Jessica Spiegel 🍉

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

The strangest thing happened to our cat’s tail… #cats #catsoftiktok TikTok video by dementiayarns

In which I recount the time the tip of my cat’s tail fell off.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhpr2Sa/

#cats #catsofbluesky

YouTube video by CNathanielBrown The Present - Christmas Short Film

well, i just cried at my desk watching "the present," a short film that's part of the @alzauthors.bsky.social film festival.

youtu.be/71Yp3VvFG4M...

check out the whole lineup here:

alzauthors.com/alzauthors-a...

#alzheimers #dementia

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it felt so real.

today’s extremely unsettling development of our current dystopia:

i have had my first “getting rounded up and thrown into a detention facility” dream. everyone else in the facility with me was a POC, LGBTQ+, or Jewish.

there were… a lot of Jews.

All AI content should be required to have watermarks.

All of it.

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. https://cnn.it/3WcFnDd

yep, some game app that EVERYONE has an ad for. it is the strangest fucking thing.

i need to know:

are they paying people eleventy billion dollars for these royal kingdom endorsement ads or is every fucking celebrity on earth just a megafan?

Her website is bkbooks.com

It’s a film by Barbara Karnes, hospice pioneer, called “New Rules for End of Life Care.” It’s not a new film, but Barbara was there for the screening and a Q&A.

Bringing a knife to a gunfight would actually be an improvement over bringing “turn that frown upside down!” or whatever this is to a gunfight.

💯

someone posted a video earlier today from the 🧊 facility and it was... absolutely quiet. no protestors, no 👮‍♂️, nothing. crickets.

today in wAr RaVaGeD portland, i went to a screening of a short film about the dying process, drove through a popular neighborhood at lunchtime where families ate at busy food carts, and had a friend over to pick grapes in the backyard.

you know this, but here it is again: he lies. all the time.

Keep posting pictures of a beautiful city about to be invaded by federal troops for no reason but the leader's political weakness. Show the beauty. Show the truth.

they didn't do that in 2020, did they? visit seattle after they were here?

YES PLZ

i don't think i ever shared this, but i have also used trivia and factoids from the snacks newsletter for this same client. i get four assigned (very short) pieces per newsletter, and then there is ALL THIS SPACE on the side that i have to fill. i am always hunting for this kind of stuff. 😂

i would like y'all to know i saved this last month to use at a later date, and it is now going into a newsletter i write for a real estate client.

(i am ALWAYS collecting dad jokes for later use.)

also, i am FINALLY reading through my answers from last year, and THERE IS NO MENTION OF ALZHEIMER'S ANYWHERE. NOT ONCE.

oh, how much can change in 12 months.

what a weird rejection.

OH YES I KNOW 😮‍💨

i just looked at the site and i did my first 10Q in 2014, so i have a decade's worth of reflecting already in there. even in the toughest years (HELLO), i still look forward to this opportunity to pause and think.

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

“Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release.”

🙃

www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level

but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses