Big stuck boat week was so much more fun than Strait of Hormuz week
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Between this and Conan hosting, I’m going to be an emotional seesaw!
The Vinaver or Winchester Malorys are both good; there’s an Oxford UP version or you should be able to access via the TEAMS medieval texts website. Steinbeck also had a wonderful version out in the 70s!
A bunch of states are starting initiatives to help with early reading, and yet somehow this doesn’t seem to involve increasing funding for libraries which is like saying you want to increase honey production without supporting bees.
No pics bc sometimes we just must watch beauty, but my dog just lost her mind and jumped on a coffee table, barking frantically, as two yearling does just casually strolled down my suburban street. What restorative joy Nature grants us sometimes when we least deserve it!
This poor man and his family were failed by so many systems. I’m so saddened that this was his fate in a city I love that claims to be “The City of Good Neighbors.”
This morning’s new snow is ridiculous, uncalled for, and if I may say so, personally offensive.
I gotta find me that gas station with the $1.85 gas!
Oooooooohhhhhhh noooooooooooooo!
You owe it to yourself to read the 2001 obituary (republished today) for Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. An incredible woman. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
What an amazing life! Thank you for sharing!
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
Lol at the power company getting ahead of big bills by reminding everyone it was cold outside.
👇👇👇👇👇👇
Or, and hear me out, extremely wealthy people could pay more taxes. They’d still be extremely wealthy and the rest of wouldn’t have to work ourselves into the grave. Just a thought.
Oh dear. The unspoken/unwritten part is that the slim attractive woman must also be a caretaker.
Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans was born #OTD in 1881.
She proved that the bacterium 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴 caused brucellosis (aka undulant fever) in humans & cattle. This led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. First woman president, Society of American Bacteriologists.
#WomenInSTEM
Dear Adobe,
No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything.
What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
"We have checked our inventory thoroughly, and we no longer have any shits left to give. We only had a small amount of shits left at the end of last year, and now we’ve found that the most recent news cycles have completely emptied us out."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
Wolfhounds are NEVER naughty. Please give Nutmeg a little hug for me!
Was there earlier today and may have fallen in love with an orange cake I now forget the name of. So damn good!
Laughing bc I grew up with a full Irish Wolfhound named Muffin!!!
Jealous!!!! Have a most excellent time and Go Bills!!!
Poem of the Day:
To the States
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.
—Walt Whitman—
But it’s only good the next time you visit AND must be used in the next 72 hours.
Dammit. Now I want swedish fish.
Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.
Oooooooo
Was watching LOTR: Fellowship on NYE and it suddenly occurred to me there’s a musical motif/tribute to It Came From Beneath the Sea (a giant squid movie from 1953!) when Frodo is taken at the entrance to the mines.
This is what my brain is like, all of the time. Welcome, friend! #TCMParty
