Cait

@caitesq

Public defender. Professional troublemaker. Burrito and word game enthusiast.

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Cait@caitesq· Jul 7

Maybe appealing to Lawsky: among my vintage cookbooks is the 1982 Congressional Club Cookbook, which contains Chuck Grassley’s wife’s cheese ball recipe

16 oz cream cheese, 1 package Good Season’s Italian dressing mix, 1-1.5 cups chopped pecans. Mix cream cheese, dressing mix, and 1/2 cups chopped pecans pecans. Shape into two balls and roll in remaining nuts. “Best if made a little ahead so flavors can blend.”

Cait@caitesq· Jul 7

Have moved my beans into the pantry in the new place; am officially home

Photo of an embarrassing number of bags of Rancho Gordo beans and lentils (I counted; it’s 18 lbs)

Cait@caitesq· Jul 6

Chicken-shaped gravy boat goes next to the jalapeño-shaped salsa dish next to the corn-shaped corn dish and what has my life come to

What the post says; I’m not exaggerating

Cait@caitesq· Jul 6

Why did I buy/do I own this

A “chili pepper grilling set” that promises to hold jalapeño peppers upright

Cait@caitesq· Jul 6

It’s moving day! My energy can best be summed up by Norris the monster lamp

A white ceramic bug-eyed monster with its mouth open in a scream. The monster appears to have seen some things. It is tucked into a bed so it doesn’t get crushed by moving boxes.

Cait@caitesq· Jun 28

Mel Brooks on whether drumming taught him about comedy:

It did. It has to do with punch lines. It has to do with timing. It has to do with buildup and explosions. For a joke to work, I always needed that rim shot, when one of the drumsticks hits the rim of the snare as well as the center of the drum and gives you that crack, that explosion. It’s the same thing with a joke. A man walks into a grocery store. He says, “I want a half a pound of lox. I want some cream cheese.” And he stops and says, “All your shelves are filled with boxes of salt! Do you sell a lot of salt?” And the grocery man says, “Me, if I sell a box of salt a week it’s a miracle. I don’t sell a lot of salt. But the guy that sells me salt—boy, can he sell salt!” That’s the rim shot.

Cait@caitesq· Jun 26

My results are similar and I’m a Macronite

Your results
66% woke 34% child
45% techbro 55% neo-Luddite
72% hopepilled 28% doomer
92% Davis 8% Dubai

Your closest match: Emmanuel Macron, president of France 2017-present

Cait@caitesq· Jun 16

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

A photo of a bird (maybe a gull? I don’t know birds) perched on a sign showing a crossed-out bird

Cait@caitesq· Jun 15

My dad is visiting, and he brought me a Knicks cookie from, I believe, Barney Greengrass?

Cait@caitesq· Jun 13

screenshot of a tweet from Northern Sparrow, @NorthernSprw:

Remembering that time in grad school when my advisor, a great ornithologist, got a random call:

drunk guy, bar noises in background: IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR?

my advisor: um..yes?

drunk guy: DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?

my advisor: ...yes

*wild cheering over phone from bar*

Cait@caitesq· Jun 12

I saw a dramatic headline from the NYT about “vandalism” on the National Mall, superimposed on a photo of… this. This does not crack my top 50 concerns at the moment.

Screenshot from the New York Times Facebook account. Headline says “Grass on the National Mall is Vandalized With ‘86 47’ Stains.” It’s on a photo credited to Nathan Howard at Reuters that shows the grass at the National Mall, which has a large but not-very-clear “8” marking, followed by markings in the grass that I could not have identified as particular numbers.

Cait@caitesq· Jun 6

I am a crazy person

Screenshot of a text message chain. All the messages are from me; my interlocutor is not actually responding:
KNICKS UP BY 1
I’m just following the score on Google. I have no idea what’s happening
Based on Bluesky, Wemby maybe made an inadvisable foul
Seven seconds to go
TWO SECONDS
KNICKS WIN 105-104

Cait@caitesq· Jun 5

Because AI learns over time, Google gave me a different answer

Screenshot of a search for “how many days of the week have boobs in them”

Google says:
Only two days of the week have “boobs” (the letters b-o-o-b) in their name:
• Tuesboobs (Tuesday)
• ****boobs (Saturday)

What other fun wordplay or riddles can I help you with today?

This is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional. AI responses may include mistakes.

Cait@caitesq· Jun 2

Happy Pride from a bridal shop in suburban Pittsburgh

A store window with a white wedding gown followed by dresses in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

Cait@caitesq· May 31

From her piece about the piece:

A great thing happens when you get to do an in-depth interview with someone. If you listen carefully, they begin to tell you what’s been on their minds. In the dozens of profiles I’ve written, what I’ve learned is that questions don’t necessarily yield the best story. I have some colleagues who are terrific at asking probing questions, and the results are revealing and incredible. But my own method has mostly been to sit with someone and make myself quiet in a way I never am in my real life. If you do that, people start to talk. They can’t help it; the quiet is too much, and someone needs to fill it. If you give them space and time and you listen, they will confess and reveal everything about themselves. They’ll tell you secrets, philosophies, jokes. They’ll share gossip and childhood memories. They’ll tell you the meaning of life if you let them. All that will equal a full meal, an entire experience, a whole galaxy. The best way I can tell you about what happened this spring in London is to say that if you make yourself quiet and still and just wait, Tilly waits, too. She just sits, unprompted. She doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t have anything to say.

Cait@caitesq· May 31

Omg

In an interview with TMZ published on Friday, Vanilla Ice said that he did not think the concert should be “any political thing,” adding, “I don’t even vote, so I don’t even care.”
The rapper, who has appeared at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, said he would be happy to perform for anyone.

“You play for your fans,” he said. “And I’ll go play for Putin, and I’ll play in Iran if you want. It don’t matter.”

The senior administration official said the White House appreciated that Vanilla Ice still agreed to participate in the event.

Cait@caitesq· May 29

This weekend at the Albuquerque Isotopes: the diversity of human experience

Tonight: Dinosaur Night (giving away triceratops plushies in Isotopes jerseys); also ALS night
Tomorrow: Country Night (giving away trucker hats, and there’s a concert and fireworks)
Sunday: Pride Day (giving away Pride flags)

Cait@caitesq· May 27

I just googled that line to see if I remembered it correctly, and boy do I hate this

Screenshot of a Google search for “nice is different than good.”
At the top, there is an inspirational-quotation thing that says “Nice is different than good. Stephen Sondheim” superimposed on a sunset or something.

Beneath that is Google AI, apparently speaking to me directly: “You hit on one of the most profound psychological truths—and one of the famous central themes from Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods. The fundamental difference comes down to intent and impact:” and then there’s a “Show More” button.

Cait@caitesq· May 24

Just doing my weekly shopping at Smilth’s

A large, professionally printed sign exhorting me to open the “Smilth’s” app

Cait@caitesq· Apr 26

I very much wish that newspapers hadn’t run with the image that he decided to give them after he was safe. The image I think of, when I think of Butler, is Trump on the ground, bleeding, buried under his team of guards.

Photo from Anna Moneymaker of Trump’s face, bleeding, inside a tangle of limbs

Cait@caitesq· Apr 10

I’m curious about how people would rank the relative insanity of the circuits. I worry my off-the-cuff response was not correct (should I have said the 4th?)

Text to me:
Is the 5th circuit the insane one?

My response:
Yep
Although 11th and 8th give it a run for its money

Cait@caitesq· Apr 6

I have to show you these muffins my kid decorated one time

A banana muffin with candy decorations on it: two hearts, two stars, two drops of water, two mustaches, two eyes, two sets of lips. They are arranged in no particular pattern.

Cait@caitesq· Apr 6

Ridiculously, I felt bad for the lamb and gave it a calmer expression.

The same lamb with jellybean eyes. It looks markedly calmer.

Cait@caitesq· Apr 6

Meet this year’s Easter lamb cake, who has seen some things.

A 3D lamb cake with a jellybean nose and very, very large candy eyes. It looks traumatized.

Cait@caitesq· Apr 5

Lamb is out of the pan and cooling/resting

An unfrosted cake shaped vaguely like a lamb sitting on the ground

Cait@caitesq· Apr 5

The kids are getting new Easter baskets this year

Two baskets in the shape of sharks, complete with fins, covered entirely in sequins except for their mouths. They are wearing white fluffy bunny-ear headbands.

Cait@caitesq· Apr 4

Google AI summary has messed up one of my favorite uses of Google, which is checking the score

Google AI overview when I searched “huskies south carolina score”:
In the 2026 Women's Final Four, the UConn Huskies defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks 82-59 to win the program's 12th national championship. The victory took place on April 3, 2026, marking UConn's first championship since 2016, with the Huskies leading to dominate the game.

Final Score: UConn 82, South Carolina 59

Cait@caitesq· Mar 21

I have had it with these motherfucking planes on this motherfucking snake

Found in my house: two toy planes resting on a plush snake

Cait@caitesq· Mar 20

My five-year-old decided that for Celebrity Day at school, he should dress up as Avery Schreiber (in the photo, on the right). He has a plastic banana, and I drew a mustache on his upper lip. No one is going to understand this costume, but he's delighted.

Left: Fozzie Bear holds a paw to his face and looks distressed.
Right: Avery Schreiber, a man with bushy black curls and a large black mustache, holds a banana to his ear like a phone.

Cait@caitesq· Mar 16

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