Amanda C 🥄

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

I matched with a guy on an app who asked me if I liked DMB and what I knew about them. I said I knew their hits, didn’t mind them one way or another, and the poop bus thing.

He FLIPPED OUT talking about how the story was wrong and it was told to make Dave look bad. So like. Yeah.

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

epic re-frame here

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Opinion | The Number How a country collects and interprets data reveals a lot about what it values.

Everyone should take a beat and read this absolutely brain-melting profile of the Consumer Price Index. I know, it sounds boring as hell, but absolutely worth your time to grapple with the sheer scope of what BLS does and how hard they work at it. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

... best idea??? 👀

Tweet from user brent (@murrman5) [me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

Had a convo today about weird in-jokes or responses you have w/ family or long-term friends because of something that happened in the past. (Example: asking "How was the amethyst mine?" when my mom returns from travel)

I hereby dub these "grinks," ala the classic tweet. What are some of yours?

BALLET FLATS OH GIRL NO

Nearly every Fri before Shabbat, I tweet:

May we rage when we must and rest when we can.
May we build the peace we so desperately need.
May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

It says something about mid-2000s dating advice for women that this is one of the best books we've ever covered on the show and also one of the worst books I've ever read in my life.

Man wearing red cowboy boots

Product shot of the red cowboy boots. There are chili peppers on the boot's tops (shaft)

Close up of the chili peppers stitching.

Another shot of the guy wearing Chili's cowboy boots. He's paired them with brown pants.

"Are you wearing th—"

"The Tecovas x Chili’s cowboy boots made from Chili’s booth leather? Yeah, I am."

If you’ve wondered how Direct File finally happened after two decades at an impasse, I wrote about three reasons why I think it finally broke through: chrisgiven.com/2025/07/the-...

A Nextdoor moment so iconic I had to screenshot it. (It later became a meme in my work Slack.)

A SKEALOTEN HOLDEN A COUPLE OF CEO REMOVERS AND DEMANDING : "BRING BACK RSS READER'S AND BLOG'S " !!!! REMEBER WHEN IT WAS FUN TO CLICK AROUND ON YOUR COMPUTER AND NOW WE GOT COMPUTER'S EVERY WHERE BUT THERE NOT FUN ANY MORE, SO WE SOULD AT LEAST TRY TO MAKE OUR LIFES NICE SINCE WERE STUCK HERE ON EARTH, DA BILLIONAIRS SEEM TO WANT TO GO TO MAR'S BUT THATS NOT A SOLUTION ITS MORE OF A WAY FOR THEM TO BUILD A PUNISHMENT PRISON WHERE EARTH LAWS DONT APPLY, THINK ABOUT IT, ALSO THERE BUILDING BUNKER'S IN HAWAII AND NEW ZELAND AND THEY REALLY THINK ONCE THERE LOCKED IN THERE WITH A BUNCH OF SECURITY GUARDS THAT THERE NOT GONNA GET EATEN ON DAY 2 LMAO , ANY WAY HOPE YOUR HAVIN A GOOD DAY AND KICKEN A$$ OUT THERE, - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

MAKE THE COMPUTER GOOD AGAIN - GET SHIRT OF THIS AT DASHARE.ZONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Me: “Can you spell it?”
Kid: “MOMMMM NOOOOOO.”

Tried this, tried Lego Technic ("NO, it is NOT compatible with the Lego System!" Needless to say, he is 9.)

Today my child is frustrated with me because I can’t look up the name of a toy he heard about at camp. It’s “like Lego, but different” and may or may not have the letter T in the name. (The name is between one and three words, none of which he remembers.)

It’s also telling that a sitting member of Congress is urging presidential action and/or philanthropic or corporate action. Anything but actually taking action as a co-equal branch of government, it seems…

A further abdication of Congress’s institutional power and role.

Myst

me: I know a place

the place:

Me: "Aaahaha, I love having a king size bed, so luxurious is my sprawling."

Me, when needing to put on the duvet cover: "What if I just set all my bedding on fire instead?"

About to use Top the Tater on some oven nachos. #thirsttrap

Okay NOW go play some DK!

Me and who and the dumpling passport?! 🥟

Don’t let anyone ever sell you the lie that compassion and kindness are weakness: they’re not. It takes great strength to do what’s morally right and to put your own interests aside to help others who can never repay the debt.

Hello from my perfect MN weather day: mid-70s during the day, light breeze, sunny but not hot, and in the 50s overnight so I can sleep with the windows open, the aircon off, and bundle up in blankets. I usually don't get to bask in this until autumn and I am soaking it in.

Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."