Patron saint of knife-sharpeners & librarians

Mixed metaphor of the day: I just said "I feel like I'm swimming uphill."

Big thanks to @fourteenacross.bsky.social for the K-Pop Demon Hunters Shin Ramyun from Galentine's--it is saving me from this head cold.

and the Angles and Saxons pushed out the Britons! None of these fuckers are actually "British."

My teen referenced this headline when her dad tried to tell her some Simpsons lore.

Talk about living wrong.

One of my favorites from last year!

On a call AT THE BAR?

The bit where Witt and Thomas legitimately hated each other really gave that story some juice.

All I have done at work this week is step on rakes.

Recent Martha's Vineyard baby names: Helena, Camden, Glen, Elle, Winslow (girl!), Arthur, Olivia, and Teague (boy!).

Somehow SEEING it makes it even more OOF.

Incredible (and infuriating!) data visualization.

A skater coming off the ice and saying “THAT’S WHAT I’M FUCKIN’ TALKIN’ ABOUT!” makes me so happy, given how punishing the ladylike discourse of my youth was when it came to this sport.

Update: we have shortened it to "Mantzoucat."

Maybe someone will write a paper about you?

My husband just described one of our cats as "a tiny, fuzzy Jason Mantzoukas."

It's really chill these days! It's lovely to have been forgotten by the modern internet.

Oh yeah, tumblr users have been having fun with that trick for more than a year.

I think it's down!

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism.

It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

I love my daughter's big multicultural school because sometimes the monthly email is like, "Happy Valentine's Day, Lunar New Year, Lent, Ramadan, and February Break."

Scholar is still better than Gemini, though--and that's what they want to replace it with.

I have not taken the Cuttyhunk ferry either time--once was on a Mass Audubon boat, and the time when I was on a high school field trip was on Hugh Taylor's catamaran.

YouTube video by Miles in Transit We Tried Taking Transit to MA's Least Populated Town

I live in one of these places, and have been (twice!) to the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKoJ...

I was trying to date a globe and wound up saying to my husband, "I cannot believe I'm asking this, but when did Constantinople become Istanbul? I'm afraid if I google it, it will tell me it's nobody's business but the Turks." (It was 1930)

Including the Irish, whom the English considered sub-human at the time the US was founded, is very funny to me.

I looked up the patent: ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/down...

Semi-accidental online auction purchase: a 1930s era paper tray. I think I’m going to store my candles in it.

When I was little (so like 40 years ago) I was at a friend's birthday party & her dad was like, "OK, girls. Come see this." He only smoked in one room of the house to limit the smell, & the walls were stained DARK BROWN. He said, "This is what your lungs will look like if you smoke. So don't smoke."