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Amanda
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nobody in particular | EC, WI
He’s back at it.

And he wants you to know that the decomposing body he puts in the makeshift grave he digs will be buried so well, it won’t be … malodorous.

Why would you misconstrue this?
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The following year, in October of 1996, was the last time all the panels (to date) were included in a unified display on the National Mall. A group of us took a bus from Wisconsin to Washington, DC for the occasion.

The Quilt’s size and the scope of loss it represented was unfathomable. [9/]
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
So he wrote me, enclosed snapshots of himself and of his quilt panel for Tom— who was, it turned out, Dreamgirls lyricist Tom Eyen.

(Here is a screenshot from the digitized Quilt’s searchable online archive. In 2025, we can check in on the panels, on our loved ones, whenever we want). [7/]
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Welcome to Target
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Text from my spouse
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Some excerpts from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on the "table flipping" incident. Note the last sentence in the second image: "[Professor Alvergue] recalled the people at the table snickering at him, which he believed was because he wore a T-shirt and pin promoting transgender rights."
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Also worth mentioning: the costume that’s seemingly just “rainbow-bedecked Gay at a No Kings rally”.

I don’t know why they had to drag Gandalf into this.
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
College Republicans at our local (University of Wisconsin system) university, UW-Eau Claire, hosted a Halloween party and costume contest on campus. One of their members dressed as an ICE agent and staged an “arrest” for a photo op.
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
He's always kinda been like this.
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I had to be under conscious sedation for a medical procedure today and, afterwards, in recovery, spent like 10 minutes laboriously composing this text to my husband.

Really thought I was acing coherency.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My 17-year-old’s Algebra II teacher is GOING THROUGH IT.

Parents/guardians of every student in the class got this at 11:00pm on a Sunday.

“I wanted to send out a quick note…”
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The instocklabels dot com paradox
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We brought the dog along to pick him up (because she was mopey as hell for weeks after he left) and I think she gave him the brush-off.
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our late dog, Pippi, would have been five years old today. Here she is as a little puppy, soon after we welcomed her home in 2020.

She died just short of her fourth birthday.

I don’t think I’ll ever forgive myself for failing her.
October 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
That was a lovely piece of writing; thank you for sharing it.
I just revisited CMBYN last night, on a whim, and took this screenshot. I’d never stopped to scrutinize what was written in the notebook. And what a precious detail.
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Me, to my husband: “I read this article the other day. Well, maybe ‘article’ is straining credulity…”
September 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s our one-year Lottie-versary! From an inauspicious start, abandoned by the side of the road with her mom and six (!) sisters to a stupidly charmed life that definitely involves sleeping in/somehow monopolizing most of our bed: we’re sure in love with her!
September 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Lee Pace, speaking to my point 💅🏻
September 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Is “saved owner’s life” a quote from the puppy?
September 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And we weren’t surprised when we received a marketing email follow-up about the host firm’s consulting services to guide us in litigation-proofing ourselves by, essentially, complying with EOs.

No thanks; delete message.

THEN, earlier this week, we got THIS from the same firm.

Grim. [2/2]
September 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ve finally convinced @cullenryanwisco.bsky.social to watch All of Us Strangers, only to be met by this somber warning.
September 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If I had a nickel for every time my kids said “Nobody wants two different nightstands” …

(You guessed it: zero nickels)
September 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Cullen was watching Police Story and I must point out Brigitte Lin’s (right) outfit from the final scene. It is very cute; would wear.
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM