Melanie Trump: Social distancing since 1998.

“I thought I was spared the horrid ‘motivational’ phrase going around now—’If you don’t come out of this with a new skill, you never lacked time, you lacked discipline’—[...]

I do the ‘put an egg on it’ meal composition all the time but I’m honestly not 100% sure I’ve ever nailed the precise ‘jammy’ thing they’re going for. I’m a confident, pretty well-seasoned cook though, so I know how I like my eggs and I just do that. A squishy over-easy in some contexts, a barely-set hard boiled for…

The soft boiled egg is also a staple of classic Spanish cuisine. Here are two examples (photos from a Spanish cookbook I’ve had for 30 years; first is an asparagus dish, second is breaded ham with grapes.). I could’ve posted another dozen examples.

Sewing is a hobby, and luckily I had a great stash of cotton/elastic as well as free kits from a local fabric store, so I’ve done about 25 masks so far. My secret, shameful thought though is.... does anyone actually want these?

I’ve donated most of them to healthcare workers, and give away the rest to friends, and have…

I’ve been on the Jemisin train since 2011, and I say with the deepest love that she’d go back to writing queer incest tentacle sex. 

OMG you wrote about my favorite fucking author, thank you!!! Her writing is above and beyond, especially as a black fantasy nerd who is rarely represented in other novels I read, but I find myself in every one of her published novels (yes, I have read them all). Thanks, Jezebel!

Project Runaway: The corporate overlord edition

I cook and bake for recreation-I enjoy it, it’s fun, it’s challenging, it’s creative. I do like to share my success (and failures) on the interwebs. I have the worst lighting knowing to man in my tiny little kitchen, so my food always sort of just looks florescenty.

As a gun owner (I swear we’re not all nuts) this just frustrated the hell out of me...dude you don’t just shoot a gun in the air, you don’t shoot at effigies of people you hate (and are open about it). You never point a gun at your head and pull the trigger, loaded or not. That part fucked me up. I can’t imagine the…

Whoever left Tim in charge of the museum’s Twitter account is a marketing genius.

I’m so used to referring to this museum as The Cowboy Hall of Fame
(I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone actually use its proper name) that it took me a minute to realize that this was from my city. I’ve similarly refused to learn to new proper name for our science museum. It will always be the Omniplex to me.

I love beyond words that he signs each tweet “Thanks, Tim”. 

If there is any good left in this world we will soon find out that his last name is not send, that’s just how he thought he was supposed to send out his first tweet.

I am now researching Tonga for reasons.

This is Good.

I got really sick in my 20s and it was showing all signs of being cancer. I didn’t have health insurance (pre-ACA recent college graduate) so I applied to my state’s low-income health care coverage. I was working as a waitress at the time so my reported income was juuuuuust low enough for me to qualify but it was…

I was heading to the airport on BART (aka the train) at ungodly pre-dawn hour. There was only me and another guy in the car. Somehow, my eyes closed and I woke up with a jerk to see the doors open and we were at my stop. I only realized after I ran out that the guy had most likely seen that I had a suitcase, was about…

I will tell you the kindest thing I’ve ever done for a stranger: I said the angelus in the middle of a coffee shop with him. This guy was old and obviously lonely and I wasn’t Catholic anymore, but he said how much he missed it, and he asked if I’d do it with him. The people in that coffee shop looked at us like we…

I thought I didn’t have one but I do!