JRR Tolkien is out there naming two entirely different characters Sauron and Saruman and I'm telling myself I can't have two names starting with the same letter in one book.

Just because I had to type it out and I'm currently learning numbers in another language, you know what's a fucked up English word? Twelfth. That's some Year 1000 Dark Ages shit. Twelfth should have departed the earth when we stopped naming kids Aelfric.

I'm covid-quarantining in my daughter's bedroom, because it's at the back of the house and far away from my husband. The window is open onto all the neighbors' backyards. The weather is absolutely gorgeous and someone has a radio outside playing old 90s radio hits. Honestly, aside from the covid part, this pretty much rocks.

nostr:npub1nh6la5xrgs2rvc9zjfpf25dryt8f8kxclsd6ztr42752gz6swx5q87jd80 Yeah, I've consistently masked on public transportation, including the subway, so no one on my crowded trains yesterday was exposed.

When Duolingo becomes sentient.

Twenty two years ago I watched it happen from our balcony on the Lower East Side. Tonight I can see the memorial from our apartment in Brooklyn. I can’t believe it’s been so long.

(gift article, btw)

I needed this. 😭 https://wapo.st/47Uf5ua

So this Erin Carter show on Netflix is pretty good so far.

nostr:npub17hf723pqlrm6g83qmd92rakxmmemt7pq20n7g6ps03d7th96jcxs27kcz8 HARSH.

nostr:npub1gr2trye6cvrkqwpqv60yspkcx9wz6qvme25wvns50la4e33t0qcqxp5jm0 Just wait till you spread it out to cut.

nostr:npub1m0ghme44zk0vll39s44rue8kv7ln5xs5clyszncv49p96wxer62sue642v I was the younger sibling, so....accurate. Also, my grandma and uncles would send me in to mix their drinks. "Pour this much whisky and this much water for grandma." I was tending bar at eight.

nostr:npub19yr2wd3t6krjj8kra7t7kt48m6y4thfvxdt4at7mrff2mk79dfqq4z6v5f Sounds like my husband will love it. Lol.

I'm watching stuff in #hungarian on Netflix, with English subtitles, to expose myself to more of the language. I started out with The Witcher, but there are too many made-up words in that when you already don't know the language well. Lol. Switched to Enola Holmes. It's "old-timey" so the language is more formal. Right now I catch words, but not sentences, if that makes sense.

We don’t have cable so I’m watching the 11pm news on ABC and they are going ballistic over this. Reading lines from the indictment out loud on the news, breaking down why it’s not “free speech” or “hardball politics”. Making a very clear case that it was widespread criminal activity. Very little both-sides-ing happening, at least where im watching.

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx It’s been a long time coming.

Sydney Powell in her tacky-ass animal prints caught RICO charges. I am delighted.

Re: that last boost. If you get Covid, get yourself a scrip for Paxlovid. Both my husband and daughter got on paxlovid within 24 hrs of testing positive and they were both symptom free within a day. Neither had a rebound infection.

This is a pretty good explainer of RICO and Trump's legal peril in GA. I'm sorry, someone (the author?) posted this earlier here, but I had the tab open for two hours before I could read and now I've lost track of the original post to give credit. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/georgia-rico-law-an-indictment-week?sd=pf

nostr:npub1k6av0paujp3d20v2uetszes3a5gff5rld4rmhjes22rc99hjmjxqjyj8jw Of course. None of these yahoos were acting independently. It was all part of the same criminal conspiracy.