I would like to file a complaint about the comments on this one. I'm reading them standing in line at my pharmacy. I keep involuntary cackling. People are staring.

Can't imagine why it would be 1.78 on Goodreads And this is counting the 6.9 people (who I'm assuming are family, friends, and Mr. Olbermann) who gave it 5 and 4 ratings.

Stealworkers

I strongly prefer calibri and have it set as my default font everywhere and now I know why. My vision has been all kinds of wacky since my eye injury in 2012 and yes, calibri is in fact easier to read for me too.

I have nothing good to say about this new application of the tech that shall not be named, but here's a wholesome story. My dad died in 2013. He had a flip phone. Mom, who didn't have one, started using his. But for several years, she didn't change his voice mail greeting. It was an odd feeling.

Morning, friends! I wandered onto threads again this morning and quickly learned that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate (yay I love her). But the way I learned was my feed being wall-to-wall posts about her being a (checks threads) genocide supporter? Is this Russian AI busily at work or?

Trying to figure out if "giving women away" means we have no agency of our own, or they aren't doing a good enough job keeping us locked in their basements and we keep escaping

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Oh so that's why they were making sure there'd be no survivors, huh Not because "they were waving to magical invisible other drug smugglers to come save their heroin". Who could've guessed. We would've been better off with the Sopranos running the country, I swear to god

All I want for Christmas is for the Android Auto app in my car to not start playing random music off my phone 5 minutes after I start it. Sometimes it feels whimsical and goes for an audiobook. Imagine driving down a street when suddenly, 107 days! Goes even better when I have someone in the car

Today, I hung up on my daily standup call at work when my son who lives with me for now, walked in and said "I got a call from ICE this morning" (it is better/worse than you think, and also an important warning) 1/

Weather outside my window right now: 17F Tomorrow at this same time: 40F and rain Day after tomorrow at this time: 17F Mother nature hates us. But can we blame it? Look at what we've been doing to it.

I saw the box in Zero Dark Thirty when it was in theaters, so, what, 13 years ago? I'm still having nightmares about that damn box. And I only saw it in a movie. Imagine being the garbage human doing it to other people. People who didn't do anything other than be born into the wrong culture

Became an adult in 1990s Russia. Can confirm. Oh oh story time!!! My husband, two kids and I lived in an apartment that I was assigned from work (which already put us ahead of most young adults in our town). It was on first floor of a 9-floor building, right across from the entrance. 1/

I firmly believe that it was a setup. She wouldn't have made it to junior year if that was her regular day-to-day schoolwork. She deliberately farted out an essay that reads like it was written by a raccoon who'd eaten a Bible for lunch earlier that day, to get the results that she got.

My kids' dad was born in Tajikistan, then moved to Ukraine, then Russia, then here. His childhood friend moved to Israel first, then Germany. Was chatting with x when I was over there for younger son's bday hang and x quoted this friend as saying there are "too many immigrants" in Germany 🤦🏼‍♀️

A whole exhibit of nothing but Rousseau! I love him. Do I love him enough to drive to Philly and back in the dead of winter? Maybe? Who knows!

I initially thought this was from my new Onion subscription. Rapidly building nuclear reactors with AI. The email closes with, "Preparing you for the future!" but, if this is the future, we're all gonna die soon right? Let the drunken orgies commence! It's the end of the world

My new Dr's office has positive affirmations posted in it 💗

Can we test it by burying AI and then, if it comes back on the third day, we agree to worship it, if it doesn't, oh well

Cleaning the oven. The cleaner reminded me of the cringiest joke someone emailed me once in the 90s. Took me 3 years into menopause to even get it. Couldn't find it online (thank dog) so here goes. A man comes to a Dr saying he just got married, but is having problems in bed. He comes too fast 1/

My holiday magic tips and tricks: I do gift exchanges with friends. You just need to watch how much you spend, it's easy to dump a wild amount of $ w/o noticing. I go to a holiday fair in my city to get gifts for said exchanges And to a local bookstore to buy cards for the card exchange 1/

I had my first magical Xmas at age 43. It can be done. We'd all left religion. I'd just ended my first post-divorce relationship. The kids were at their dad's. Even the dog wasn't home. It was just me, in a treeless house, no chores to do, on the couch watching Xmas vacation and it felt glorious.

Of all recent developments, somehow, the enshittification of LinkedIn enrages me the most. I mean, look: 2013 - I get a message from a former CIO, with his number and a lunch invite, that led to the job I have today. The lunch was an interview/offer. 2021 - FB reaches out and interviews me 1/

When my HS friend who is now a pastor and get his paycheck from US evangelicals, wished me "to be surprised by joy" for my birthday this year, this must've been what he meant, because I'm sure as shit surprised by the joy that this human being, raised by humans, is not ashamed to speak in public abt

This is scary. My country of origin wasn't forthcoming with info, and I assumed it'd revoked our citizenship when we left, like it used to do before. It didn't. I found out six years after our passports expired. Renewal process w expired passport looked nearly impossible. Revoking 1/

I feel like a complete fool now because I assumed it was her way of "witnessing" to her peers and teachers; something I was also taught how to do in my brief time as evangelical (like in this photo). This isn't the 80s anymore and what she's trying to do here is a lot more sinister, it turns out.

It is rated 9.1 on IMDB. I looked up IMDB's top rated shows of all time and it is a list of classics. Only a handful rated 9.1 or higher. What is happening

Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together

"I get tired when I'm around exhausting people, but hanging with loved ones helps me recharge. I also sometimes need to be on my own." "What kind of depraved being even are you? Are you extravert or introvert? Make up your mind ffs. There are only two verts (vertices?), as God intended."

Ok I need to be offline more, I goofed that one really hard. I meant to say I have a son who was A COLLEGE FRESHMAN in 2011 lmao what the heck I was 44 telling people Keith's age that they were too old for me. Meanwhile there Keith was with a woman my son's age.

This person, in her mind:

The bean dish reminded me of a guy I dated who never had any produce in the house, and said he hated vegetables. Mind you, the man could cook! Grew up in the South and worked at a BBQ place all through college. He told me his mom's idea of a side of veg was microwaved beans and carrots from a can

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to: Scorpions (80s) ДДТ (80s) Radiohead (twice in the 2010s) Pine Leaf Boys (2016. Look them up) Nathan-Paul and The Admirables (amazing local artists. Look them up)

Realized that the way I define my family isn't normal and that most people don't do holidays with their ex-spouses. Yes, "we all agreed" includes my ex. The man I barely agreed on anything with when we were married to each other. That's big.

Last night one of y'all had too much tryptophan and added me to a list of people who hate people who use AI. This is bogus. I think AI is the tech with great potential to improve our lives; and that the amount it's being regulated rn (ZERO) is bad and needs to be a lot higher.

Latkes

Someone please help me understand. If it is a net positive for humanity, then why are the people currently leading the process of actively pushing it on all of us, also the people who would gladly push humanity into a, to quote one of them, wood chipper if it makes them an extra couple of bucks?

(kicks door open) have you people finally warmed up to buying my product or are you still enormous losers? (Two days later) How do I get the enormous losers to stop making fun of me, I don't understand Screenshot bc he was at least wise enough to disable quotes

I love everything about this

There are only two genders: Lampshade and Tripod

Wanted to write that their pharmacy search now works worse than the one my team wrote for the member portal it made 5 years ago, but that would be incorrect. Theirs doesn't work at all. Entering zip is step 1, and if that fails, it doesn't let you advance to step 2.

The one time I went on a first date with a guy two days after being mercilessly cut off by another guy whom I'd really liked and was shattered by him ending things (such as they were after three dates). Tried to back out of meeting guy #2 because I wasn't in the right place, but he insisted 1/2

Hello, sky friends. My younger son, his HS friend, and his boxing-class friend started a band. Enjoy the music videos, if that's your thing. (They are 30, 30, and 25+, and have all been playing for a while. The HS friend was a talented musician in HS.) www.instagram.com/hungry.ghost...

Let's admit it, we've all had this manager at some point in our career. With one minor difference - our idiot bosses weren't in command of the most powerful army in the world.

In 1991, my turn somehow came up to be assigned an apartment (yay). It was in an old building and in a bad neighborhood, and everyone ahead of me on the list had said no. But I was getting married later that year. I wasn't about to say no. I had no furniture though. 1/

I block tankies and the tankie-adjacent individuals who try to Westsplain my birth country and my childhood to me. If this is you, please feel free to block me first. We have nothing to say to each other.

There were two inflatable penii at my No Kings. No arrests were made. Anyway, I thought having a pink penis makes you invincible to law enforcement and also great management material? Why was this grandma arrested instead of promoted

For your morning feed cleanser*, a love poem. A friend** wrote this 15y ago while trying to woo me. A moth flew free above the trees Wishing he could be a honeybee He was amazed by the bright, shiny things But longed to touch the nectar of the flower that he sees Continued in 🧵