my sort of underbaked take is i liked the dilbert comic strip as a kid because its depiction of a banal and arbitrary work environment where nonsensical top-down policies dictated my life resonated much more with my experience of school than my life later in the work force

Your cat, in the middle of the workday, will be like "I have a very important message to show you in the Secret Other Room" and then when you finally follow him to the other room, the message is "I am a cat"

I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours

For no reason, I am thinking of my grandmother's dad, who died during a shift at the factory 100 years ago. He was emaciated and so sick he couldn't speak, but he still had to go to work. They found him in the bathroom, "lying in an immense pool of blood which was welling from his mouth and nose."

You need to be building out capacity. You need to be buying manufacturing equipment (incl desktop manufacturing such as 3d printers and cnc) and stockpiling raw material. You need to be capacitymaxxing and sufficiency-pilled.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my lover.

"Flat" earther who believes that the earth is currently approximately a cube but will, of course, over time degrade into an oblate spheroid due to the laws of physics

Of weekdays pent up in drywall

Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?

Now House Republicans have voted to wipe out the guardrails that Congress wrote for how to spend taxpayer money. Trump and Musk could hold everyone under their magic spell—spend or shut off taxpayer money however they want. Absolutely not. I’m fighting back.

I do not have a work-wife or work-husband but I do have a work dad and a work son

I: I'm thinking of trying out <church> but they're Rite II so I know they say Spirit instead of Ghost, unlike the proper way since at least 1611 to address this Person of Trinity My patient boyfriend: ... I: I'm joking He: I know you aren't really is the problem here.

Continuously returning to Agamben these days

read a very bad short story which said nothing because it had nothing to say--sad!

Sometimes I swirl my topo chico in a wine glass and it unironically helps

somewhat baffled that copilot (reskinned chatgpt) could generate the part below with a green background. Pretty good, honestly. Now if only I knew how much water this consumed and I might use features like it more often....

Thinking of Bp. Budde today

"Thou'rt none of my brother, Lazarus, That lies begging at my door; Nor meat nor drink will I give to thee, Nor bestow upon the poor." [...] Then Dives looked with burning eyes, And saw poor Lazarus blest; "One drop of water, Lazarus, To quench my flaming thirst!"

"Sara," her father said "Why be so calm? There's just no future for a princess of prom." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcA...

www.latimes.com/entertainmen... lovely, lovely letter

Is ThriftBooks in trouble? They sent me two coupons in my recent order--one for doordash and the other for Hello Fresh

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2dN... I love him so much it makes me look stupid

The downside of the wonderful trip I took to NY with my boyfriend to see *Illinoise* is that I sob whenever I hear anything from that album now

Boyfriend is in China with only limited texting abilities for like two weeks. God truly gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers

ACT UP, 1990

But the high neck knit was originally a workwear garment worn by rugged fishermen around the North Sea. At the turn of the 20th century, seedier West End chorus boys started to wear the style. Evelyn Waugh suggested it was popular bc it could be used for lechery.

I enjoy low stakes poker sometimes but otherwise have no interest at all in gambling, and it’s increasingly something that I’m grateful every day for, that I just don’t have that gene. Because we’re making society into a nightmare for those that do with this shit.

I’ll never see that smile again open.substack.com/pub/letterso...

Yes, they will. #WorldBollardAssociation

The former head of NYCT’s bus planning thinks that people prepared to pay $300 for two Broadway tickets and $100 for dinner for two are declining to do so because they don’t want to incur the $9 fee it costs to have this (now) easy breezy drive. Good thinking, guy!

Piece of ash from right outside my back door in Glassell Park. Only clear words are “platonists” and “Swedenborg”

Fine, I'll be the annoying chart lib and point out that the percentage of household income spent on food is the lowest since we started keeping records. Food away from home has risen slightly.

True! In the meantime before this law is passed, I recommend getting a few packs of these: www.amazon.com/Bookmark-Mar...

Was trying to review my last year and realized that my most complete accounts for the year consisted of my text messages with others and my twitter feed, which, in addition to being humiliating, is also incomplete. So, I would like to implement a kind of journaling

going to my parents' (very conservative, evanglical) church today

I love you all, but the adjective 'venal' adds nothing to the noun 'grifter.' Are there principled grifters out there who cannot be bought?! Furthermore, your current events analysis does not actually have to include the term 'grifter.' It's fine to use other words or even other concepts!

Ok imma let you finish but…

Do you still believe in libertarianism? Because at 19 it's marginal, right?

amelia bedelia listening to Last Christmas with her jaw on the floor.

Really miss the days (1700s) where you could do this, give it to a mate who had a printing press for some reason and publish it as a pamphlet titled something like "Enquiry concerning the cultivation of maize and its relevance to the transcendental nature of the soul"

I would like to get involved in prison ministry as a lay person. Does anybody have experience with this? Is the best option writing letters? Open to ~anything.

Unfortunately I believe I am addicted to zyn lol. On the other hand, no provable consequences to nicotine alone (yet?) so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.

I used to be a very devout Catholic and am now an Episcopalian. I have many, many books from that era and only care to keep a few. I would be more than happy to give them to someone in the Boston area. If you want them, please DM me.