can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

Why do I sort of feel like the drones thing is just a big social experiment. Maybe they are drones, maybe they are just planes, but maybe the point is the hysteria. I don’t know. They aren’t freaking me out (yet), though I am fascinated by all of it…

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

“Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead.”
@roxanegay.bsky.social

[This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]

President Biden tried to raise the overtime threshold, which is the point where salaried workers are entitled to earn overtime pay. It would have helped millions. A Trump appointed judge in Texas just blocked it.

Please tell me you see which party is actually fighting for the average worker.

I’ve always been afraid to opine publicly on the other site. You all are building my courage to do so here.

Well, this gets it exactly right, doesn’t it?

ADHD is having a brain magnetically opposed to your own plans and desires.

Running late?
Let’s organize the book shelf real quick.

Time for sleep?
Nope, we’re feeling productive!

Scheduled time for focused work?
Sorry, can’t stop thinking about the history of lollipops.

Still cannot process how fragile the United States and its democracy turned out to be

Straight-up porcelain

Depression is a sign you’re paying attention. Anxiety is a sign you need to stop.