Laurel and Charles

Congrats on tonight’s episode of The White Lotus for creating a new meme.

#TheWhiteLotus

A black cat with large green eyes stares into the camera. He is sitting on a mint green couch with a pastel rainbow colored fleece underneath him.

My mom had foot surgery last week and she’s been around a lot, taking up my usual space on the couch or in the bed. But I like lying next to her and purring when she isn’t feeling well and the medication makes her very sleepy. She is warm and pets me a lot more than usual. She makes a good shelf.

My essay On the Other Side of the Lake, which is about the political divide across Lake Champlain, is in here!

A group of dancers in black flapper dresses and red berets stands in front of a Moulin-Rouge style windmill before performing in a Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans.

Thinking back fondly to a few weeks ago when I got to perform in Krewe Boheme with this lovely group of dancers. Mardi Gras and New Orleans FTW.

A black cat with green eyes stares at the camera. He is next to a woman’s black-clad leg and bandaged foot.

Mr. Angelo is my little black panther who is taking care of me while I recover from foot surgery.

This is so painfully accurate. Wes Anderson characters who haven’t realized they’re in a Tarantino film.

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

Word.

@photospaintspixels.bsky.social you might appreciate this one

“Live to see them die” is a slogan I can get behind.

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

Tomorrow I am calling all my elected officials about these abuses of power. Let your representatives know where you stand.

Amazing how many marketing folks are ok with business as usual or keeping “politics out of sales.” I am not one of them.

A black cat with green eyes sits lazily on a bed with bright yellow sheets with purple and blue flowers on them.

Here’s the real master of our house. Meet Angelo!

I’m in love with this movie, and it definitely proves beyond a reasonable doubt that animals are much better than people.

Brilliant.

I relate to this way, way too much.

Made the decision to leave Meta today for our business accounts. They’re pay to play for the most part and I’m tired of being held hostage by them. Anyone else ?

Confession: never really loved Neil Gaiman’s work, so it’s not much of a literary loss for me. I feel for the many women he victimized.

Seems like a fairly random number to me depending on a lot of other factors like kids, debt, etc

I’ve got a solution. Visit your local coffee shop instead.

@mtaalerts.bsky.social just exited the A at 181 and the station is full of smoke - what’s happening?

“Formalized his status as a felon” has such a nice ring to it @nytimes.com

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

US job growth rebounds says NYT - so why are so many folks I know out of a job? Context is useful.

Re. United Healthcare CEO’s murder - I worked as a a Director of Quality Improvement for a nonprofit. Most of my colleagues went on to work for big insurance companies. I couldn’t live with myself if my job involved denying people’s claims. How did we get here? It’s time for universal healthcare.

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It me.

A girl with long brown hair wearing a pink nightgown smiles at a giant piece of yellow cake with pink frosting. The picture is sepia toned from the 1970s.

Does this mean our ballot curing efforts weren’t in vain? God I hope so!

With you, George!