Joan
@joanphillips.bsky.social
Just a regular person who doesn’t want to live in a dumpster juice world
Earlier this week I was out at a bar but not drinking alcohol. It turns out that if you don’t drink the beers you’ll be the most parched. Anyway, a person got a round. They chose plain club soda; I chose plain water. I realized some people do in fact want their water with jazz hands. Not this guy.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Earlier this week I was out at a bar but not drinking alcohol. It turns out that if you don’t drink the beers you’ll be the most parched. Anyway, a person got a round. They chose plain club soda; I chose plain water. I realized some people do in fact want their water with jazz hands. Not this guy.
How about you just don’t and we don’t say you did? Nobody is interested in or comforted by the sanctimonious arrogance that will inevitably be espoused
Vice President JD Vance will visit Minneapolis on Wednesday to pay respects to the victims of the Annunciation Church shooting.
Vice President JD Vance to visit Minneapolis in wake of Annunciation shooting
Vance and his wife will hold private meetings to express condolences to families affected by the shooting.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
How about you just don’t and we don’t say you did? Nobody is interested in or comforted by the sanctimonious arrogance that will inevitably be espoused
Well, we are at the spot on the X Y axis where my age (old & hot) & temperature (set to cremate) have met that a loose, flowy dress is the only tolerable clothing option. This heat dome is for the birds. Who are sweltering.
June 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Well, we are at the spot on the X Y axis where my age (old & hot) & temperature (set to cremate) have met that a loose, flowy dress is the only tolerable clothing option. This heat dome is for the birds. Who are sweltering.
Thank you Senator @smith.senate.gov for always doing the right thing!
June 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thank you Senator @smith.senate.gov for always doing the right thing!
Friendly reminder that cities are not inherently dangerous. I’ve lived all of my 43 years in one and can report I’m just fine. Great, even. A wild notion for those who don’t live in cities but I’d argue I’m the actual subject matter expert in that debate.
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Friendly reminder that cities are not inherently dangerous. I’ve lived all of my 43 years in one and can report I’m just fine. Great, even. A wild notion for those who don’t live in cities but I’d argue I’m the actual subject matter expert in that debate.
Found myself pondering what Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie who got her very own tin cup for a Christmas present so she didn’t have to share would think of us all with our never ending water bottles & jugs we tote around that even have decorations & their own purses. Wild.
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Found myself pondering what Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie who got her very own tin cup for a Christmas present so she didn’t have to share would think of us all with our never ending water bottles & jugs we tote around that even have decorations & their own purses. Wild.
Sometimes you have to be ok with ‘Cs get degrees’ if you’re 43 years old & return to get a second degree when you don’t have to but you want to & the class is absurdly hard but necessary towards the end goal. The Type A in me is STRUGGLING with that though
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Sometimes you have to be ok with ‘Cs get degrees’ if you’re 43 years old & return to get a second degree when you don’t have to but you want to & the class is absurdly hard but necessary towards the end goal. The Type A in me is STRUGGLING with that though
The interviews of the Prevost family are so heartwarming. I’m so touched by what feels like an example of what is good in this world - our love & care for one another & what binds us all together.
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The interviews of the Prevost family are so heartwarming. I’m so touched by what feels like an example of what is good in this world - our love & care for one another & what binds us all together.
I really think that a some AI wiener made-to-talk while wearing a suit is what this clip is. Gross.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I really think that a some AI wiener made-to-talk while wearing a suit is what this clip is. Gross.
This is BONKERS. Apparently judges can be arrested for directing people through a door that this administration doesn’t like. Overreach & flagrant disregard for the rule of law allowed this criminal complaint to be written
Here is the federal complaint filed against Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, along with the supporting FBI affidavit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is BONKERS. Apparently judges can be arrested for directing people through a door that this administration doesn’t like. Overreach & flagrant disregard for the rule of law allowed this criminal complaint to be written
From here on out, my kids will get one super special Christmas banana only. A real luxury of a treat.
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
April 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
From here on out, my kids will get one super special Christmas banana only. A real luxury of a treat.
So true. I’ve always wondered why my kids used that phrase specifically about an internet search
the kids do not use google as a verb- they say "search it up"
April 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So true. I’ve always wondered why my kids used that phrase specifically about an internet search
Tariffs are a regressive tax on the poor & middle class.
If I have $100 & you have $10,000 and the item in question now costs $15 instead of $10, it’s pretty obvious who feels it more.
Here we go again where I’m forced to FAFO just to benefit the rich.
If I have $100 & you have $10,000 and the item in question now costs $15 instead of $10, it’s pretty obvious who feels it more.
Here we go again where I’m forced to FAFO just to benefit the rich.
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tariffs are a regressive tax on the poor & middle class.
If I have $100 & you have $10,000 and the item in question now costs $15 instead of $10, it’s pretty obvious who feels it more.
Here we go again where I’m forced to FAFO just to benefit the rich.
If I have $100 & you have $10,000 and the item in question now costs $15 instead of $10, it’s pretty obvious who feels it more.
Here we go again where I’m forced to FAFO just to benefit the rich.
Last semester I had an in-person group lab. And a young person I nicknamed Doogie Hauser who could whip through & get us in & out quick, assignment complete. This semester, I’m at home, no Doogie in sight, and it’s total bullshit. Takes FOREVER. It’s all so rude.
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Last semester I had an in-person group lab. And a young person I nicknamed Doogie Hauser who could whip through & get us in & out quick, assignment complete. This semester, I’m at home, no Doogie in sight, and it’s total bullshit. Takes FOREVER. It’s all so rude.
Don’t forget the podcasters & social media influencers
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Don’t forget the podcasters & social media influencers
I hate the trend in cooking videos where ingredients are added from 6 stories above to fly all over the place, immediate cut to clean work surface, next. I’m not wasting any of my cheese by dropping it from above to have it fly all over the kitchen like some sort of rescue mission supplies drop.
April 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I hate the trend in cooking videos where ingredients are added from 6 stories above to fly all over the place, immediate cut to clean work surface, next. I’m not wasting any of my cheese by dropping it from above to have it fly all over the kitchen like some sort of rescue mission supplies drop.
Hillary Clinton testified for 11 hours on an event that occurred two years prior but this disgrace ‘can’t recall’ what she was texted last week? But recalls the following day after her bluff was called by full release of the chat? Make it make sense. You can’t.
After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
March 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hillary Clinton testified for 11 hours on an event that occurred two years prior but this disgrace ‘can’t recall’ what she was texted last week? But recalls the following day after her bluff was called by full release of the chat? Make it make sense. You can’t.
People have died as a result of the ongoing operation discussed in the Signal thread by incompetent Republican leadership. That isn’t an oopsie-daisy-they-just-made-a-small mistake. Nor is it anywhere near decent to react to that operation with bicep, fist or flag emojis. Shameful.
US airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels kill at least 2 people, group says
U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have pounded sites across the country. The rebels say one attack Sunday in the capital killed at least two people and wounded more than a dozen others.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
People have died as a result of the ongoing operation discussed in the Signal thread by incompetent Republican leadership. That isn’t an oopsie-daisy-they-just-made-a-small mistake. Nor is it anywhere near decent to react to that operation with bicep, fist or flag emojis. Shameful.
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All women deserve to be paid equally for equal work. On #EqualPayDay, we recognize the injustice of the wage gap, where women earn 75 cents on the dollar compared to men.
We're committed to closing the wage gap and ensuring women get the dignity and respect they deserve at work.
We're committed to closing the wage gap and ensuring women get the dignity and respect they deserve at work.
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
All women deserve to be paid equally for equal work. On #EqualPayDay, we recognize the injustice of the wage gap, where women earn 75 cents on the dollar compared to men.
We're committed to closing the wage gap and ensuring women get the dignity and respect they deserve at work.
We're committed to closing the wage gap and ensuring women get the dignity and respect they deserve at work.
This is how Republicans treat veterans. They don’t like what they have to say so they have police escort them out. SHAMEFUL.
Wow.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
March 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is how Republicans treat veterans. They don’t like what they have to say so they have police escort them out. SHAMEFUL.
I can’t last one whole week until the next episode!!!! This is not the 1990s where we were patient about episodes for the best show ever because we had no other choice
March 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I can’t last one whole week until the next episode!!!! This is not the 1990s where we were patient about episodes for the best show ever because we had no other choice
Rotting in bed watching Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, new show. I did manage to buy edible flowers to sprinkle on food from the comfort of my bed so maybe when I get up I can be fancy too. Maybe.
March 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Rotting in bed watching Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, new show. I did manage to buy edible flowers to sprinkle on food from the comfort of my bed so maybe when I get up I can be fancy too. Maybe.
There are few things in life as precious to me as when my kids get in the shower & belt out songs at the top of their lungs. I don’t think they realize the whole neighborhood can indeed hear them
March 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
There are few things in life as precious to me as when my kids get in the shower & belt out songs at the top of their lungs. I don’t think they realize the whole neighborhood can indeed hear them
"They are pretty much just coming here, chopping heads off, without really doing their homework," James said. "He (Trump) got elected president and he's doing a lot of things that people never even imagined that he was going to do to us”
Lesson: The leopard will in fact eat YOUR face.
Lesson: The leopard will in fact eat YOUR face.
West Virginia resident Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over reut.rs/3DaYGXX
Insight: DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town
Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over.
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March 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"They are pretty much just coming here, chopping heads off, without really doing their homework," James said. "He (Trump) got elected president and he's doing a lot of things that people never even imagined that he was going to do to us”
Lesson: The leopard will in fact eat YOUR face.
Lesson: The leopard will in fact eat YOUR face.
What Mayor Wu said!
The false narratives the right weaves regarding so-called threats to safety is nothing more than a bunch of smoke & mirrors designed to make people lose track of actual work they could do to improve communities around this country.
The false narratives the right weaves regarding so-called threats to safety is nothing more than a bunch of smoke & mirrors designed to make people lose track of actual work they could do to improve communities around this country.
Wu: If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What Mayor Wu said!
The false narratives the right weaves regarding so-called threats to safety is nothing more than a bunch of smoke & mirrors designed to make people lose track of actual work they could do to improve communities around this country.
The false narratives the right weaves regarding so-called threats to safety is nothing more than a bunch of smoke & mirrors designed to make people lose track of actual work they could do to improve communities around this country.