Claire Kenny

You will never catch me saying "there are no dumb questions." There are plenty of dumb questions.

PSA: the Hallmark Christmas movie with Marsha Mason actually features a very satisfying amount of Marsha Mason screentime.

It's honestly like your worst and drunkest uncle making the longest, most meandering wedding toast you've ever seen and for some reason everyone is too cowed to just go up and take the mic away from him.

I suppose it's not really the point, but I feel like, if you're going to make regulations about it, you should be able to pronounce "bestiality."

As someone who didn't come to NY until very shortly after 9/11, what I mainly remember is one solemn and terrified afternoon when everyone across the country raced out to donate blood, followed by an absolute deluge of jingoistic insanity that's never gone away since.

Carrying furniture on the train: hell yeah, you got this girl, that’s how we do it in NY. Carrying furniture items on a rush-hour train: fuck you, this is an assault on decency, I hope that mark on your arm is untreatable scabies.

I just don't understand how historians will explain a time so untethered to any sense of order or normality that "hamberders" doesn't even make the top 1000.

Wherein a man commemorates the life of Gloria Steinem by assuming she probably mishandled the dedication of her own book.

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[Exit Queen.]

I guess this makes sense, because we really do not deserve nice things anymore.

This is really just “I’m starting to wonder if the bad person is doing bad things because she has sad psychological problems,” and like—yes? I’m sure she does! They all do! I’m sorry this administration is full of people who were parented very badly! This is not exculpatory on any level!

Determined to sit on hold with NYU Langone billing as long as it takes, if only just to see how long it takes...

I would like to preemptively remind anyone inclined to call this the Jon Ossoff Effect that what we are seeing here is actually called the Hannibal Buress Effect.

Fellow customer at kitchen store didn't want to buy display knife, even after being assured it hadn't been used, seemingly because it had simply been **looked at** by too many people, which may be the first time I've ever seen someone slut-shame a knife.

So…Nancy Mace thinks that Mrs. Dalloway is buying the flowers herself in the Miley Cyrus sense, doesn’t she?

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

Can we all chip in and by Fauci a nice house in some lovely country that will grant him refugee status?

There are two cats in this picture

Imagine being such a high-achiever that you could make both EASY A *and* FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS and still believe you need to do something more to establish your Being Weird About Sex bonafides.

Oh please don't mind me, I'm just going to pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

It is very hard not to have contempt for John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who have sold their souls to find some fig leaf to support the worst nominee for Attorney General ever. The signed agreement is worthless without the signatures of the parties, namely Trump. The IRS break stands. Moral cowards. 

There's a quality about Haley Stevens that's almost as if the Gilmore Girls had a terrible distant cousin that they're forced to take in after a house fire and after 3 days Emily can't take it anymore and makes Richard write her a check to go away.

Might f around and start a podcast all about how Garth Brooks' reference to an "ivory tower" at the end of "Friends In Low Places" is meant to imply that the song's protagonist is crashing a faculty party. Pls contact for sponsorship interest.

Sure, it doesn’t make sense NOW, but just hang on a minute while they retool this into a beautiful dome made of filter.

Todd Blanche and What He’d Rather be Doing

So: I don’t have kids and therefore don’t really understand these things, but these little mush envelopes always did seem more or less like microplastic delivery systems?

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

Clayton honestly should have some kind of comms person forcing him to review game tape, bc he seems absolutely unaware of how often he lapses into contemptuous dickface.

Me and my friends would've killed this thing with hammers I can tell you that much.

A general reminder to everyone but especially my fellow transit riders this July morning: Portrait of a Lady is not a warm-weather fragrance. My God, must we surrender ALL sense of social order??!?

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

This is all just exactly like 1985, when that Maine Congressman died suddenly and the governor appointed ME’s most illustrious citizen, Jessica Fletcher, to complete his term.

Agitating my blueberries in a vinegar bath, as one does in functional post-industrial nations with acceptable and well-maintained public health infrastructure.

We will like never know all the murders committed by maga. But we should be very loud about the murders we know.

Batch cooking is a really good weight-loss method because once you hit Day 4 of eating the same aging lunch, not eating at all starts to seem preferable.

So, was that arch built to withstand thunderstorms or.

Reposting this because I love unions more than I hate mushrooms.

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

Help! We have an unhoused patient who just gave birth. It was early and we thought we had more time to get prepared. We are working on her immediate needs that will allow her to leave the hospital w/ her baby. But I REALLY want to get an extend-stay room for a month for her to figure out next steps

Boy, there really is a very specific kind of face that just screams “Hates the Vatican II Reforms Even Though They Took Place Well Before He Was Born,” isn’t there?

despite Vanilla Ice’s clear desire to collaborate, he listened and stopped

Not to be a shameless company shill, BUT: this app is really something else.