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people who message you <15 minutes before you're about to break for lunch are a particularly diabolical type of evil

now explain to me why gas went up 10¢/l today 🫩

I've found Asian skincare to be the most reliable and least reactive for me, and generally very affordable and easy to get through websites like yesstyle. I've also ordered directly from brand websites or shopped at local brick and mortar importers, if you have (this is great to try samples, too!)

I find the simpler the ingredients the better. I've removed all fragrance from everything that touches my skin and I've had great results. Generally my skincare in the morning is the etude soon jung 2x barrier cream, Goodal sun cream followed by the numbuzin no 3 tone up and makeup if I choose.

she's a ten, but she got divorced so now she's a five

The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal

nobody:

my brain, on repeat: esqueefies. oye siri. what. dat. mean. KWEEF. fart baginai? oh shet!

pretty sure it's the author's ghoulish obsession with crushing trans people out of existence but what do I know

if you can avoid it don't partner with someone that will leave you after nearly 15 years together. 0/10 do not recommend

today I learned that a bird's loyalty is fickle, because although my old bird does not care much for the new bird, it sure didn't stop my old bird from attacking me when I toweled his brother to do his toes

Courtney Bates-Hardy Frankenstein, 2025 • POETRY

I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in @longconmagazine.bsky.social

me, multiple times during every episode of heated rivalry: AND WHAT IF I THREW MYSELF OFF A CLIFF

I think the thing that a lot of people aren't getting yet is that your status as a human being is revocable. It's not a crime to do these things, it's not morally reprehensible if they don't see you as a person.

Picture of Big Bird from Sesame Street looking exasperated

Made it through the first week of 2026

Renee Good’s memorial site with candles and offerings

Rest in power, Renee Good. 💔

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

when the hell did I become mayor age

can't wait to do my yearly tarot divination ritual and be absolutely devastated by how accurate last year's reading was when I read it again tonight

is it even Christmas if you don't lose it over your gravy separating? 🥴

scrooge boopin' a little muppet mouse on the nose while souls text reads "MEESES CHEESED"

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

I don't think it's going to be easy to get through this on my own (though it's TBD whether the difficulty is medium, hard, or hardcore), but I do think I'll come out the other side okay, after all.

How simple is it now, to see a light on in the house, complete the task I had set out to do, and turn the light off with satisfaction. I forget things less frequently and I accomplish more during the day. And, funny enough, my power bill has never been cheaper.

Going through a separation after nearly 15 years together has been shit. I'm not sure the grief will ever really go away. I have so much more to do on my own and it's been hard to adjust... but discovering little things like this have been glimmers that cut through this heavy stretch of darkness.

Now, living alone, I have the space to resuscitate and explore these abandoned systems in a way that has empowered me so much to actually stay on top of care tasks, house work, and other responsibilities in a way that just wasn't possible for me before.

It's not really either of our fault, he just wasn't aware of how important something as simple as keeping a light on in a room or putting certain food items in specific areas of the fridge could be for my functionality in day to day life. Unfortunately, I also didn't have the language to explain it.

I was subconsciously implementing systems all the time in an effort to get through daily tasks, but my former partner was inadvertently disrupting them. My systems then broke down, resulting in my complete failure at maintaining any kind of routine with care tasks.

It used to drive him nuts that I was leaving lights on constantly, and I could never explain (at least in a way that was satisfying to him) why I needed those lights on. Now that I have the space to implement the systems that work for my neurology, I am finally understanding what I need to function.

For example, I realized recently that I use light in my house as a function of memory. When I'm "not done" in a room, I leave the light on as a visual indicator that I need to return to it later. When I lived with my former partner, this didn't work because he used to turn the lights off.