JayMick

Need a smile? Here’s one of our barn cats yesterday reacting to seeing two feet of snow for the first time in her life. Enjoy! 🐈 ❄️

#cats #barncat #snow

I have demolished a respectable quantity of potato chips. And a little bit of chocolate also. It's all about balance.

I want potato chips. The grocery store is barely a five-minute walk away. But I would have to put on my coat and shoes and then take off the coat and put on different shoes when I got back. But also...potato chips.

Excellent.

I have watched enough This Old House to recognize that when the countertops were installed the ends were not scribed to the walls (up to 1/4" gaps filled in with old caulk, ugh). Unsurprising, but annoying. Tom Silva would NEVER.

I believe I have successfully re-caulked the kitchen counters. Considerably less awful than re-caulking a shower.

How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.

@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

I look forward to sitting in a sports bar with this tomorrow.

Title page of "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power" by Victoria Bateman, which is 378 pages long without the bibliography and notes.

Went to the library to pick up a bit of light reading. Failed utterly.

This is definitely not how paczki are meant to be eaten.

Just had a tooth filled. Dentist said to wait until the numbing wore off to eat so I don't bite my cheek or lip. But I am hungry and it's Fat Tuesday, so I'm eating this paczek very carefully with a knife and fork.

Relatives in Rockford, IL see them in the yard regularly.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Suddenly there is a strong smell of gin in this train car.

The building brought in dessert carts to serve Valentine's Day treats to the tenants and now the office is all sugared up.

Seconded.

Just spotted someone smuggling their cat into the office building.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Age verification? I once hand-wrote multiple copies of a chain letter.

It's 40 degrees and sunny and I feel like I've been reanimated.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

@rantmo.bsky.social and I like to play "Spot the Shakespearean" when we watch Trek. Strong correlation between prosthetic makeup and a background in Shakespeare. Lots of Klingons.

reasons to read the @chicagoreader.com instead of crain’s:

👉 the reader is free and available in print

👉 our political analysis is deeper than “fat people can’t be president”

👉 sometimes we say fuck

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Fuck it, I'm buying the sparkly thing.

There will always be someone who cannot see your worth, who will underestimate you, who will undermine you. Do not let that someone be you.

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Watching the first episode of Heated Rivalry and enjoying the sweet, fluffy TV candy but also my intimacy designer brain is going GODDAMMIT THE ANGLES, THE ANGLES ARE SO GOOD AND ALSO THE LIGHTING.