there’s vast white space and then an “America 250” logo made out of script that looks like ribbons. Then on 2/3 of the card is a portrait of George Washington and then the official portrait of Trump where he’s smizing at the camera but his face can’t do that anymore. The whole thing looks like a power point slide. Yes to answer your next question you can deface it and still use it but I bet if it happens enough it will be deemed “voiding the pass” or some shit.

Give it another 18 months and that’ll be the official company line no doubt, but we’re only at “squints on parks passes” level of dictatorship.

www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

08.12.2025 05:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good news they’re coming out with pill form so

08.12.2025 05:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah I have a lot of reasons for why i could be a good candidate but my doctor and I discussed concerns about long-term effects and decided to wait.

08.12.2025 05:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you plan to get an America The Beautiful National Parks pass, do it before the year ends. They’re apparently putting his face on the cards in 2026.

08.12.2025 05:28 — 👍 31    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

It is strange seeing people I know suddenly blossom int their ideal bodies with weight loss drugs. And I’m thrilled for them! I am! It’s just strange to feel more and more like the outlier while the world around me is pulsing with the message I should join them.

08.12.2025 04:53 — 👍 34    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

It sucks so much!!!! And like, thrilled for the people this is good for, but I need less of it

08.12.2025 04:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is constant and omnipresent in ways I’ve never seen before in diet culture.

08.12.2025 04:49 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like fuck, I am glad I’m not 17 right now because the shit my brain is telling me is hard to resist and I’m 40

08.12.2025 04:49 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I will be very honest, the daily ads for weight loss drugs in every conceivable form of media - from live tv to streaming to reddit ads to the spam emails my email provider can’t weed out to the ads on the sidebar of the emails - has been incredibly taxing mentally as someone recovering from an ED.

08.12.2025 04:47 — 👍 125    🔁 7    💬 7    📌 0

Correction Mae Whitman is a textile designer and she’s going on 12 dates for Christmas and also it’s a tv show which explains a lot about the pacing and format I now realize

But the point stands.

08.12.2025 03:24 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And it’s set in London so everyone has fancy lil accents

08.12.2025 03:09 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@clairewillett.bsky.social did you know about this?!?

08.12.2025 03:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Mae Whitman is in a Hall mark Christmas Movie?? And she’s a wedding dress designer??? And Jane Seymour is in it???? I am IN

08.12.2025 03:06 — 👍 37    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 2

Well sure you can’t expect the commissioners not to be honored for the hard work they do of making sure baseball sucks a little

08.12.2025 02:14 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Roger Clemens should not be in the Hall with or without PEDs

08.12.2025 02:13 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The Barry Bonds Of It All will allow sportswriters to ignore the snubbing of Fernando Valenzuela and what that says about MLB.

08.12.2025 02:11 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Fernando Valenzuela

Career with Dodgers

11 Seasons with Dodgers (1980-90)
1981 World Series Champion
1981 NL Cy Young and Rookie of the Year
6-Time All-Star (1981-1986)
1986 Gold Glove Award
1981 and 1983 Silver Slugger Award

#34 Retired by Dodgers in August 2023

Fernando Valenzuela Career with Dodgers 11 Seasons with Dodgers (1980-90) 1981 World Series Champion 1981 NL Cy Young and Rookie of the Year 6-Time All-Star (1981-1986) 1986 Gold Glove Award 1981 and 1983 Silver Slugger Award #34 Retired by Dodgers in August 2023

Coincidentally this popped up on the broadcast I’m white-noising and you’re telling me THIS man can’t get more than five votes with THIS resume - which doesn’t extend to his cultural contributions and influence - yet some dude I don’t think I’ve ever heard of prior to today did???

08.12.2025 01:59 — 👍 28    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

I can’t believe Fernando couldn’t get enough votes. Fucking ridiculous.

08.12.2025 01:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is no room in the tent if they can’t answer the question “what will you differently in the future”

08.12.2025 01:31 — 👍 140    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 0

Girl we all have access to clearsky you’re not special

08.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Curse of the Nightengale continues

08.12.2025 00:48 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Yes they’ve also been more violent

08.12.2025 00:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I don’t buy followers I get them the old-fashioned way: by writing a half-conceived skeet between customers and then realizing it’s gone viral amongst some of the most annoying people online (resist accounts)

08.12.2025 00:20 — 👍 51    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

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