rawhotdogging reality

When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean

This is the sweatiest I've been at a show where all of the sweat on me is mine 😂

At a ska fest today and I wore a shirt for one of the bands, was feeling like I should have worn a shirt for a band that wasn't playing since everyone else is, but ran into the woman in the band whose shirt I'm wearing in the bathroom and she was so happy to see me repping her band 🥹

Do the shin splints ever end? Or do other people just walk around hurting all the time forever also?

Re: chatgpt "relationships"
It is easy to love someone who never disagrees with you

At this point if you're only on ONE list, you're probably not doing your civic duty 🫡

Ace Enders told me happy birthday 😊

I only own band tees from bands I've seen live, except my icp shirt lol

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

It's your body. You can live in it so hard it disintegrates if you want to

My ex and I get along much better now that we only interact with each other when we want to lol

The things I've done with my free will would make God scratch his head. Maybe rub his temples a little bit

"[they] didn't quite fit in the outline drawn around them" - short story The Hollowing (Creepy podcast Oct 7)

"read another book" is a classic response to adults whose favorite novels are the HP series, but consider: "are you illiterate?" really hits.

So much of my raison d'être-in-therapy is just having my therapist tell me I'm not a jerk

Me: very proud of going to Spanish tutoring and having the tutor say I'm good at Spanish
Also me: Spansh

Big feelings, buddy!! I'm trying to relax but I don't like it lol

Bat 🦇 sighting at Belmont! 🙌

Road trip pro tip: your shoes are also cup holders

So far I have a go-to for hanging out with cats (the catcade), dogs (sit social), and fishies (the sturgeon and stingray touches at the aquarium). What other animals can I pet here, if even for a small fee

Me going to the Shedd: I'm here for my 2 o'clock appointment to pet some fishies

Idk whose texts my autocorrect is predicting mine on but I have never in my life called someone "my love"

Posting "just block me if" is so funny to me. Like why do you think I'm gonna do your social media management for you? Do it yourself, lazy coward, idc. I block people for my reasons, not theirs lol

Hateful rhetoric is a form of violence. Deplatforming these people is self defense.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

Banks locking up vestibule is so fucking stupid and annoying

I've been going to enough local ska shows I just walked past the lead singer of a band I'm at a street festival to see and I recognized him and he gave me kudos on my shirt (it's his band's merch lol) I love this for me

Bonus 176: Law, Lawlessness, and Doomerism Law is not—and never will be—a perfect constraint on government action. But claims that legal limits have become wholly irrelevant to the current administration are not just wrong; they're dangerous.

For today's bonus "One First," I wrote about the increasingly noisy claim that legal constraints don't really matter in the current moment—why it's utterly belied by what's actually happening on the ground (and by what law can actually *do*); and why, in many respects, it's affirmatively dangerous:

I just had a walking lunch and I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed that. Need more walking lunch ideas

Sign at rally with picture of Malort bottle reading Go Ahead...Chicago Drinks Tear Gas By The Ounce.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.