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Not all who wander are lost, but I definitely am. She/her. DC ➡️ ABQ.

Albuquerque, NM, USA
Joined April 2017
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
I’m at the health crisis. I’m at the climate crisis. I’m at the infrastructure crisis. I’m at the combination health-climate-infrastructure crisis.
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@FinchinABQ
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3 years
They keep doing this study, and they keep learning that it works, and they keep withholding money from people after that.
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NPR
3 years
A universal basic income experiment in California — which gave randomly selected residents $500 per month for two years, no strings attached — measurably improved people's job prospects, financial stability and overall well-being, a new study finds.
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1 year
It’s not too late to cancel your Christmas travel plans. If your family is mean to you, cancel. If the weather is too dangerous, cancel. If you don’t want to catch a virus, cancel. You can just stay home. I love you. ❤️
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
@ginnyhogan_ This reminds me of this Australian Covid tracing sketch I love:
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Bec Shaw
3 years
What's the secret behind NSW's Covid Contact Tracing? Find out by watching this sketch i wrote with @ninaoyama for the @chaser 's war on 2020. Directed by @jennaown & @vzerbst who also star in it and made it v good imo.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
@Ahhmandah THEY DIDN’T RESCHEDULE BEFOREHAND?????
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
@ThreatNotation Just every single time the choir gets through the a cappella section, and then the pianist starts back up, and it becomes painfully obvious you’ve gone a whole-step flat while unaccompanied. 😬
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
8 months
@Frediculous White people want to be seen as the default. We are “normal,” and everyone else is an “other.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 months
@RyanFMandelbaum Sorry for the serious answer to your joke tweet, but I just read this book and it was so interesting I wanted to share it. INSIDE OF A DOG by Alexandra Horowitz.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
8 months
@chronicallybeee ESPECIALLY meetings! Jesus Christ, we are starting YEAR FIVE.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
*clenches fist*
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1 year
What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
How’s my sexy single Saturday night going? Well, I was trying on the new clothes I ordered, and I got tangled up so badly in a zipper that my dad just had to drive over here and free me using a pair of needle nose pliers.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
Who are the good guys in all of this? Probably not the CEOs making life so difficult that a 95-year-old feels compelled to picket in the summer heat.
@kevinddaly
Kevin Daly
11 months
Let's hear it for 95-year-old acting legend Rosemary Harris, who was seen walking the SAG-AFTRA picket line outside of Netflix in NYC today.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
@Ahhmandah They should have CONTINGENCY PLANS Jesus Christ.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
5 years
“Nearly 25% of mothers go back to work within two weeks of giving birth. To give you a sense of where human mothers fall on the legal protection hierarchy, it’s illegal to separate a dog from her newborn pups before eight weeks in several states.”
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 months
This type of smart, walkable, mixed-use community is illegal to build in many American cities.
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3 months
happy leap day. here are 29 rats!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
24 days
@Jamberee13 @janicesghost I’ve absolutely been yelled at for this! So has my mom. (Maybe shallow fingerprints are genetic?)
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Do not speak to me of the old magic. I was there when it was written.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
5 months
@zachsilberberg About eight years ago, I suddenly burst out to my coworker in the next cubicle, “Ludacris’s given name is CHRIS!”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
@ThreatNotation You’re getting dangerously close to wholesome here. You might want to watch out for your brand. 💕
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 months
@JayElHarris Please tell your grandmother we are listening and we appreciate her. ❤️
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Every weekend should be three days long. You need one day to do something fun, one day to do your chores, and one day to actually rest.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 months
@AnniemuMary God, being a teenager is HARD. I think it’s harder for teens now that it was for me, one mile after lunch notwithstanding.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
🚨SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I would like to introduce you to: HIGGINS
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
28 days
Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others.
@PleaseBeGneiss
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just saw two ducks. strong start to the week
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
Let me be clear: totally transparent, in fact. I want to be completely invisible.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
“This is horrific, but it happens a lot. A LOT a lot.”
A lot of y’all love using ableism to put down the candidate you like the least but can’t stand being confronted with the results of that when it looks like this:
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
Okay, I’ve used the Flo Mask in public a few times now. Here are my thoughts: 🧵
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 months
Roses are red Higgins is black He’s cute but he neither Protecc nor attack
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Pete Davidson, when the walls fell
@rajandelman
the federalist stinks!!!!
1 year
Pete Davidson trending whenever there's a celeb breakup, his name becoming synonymous with "there's been a high-profile separation." In the near future, you will merely have to intone the words "Pete Davidson" and your friends will nod, knowing your parents are getting a divorce
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
@wrath_776 @chronicallybeee “If you’re incapable of thinking for yourself…”? When you’re the only person wearing a mask, how is that following the crowd?
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Unpopular food opinion: everything you’ve ever eaten in your life has been “genetically modified.”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 month
@orteil42 Some people do!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
cache ≠ cachet cache - pronounced "cash," rhymes with "stash." It means a stash of stuff, like weapons or provisions. cachet - pronounced "cash-ay," rhymes with "sashay." If something has cachet, it has prestige.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 months
@pot8um My timeline:
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
Spinstr
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serena shahidi
3 years
I should start a platonic matchmaking service where eccentric old women and silly young girls can be paired up to have tea together
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
10 months
Keep your fucking cats indoors and don’t perform CPR on wild animals! Jesus Christ!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
*sees self in mirror* "Lookin' good, feelin' good! Let's do this!" *sees self in photograph* "Why is Jabba the Hutt wearing my sweater??"
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 years
Oooh, this is cool, guys. Following the leadership of black women has never steered us wrong.
@ReignOfApril
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7 years
@HBO We believe the time to speak up is now, before the show has been written or cast. Before @hbo invests too much money into #Confederate .
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
5 years
Friends, I’d like to announce that I bought a house, and I will be moving into it in about six weeks.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
It doesn’t feel ethical for me to just straight RT this, considering I’ve never actually done it myself.
@KondwaniFidel
Kondwani Fidel🌹
3 years
Me after spelling “Renaissance” right on my first try.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
Now is a good time to donate money to your local food bank, by the way; they get a lot of donations at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but kids are about to be out of school and not have access to free breakfasts and lunches.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
It’s official: I have a new job, and I’m starting on March 21! I will not be providing any details about either the old job or the new job on Twitter.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
I am vengeance! I am the night!
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
9 months
I forgot to post this last week when it happened, but here’s @themafinch and me fresh from getting haircuts at a Covid-safe salon. We are wearing our strapless adhesive Alliant Biotech N95s, which were perfect for getting our hair done.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 month
@melissabreenx Okay, THANK YOU, because the American arthritis association (or whatever it’s called) always has a fundraising race!!
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
So we’re just gonna keep doing days? In a row?
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
POV: You have snacks
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
@Imani_Barbarin I keep trying to tell my fellow white women that just not saying anything is an option.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
8 months
The eclipse has started and it’s very humbling! Makes you realize you’re on a sphere, circling a bigger sphere, with a smaller sphere circling us.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
My dumb ass read this as “I am not ingredients.”
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
Thank you, @EffinBirds and @EffinSupport ! I literally say this about myself all the time.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
This is why married men live longer than single men, and single women live longer than married women.
@AjvictoryMD
Amani Jambhekar MD, MBA, FACS
1 year
Me to my patient: The recovery after your cancer surgery is going to take about 4-6 weeks. My patient: Ok Doctor. Can you tell me what activities I can and can’t do? Me: Well- Her husband: But she can still cook right??? I can’t eat cereal for that long.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
Just got asked, “Do you work here?” at Target. Here’s what I’m wearing.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
@GraceSpelman My ex and I were having a fight and he slammed the dresser drawer in anger. I said, “You didn’t have to slam the drawer!” He said, “I didn’t slam the drawer! I shut it hard, and it made a loud noise!”
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Unpopular food opinion: everything you’ve ever eaten in your life has been “genetically modified.”
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
“Catch a Falling Star” (Gingerbread and oven, 2022)
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
Canadian and UK friends: I know I harp on this a lot, but you cannot let evil forces in your country take away your healthcare. You do not want to end up like us.
@kallmemeg
Meaghan Kall
2 years
The first time I walked out of my doctors office after moving to England I legit felt like I stole something
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
Wearing appropriate business attire for a record-setting heat wave. Wearing a respirator for a record-setting pandemic and poor air quality.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
Pa Finch was one of the first elementary school kids to get the polio vaccine when it was piloted in Pittsburgh. Today he got the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and his second dose is scheduled for my birthday! We’re all feeling happy and optimistic today. ❤️
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
This is some kind of sedum that grows under my rosemary bush. The flowers are absolutely IRIDESCENT. The camera can’t capture it.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
I need a workout regime with a title that’s like “Exercise For Decrepit People Who Give Up At The First Sign Of Adversity.”
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
I’ve been retweeting a lot of people smarter than I lately, but just in case I didn’t make it abundantly clear in my own voice: Black lives matter.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 years
TV commercial: "Lack of sleep leads to weight gain." Me, up past my bedtime, eating ice cream directly from the carton: "Hmm, interesting."
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
I just watched the movie Grosse Pointe Blank for the first time since it came out. That’s a really good movie, have you guys heard of it? But seriously, it’s under two hours and it’s just about perfect. I don’t know why every movie has to be such a fucking epic these days.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Cookies were decorated
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
What spinster aunts want for Christmas: • pictures of your kids • soft, warm scarf • dinner at 4:30 PM • a cute plant pot • the upstairs neighbors to shut the fuck up • birdseed
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
I regret to inform you that there’s a new woman in my book club and she’s funnier than me. 😕
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
Me to me: Don’t trust your feelings right before bedtime.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” Nobody *ever* wanted to work! I don’t want to work now! Shut up!
@Brocklesnitch
Bec Shaw
11 months
I love hearing complaints from people like “the woman at the cafe was not friendly, seemed like she didn’t want to be there” no shit! Of course she doesn’t want to be there! Working sucks! Just take your coffee from the sullen young woman and zip it
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Higgins did a big stretch, so I called him “stretchy boy” and then I sang “Oh stretchy boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling…” and then I finished the song operatically and then Higgins ran to the door and asked to be let outside.
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@FinchinABQ
Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Today is the seventh anniversary of my divorce. If it’s true that your body replaces all of its cells every seven years, then I am a whole new woman today.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Put Your Mask on Please to the tune of ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
5 months
@theBrianaMills After I sent this letter, the museum director called me back and told me he hadn’t thought about it that way before and he appreciated my input.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
The New Mexico history Museum doesn’t have a general email address listed on their website, so I went the old-fashioned way. This physical letter is going out in the mail this morning.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
5 months
@HeweyKat I’m really proud of you! Quitting smoking is one of THE most difficult things to do! Your lungs are already in better shape than they were three weeks ago. Keep up the good work!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
@jpbrammer And that’s a huge galaxy they’re in, man! I’m not even related to most of the people in my neighborhood. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 years
@notation_wut @slowseptember “Arranged by accident”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 months
@VeryBadLlama 🎼🎵The lunch shack is a little place where We can rest while hiking Lunch shack, bay-beee🎶
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
@LouisPeitzman Don’t tell me you’ve been showering alone with just your thoughts this whole time!? I could never.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
8 months
I’ve never seen the Scooby Doo movie before so I thought I’d watch it now that it’s on Amazon prime. Unfortunately, Higgins loses his shit every time Scooby is on screen. 😬
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 years
Like me, this cactus is beautiful but dangerous.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 months
I think a *lot* of people truly believe nothing bad could ever happen to them, because they are somehow better than the rest of us. Disabled people were already well aware that bad shit happens to good people for no reason, so we were ready and willing to adapt our lifestyles.
@chronicallybeee
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if you are not afraid of COVID, you either have no idea what it can do to a person’s body or you think it could not happen to you.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Me: *starts any appliance in the house* Me, 20 minutes later: “What the hell is that noise!?”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
I found *four* cans of pumpkin in the pantry. Apparently every time I went grocery shopping, I kept thinking, “Oh, I’d better buy some pumpkin so I can bake pumpkin bread.” Anyway, I used one of the cans of pumpkin today. Three more to go!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
I parked in my parents’ driveway, started opening the car door, and I heard my dad say, “STOP!”
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
Well, these dishes aren’t going to wash themselves! And I am also not going to wash them.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
11 months
Thought you could use a napping Higgins.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Did the black-eyed Susans grow in the flower bed where I planted them? No. Is one super-healthy black-eyed Susan growing in the rocks in front of my air conditioning unit? Absolutely. #FlowerReport
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
I just finished my open enrollment for 2024! Non-Americans: this is an annual event where we predict how often we will get sick or injured in the next year and try to buy enough insurance to make sure we don’t go bankrupt. If we guess wrong, we end up either homeless or dead!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
2 months
Ahhhh, I just did something brave! There’s a woman on my street who I used to see walking her dog, and she came out to talk to me when I was walking Higgins about an hour ago. Her dog had died, and she was asking where I found Higgins, so I was telling her about local rescues.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
7 months
Higgins in the snow #LiveTweetTheWeather
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
I guess the argument that makes me the maddest/saddest is that “we can’t be afraid of this virus, and we have to keep living our lives.“ I fundamentally disagree. We should be very, very afraid of this virus, and we should radically change our lives to combat it.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
I held @themafinch at gunpoint and forced her to give me a haircut. I am THRILLED with the results. Here’s the before and after.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
4 years
Suddenly remembered the time a stupid boss of mine wrote me a commendation letter praising the “depth and breath” of my knowledge, then closed it by writing that I was “superior to none.“
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
10 months
@Frediculous NOBODY is better with money than a poor person. N O B O D Y.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
Store employee bringing my order to the car: “I’m so sorry for the wait!” Me: “Hey, it’s a pandemic! We’re all just doing the best we can.” Employee: “Thank you for being nice about it. People are being so mean!” STOP BEING MEAN TO SERVICE PEOPLE!!! Be polite and give tips!
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 years
I did a thing.
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
6 years
@brokeymcpoverty This looks so satisfying except I desperately want him to be wearing protective gear so he doesn’t get any little bits in his eyes or mouth or nose! I guess safety is my porn?
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
3 months
Marchioness Madness Is this anything?
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Edna St. Vincent Malaise
1 year
Hey, listen. If it’s safe, you can also leave early. I love you. ❤️
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