Coffee Before Talkie. Yep, it’s a Monday. Or really any day ending in a Y.

Not chatty – here are a few good tweets instead.

ALWAYS a 27.

Making my 5lbs of emotional support mashed potatoes to get me through another week on this planet.

— The Ghost of Jess Cross 👻 (@jesskcross) October 9, 2022

We avoid writing for one psychological reason or another, but I’ve been particularly avoidant in writing about the “first fall,” transitioning from my vibrant self to the swift descent into the fog of neuro Long Covid. Even moreso than writing about the rock bottom weeks. Why?

— Morgan Stephens (@morganstephensa) October 4, 2022

It still shocks me that people wake up everyday and just feel… healthy. No pain, no fatigue, no headache, no stomach ache, no joint pains just… a body floating through the day. As a chronically ill person I literally cannot imagine or remember what that feels like.

— Nia | The Chronic Notebook (@chronicnotebook) October 8, 2022

It’s exhausting and infuriating to know how many people don’t realize how close to fascism we are right now.

— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) October 16, 2022

This should be the story of the midterms, nothing is more important than our fragile democracy. https://t.co/DdTDSu0YRB

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 10, 2022