I'm giving the "AI training" at work today and I, uh, think they are gonna be surprised by my take considering I'm the "educational technologist"

This morning my kid knocked on the bathroom door while I was blow drying my hair to ask "if snakes kill their prey with venom, why don't they use that prey as bait to catch an even larger meal?"

This is the part where I mention that my 12yo son, upon seeing the Vince Lombardi Trophy, said "wait you can't even drink out of it?"

Someone pleeeeeeease kill LinkedIn 🙏

I had a meeting with my daughter's teacher & discovered that she thought we were FROM HERE & had just "worked in U.S. for a few years" On one hand, I'm super impressed with my daughter's québécois accent and OTOH it's like "you couldn't have tried to get an ounce of sympathy by letting them know?"

"I can't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics" yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either

I am a Whitey McWhitester born and raised in the cornfields of Upstate New York and EVEN I GOT THE POLITICAL SUBTEXT Has journalism fired EVERYONE with the tiniest smidge of cultural literacy???? OPEN THE SCHOOLS

I'm against sports gambling but shoutout to whoever bet on "5 field goals" and is walking in to quit their jobs this morning

Just go for the field goal. So what if it's 70 yards. Let him cook

That part where he was up on the pole was SO hot

No Kings includes Draft Kings

In this house we are rocking the "a seahawk is a bird, go birds"

We walked by a pile of trash from a moveout and they had thrown away their tall houseplant while still alive (it is -20 here) and now my son is attempting to "save" it His heart is too wholesome for this world, I'm afraid

It's my birthday! We're still $190 short, which feels like a doable amount to go for? Thank you so much to everyone who's shared and supported 💛🖤🐝

My most fervent hope is that the politicians with some swag stop getting Presidential Ambitions™️and instead actually fight to change Congress. Get Jeffries and Schumer out of there and start actually fighting

My fun story of this: one time after a writers' conference in my dinky hometown, I went to a neighborhood bar with the poet Bruce Smith (he's got to be ~80yo now) and somebody did this with Rage Against the Machine on the jukebox and when I laughed about it, he said "yeah that was me"

Me, looking at a male figure skater: He's kinda cute. But far too young for me to be thinking that Figure skating commentator: Look at this old busted-ass. He's decrepit. Someone should take him out behind the barn

Did they pass a law while I wasn't looking that every 6'5" man has to wear this outfit I mean, I'm not complaining, I love it when a 6'5" man

Also I'm sorry to say that the figure skating coverage on CBC absolutely sucks. You can barely hear the music, the commentators are terrible, and the "Jump Map" is ANNOYING. Hoping it's better today bc holy hell, I've seen better skating coverage from a fan's iphone 😞

How did NONE of you tell me that the mascots for this Olympics are A COUPLE OF WEASELS??!?!? Weasel Hive, you let me down on this one! I could have been Talking About Weasels™️for DAYS

Me in English: Does this email make me sound like a bitch Me in French: Man, I don't even KNOW if this email makes me sound like a bitch

UPDATE going to the club with Chiitan 💅

Me heading out to the club vs. me after the club

THEY'RE HERE AGAIN Also the lady cop is super hot, I just made the Ms. Officer sound

I am happy that this place is becoming The Sports App but that means I have to stay offline to remain unspoiled for the Olympics viewing this evening Have a good Friday everyone!

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Had a staff lunch today and all anyone wanted to know was if Philadelphia cream cheese was made in Philadelphia, and were outraged when it is NOT

There was still daylight! When I walked outside! After work!

Every time this guy says some jerk thing (and it's often enough that I recognize his name), I'm reminded that he was one of the profs the Unabomber tried to blow up and I feel kinda bad for siding with the Unabomber

There were a TON of undercover cops at my métro station this morning and I was like "maybe I'm just really paranoid" but then whoever they were waiting for showed up bc they TOOK OFF RUNNING all at once and got him out on the sidewalk 👀

"Polyamory" but we're not having sex with each other, we're each subscribing to our 3-5 favorite independent journalism outlets and then sharing links

UPDATE someone from HR came by to drop off a form and she said "your office is so nice" (I bought a lil rug & stuff) and so I was all "OSWALDO IS THE BEST, HE SHOULD GET A RAISE" Still have never met him, but my office is always very clean

They should invent a jaw that isn't clenched

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Mad about the decimation of a once-great newspaper? STOP GIVING MONEY TO BEZOS

So, uh, is WaPo just politics and opinion now? Maybe faster to tell us what's left?

POV you're a girl whose salad didn't have enough cheese on it yesterday

Look you forgot "spinning yourself in the air with knife shoes"

I need my life to stop being stressful at the same time that the world is being stressful. ONE AT A TIME, PLEASE

Actually it doesn't surprise me that the Melania doc has such a high viewer rating on the Tomatometer vs the critic rating, bc nobody who doesn't already love Trump is going to go see it

Even my friends who speak French are moving away bc it's just too hard to immigrate through Québec and it's SUCH a bummer not just for me personally but that places let their hatred of immigrants to cause them to lose SO MUCH TALENT 😔

Ran into my husband spontaneously leaning against a pole in the metro station waiting inside for the bus as I was arriving home on my train, and now there are a whole bunch of people that think I just yelled "HEY THERE SEXY" at a random man

Microsoft: How about we shove AI into everything like trying to overstuff a suitcase for vacation. Me: Please. Sir. I just want people to be able to use my Bookings page without logging in. Why can't you just do the regular things 🥺

Can't believe Gaiman had like 18 months to respond and the best he could come up with was "nuh-uh"

How did the folks in A Quiet Place ever flush a toilet

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Perhaps you work for a nonprofit, candidate, union or other social change organization that is posting to X but not on here. Perhaps you'd like to change that & explain why in terms rooted in strategy instead of ethics. May I suggest my training kicking off Thurs? I don't only cover social media

If history didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to rewrite it

I created this #zine about #OnaJudge. The Trump admin instructed NPS employees to remove exhibits at Independence National Historical Park related to slaves owned by Pres. Washington, who went to great lengths to keep his slaves as property, circumventing PA law. tinyurl.com/OnaJudgeZine

Anne Frank died of typhus