Kate Griffin

Yeah, but he picked that name at age 8. While still delightful it feels qualitatively different from being given a name by a parent.

That is some S-tier alt text!

Well now I want to figure out what red flag Jane Austen (genuinely my favorite author) is. There’s a certain vein of proto-tradwife that was super into her fifteen or twenty years ago, but I don’t know if they’ve moved on to other, more problematic faves or not.

Trump Floats $5,000 “Baby Bonus” for Expectant Mothers What It Could Mean for Black Women & American Families

So you’d just about break even on the hospital bill for the birth? blackamericaweb.com/2025/04/23/t...

Grocery store aisle sign with a picture of a blonde white woman eating a soda cracker. The sign says, “Crackers love cheese!” Superimposed in the standard font used for memes is the statement, “Umm, we prefer the term Saltine American… …And yes we do love cheese.”

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

Screenshot of a post by the_cracken0924 reading: Resistance is NOT a one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling, maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is surviving the day. Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying every lane. We need all of them.”

Also this

catharsis, or some other form of meaning. In this way it’s almost a moral imperative to do our art and share it with people. Not to the exclusion of more practical or political activities, but still important. Even (especially) in the darkest times we need moments of light & joy to keep us going.

and that as artists we never know what’s going to reach someone or what it might mean to them. I feel helpless to change world events, but I can at least create things and release them into the world. If I do that they might reach someone and hopefully bring them some comfort, joy, laughter, hope 3/

A great album, but even if I woke up tomorrow to find out the band hated the album and it was critically panned and I was the only person in the world who liked it, it would still have the same warm and comforting associations for me. And that it’s remarkable that art can do that for us 2/

I feel that 100%, but I had a realization the other day that changed my POV a bit. I was listening to one of my favorite albums — one I fell asleep to every night for a year or more when I was a teenager. It still soothes my nervous system and relaxes me the same way it did then. It’s objectively 1/

Pretty sure this means you need more books

Quilt top pinned on a design wall. The quilt is all half-square triangles in colors of aqua, navy blue, orange, and gray. They form a secondary pattern of concentric diamonds.

And another one gone! After a 6.5 year hiatus post-heart transplant and subsequent double amputation, I’ve made two tops start to finish (I.e., sent to my longarmer) in the past month. It feels great to be creating again and figuring out how to make it work as a #onearmedquilter #quilt #amputee

Ooh, jealous! I just discovered a couple days ago I need a cordless iron — my old corded one took a few too many plunges with the cord getting caught under my wheelchair wheels. I’ll have to check out that model and see if it’s available where I live!

Thanks! I can’t take credit for the diamond layout, I based it off one I saw on Pinterest that I loved (and am sadly having trouble finding again). The nearly infinite possibilities of layouts make half square triangles so much fun!

Literally this morning started planning a paper-pieced text quilt with “all things are possible…” based on this post.

I have no idea what Ari’s doing here — maybe lending a brain cell to an orange cat in need?

Thanks!

Is there a term yet for the anger and frustration you feel when typing out a perfect Faberge egg of a comment only to accidentally delete it or have it fail to post, so you have to either try to recreate perfection, post an inferior version, or just give up? Surely French or German has something.

Quilt top hanging on a blue wall. The quilt top is made of half square triangles in shades of yellow, green, teal, and gray, arranged in a pattern of multiple concentric diamonds.

I’m back, baybee! This is the first quilt top I’ve made since I lost my right arm and leg. Start to finish I did everything except cutting the initial 5” squares. Bit by bit I’m learning ways to adapt the process and finding the right tools for me. #quilt #quilter #amputee #onearmedquilter

Screenshot of Amazon Prime Video showing the category “Christmas movies” and two films in the category, “Jack Frost” and “We Need To Talk About Kevin”.

Okay but someone needs to check in on Amazon bc I don’t think they’re doing well right now

But did he see that coming?

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$100 billion each from Bezos and Musk

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist

I still see a huge difference on transatlantic flights. We ended up only using one half of a round trip and somehow the remaining credit is nowhere near enough to buy a one-way ticket back, and a new round trip booking costs not much more than the one way.

If only the Hunter Biden pardon were the beginning of a Dark Brandon redux.

I have to think there are steps the Biden administration could take in the next 50 days to protect Americans and our foreign allies from what’s ahead—legal, reasonable steps.

I know some are being taken, but doubt all are.

I needed this so much right now!