in the "welcome to the handmaid's tale" department, half the us can now kiss reproductive rights goodbye, as the supreme court overturned roe v wade today. it's the first time in the history of the country that scotus repealed a right that most people actually support. and justice roberts was whining just last month about how people don't trust ( Read more... )

at king richard's faire we saw... a service dog wearing wings. and not just any service dog. a service corgi. wearing little butterfly wings. (i mean, it was a ren faire.) so, so cute.

last month i ordered a new keyboard for one of my pi's students, and she still hasn't gotten it. amazon says it was delivered to the mailroom but the mailroom ( Read more... )

(spoiler: she's not saying "thank you".)

on saturday my sister and i saw the shape of water, which is a lovely romance between a mute woman and a, uh, fish. but seriously, it's genuinely sweet and romantic and fairy-tale-like, and in fact one of the things i really like about it is that it's clearly set in a particular place (baltimore) at a ( Read more... )