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Share your mood for the weekend! 🖤

IDK, I think it’s important me to make chocolate granola this morning. I’m not asking questions, just following my whimsy

Oh, recipe? Um, not sure… doing what feels right after watching five different videos for ratios & bake times 🤷‍♀️

Pissed off possum does not have any patience for your shit.

Me: *emerges from hollow log*

Me: *looks around*

Me:

Honestly, with the Murderbot characters I’m spoiled for choice with pairs that absolutely delight me

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

A $179,999.99 Bosendorfer baby grand piano set out for sale in a Costco warehouse right by the frozen section and the aisle with the paper plates. Pic credit to u/lesmiles248 on Reddit

This is one of the funniest pictures I’ve seen all week. Ah yes, Costco. Where I go for my bulk paper plates, frozen samosas, and $180 grand Bosendorfer impulse buy

Bonus points, if Charlie is on the case, she was definitely at the Louvre before the robbery and has made friends with at least one or two of the involved people already

a woman stands in a dark room with peacock written on the corner Alt: Charlie Cale looks around a full storeroom and asks “What am I looking for?”

Ok, so people are fan-casting the detective(s) who should be in charge of investigating the #LouvreRobbery.

I see your Benoit Blancs & your Inspector Clousseaus. I know the person I have in mind is generally only active in the US, but the person I really want to see in charge is Charlie Cale

Dear past self: THANK YOU for anticipating that current me would have the motivation of a bloated tapeworm, and for meal planning options for this week that are basically “put thing in box until warm, then eat”

a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting at a table . Alt: Columbo in a suit and tie is waving his hand in the air and pacing

Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Right answers only

Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Right answers only

It’s standard safety protocol throughout the US, because of times when busses have gotten trapped on tracks in front of trains

Yep, hence the warnings on the backs of all the busses!

I don't mean to be shamelessly self-promoting today, but it's the birthday of one of my heroes—Eleanor Roosevelt. Here's my article about women's peace songs sent to her in the 1930s, made possible by the FDR Library and the National Archives system:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mp/article/i...

The theft of history Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

Here's my essay about how one concert program in the State Historical Society of Iowa—now being dismantled—changed my life: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t....

It means it stops at all railroad crossings every time, even if the boom gates are up and there’s no train for miles and miles. It’s a safety practice for school busses and mass transit vehicles

Look. It’s not a bad idea, but kinda weird to just put it on the back of a bus.

Just saw singer Donata Cucinotta describe Rusalka’s Song to the Moon as “essentially ’I wanna be where the people are’ but in Opera Mode” and yep. Accurate.

Two boxes of Nerds candy, one half purple half pink in grape & strawberry flavor, one half green and half red in watermelon and cherry flavor. The Nerds on the boxes are cartoon blob characters with big feet & noses, googly eyes, and no arms at all

Today in “growing up changes you,” I think 10 year old me would expect a greater percent of my income to be spent on buying Nerds candy

Like, *any* amount more than zero

I would be more embarrassed about reading Murderbot novellas multiple times in the same year if 2025 weren’t so completely a valid reason for a person to escape into a favorite imaginary world

I would be more embarrassed about reading Murderbot novellas multiple times in the same year if 2025 weren’t so completely a valid reason for a person to escape into a favorite imaginary world

Parent every week: my kid has 202837 other activities and can’t make it to violin, can we reschedule?

Me: (sometimes yes sometimes no)

Parent: Hey can my kid play in the recital next week?

Good GOD no, I don’t showcase children who don’t work hard.

Look, if I’m looking for chicken & dumpling recipes and I come across yours, and you are using boneless skinless chicken breast???

Honey, I don’t have religion anymore, but that’s an offense to God & grandma

(Using precooked rotisserie chicken though? That’s just good sense in a stressful world)

String players are the choir kids of the orchestra world

No, I will not be explaining further

String players are the choir kids of the orchestra world

No, I will not be explaining further

New Dodie album? Yes please!

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Africainement vôtre by Magic System on Apple Music Album · 2014 · 15 Songs

I woke up today ANGRY. Not at any particular thing (though… take your pick *waves at world*), just generically furiously angry

So picture me bopping angrily along to Feel the Magic in the Air 😡💃🏻😡💃🏻😡

music.apple.com/us/album/mag...

YouTube video by Goodspeed Musicals The Great Emu War in Rehearsal

Humans: lose a war with emus, create art about it

youtu.be/gHkwunBvpMk

YouTube video by Alessandra - Topic Queen Almighty

The ubiquitousness of In the Hall of the Mountain King in 2025 canNOT have been forseen by Grieg

(This post brought to you courtesy of Alessandra’s latest single)

youtu.be/SyDK9Stoa6E