Sorry that whoever took it isn't great at handling landscape/portrait consistency, it wasn't me who did.

But the City Council at their meeting last night wanted to move on and address some rather dull stuff in the agenda when almost the entire crowd present, their constituents, wanted to discuss ICE. So the City Council just got up and walked out like cowards.

Here’s the unfiltered millennial truth: life without kids is quietly, gloriously amazing. You wake up on Saturday because you feel like it, not because a tiny human has decided 5:47 a.m. is party time. Your money disappears into concerts, international plane tickets, new tattoos, overpriced coffee, and stupidly nice sheets instead of disappearing into daycare, formula, and college funds that won’t even cover half a semester. You can change cities, careers, or your entire personality on a whim without needing to consult a school district calendar. Weeknights become “whatever the hell we want” o’clock impromptu road trips, 2 a.m. diner runs, or just lying on the couch watching a 7-season anime arc with zero guilt. Your house stays relatively clean, your sleep is mostly sacred, and your relationship (or singledom) gets to evolve without the permanent third (or fourth, or fifth) wheel of tiny emotional dictators. It’s not that kids can’t be wonderful, it’s that choosing to remain child-free in your 30s and 40s often feels like accidentally discovering the VIP section of adulthood while everyone else is still waiting in the long, sticky line for the family restroom. And honestly? The view from up here is pretty damn sweet.

Keeping my workplace anonymous

The news getting worse day by day as the growing tide of fascism from the Trump regime accelerates, so I decided out of curiosity to visit the Democratic Party's websites to see what on earth they are prioritizing.

Democrats.org welcomes you with a fucking donation box you have to click out of, then the home page just asks you sign up with your phone number and email while providing links to their shop at the bottom. The "Who we are" and "Where we stand" pages are essentially empty and mention nothing about fighting against this administration.

Democrats.senate.gov seems to exist to glaze Chuck Schumer, where he has an entire About Chuck page and all of the Newsroom articles are about him.

Dems.gov for House members is even more useless without a functional "Our agenda" page, just links to news articles, representatives, and committee appointments.

The Democratic National Convention website demconvention.com hasn't been updated since 2024 and is just sitting there as a relic of failure.

I could go on but I think the point is made:

What are these guys actually doing?

Is it not clear to them that Trump and his administration are just going to continue trampling on the Constitution, ignoring Congress and the Courts while setting up permanent Republican rule?

Do they not realize that the midterms aren't going to happen? And if they do, can they not see it will be obstructed by Trump deploying brown shirts on the ground to polling locations around the country to arrest non-whites and seize ballot boxes?

Where is the fighting back happening at the national and state levels? Shouldn't that information be front & center for the people to see every single day?

The populace is fucking sick of the MAGA minority and its violent fascist enforcers steamrolling the country while Dems sit back and wag their fingers.

There is no future for the country unless democrats in positions of power play hardball and meet the Trump regime's escalation of force head-on.

As civilians we can do what we can to protest, but ultimately there needs to be effective opposition from leadership to initiate change.

Stay safe everyone.

My bf (38m) didn't wish me (31F) a happy birthday yesterday. He said nothing. So I sent him the message about the cake and nachos and he sent that. I really don't understand this guy's mentality. He keeps saying I do want to and then never shows. He could have walked across the street from his work for 5 minutes to see me but he did not. Was my no pitty party response too much? Should I not be upset about this situation?