Anne Ishii

It’s hard to be hopeful for Philadelphia when everyone who hears the first half of this sentiment assumes I’m inferring a football team.

It’s gonna sound contrived but I was at a S Philly block party in a dad circle drinking Coors Lites when we started sharing anecdotes about abuses inflicted by our dads, laughing awkwardly. “But it ends with us,” was the unanimous take. It looks different everywhere but I feel like help is here.

I started bricking my phone on weekdays entirely, and am feeling noticeably and remarkably more alert. I had one evening with IG and BS and feel like I need to do a lot more for the resistance. That’s the entire observation.

Why did Chef Boyardee feel so out of place in Italy? Because he had imPASTA syndrome.

Kobayashi Sanae Lathan

Memphis!

BIPOC Rest Space Autozone Atrium is a phrase I am able to say and tell people I was in, today.

I’ve had this intrusive thought all week: The Hills Have Balls

Hello

Anyone have good memphis recommendations for dinner?

Kinda freaking out. I only **thought** about buying better house slippers. I never looked anything up. But I’m getting them advertised at me like it’s gonna save my life. I know this is the way surveillance predictive advertising works but it’s still so scary.

Do friends have book recommendations for a really reluctant 2nd grade reader…? ps my kid beats himself up when he doesn’t know words and is embarrassed by how slowly he reads in class. Now he’s falling behind in reading/writing; I suspect there may be dyslexia at play; I dunno what to do. ☹️

This free event is tomorrow: a talk with Sosena Solomon, Omar Tate, and Jonathan Gonzalez (2025 Pew Fellowz)! www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/tal...

A Round Universe www.ill-iterate.com/p/a-round-un...

Is Sookie Stackhouse the worst television character in history

Can Cup o Noodle sponsor me

I’ve been going back to Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social a lot this year bc we’re in an America that commits murder with impunity on one hand and enables white guilt polemicism on the other. This sentence hits me hard: “Every memorial and museum to atrocity already contains its failure.”

What do you call a wise ass with IBS? Shartypants

That intergenerational trauma demonstration with a glass of dark liquid being diluted with fresh water over time, except it’s poo.

Ur-gurl

Someone quick, give me permission to be a cunt!

If Snickers has a vein, Milanos have a clit.

I love in IG when a poster is trying to respond to a troll but doesn’t -at them, so it looks like they’re yelling at their own post. “Believe in women! Fuck you Tony!”

You would think that near term human extinction would be enough of a reason to all agree to stop. You would think that. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For my notes, just remarking on a huge disinvestment of labor from public works which leads to Route 1, private enterprise solutions for services. Route 2, cooperative living and mutual aid. Route 3, anarchy (benevolent or malevolent). Blend of all is our current status. How bad is that?

Just uploaded this full interview between @ill-iterate.com and Ryan Holmberg at @fantomcomics.bsky.social from… *checks notes* July 11. Great stuff here about Gengoroh Tagame, gay erotic manga, and translation workflows. SUCH an interesting conversation to watch!!! youtu.be/H1cZsmdoYNA?...

omg Cassandra Wilson 💔

I love how absolutely awful Reacher is

Do people have great Viet restaurant recs for New Orleans?

what are some albums of or just songs of super short duration?

😭 CATHYYYY🥹

Remembering Akiko www.ill-iterate.com/p/akiko

Sat in construction traffic under this full moon. How lucky was I.

💓💓💓 This is a beautiful romantic comedy of manners set inside home cuisine, puns and innuendo, during the Pandemic. I’m so proud of the work. Find it at your bookstore! @gengorohtagame.bsky.social does it again. 🍛🍱🥘🍙🍤🍥🍲🍝🍨🥮🥧🍿☕️🍻

『魚と水』英語版（Pantheon刊）の見本が到着。コンパクトサイズのハードカバーで、昔馴染んだ児童文学書っぽくて、超かわいい😍　装丁はチップ・キッド氏。いつも見返し等の仕掛けがあって、その絵のセレクトが楽しみです😊

I bristle at this lede, or rather, the culture of fascination we are enabling while ICE in its covenant of terror kidnaps so many people responsible for making it “the best time ever right now” for good food.

Basic Competence, a sequel to Basic Instinct where That One Scene is just a guy crossing his legs and saying “you’re right, I’m sorry” to a woman.

I’m going to start referring to nonprofits with large holdings or donor advised funds as “well endowed”

Just saw a beverage called Mom Water and uh, that’s either disgusting or the biggest turn on ever.

(arrogantly) wow i am pooping a lot

Anyone else’s 7yo asking a ton of sad questions about death and unable to take it?

BE SLOW AND WEIRD

Is it Microsoft or Menopause?

So little that chocolate covered pretzels can’t fix.