Today in Hamburg I learned that 12th graders every year set bronze plaques into the sidewalk in front of the homes of deported and murdered victims of the Nazis I can’t help but wonder if US children will someday do this

Please leave this planet

I’m leaving this asscrack country for two weeks and I’m not sure I’ve ever been so excited

Awesome to hear comments on the Vermont Senate floor from my senator asking if he can have sex with a dog if he identifies as a dog #vtpoli

I'm so old I remember a time when Americans didn't capitalize nouns

Seems appropriate

Finished signing my boss’s birthday e-card before 9am and thinking of clocking out for the day

Somebody let me know when we’re done here frothing about the WHCD; until then I’m peacing out

37 months dealing with “AI is the solution to all our problems” before I retire Not gonna make it

Soon the Gypsy Queen In a glaze of Vaseline Will perform on guillotine What a scene, what a scene

Something broke in me when I saw this. (Didn’t know I had anything left in me to break.)

Nobody outside Vermont (and heck, hardly anyone inside) wants to hear that Bernie’s state is terrible for migrant workers.

Just received an automated email response from a company I wrote to 14 months ago. Amazing customer service!

First night after shingles shot: 0/10 would not recommend ugh

Been feeling Maundy all day today and I can’t figure out why

Alice in Train

Anyone who can write words can do technical writing.

(walking into my small-town market and seeing 5 customers instead of the usual 1) wow, really crowded today

State Police busting the door down on Dorset St a f. They had gotten a judicial warrant.

In case anyone in Vermont thought ICE only happens elsewhere (btw, ACAB too) www.reddit.com/r/burlington...

According to AI, March 2026 is 10 months sooner than March 2026 Almost six decades on this planet and I still have so much to learn

It’s Town Meeting Day in Vermont. Someone just asked, “The cemetery fund is negative; how are we going to fill that hole?” and nobody else laughed

I take an hour for rest and recharge and now this

Fuck this administration! Hands off Cuba! 🇨🇺

Apropos of nothing, some recent photos of Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs)

Sitting here putting on a new roll of TP in the bathroom here at work and it just slipped out of my hands and rolled away under the stalls How’s your Monday going

Ultimately, the Left won't embrace AI because rather than salesmen and financiers, the left is composed of professionals, lawyers and educators who read the way AI misrepresents our expertise and conclude all its answers are equally fraught with error. When you don't know anything, AI feels smart.

13 arrested today at sit-in outside ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Burlington, Vermont

hey from beyond the outer rim of the persian speaking tech and finance community

1.2k people liked this post and I now see what they mean about dopamine

Grew up there in the 80s and rode my bike literally everywhere

You know some weather is on its way in Vermont when the co-op runs out of local granola

As g-d is my witness if I am presented today with any more AI prompts to help me do anything I’m going to walk into the forest and never come back

Compare this with 2009, when I was hired by a federal contractor for a technical writing job. They wouldn't tell me which agency I would work for until I got my security clearance, which took FOUR MONTHS.

Sure do miss that totally not weird Herman Cain grin

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Wow the days are getting so much longer

No truer line of dialogue exists (Mosquito Coast, 1986)

Luv ya Philly

What is wrong with people vtdigger.org/2025/12/07/s...

Just in case I'm on Santa's nice list

If I had a dime for every time someone said I reminded them of Eduard Shevardnadze

We’re splurging on getting someone to clean the apartment tomorrow so naturally we’ve taken the day off today to clean the house for her

If you want to throw away a weekend, get a shingles shot Friday afternoon

In our tiny Vermont town this week, a resident noted she interacted with a guy in an SUV parked near her house with its lights off. She then reported, "When I got to work I received an email from state police saying that the man is homeland security, and to not be concerned."

Well Spotify Wrapped is out for 2025 and I’m pleased to report that “12 Hours White Noise Machine” is once again my top track

Drove my kid back to college today. I hate everything about car culture

Thank you for your service Gramma 🫡