imo the state monitoring your private messages is basically on the same level as opening and reading physical mail or perhaps breaking into your house to install bugs and cameras

i think not only should we bulldoze all those massive cemeteries between queens and brooklyn but we should throw the bones into the ocean. to dishonor them for what they have done to the city. greenwood can stay its basically a park

I think we can find the Centrist Compromise here - build massive apartment buildings on top of them all and then relocate the remains into an altar in each new unit where the ghosts of the dead can serve as a guardian spirit against intruders and/or rent increases. They can stay, they just gotta work like everyone else!

I badly want to start saying “this is my Swarovski Shrek” to refer to any outrageously expensive yet ridiculous object I start coveting. If anyone says “what the fuck” and asks what I mean, well. It’s their lucky day to learn about Swarovski Shrek

WHAT THE HELL THERE'S SO MANY??

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

I am locked out. I am in the parking lot. The rain is coming.

ah. glowfic

I have found that the way to be "good at sewing" is to be "good at dealing with your mistakes in sewing"

Honestly that goes for knitting/crocheting too. That day I realized I was good at knitting is the day I figured out to fix a mistake in lacework several rows down without frogging anything

And sometimes you frog half of your first sweater because you've learned that you Did It Wrong in several different ways, but *now* you're *fast enough* at hooking that doing it over again just makes sense.

FDA APPROVED A NEW SUNSCREEN INGREDIENT?????

im astonished any organ of the us government has managed to do something good and useful (i didn't think they were allowed to do that!!) but im even more astonished that it was the FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION