Alexandra Walling

Chutney:

12 oz cranberries
1 large red onion
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 tsp mustard seeds
1 stick cinnamon
8 whole cloves
4 green cardamom, crushed
2 sprigs curry leaves
3/4 cup sugar
Lemon juice to taste at the end

I post about my feelings of grief, rage, and fear often but I want to remember these words of Mike Davis tonight:

Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.

This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.

I feel shame every day about my feelings of powerlessness re: ending the genocide in Gaza. I am happy for people of Lebanon there will be ceasefire there but terrified for Palestine

I am really struggling today to balance the love I feel for old friends and the rage I feel about their "progressive except for Palestine" politics. These friendships were never based on politics, they're not close any longer, but I am losing my ability to even fake it.

Woke up today seething with anger about friends and family’s indifference to US support of genocide. Stomach in knots. I know this is not productive but it is how I feel.

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.

Just got blocked by Moira Donegan lol

I am very over people acting like the true statement that people should not face social bigotry for being fat therefore means there are no physical problems associated with fatness. Yes! There are!! My health sucks ass!!! That's why I want to be less fat!!!!

I take medication for weight loss because I have pre-diabetes, fatty liver, and arthritis and want to have a decent length and quality of life. I shouldn't need to go on here to justify myself to people who want to cast judgments after -0.01 seconds' thought

Ranking the movies I've dragged my husband to:

1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together)
2. The Northman
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably)
5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol)
6. 1917
7. Cats
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)

How to watch a baby A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.

Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...

'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.

fintech innovation is so exciting and fun and important, its great that we

: checks notes :

brought the savings and loan crisis back

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...

Discovered last night that AR Rahman did a Lord of the Rings album in the UK in 2008 which is a truly unexpected intersection of my interests

Give us bread, but give us mimosas

No more meta discourse!!

The best bagel sandwich - imho - is *cream cheese*, NOT American cheese, a runny egg, tomato, and bacon.

Had a terrible boyfriend half a lifetime ago who introduced me to Marquee Moon, for which I am still grateful- to the universe, if not to him

Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever.

In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:

- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off

Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city.

I gave what I can and wish it were more. I pray that God will protect your family and return you home when this war ends.

Are there any charities or NGOs worth donating to that are actually getting money and personnel into Gaza? I give to MSF but want to do more

Mom come pick me up the NATO twinks are inventing eugenics again

Waaoow

Read about a hundred pages on Weimar democracy from Richard Evans’ Coming of the Third Reich and I am once again envious of their cultural efflorescence. They got Bauhaus and Brecht, we have AI art and Cybertrucks

Post the x and y axes!

MissionLocal graphic with a picture of a dinosaur skeleton at the cal academy of sciences with the text "Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union"

Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.

I take it we'll be doing the grocery run on Saturday?

Remembering the time I showed my mom Pan's Labyrinth and she turned it off because she thought the Francoist stepfather was portrayed too evil