Erin Griggs
@wordslingeuse.bsky.social
Too old to be clever in bios or patient with abject willful hateful stupidity.
She/her. Kansas. Former English prof & medievalist, current empty-nester housefrau.
She/her. Kansas. Former English prof & medievalist, current empty-nester housefrau.
Preparing to go up to Iowa for the husband's family Xmas, just in time for dinner and the Friday night trivia contest at the local grill.
...the locals are not prepared.
...the locals are not prepared.
a man with long hair and a mustache is sitting in front of a stone wall and says `` you seem a decent fellow .
Alt: Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride," standing in front of a stone wall and says "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Preparing to go up to Iowa for the husband's family Xmas, just in time for dinner and the Friday night trivia contest at the local grill.
...the locals are not prepared.
...the locals are not prepared.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
My therapist brings her puppy to sessions a lot, and she made coloring pages of him for younger clients/clients' kids.🥰
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My therapist brings her puppy to sessions a lot, and she made coloring pages of him for younger clients/clients' kids.🥰
Loving my gothesque holiday mani 💕
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Loving my gothesque holiday mani 💕
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Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously kn...
www.miamiherald.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative
Oh, look: art thieves.
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Oh, look: art thieves.
As a former English prof, IBID.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
As a former English prof, IBID.
After hot-glueing dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise to my Trader Joe's wreath (I gotta get twinkle lights and some velvet ribbon), I made a fucking pomander.
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
After hot-glueing dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise to my Trader Joe's wreath (I gotta get twinkle lights and some velvet ribbon), I made a fucking pomander.
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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MAGA-like Marjorie Taylor Greene-never care about the type of pain they inflict on others until it happens to them
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
MAGA-like Marjorie Taylor Greene-never care about the type of pain they inflict on others until it happens to them
I'm a Chiefs fan in KC, but my female petty is WAY stronger than my sport loyalty.
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Everytime Butker messes up an angel gets its wings and the rest of us enjoy our petty.
Butker hits the right upright, naturally. Sounded appropriately clangin'
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm a Chiefs fan in KC, but my female petty is WAY stronger than my sport loyalty.
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
Lolol although I lay down for a "nap" at 4pm...and *just* woke up, 13 hrs later.
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
December 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lolol although I lay down for a "nap" at 4pm...and *just* woke up, 13 hrs later.
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
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"Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
Hey, first flight since I had to cancel my Costa Rica trip bc of panic attacks this a.m...and 8 woke up 30m before my 315am alarm.
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hey, first flight since I had to cancel my Costa Rica trip bc of panic attacks this a.m...and 8 woke up 30m before my 315am alarm.
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
My son's grandfather --my husband's ex's father -- died at the out-of-state family gathering this weekend. He died as my college-age kid was giving him chest compressions.
We are flying to the coast for the funeral, mostly to suppprt him, as this was just fucking traumatic as hell, MY POOR BABY.😱😭
We are flying to the coast for the funeral, mostly to suppprt him, as this was just fucking traumatic as hell, MY POOR BABY.😱😭
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My son's grandfather --my husband's ex's father -- died at the out-of-state family gathering this weekend. He died as my college-age kid was giving him chest compressions.
We are flying to the coast for the funeral, mostly to suppprt him, as this was just fucking traumatic as hell, MY POOR BABY.😱😭
We are flying to the coast for the funeral, mostly to suppprt him, as this was just fucking traumatic as hell, MY POOR BABY.😱😭
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Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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"I want Clooney to come in The Pitt as a patient, be an absolute nightmare for one episode, then run off into the night shouting about how he’s Batman."
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"I want Clooney to come in The Pitt as a patient, be an absolute nightmare for one episode, then run off into the night shouting about how he’s Batman."
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
I'm going to a Friendsgiving for the first time since...1992.
My GF ass is bringing a bone-in cider-brined ham, country green beans, and my husband is making his Guittard flourless chocolate torte.
And wine. Perhaps a port for the torte OMFG LOLOLOLOL
My GF ass is bringing a bone-in cider-brined ham, country green beans, and my husband is making his Guittard flourless chocolate torte.
And wine. Perhaps a port for the torte OMFG LOLOLOLOL
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'm going to a Friendsgiving for the first time since...1992.
My GF ass is bringing a bone-in cider-brined ham, country green beans, and my husband is making his Guittard flourless chocolate torte.
And wine. Perhaps a port for the torte OMFG LOLOLOLOL
My GF ass is bringing a bone-in cider-brined ham, country green beans, and my husband is making his Guittard flourless chocolate torte.
And wine. Perhaps a port for the torte OMFG LOLOLOLOL
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.