Anna Fore Waymack

I am so very sorry. And I also know that now feels like a terrible time to break, like you have no real choice but to hold it together—but that’s probably not true, and now is when your community is most actively looking to catch and support you.

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Coal plant in the far bank across a lake

So, for all those who love the Finger Lakes: a b*tcoin miner plans to turn the old retired coal plant on Cayuga Lake (just north of Ithaca) into a hyperscale data center.

A bunch of us worked for years to shut down that coal plant—and won in 2019.

sustainablefingerlakes.org/2025/10/08/c...

I suppose neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin—as also evidenced by how b*tches be crazy?

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

An expectant cat in front of a computer screen

That one is adorable!

Not sure how @basus.me felt getting chided for not Reflecting Sun to Chase around the living room on cloudy mornings.

This is End of Work Day, Time for TV Snuggles, which is absolutely adorable. (Photo credit to Basu)

A raggedy gray cat perched on a headboard

Also since you’re a medievalist: yes I know Pangur Ban means white cat. Yes he was gray. First of all I thought no one would ever call me on it (forgetting who I hung out with), and second I was extremely concussed when I got him (forgetting who I hung out with).

MewMew insists that if we are making spaghetti we must tithe a singular noodle to him.

He’s scared of it, mind you. But the Ritual.

Huh! Both of these and their very janky rescue-Russian Blue predecessor are/were schedule-oriented. Pangur knew days of the week; Natasha ran @basus.me’s daily schedule during lockdown, including making him make his bed after coffee.

We are currently beginning the evening solemnities, dubbed “Peace in Our Time,” in which Natasha warms a spot, MewMew shows up and grooms her for a bit, and then he absolutely chomps her to take over the pre-warmed spot.

She does not enjoy this. Nonetheless, it must be done.

quantum cat physics!

Does your handsome lad have routines? Because MewMew and Natasha are inflexible about observing The Rituals

we have to put magnets on the cabinets off-limits to him. We've given up on the ones above the fridge: those are now officially Lair.

Genuinely higher than the bathroom ceiling, alas. And can do pull-ups.

A cat head peeps out of a towel on the tile floor

Please enjoy this picture of MewMew, who is decidedly NOT enjoying the cold snap.

If anyone has cat-proof towel hanging suggestions, lmk.

All of it’s bad, but “time to grow up” has me overthinking how certain men infantilize themselves, to their benefit.

I mean, these days it’s expanded at Burlington MA to Thursdays, Saturdays (I think), and then bonus Friday Formals at an event venue owned by the guy renting the facility to ICE.

But it started on Wednesdays, and I can’t help but make the Mean Girls reference.

On Wednesdays we fight fascism

Whaaaat?

Proper posture for shaving down the lasts is the Shrimp Curl, which has been constantly relevant since every. single. draft has left us adjusting my lasts even narrower.

Meanwhile targeted ads are convinced my shoe quest will be solved with wide-foot brands. Duckfeet. Barefoot. Etc. Unlikely.

Day 1 was “oh wow, the way you’re holding that knife is making me really uncomfortable” which, whoops, fair.

Pieces of very finely stitched leather

I keep being so very glad I found a shoemaking teacher. Most recently because I was all set to chisel stitching holes into my leather before he gave me the most baffled look and pointed out the sewing machine in the corner.

also just realized why the Boston waterfronts feel even more weird in the winter: saltwater waves don't really glaze everything with ice

There is something reassuring about a city that's been rebuilt from the ground up--we know how and we know we're willing.

I'm homesick for Chicago—that's not new. But now there's this guilt (for lack of a better word) that I'm not there, as neighborhoods I know are getting tear gassed. Though hey, I'm sure Boston will have our turn soon enough!

Texts and calls for a Joanne Linden, for years now. She’s definitely not the former owner of the number—that was my mom. Go figure.

A red-letter day

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

Add in unpredictable (but understandable!) brokerage fees and I think we need some new cross between math and soothsaying.

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