Emily
@emilyemem.bsky.social
Catholic. Lifelong Midwesterner. Good at sewing and canning and stuff, so sometimes I have to dye my hair blue so people don't mistake me for a tradwife.
I usually make sure to get our mail carrier nice Boxing Day gift, but our driveway is plowed, the area around the mailbox is shoveled out, and I'm still getting "undeliverable" flags on my tracking and I'm really fighting against my inner "coffee is for closers" Alec Baldwin right now.
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I usually make sure to get our mail carrier nice Boxing Day gift, but our driveway is plowed, the area around the mailbox is shoveled out, and I'm still getting "undeliverable" flags on my tracking and I'm really fighting against my inner "coffee is for closers" Alec Baldwin right now.
Last hour of the drive looked like pic 1, but I think getting up the driveway may have been the tough part. #lakeeffect
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Last hour of the drive looked like pic 1, but I think getting up the driveway may have been the tough part. #lakeeffect
Most Americans settle for merely eating turkey on Thanksgiving ...
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Most Americans settle for merely eating turkey on Thanksgiving ...
Pete Hegseth's character is exactly what you'd expect from his looks. That is all.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Pete Hegseth's character is exactly what you'd expect from his looks. That is all.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Important works of cultural preservation by the 7yo.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Important works of cultural preservation by the 7yo.
I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, but still, going into Menard's for the express purpose of buying groceries and not even looking at the hardware felt like leveling up.
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, but still, going into Menard's for the express purpose of buying groceries and not even looking at the hardware felt like leveling up.
If you see this post your getaway vehicle.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you see this post your getaway vehicle.
Two things can be true at the same time: This collection of toy wooden traditional Catholic feast day foods is adorable; and also, a nonzero number of kids are going to end up with shiners from sausage nunchucks.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Two things can be true at the same time: This collection of toy wooden traditional Catholic feast day foods is adorable; and also, a nonzero number of kids are going to end up with shiners from sausage nunchucks.
Pretty good recent used book haul. Advent book is from Plough; I liked the companion Lent volume. Taschen Basic Arts are great if you want to build a cheap library with a lot of variety (good size for little hands, too!) the delightfully vintage Canticle for Leibowitz was for the teenager's bday.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pretty good recent used book haul. Advent book is from Plough; I liked the companion Lent volume. Taschen Basic Arts are great if you want to build a cheap library with a lot of variety (good size for little hands, too!) the delightfully vintage Canticle for Leibowitz was for the teenager's bday.
Burn-testing some stash fabric because I don't want to blow real wool on a school costume if I don't have to. Not convinced that medium grey is the right coat color for young Ebeneezer, though...
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Burn-testing some stash fabric because I don't want to blow real wool on a school costume if I don't have to. Not convinced that medium grey is the right coat color for young Ebeneezer, though...
Modern problems require modern solutions.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Modern problems require modern solutions.
These places still exist, if you know where to look for them.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
These places still exist, if you know where to look for them.
Teaching homeschool science this year, and if I ever try to make a density column again, just lock me up and throw away the key. Snapped this picture and it was all downhill fast from there.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Teaching homeschool science this year, and if I ever try to make a density column again, just lock me up and throw away the key. Snapped this picture and it was all downhill fast from there.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
Let the kids wind these skeins, and then had to double-check to make sure they were all actually 100g...
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Let the kids wind these skeins, and then had to double-check to make sure they were all actually 100g...
Yesterday, kids spent hours in the >100-year record snowfall; homeschooled kids still managed to put in a full day's work; I got myself outside to do some shoveling (and photography); the living room got its first for-real tidying in weeks; and then we read The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yesterday, kids spent hours in the >100-year record snowfall; homeschooled kids still managed to put in a full day's work; I got myself outside to do some shoveling (and photography); the living room got its first for-real tidying in weeks; and then we read The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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“James Bond blew up so he can’t have any more adventures” must be a really compelling argument to people who have never encountered James Bond in any form of media
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“James Bond blew up so he can’t have any more adventures” must be a really compelling argument to people who have never encountered James Bond in any form of media
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The Church has a preferential option for the poor—but who are the poor? Might they be a President with low approval ratings? Might they be the aspiring trillionaire getting wrecked by Joyce Carol Oates on their own website?
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Church has a preferential option for the poor—but who are the poor? Might they be a President with low approval ratings? Might they be the aspiring trillionaire getting wrecked by Joyce Carol Oates on their own website?
Only at Notre Dame will the camera zoom in on a shirtless fan in the snowfall ... with a scapular.
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Only at Notre Dame will the camera zoom in on a shirtless fan in the snowfall ... with a scapular.
Husband drives a 1999 Honda that's closer to half a million miles than not, and once last year he had a really weird set of symptoms leading up to the engine dying, and the only Reddit post explaining how to fix it was not a decade old, but TWO WEEKS.
![Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdjde6wgflkeil7kf4kdh3zqk32k55rkljlwu6arzbw557ogbulu@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Husband drives a 1999 Honda that's closer to half a million miles than not, and once last year he had a really weird set of symptoms leading up to the engine dying, and the only Reddit post explaining how to fix it was not a decade old, but TWO WEEKS.
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I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
Teenager went as Legless Lego Legolas. Came up with the idea himself, drafted the plans from scaled up minifig blueprints, and cut all those vinyl decals himself, too. Spray-painting and fabrication by moi.
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Teenager went as Legless Lego Legolas. Came up with the idea himself, drafted the plans from scaled up minifig blueprints, and cut all those vinyl decals himself, too. Spray-painting and fabrication by moi.
7yo daughter trying on her Witch King of Angmar costume. I just love this so much for her.
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
7yo daughter trying on her Witch King of Angmar costume. I just love this so much for her.