Harper Lawrence 🏳️‍⚧️

Had I more time and dough to spend this year, we absolutely would have done a couple’s costume and been Homoerotic Wert + Human Jason Funderberker. Alas, I do not, so we are Normal Wert and Queer Dale Gribble instead.

“Again and again we were told the only way to beat the Republican Party was to become the Republican Party […] and the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you”

Mamdani is so good at this

looking back on the cartoons and children’s media that mattered to me when I was young, I say this with absolutely zero irony: I think we need to start scaring the shit out of kids again

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if Chewy had a pet food donation program, and they do:
www.chewy.com/g/give-back

Enter your location and it lists area organizations, including pet food pantries, and their needs. Also seems to be a good place to start if you are in need of pet food too.

Still no word from my baby sister. If you see news from St. Mary’s parish or Gayle specifically please tag me. #MelissaAftermath #Jamaica #HurricaneMelissa

In this screenshot of his Bluesky post, journalist/pundit Ryan Grim shares a take: “It is so lucky for Democrats that this kind of discourse is no longer on Twitter where the national media and politicians would see it. Better for it to be sealed off in this asylum. This is genuinely just insane.” The take in question is historian Kevin Kruse saying “Robert Byrd seemed to genuinely repent for his past and spent decades atoning for it, to the point where the NAACP mourned his death as the loss of a civil rights champion. People can indeed change. But there's no sign of a similar arc of sincere repentance and reckoning in Platner's case.”

Yeah, it’s been a real asset for Democrats to have Elon Musk take over the platform and turn it into an official propaganda arm of Donald Trump’s campaign and now administration. Having left-leaning takes you personally disagree with there would definitely be worse than that

No there isn’t you Vichy bastards

Also, people don’t want to hear this either, but excessively cautious panicky drivers scare me FAR MORE than regular assholes who don’t use their blinkers and speed around. You gotta be able to at least drive in a straight line on an empty street omg!!!

My most controversial opinion is that you gotta start learning to drive when you’re still young enough you have no real sense of self preservation or anxiety about it. If you start late and from a place of panic I’ve just never seen anyone overcome their nerves enough to get comfortable with it.

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.

My friends, my loves, my dears.

Don't start.

JOIN.

These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

If I wear shoes inside for even 15 seconds to run back in and grab something, all 4 of my cats cower like they’re preparing to be eaten

JEOPARDY CLUE: This different guy did something
ME: Who is somebody else?

My extreeeemely conservative 85 year old great-grandmother loved Star Trek so much that when she died we found box after box after box of taped episodes in her back bedroom. Even in the throes of Alzheimers she would ask what William Shatner was up to these days, lol. Women love sci fi!!!

Did you know?

40 states allow any parent to homeschool regardless of their educational background.

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We’ve made this mug our entire goddamn personalities. He keeps being like “Oh my god. I stole. I’ve never stolen anything in my life” and my usually abysmal fluid intake is up easily 500% because I keep sending him pictures of me drinking out of it after years of envious desire for one

Harper holds a bright yellow, heavy mug full of cocoa and marshmallows on their lap.

My sister in law was gifted one of these mugs from a breakfast restaurant chain back home and I have coveted it for YEARS, but live 2.5K miles away. By the time I got to one myself they had stopped selling them… so shout out to the waitress who encouraged my best friend to just steal one 🥰

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations. Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say those abuses parallel what...

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.

“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”

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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Meanwhile my Women’s Lit class I was so excited about last year had us read a grand total of 3 short books/novellas over the entire semester. And it wasn’t because we were going so in depth on each one either 😭 Such a disappointment.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Spouse toasted the bread in the confit oil and then I spread the top with a mixture of spreadable Swiss cheese, confit, thyme, and chili flake and then finished off with a drizzle of honey. Nothing- and I mean NOTHING- has ever tasted that good.

A light blue Dutch Oven containing a golden, crackly loaf of bread.

A small jar full of olive oil and whole garlic cloves flaked with thyme and chili flake.

My best friend in Phoenix sent me home with 5 bulbs of garlic he bought off 🧄🧄🧄 (iykyk) so today I made confit and baked some bread. I’m feeling SO domesticated.

Very possible. My dad was a sleeping-in, couch-potato type of dude my entire early childhood and then at 38 basically overnight became a guy who naturally wakes up at 5am every morning and fell asleep by 8pm and HAD to exercise every day or he felt weird and he remains that guy to this day. Tragic

A white person with a wavy pixie haircut and green velvet dress holds hands with a white man in a grey suit jacket with light grey pants and a blue tie.

Was it as cheap as suits get? Yes. But you can bet your ass the guy stopped him from buying black separates to wear together and made him do two different greys instead, and there was NO annoying little triangle of shirt visible below the jacket button, and there was NO COLLAR GAP!

Knowing things and developing good taste is a curse. My husband sent me a photo of an acquaintance’s wedding and after a couple minutes sternly said “Are you mentally taking apart his suit and criticizing it right now?” …yes. Yes, I was.

As two people who knew absolutely nothing about menswear at the time, I am ETERNALLY grateful to the Men’s Wearhouse employee who somehow kept my husband from making the suiting mistakes I have now seen 90% of my friends’ husbands make when picking out his wedding suit.

I guess if a 91 year old was murdered or something, that would render the death noteworthy. But even then I would be like “She was already 91, you probably could have just waited a couple months”

Maybe I’m crazy but I have zero curiosity in the “official cause of death” of a woman who died in her sleep at 91. The cause of death was “being 91” as far as I’m concerned.

I promise I’m trying to stop having incredibly niche complaints but it’s like the bread crumbs Wikipedia page was MADE to enrage me.