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Not to be that mom, but a) Pull-Ups ARE Huggies, and b) my kid wears Kirkland Signature and has since birth, with very few exceptions. Also, what?

Just had the following conversation with my toddler during a diaper change:

Me: You wear Pull-Ups during the day but diapers at night, so I’m putting a diaper on you, okay.
2YO: There’s Huggies and Pampers and Pull-Ups and my favorite is Pull-Ups.
Me: …okay, but you have to wear a diaper now.

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This is a me problem! But yeah, that particular episode stuck in my craw enough I’m still mulling it over in my head and posting about it on a platform I’m pretty quiet on, so yeah.

I’ll also cop to having a specific relationship to the things I like, and sometimes people I otherwise respect not liking them in the same way can be weirdly tough for me. (Like several friends/acquaintances IRL hate Ron from HP, and I love him, so it’s honestly hard to talk HP with them.)

I’ll also lay my cards on the table in that I like the Ariadne character despite this because I enjoyed what Page brought to the role, and I also enjoyed the light flirtation with the JGL character, which this host really didn’t.

Obviously she’s entitled to her opinion, and there are valid critiques one can make of that character. Is she exposition-heavy? Yes. Should Nolan have given her about a third fewer questions in dialogue? Yep. But there was a surprising level of hostile subtext there that honestly bummed me out.

The other day I was listening to a podcast I like do a revisit of Inception, which is a personal favorite, and in general it was a fun listen, but one of the hosts clearly didn’t vibe with the Page character, and that ground my gears a bit. (Intentionally not naming names but iykyk.)

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

My two-year-old, seeing me eat some chia pudding for breakfast this morning and sidling up to me on the couch, sweetly asked me, “Do you want some?”

Yes, kid, I want the food I am currently eating, but I guess you can have a bite, too. Pronouns are not a strong suit yet!

WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.

After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

My park ranger brother officially got his reinstatement call! Absolutely possible the administration finds another way to jerk him around, but for now, I’m thrilled for him.

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Me to Judge Alsup:

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

Only five votes on the Supreme Court for Article I of the Constitution of the United States bsky.app/profile/stev...

Sometimes parenting is sitting blearily on the couch with a blanket while my toddler gathers toy construction vehicles and imagines they are dumping a metric ton of fruit.

My brother was laid off from his probationary Park Service job today. He loved being a ranger. This is utter lunacy.

Law professors pushing theories to end birthright citizenship are not acting in good faith. Their arguments are contrary to the Constitution, which isn’t ambiguous, & terrifying to millions. They can debate in the faculty lounge but in the wider world, we should not pretend this is a legitimate view

Congrats to all the dummies of every political stripe. Y’all really got your man.

Though my hot take is that an HP miniseries should be animated, which avoids child actor and chemistry problems and allows for much more freedom with the visuals of magic. Suspending disbelief is so much easier when the fantastical elements look organic to the environment.

HBO exec: This is going to be a “very very specifically British 1990s production.”

Me: 👀

Trying not to get too excited about a project that’s likely 2+ years from release and will inevitably fail to match my own creative vision, but all I’ve ever wanted is an HP miniseries and I keep hearing tidbits like how the showrunners want to cast an appropriately aged Snape and I can’t help it.

I missed this when first posted due to a self-imposed media blackout in my fog of denial, but this really resonated with me as a fellow parent of a small child. Things feel so bleak, and yet afternoon strolls must be taken and bedtime stories must be read. Everything for him, despite it all.

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.