Heather Balmat

(AI, obviously). A carton of milk in the style of the old "Missing Child" pictures urging the public to keep an eye out for The Legislative Branch.

JFC. Can they not leave trans people be?

11-YO, who does not like spicy food, wanted to try Buldak Ramen, "celebrated for its intense heat and bold flavors," and it went about as one might have expected.

I feel like we need to put a picture of the Legislative Branch on milk cartons. Maybe someone will recognize it and we'll be able to track it down.

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

War-a-Lago

Tabby cat sleeping on a laptop with his paw over his eyes.

How is it only Thursday?

Big “only I can solve it” vibes.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

"Bonesmashing was invented by looksmaxxers" is the point at which I stopped reading.

What channel is the Bad Bunny SOTU on?

JD needs to stay TF away from the Pope.

i simply do not think i should have to hear clarence thomas’s thoughts. i am a good person. i deserve better.

That is worse than a true crime podcast that was following a trial putting the verdict in the first few words of the episode description. Some of us would have liked some suspense.

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

This sounds right. It’s nice that they had Kindness Week or whatever, but if you’re sending my kid home later than usual by a different route, maybe drop us a line about that? I was very close to starting to make some calls.

Or did they tell us and it just got lost in the shuffle?

Would be nice if the schools would give us a heads up that they are changing the bus route and my kid will now be getting off the bus 10 minutes later than before. Was becoming alarmed to see my kid’s AirTag in a part of town not on the usual route when the bus should have already arrived.

Closeup of a tabby cat sleeping nestled in a chunky purple blanket.

We woke up this morning to the discovery that the drainpipe under the kitchen sink had become dislodged - water everywhere. Strongly suspect that a certain feline resident of the household walked over it. Does he care? No.

GOP manual.

Ah, sorry. No idea. But I am excited about the prospect of being represented by someone who isn’t a complete loon after the next election.

I think last I saw it would favor Dems 10-1

Meet me in Charlottesville the week of June 1 and let's do some Latin paleography! We'll cover literacy, attribution, and description from New Roman Cursive to Humanistic Bookhand. Apply by Feb. 17!

Belatedly going through my recording of the Super Bowl to watch the ads and the halftime show.

11 YO on the ads: “you’re supposed to go all out for Super Bowl ads, not generate some AI slop.”

Tough audience.

Never challenge “worse.”

Our cats Roscoe and Jim, in our kitchen, looking very serious.

I enjoy the way that in this photo our cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

Look, if Oscar Mayer can cobrand with makeup companies, I’m sure we can work something out here.

Not the hero we need, but maybe the hero we deserve

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

Can confirm it’s handy to have a classicist around at times like these.

That tracks