Steel City Snowflake (she/her)
@steelcitysnowflake.bsky.social
Reader, teacher, and nerd in Pittsburgh, PA. Into language, food, and theater. Raising two awesome kids with the mad scientist and the canine co-parent. (Please, no DMs unless we know each other.)
I think I just saw a flag at half staff for Dick Cheney and I may actually vomit.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I think I just saw a flag at half staff for Dick Cheney and I may actually vomit.
You heard the man, Pennsylvania. Here we go.
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
You heard the man, Pennsylvania. Here we go.
As a person with a degree in history, this incredible piece really spoke to me.
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In Trump’s New Confederacy, Slavery Wasn’t Sin
By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent In Donald Trump’s America, they are no longer whispering their love for slavery; they are preaching it from the pulpit. Far-right Christi...
newpittsburghcourier.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
As a person with a degree in history, this incredible piece really spoke to me.
newpittsburghcourier.com/2025/10/22/i...
newpittsburghcourier.com/2025/10/22/i...
"Political correctness" is the societal, macro equivalent of using courteous, respectful language to/ about others. If you think you are polite, but "political correctness" triggers you, you might be an overgrown mean cheerleader who likes to talk vile shit behind people's backs.
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Political correctness" is the societal, macro equivalent of using courteous, respectful language to/ about others. If you think you are polite, but "political correctness" triggers you, you might be an overgrown mean cheerleader who likes to talk vile shit behind people's backs.
To any teacher who assigns nightly homework designed for the parent to sit there and do it WITH the kid: You suck. Please know that you are reinforcing educational inequity and probably making poor use of class time. Signed, a teacher
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
To any teacher who assigns nightly homework designed for the parent to sit there and do it WITH the kid: You suck. Please know that you are reinforcing educational inequity and probably making poor use of class time. Signed, a teacher
Hulu didn't include a box for us to explain why we canceled, so here's what I was gonna say: "Shame on you for rolling over, you pathetic, spineless, fasist-enabling wankers. We stand with Jimmy Kimmel." #BoycottDisney #Disney #Kimmel #ABC
September 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hulu didn't include a box for us to explain why we canceled, so here's what I was gonna say: "Shame on you for rolling over, you pathetic, spineless, fasist-enabling wankers. We stand with Jimmy Kimmel." #BoycottDisney #Disney #Kimmel #ABC
Suggestion: Every workplace in the United States should put up a sign like the ones tracking days since the last accident on a construction site, except for how many days it's been since someone used COVID as an excuse.
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Suggestion: Every workplace in the United States should put up a sign like the ones tracking days since the last accident on a construction site, except for how many days it's been since someone used COVID as an excuse.
I've decided that my new response when I get a compliment in one of my lefty political T-shirts is my standard "thank you" followed up with a cheery " #FoxtrotDeltaTango!" We're just gonna see how that goes.
August 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I've decided that my new response when I get a compliment in one of my lefty political T-shirts is my standard "thank you" followed up with a cheery " #FoxtrotDeltaTango!" We're just gonna see how that goes.
Mad scientist and I have been going to Emiliano's since before we were married. Now we take our kids there. Pittsburgh, let's show these cowardly Nazi scumbags how we take care of our own. #AbolishICE #FoxtrotDeltaTango
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Pittsburgh Friends, the Emiliano's Restaurant in Cranberry is raising funds for the employees that ICE kidnapped from their jobs yesterday. Two restaurants ransacked by those hooligans, and 16 lives upended. They're covering legal fees and lost income with the funds raised.
Donate to Help Emiliano's Reopen and Support Staff, organized by Emiliano's Mexican Restaurant
At Emiliano’s, we’ve always been more than a restaurant. We’re … Emiliano's Mexican Restaurant needs your support for Help Emiliano's Reopen and Support Staff
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August 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mad scientist and I have been going to Emiliano's since before we were married. Now we take our kids there. Pittsburgh, let's show these cowardly Nazi scumbags how we take care of our own. #AbolishICE #FoxtrotDeltaTango
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The brisk, cheery soundtrack for these teacher training videos I've been working through sounds so much like the "Community" music that I'm almost hoping to hear Dean Pelton make an announcement... #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The brisk, cheery soundtrack for these teacher training videos I've been working through sounds so much like the "Community" music that I'm almost hoping to hear Dean Pelton make an announcement... #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
I heard a DJ refer to some artist as "the American David Bowie", which is just viscerally and essentially a music offense. Only David Bowie was David Bowie.
July 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I heard a DJ refer to some artist as "the American David Bowie", which is just viscerally and essentially a music offense. Only David Bowie was David Bowie.
Teaching the almost-2nd-grader to play Yahtzee... because summer slide can shove it where the sun doesn't shine. #parentsky
June 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Teaching the almost-2nd-grader to play Yahtzee... because summer slide can shove it where the sun doesn't shine. #parentsky
Watching "Dr. Strangelove" tonight with the mad scientist as some form of weird, sarcastic nerd therapy. #FoxtrotDeltaTango #filmsky
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Watching "Dr. Strangelove" tonight with the mad scientist as some form of weird, sarcastic nerd therapy. #FoxtrotDeltaTango #filmsky
Cards Against Humanity: (Family Edition) prompt: "MY NAME CHUNGO. CHUNGO LOVE _____." My 7-year-old played "biting a rich person", and I'm so proud of both his sense of humor and his nascent political consciousness. #parentsky
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Cards Against Humanity: (Family Edition) prompt: "MY NAME CHUNGO. CHUNGO LOVE _____." My 7-year-old played "biting a rich person", and I'm so proud of both his sense of humor and his nascent political consciousness. #parentsky
Earlier, my mind blanked for a moment while trying to say "rubber band", and what jumped into my head first was "gumband". Latest example of the ongoing, mysterious coal country cultural osmosis in my SWPA transplant brain...
June 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Earlier, my mind blanked for a moment while trying to say "rubber band", and what jumped into my head first was "gumband". Latest example of the ongoing, mysterious coal country cultural osmosis in my SWPA transplant brain...
One of the fun things about being married to a mad scientist is that he can explain to the family that the bubbles in beer are basically yeast farts. #parentsky
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One of the fun things about being married to a mad scientist is that he can explain to the family that the bubbles in beer are basically yeast farts. #parentsky
DAYUM. You stay classy, San Diego! (Everybody else, guess it's time to watch and learn.)
June 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
DAYUM. You stay classy, San Diego! (Everybody else, guess it's time to watch and learn.)
Maybe this is the solution to my aforementioned garden issue. #booksky #gardensky
Strip District. Penn Ave. A cop just got on the air and said that a lady walked up to him and handed him a live rabbit. She then walked away. PD would like someone to come get the rabbit.
June 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Maybe this is the solution to my aforementioned garden issue. #booksky #gardensky
As an adult maintaining a vegetable garden, the tale of Peter Rabbit hits very differently. Justice for Mr. McGregor! #gardensky #booksky
May 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As an adult maintaining a vegetable garden, the tale of Peter Rabbit hits very differently. Justice for Mr. McGregor! #gardensky #booksky
I feel the need to share with the internet the fact that I have a first-grader who can correctly identify the Wilhelm scream unprompted while watching a movie. Parenting goals. #filmsky
May 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I feel the need to share with the internet the fact that I have a first-grader who can correctly identify the Wilhelm scream unprompted while watching a movie. Parenting goals. #filmsky
Voting for #GaineyforMayor today, and voting no on ballot issues 1 and 3... because "Pittsburgh deserves better" than a mayor paid for by MAGAts, or a home rule charter that makes a "protected class" out of people who do business with war criminals.
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Voting for #GaineyforMayor today, and voting no on ballot issues 1 and 3... because "Pittsburgh deserves better" than a mayor paid for by MAGAts, or a home rule charter that makes a "protected class" out of people who do business with war criminals.
Family trip to the Nepali restaurant... 1-year-old spends the entire meal refusing food, fussing, and attempting to escape. RIGHT after we asked for boxes, he randomly ate a grain of rice. Then another. Next he's shoving fistfuls of curry into his mouth. Toddler win, I guess? #parentsky
May 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Family trip to the Nepali restaurant... 1-year-old spends the entire meal refusing food, fussing, and attempting to escape. RIGHT after we asked for boxes, he randomly ate a grain of rice. Then another. Next he's shoving fistfuls of curry into his mouth. Toddler win, I guess? #parentsky
One of the "is this real life, or #TheOnion?" moments I've been having about twice a week recently.
Excuse me while I go and listen to "The Cell Block Tango".
www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...
Excuse me while I go and listen to "The Cell Block Tango".
www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...
Luigi Mangione musical sells out
Mangione is accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in Manhattan in December 2024.
www.newsweek.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
One of the "is this real life, or #TheOnion?" moments I've been having about twice a week recently.
Excuse me while I go and listen to "The Cell Block Tango".
www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...
Excuse me while I go and listen to "The Cell Block Tango".
www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...
So, if I am shopping for an area rug... why do I have to choose between "traditional" (aka faux Persian) and "contemporary" (aka faux Jackson Pollock)? I don't want either of those. Late-stage capitalism is absurd.
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So, if I am shopping for an area rug... why do I have to choose between "traditional" (aka faux Persian) and "contemporary" (aka faux Jackson Pollock)? I don't want either of those. Late-stage capitalism is absurd.