lauren (year round dst's version)

omg if this fit me

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

the best thing about spring is winter being over, the worst is pastels

in January there was the winter warrior challenge to motivate me but now I do the bare minimum to close my watch rings and follow my training plan. which is still a lot more than most people but for me it's a sign of crushed spirit!

the only thing that scares me about other cultures is when they cover up the fact that pilot suicide was the cause of a plane crash

it's a huge problem in aviation!

I'm not sure what exactly I was trying to call my cat just now, but what came out was "puppin"

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why.

It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

Pooooo

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A WEATHER ASSOCIATE IS REPORTING A VERIFIED SIGHTING OF ICE/DEA/SOMERVILLE POLICE IN EAST SOMERVILLE THIS AM

I finally got to see people be really happy about something in 2026!!!!

Book cover of "The Gales of November" by John U. Bacon

hey book club next pick is "The Gales of November" by John U. Bacon
discussion is going to be Tuesday March 24 at 8:30 PM ET
yes you have to (get to) listen to the song
#ghostwithaspine

anxious about the super bowl not because I'm worried the Patriots will lose but because I keep thinking about the shitty things that happened the other times I watched in the suburbs, like the friend of a friend who asked for my # then ghosted me bc he decided I was, direct quote, too weird

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

my building keeps emailing us telling us not to turn our heat off and I'm like... it's 76 in here pal I'm not paying money to be even more uncomfortable

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

"Being anti AI is class privilege! Poor people can't afford to learn how to make art without it!"

Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.

The Olympics said don't boo Vance but as Vance is incredibly boo-able, it had to happen

The highlight of the “athletes pronouncing their names for the Olympics website” is American alpine skier Mary Bocock, who clearly agrees it’s a pretty funny name

I was going to ask because i found the picture i sent her and it was a different color then!

I vowed to start after saying that got attention! So naturally he's apparently decided to take a vow of silence 😑

memories I have of your loved one:
- never actually being told this was your car or seeing you with it, but somehow just knowing it was
- telling a crystal seller I know about your bumper sticker because she always jokes that her sister is going to lick the crystals everyone buys

FEBRUARY 5TH *IS* NATIONAL WEATHER PERSON'S DAY

/ FEBRUARY 5TH IS NATIONAL WEATHERPERSON'S DAY
/ SO SAY "TYSM" 2 THE WEATHER PPL (NOT JUST ME) THAT PROVIDE THE WEATHER 4 U

I wish I could spell the noises my cat makes

More proof AI sucks. Quick, which came first: Boston, England or Boston, MA? Need a hint? Look at this human-written Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,...

yeah i love when book club books are ones ive already read, saves time

Gimme gimme gimme a cat after midnight
Won't somebody come and chase the rats away

Imagine how bad you have to be for the French to investigate you as a sex pervert.