Lainie Marie

Same horrified vibe as when my mom would say "Don't you look nice" and I'd want to run and change into something cooler

I've learned that good-quality art supplies are almost always worth it

I feel like Brown is totally in it for MAGA, with leading questions like this one, her frowny-face when she has to talk to anyone telling the truth about this admin, and she gets so! excited! when she can cut to orange man bullying reporters

I don't understand this statistic of 3 percent, and I'm not stupid or uninformed. Just anecdotal of course, but I'm spending double what I spent last year on food and what used to be cheap household items like white vinegar/paper towels/ distilled H2O. And I'm a family of just one small person.

“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.

Yes! Not that surprising, Singer was a major company, its history is interesting - the sewing machine was a huge game-changing engine for the industrial revolution. Website says it was the first global company.

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

Great writing, shrewd analysis, discouraging reality of the Epstein class. Gift article.

And sorry, can't afford fancy clothes right now to cosplay 1960 for Duffy's enjoyment

EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.

Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"

bookshop.org/p/books/they...

Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."

This just baffles me. Holiday travel is awful.

I’m roaming the meadow longing to be a poet whose song would move stones and organise city walls make trees walk to carpenters that build homes for people An unsubstantial sorrow is a heavy burden but still, still I want to see everything in unfamiliar marine light

Pentti Saarikoski, tr. Herbert Lomas

I get this. I'm constantly doing things that just have me shaking my head at my complete absence of chill.

"Things are really Rockin'." OK, daddy-o.

I write to my senators +reps and the replies are so cookie-cutter and neutralized fake-speak that it hardly seems worth it. But today I got a response from @bennet.senate.gov that felt more personal and sincere. (Took so long that I can't remember what I wrote to him about, though.)

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

This is an absolutely beautiful story, and beautifully written and photographed. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wish it were original on my part! I borrowed it from a wildly erudite Australian astrologer, mysticmedusa.com

Wow, rude. Apart from the intrusiveness, people have allergies.

It'll be five days til Christmas and they think no one will be paying attention.

Yes, thank you for sharing it. I often wonder why I can't seem to get anything ambitious or meaningful done, and while I so readily blame myself for being undisciplined, this endless cycle of tiny, dumb administrivia is definitely part of it.

No longer have a subscription so I can't gift-article this, but this is a really shameful statistic. Other countries create walkable cities and we make being a pedestrian a life risk.

im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Faded vintage Levi's button-front 501s with colorful silk and cotton fabric patches covered in hand-stitching with embroidery floss

a pair of vintage 501s I patched and hand-stitched this summer:

And he's oh so grateful for his excellent medical care after voting to end the shutdown without extending the subsidies for ACA insured

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

It is the worst kind of irony that @fetterman.senate.gov is posting about his amazing top-tier medical care after a fall this week when he just voted to let millions of Americans face enormous rate hikes for barely-minimal health insurance.

with the very worst people

Michelle Obama says the US is not ready for a female President