There are so many cute salt & pepper sets at Quail Ceramics (quailceramics.co.uk), I bet I could assemble a DIY Advent calendar out of them. (While I’m fantasizing, I may as well fantasize an end to the tariffs so they’ll ship to the States again.)

Polite incomprehension is an excellent irritant. 😈

And also, maybe try a new minority leader already.

A meatball sub that is consumed after the meatball cools a bit and before the cheese congeals and the bread gets soggy, is a miracle of timing. 😋

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.

It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.

And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd