@matt979.bsky.social
17F is dealing with life. (As are we all, but [waves hands].) She is like me in some ways (blessing & curse) and also like 45F (ditto).
But why I'm here: How did it never occur to me that my mom is (almost certainly) neurodivergent? The eidetic (photographic) memory should have been my first clue!
But why I'm here: How did it never occur to me that my mom is (almost certainly) neurodivergent? The eidetic (photographic) memory should have been my first clue!
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
17F is dealing with life. (As are we all, but [waves hands].) She is like me in some ways (blessing & curse) and also like 45F (ditto).
But why I'm here: How did it never occur to me that my mom is (almost certainly) neurodivergent? The eidetic (photographic) memory should have been my first clue!
But why I'm here: How did it never occur to me that my mom is (almost certainly) neurodivergent? The eidetic (photographic) memory should have been my first clue!
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If you actually mean what you’re saying then you should be calling for the leadership that led us to this capitulation to resign. Call to oust Schumer or admit you’re a fraud.
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If you actually mean what you’re saying then you should be calling for the leadership that led us to this capitulation to resign. Call to oust Schumer or admit you’re a fraud.
Good evening/morning to everyone here except the asshats taking the "we didn't have a better option" line. The best time to take the we-promise-a-vote-on-health-care deal is NEVER; second best time was 40 days ago.
Whether it will affect any "blue wave" goes so far beyond missing the point
Whether it will affect any "blue wave" goes so far beyond missing the point
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Good evening/morning to everyone here except the asshats taking the "we didn't have a better option" line. The best time to take the we-promise-a-vote-on-health-care deal is NEVER; second best time was 40 days ago.
Whether it will affect any "blue wave" goes so far beyond missing the point
Whether it will affect any "blue wave" goes so far beyond missing the point
Baseball betting scandal: Cleveland pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis L. Ortiz have both been indicted for (allegedly) fixing the outcomes of specific pitches. Ortiz is already in custody; Clase is out of the country. Realistically their MLB careers are over.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Baseball betting scandal: Cleveland pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis L. Ortiz have both been indicted for (allegedly) fixing the outcomes of specific pitches. Ortiz is already in custody; Clase is out of the country. Realistically their MLB careers are over.
News, 2025-11-09
1. Girl Scouts in Oak Park (Chicagoland) held a food drive. ICE-holes crashed it. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1. Girl Scouts in Oak Park (Chicagoland) held a food drive. ICE-holes crashed it. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
News, 2025-11-09
1. Girl Scouts in Oak Park (Chicagoland) held a food drive. ICE-holes crashed it. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1. Girl Scouts in Oak Park (Chicagoland) held a food drive. ICE-holes crashed it. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
News, 2025-11-08
1. Lots of ICE-hole abuses in Little Village (and around Chicagoland) today, including but not limited to an infant sprayed with tear gas.
1. Lots of ICE-hole abuses in Little Village (and around Chicagoland) today, including but not limited to an infant sprayed with tear gas.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
News, 2025-11-08
1. Lots of ICE-hole abuses in Little Village (and around Chicagoland) today, including but not limited to an infant sprayed with tear gas.
1. Lots of ICE-hole abuses in Little Village (and around Chicagoland) today, including but not limited to an infant sprayed with tear gas.
"What's on the menu?" is one of the funniest possibly things to show people exiting a performance of Little Shop of Horrors
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"What's on the menu?" is one of the funniest possibly things to show people exiting a performance of Little Shop of Horrors
Place for plants to flop around scattered shower (6, 4)
Femme missing one medium for erectile dysfunction, got something I can swallow? (4, 2)
#CrypticCrossword and also #NameTheMusical
Femme missing one medium for erectile dysfunction, got something I can swallow? (4, 2)
#CrypticCrossword and also #NameTheMusical
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Place for plants to flop around scattered shower (6, 4)
Femme missing one medium for erectile dysfunction, got something I can swallow? (4, 2)
#CrypticCrossword and also #NameTheMusical
Femme missing one medium for erectile dysfunction, got something I can swallow? (4, 2)
#CrypticCrossword and also #NameTheMusical
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News, 2025-11-07
On a personal note I passed the July 2025 California state bar exam. (Results came out today.) However I still need to take the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam (next offered in March 2026) for bar admittance.
On a personal note I passed the July 2025 California state bar exam. (Results came out today.) However I still need to take the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam (next offered in March 2026) for bar admittance.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
News, 2025-11-07
On a personal note I passed the July 2025 California state bar exam. (Results came out today.) However I still need to take the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam (next offered in March 2026) for bar admittance.
On a personal note I passed the July 2025 California state bar exam. (Results came out today.) However I still need to take the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam (next offered in March 2026) for bar admittance.
Happy West Side Story Day to hockey fans who celebrate!
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Happy West Side Story Day to hockey fans who celebrate!
I have good news & embarrassing news.
Good: I PASSED the July 2025 California state bar exam.
Embarrassing: I never took the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam, required for bar admission & next given in March 2026. (Registration opens 2025-12-16.)
Next steps are obvious enough.
Good: I PASSED the July 2025 California state bar exam.
Embarrassing: I never took the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam, required for bar admission & next given in March 2026. (Registration opens 2025-12-16.)
Next steps are obvious enough.
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I have good news & embarrassing news.
Good: I PASSED the July 2025 California state bar exam.
Embarrassing: I never took the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam, required for bar admission & next given in March 2026. (Registration opens 2025-12-16.)
Next steps are obvious enough.
Good: I PASSED the July 2025 California state bar exam.
Embarrassing: I never took the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam, required for bar admission & next given in March 2026. (Registration opens 2025-12-16.)
Next steps are obvious enough.
Today was parent-teacher conferences for 12M & 7M. If I may say so, 17F & the boys are all a GD delight. Just like their parents, especially their mother.
Being a GD delight is a double-edged sword, as those of us who were once "a pleasure to have in class" know all too well.
Being a GD delight is a double-edged sword, as those of us who were once "a pleasure to have in class" know all too well.
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Today was parent-teacher conferences for 12M & 7M. If I may say so, 17F & the boys are all a GD delight. Just like their parents, especially their mother.
Being a GD delight is a double-edged sword, as those of us who were once "a pleasure to have in class" know all too well.
Being a GD delight is a double-edged sword, as those of us who were once "a pleasure to have in class" know all too well.
Endless gravel at final rest stop? (5)
#CrypticCrossword
(I wanted to do something with "undefeated" but couldn't make that work)
#CrypticCrossword
(I wanted to do something with "undefeated" but couldn't make that work)
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Endless gravel at final rest stop? (5)
#CrypticCrossword
(I wanted to do something with "undefeated" but couldn't make that work)
#CrypticCrossword
(I wanted to do something with "undefeated" but couldn't make that work)
Good morning from Lafayette Reservoir!
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Good morning from Lafayette Reservoir!
Baseball: Juan Soto is the second player in MLB history to win a Silver Slugger Award (caveat: Silver Slugger only goes back to 1980) three years in a row for three different teams.
Name the other! (It's a bit of a trick question.)
Name the other! (It's a bit of a trick question.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Baseball: Juan Soto is the second player in MLB history to win a Silver Slugger Award (caveat: Silver Slugger only goes back to 1980) three years in a row for three different teams.
Name the other! (It's a bit of a trick question.)
Name the other! (It's a bit of a trick question.)
Song(s) of 2025, a verbose personal thread:
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Song(s) of 2025, a verbose personal thread:
News, 2025-11-06 (part 2), lots of law today. (On a personal note I find out tomorrow whether I passed the California bar exam that I took back at the end of July.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
News, 2025-11-06 (part 2), lots of law today. (On a personal note I find out tomorrow whether I passed the California bar exam that I took back at the end of July.)
I hear Mamdani is gonna implement Syabira law. Every bodega will have to sell edible sculptures of DNA helices, and other baked goods with delicious Malaysian flavors.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I hear Mamdani is gonna implement Syabira law. Every bodega will have to sell edible sculptures of DNA helices, and other baked goods with delicious Malaysian flavors.
I have Sandwich Guy's (Sean Dunn's) pink shirt & tan shorts, though I have nowhere near his physique.
Next Halloween, if I remember this idea, dead simple costume that requires stopping by a sub shop before going out.
Next Halloween, if I remember this idea, dead simple costume that requires stopping by a sub shop before going out.
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have Sandwich Guy's (Sean Dunn's) pink shirt & tan shorts, though I have nowhere near his physique.
Next Halloween, if I remember this idea, dead simple costume that requires stopping by a sub shop before going out.
Next Halloween, if I remember this idea, dead simple costume that requires stopping by a sub shop before going out.
Geography lesson for myself: Start with a 2x2 grid. Rotate 30° counter-clockwise. Shrink the (former) top left; make it a bit penis-y. Add a ball at the now bottom left.
I've only rarely been to NYC (& not in years). Didn't even have a mental image of borough geography til mayoral election returns
I've only rarely been to NYC (& not in years). Didn't even have a mental image of borough geography til mayoral election returns
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Geography lesson for myself: Start with a 2x2 grid. Rotate 30° counter-clockwise. Shrink the (former) top left; make it a bit penis-y. Add a ball at the now bottom left.
I've only rarely been to NYC (& not in years). Didn't even have a mental image of borough geography til mayoral election returns
I've only rarely been to NYC (& not in years). Didn't even have a mental image of borough geography til mayoral election returns
45F just went on a brisk walk near Brighton Beach, hours after her redeye landed at JFK. As an '80s music fan & dad joke enthusiast, I JUST NOW realized (with great shame) why I should have told her to stay awake the entire flight.
"Foot on the pedal, never ever false metal..."
"Foot on the pedal, never ever false metal..."
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
45F just went on a brisk walk near Brighton Beach, hours after her redeye landed at JFK. As an '80s music fan & dad joke enthusiast, I JUST NOW realized (with great shame) why I should have told her to stay awake the entire flight.
"Foot on the pedal, never ever false metal..."
"Foot on the pedal, never ever false metal..."
News, 2025-11-06
That election was something! Maybe people really will stand up against fascism. Maybe two years in a row many people voted based on who they thought would help them afford things. Maybe hope beats bigotry (& sex pests) in the long run. All of that. But battles are not fully won.
That election was something! Maybe people really will stand up against fascism. Maybe two years in a row many people voted based on who they thought would help them afford things. Maybe hope beats bigotry (& sex pests) in the long run. All of that. But battles are not fully won.
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
News, 2025-11-06
That election was something! Maybe people really will stand up against fascism. Maybe two years in a row many people voted based on who they thought would help them afford things. Maybe hope beats bigotry (& sex pests) in the long run. All of that. But battles are not fully won.
That election was something! Maybe people really will stand up against fascism. Maybe two years in a row many people voted based on who they thought would help them afford things. Maybe hope beats bigotry (& sex pests) in the long run. All of that. But battles are not fully won.
"Dewayne it's been wet"
That's what Steve Stone would tell Dewayne Staats (instead of "fun") after the 6th of a rainy mid-80s WGN Cubs game.
(Staats & Harry Caray traded radio & TV every 3 innings)
Stone & Staats both still call games (now White Sox, Rays) 40yrs later
It's wet in Oakland today
That's what Steve Stone would tell Dewayne Staats (instead of "fun") after the 6th of a rainy mid-80s WGN Cubs game.
(Staats & Harry Caray traded radio & TV every 3 innings)
Stone & Staats both still call games (now White Sox, Rays) 40yrs later
It's wet in Oakland today
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Dewayne it's been wet"
That's what Steve Stone would tell Dewayne Staats (instead of "fun") after the 6th of a rainy mid-80s WGN Cubs game.
(Staats & Harry Caray traded radio & TV every 3 innings)
Stone & Staats both still call games (now White Sox, Rays) 40yrs later
It's wet in Oakland today
That's what Steve Stone would tell Dewayne Staats (instead of "fun") after the 6th of a rainy mid-80s WGN Cubs game.
(Staats & Harry Caray traded radio & TV every 3 innings)
Stone & Staats both still call games (now White Sox, Rays) 40yrs later
It's wet in Oakland today