Add to that college professors, state, county, & city/local officials; arresting protesters; detaining anyone who isn’t wyt & deporting them ASAP…

We aren’t losing our minds. This is how the Orange One gives tacit permission for small cells to wreak havoc:

Zero lies detected.

In a virtual meeting… annnnd we have reached the “find these nuggets helpful.”

The 140 mgs of caffeine in the double espresso will help. Right??

K. I’m doing a spot of technical writing, which (for me) leads to Freudian Slip word creation. This time, the new word is “Encuntered.” It won’t be in final product, but it does seem like a wonderfully useful verb because reasons.

Wil Wheaton’s guidance on this is rock solid!

Just spitballing here . . . If health ins. wasn’t tied to one’s employment in the U.S., employers could pay workers ⬆️ UHC+UBI *would* make this country much happier. See also: paid parental leave for birth/adoption, incentives to actually use vacation time, etc.

If you make me tap the sign, I am automatically permitted to provide you with a drop-axe kick.

Guess who’s making a 4th trip to the doc? That’s right, it me! I’m beginning to wonder whether there is still cat bacteria in my body. Finished 3rd round of antibiotics 7.14.25, & left work v ill on 7.16.25. I’ve never felt like this. So, anyway: grateful for healthcare.

Do NOT mess with Public Broadcasting.

This all fecking day, every fecking day:

Day 6, & 3rd trip to urgent care/doc’s office. Took myself out for lunch, & am quietly singing “Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza” b/c Elton is on the speakers here & I need frivolity!

I’m on 2 high-powered antibiotics b/c my vaxxed, indoor cat bit my forearm as I slept. Immediate trip to urgent care. I am grateful for access to healthcare, & for the ad below, b/c I need someplace to store my mental. Also? F*CK this admin! People are going to die. NOT OK AT ALL.

The view from here:

I’m just sayin’

Imma just slip in here and say that war—including what’s going on in the US—is menstruation envy. We could’ve had Momala & Coach, but nooooooo ….

A good and wonderful thing!

This is hatred of two happily married men. This is heartbreaking.

@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social : we are at your show in Des Moines. Whaddya think @ a certain Iowa Senator?

‘Member yesterday ended like this? 1st email of the day: “Oh! I get what you’re saying. Your detailed explanation is very clear.” Glad I left that sitch set. Not my job to “daycare” another professional.

TFW someone asks you for something in which ya got 35 years of expertise & it leaves ya feeling like:

Accurate!

The letter of the day is:

Hey! Iowa’s current (D) State Auditor, Rob Sand is running for Governor!!! He’s a down to earth, humble, intelligent, compassionate human. For more info: robsand.com

The Empty Library, a memorial to the some 20,000 books burned in 1933 by Nazis in Bebelplatz Berlin …That was just a prelude. “Where they burn books, they will also burn people”. Heinrich Heine, playwright (1817)

Zero lies detected.

Sooo… I’m thinking though the 🍊🍕💩’s fecking tariff BS won’t have the same death rate as his limpid covid actions, it’ll be equally as ugly & painful, complete with “Long-Tariff” Sequelae.” He got & his ilk to go.

There’s more out there… I’m certain of it.

The headline “Campus Protest Crackdown” has me like, “cchyeah: because that worked soO0°°0Oo well in late 1960’s/early 70’s. May 4, 1970, Kent State: 4 student protesters killed by Nat’l Guard. Here’s Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young w/ their song “Ohio.” youtu.be/pAis0cKjJFY?...

no time to explain. get in

Totally worth the entire clip! What an amazing crooner.

I stand with the Pengies!

Sinus infection. Have a doc appt for meds. BONUS! our strictly indoor cat decided that my RLS (restless limb syndrome) was v fun. He bit the bottom of my foot last night & I yelled FUCKFUCKFUCK a lot. The doc also gets to look at my foot, because dammit. ⬇️⬇️ how the cat gets ideas:

Okie-dokie: I need bluntly precise placard sloganideas for April 5ths #50501 @50501movement.bsky.social protest. Annnd go!

Keee-ryyyst, Iowa State Cylone men’s BBall. WTF happened? I don’t think we’re pulling out of a 21 point deficit with the time remaining in the game.

“Never—51” Elbows all the way up.

This:

Was the billboard unclear????

I sense a Snarkasm Front coming in. How, if I can just keep it in my brain instead of letting it spring forth from my lips….

Accurate!

For anyone feeling a bit low, here is the Dean of Georgetown Law School’s most eloquent FU to the Interim DC US Attorney. This whole thread is AMAZEBALLS!

Op! Iowa gov’t has an anonymous ‘doge’ feedback form re state government. There are name & email fields, but there’s no requirement to provide that info. doge.feedback.iowa.gov

No lies detected.

Coping quite appropriately. It’s not even 10AM here, but I’ve already had 3 kinds of coffee: Death Wish™️ Instant in my protein shake, Costco cold brew during work commute, & a dark cocoa nitro cold brew at my desk. I may do a repeat of Death Wish + Dutch choc protein shake for lunch. Carry on!

THREAD. In 1957, USAF Social Scientist, Albert Biderman, was tasked with learning why U.S. POWs of the Korean War were “cooperating” with their Chinese & Korean Captors. “Biderman’s Chart of Coercion,” is the result of interviews with returned POWs. www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwe... 1/?

So, it’s normal to burst into tears when one is writing a report to a federal grantor & you’re balancing every word so as to convey the exigency of a specific life/death subject w/o bringing wrath to the agency for whom you’re writing said report, right? #Hedgewatch beacon is lit. 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here’s thread of words we should use all day every day in our conversations, texts, emails, phryctoria/beacons/towers of flame, Morse Code, Semaphore, ASL ….

So, if the goal is to erase everything but wyt xtian men, can the kitchen staff at the WH & Congress plz immediately change all food offerings to something circa 1640? Hard tack biscuits, salt cod? No coffee, tea, sodas….

A much needed affirmation.