I love this man
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I love this man
S2E9 of Fionna and Cake is so beautifully specific to having been through EMDR and I have nobody else to talk to about it so I'll just be over here trying to explain reprocessing trauma to a 10yo.
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
S2E9 of Fionna and Cake is so beautifully specific to having been through EMDR and I have nobody else to talk to about it so I'll just be over here trying to explain reprocessing trauma to a 10yo.
When will the adult boomer parents of millennial adult children stop putting them on their holiday cards? Is this linked to family phone plans? Do your adult children get to live their own lives?
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When will the adult boomer parents of millennial adult children stop putting them on their holiday cards? Is this linked to family phone plans? Do your adult children get to live their own lives?
Did I think the documentary about the poet living with terminal illness wasn't going to be depressing? Ya know what, for a minute there, I did. It was also beautiful and life affirming but hoooooooo boy.
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Did I think the documentary about the poet living with terminal illness wasn't going to be depressing? Ya know what, for a minute there, I did. It was also beautiful and life affirming but hoooooooo boy.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Would you like to join my grownup sled gang? Apparently my sense of whimsy and wonder is deeply offensive to my actual child.
December 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Would you like to join my grownup sled gang? Apparently my sense of whimsy and wonder is deeply offensive to my actual child.
Why yes, Rian Johnson, I did want to see this again, truthfully, I always do,thank you for the reminder.
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants [1996] - RF Rip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE COMPRESSED MP4 THAT ARCHIVE.ORG AUTO-GENERATES. This is an RF rip of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, to date the greatest card...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Why yes, Rian Johnson, I did want to see this again, truthfully, I always do,thank you for the reminder.
The child is busy having a Fisher Price Little People renaissance prompted by my asking if I thought his toddler cousins might like to have them now. He hasn't touched them in actual years. "Who these guys? Yea ummm do you think you could leave me alone now?"
December 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The child is busy having a Fisher Price Little People renaissance prompted by my asking if I thought his toddler cousins might like to have them now. He hasn't touched them in actual years. "Who these guys? Yea ummm do you think you could leave me alone now?"
So the full length pocketed cardigan is just the social work equivalent of the lab coat. We've settled this.
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So the full length pocketed cardigan is just the social work equivalent of the lab coat. We've settled this.
Saturday AM house cleaning. The child will not tolerate The Decemberists and I am crying laughing at the quizzical look on his face at these old timey shanties he's certainly heard before but his brain is only now just registering.
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Saturday AM house cleaning. The child will not tolerate The Decemberists and I am crying laughing at the quizzical look on his face at these old timey shanties he's certainly heard before but his brain is only now just registering.
My sweet angel child is displaying work in his first art exhibit this week and listen, so are all of the kids in his little art program but he's soooo so stupid excited that my heart actually expanded to make room for his joy. 10/10 recommend letting people you love yap about what they love too.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My sweet angel child is displaying work in his first art exhibit this week and listen, so are all of the kids in his little art program but he's soooo so stupid excited that my heart actually expanded to make room for his joy. 10/10 recommend letting people you love yap about what they love too.
The hair is starting to look reallllll Wonder Twinsy
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The hair is starting to look reallllll Wonder Twinsy
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
Everyone congratulate the child who is celebrating in the living room like he just won the lottery because tomorrow is a Snow Day
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Everyone congratulate the child who is celebrating in the living room like he just won the lottery because tomorrow is a Snow Day
The way Wegmans becomes the Village Square when the college kids are home on break. These people probably be singing some nasty song about me before I get there like I'm Belle or some shit.
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The way Wegmans becomes the Village Square when the college kids are home on break. These people probably be singing some nasty song about me before I get there like I'm Belle or some shit.
Child spent the evening devising a game show called Spiel of Guessing. This is the human I made.
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Child spent the evening devising a game show called Spiel of Guessing. This is the human I made.
Re: The book I just started...
Note to self: befriend ambitious and generous witch upon next move who will remind me that I am in fact very special. What could possibly go wrong?
Note to self: befriend ambitious and generous witch upon next move who will remind me that I am in fact very special. What could possibly go wrong?
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Re: The book I just started...
Note to self: befriend ambitious and generous witch upon next move who will remind me that I am in fact very special. What could possibly go wrong?
Note to self: befriend ambitious and generous witch upon next move who will remind me that I am in fact very special. What could possibly go wrong?
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Child: Do you think Christmas Dubstep is a thing?
Much to my dismay friends...it is
Much to my dismay friends...it is
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Child: Do you think Christmas Dubstep is a thing?
Much to my dismay friends...it is
Much to my dismay friends...it is
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When I was a teenager I knew someone who was in an all fat Fugazi cover band called Fatguyzi
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
When I was a teenager I knew someone who was in an all fat Fugazi cover band called Fatguyzi
The Macys parade makes me miss my dead Dad so so much. Semi related: If I ever find out anything untoward about Al Roker I may not survive.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Macys parade makes me miss my dead Dad so so much. Semi related: If I ever find out anything untoward about Al Roker I may not survive.
The child is off from school I am working from home and this goober is making beats before 9 am while I'm trying to finish a slide deck.
Gratitude!
Gratitude!
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The child is off from school I am working from home and this goober is making beats before 9 am while I'm trying to finish a slide deck.
Gratitude!
Gratitude!
I need you to know that a video of a grown ass adult NKOTB came across my algo and it activated something in deep within me as if I am part of a geriatric millennial boy band crazed sleeper cell. If you have to ask which one you know nothing about me at all.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I need you to know that a video of a grown ass adult NKOTB came across my algo and it activated something in deep within me as if I am part of a geriatric millennial boy band crazed sleeper cell. If you have to ask which one you know nothing about me at all.
One of my favorite days of the year
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Books We Love
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November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of my favorite days of the year
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was: