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🚨MISSING DOG: HILLSBOROUGH, NC (St Mary’s Rd/Ayr Mont area) Name: Frank Is chipped and owner’s phone on collar. Would appreciate any help spreading word if you’re local.

I was making dinner listening to my “10 Years of Apple Music” playlist and the main theme from Field of Dreams came on and I broke down like a baby. 24K Magic came on next so I snapped out of it, but it was cathartic.

That this is considered a radical and newsworthy statement tells you all you need to know about where we are right now. (Gift link) We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires, Mamdani Says

Has my vote for President, frankly.

I have been convinced to share EL CUCHOMBRE.

Here, Bluesky, have a bee.

Interesting to me that is is being discussed by the more conservative wing of Presbyterians.

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No, definitely not me turning down the brightness of my screen with the volume button (and assuming something was broken when it wasn’t working). Definitely not.

Will the (aging) Democratic leadership, still struggling to find its way out of a paper bag, manage to screw this up? Entirely possible!

Oh shit! They pulled it off! I’ve never been so invested in a NYC mayoral race!

If I were talented, I’d have pushed out a remake of “Anxiety” that’s “Humidity.” Someone’s probably done it.

Here Bluesky, have a blue heron. #morningwalk

I should probably call senators and whatnot before I have another drink.

I’m going to have several drinks, because I really don’t know what else to do right now.

I’m sorry what the actual FUCK

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

It’s tough because I largely agree with people saying we should have a better balance on here between politics and other things but then the President declares war or a bunch of people get kidnapped and it feels a little silly to finish typing out “what’s your favorite Futurama episode”

I don’t need members of Congress issuing Official Statements on Letterhead. I need you on my screen telling me what you’re going to do. The President (god help us) just declared war without congressional approval. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”

Jesus Christ. My god, I have never been so angry.

I just finished a jar of salsa and got a wild idea and mixed a gin martini in the empty salsa jar, and I’m not mad at it?? (Then I figured what the hey and added a couple of drops of olive oil and a sprinkle of lime pepper.) Am I an influencer now

In today’s episode of What Is Time Anyway, we are driving down WNC back roads on a hot June morning with the windows down, and we are putting on Jimmy Buffett’s Changes In Latitudes album for the first time in maybe 15-20 years and it is 1997 and we are 19 and know nothing about anything.

We must not ignore the Rule of Paw. Hermey the Elf says happy #caturday

Here, Bluesky, have some sunflowers.

What.

I got into a lively back and forth this week with a NY lawyer about including a bunch of reps about unions in a real estate sale contract in South Carolina. Like, my man, as much as I wish unions were a thing down here, I am telling you, they are not going to agree to this.

Seems a good a time as any to post one of my favorite poems. Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon

I’m stress-eating, and I *know* I’m stress-eating, and yet.

🚨 Have seen a post going around a good bit about a hotline to call for “motion change” assistance with for ICE hearings, associated with the USC Law School and USC Immigration Clinic, and USC Immigration Clinic has posted on IG that it’s fake.

They’re going to just decide to do Trump Olympics™️, for “approved” countries, aren’t they.

Honestly this should be like the Umbrella thing.

Oof.

The number of times I said, out loud, “oh for fuck’s sake!” and similar, out loud, on my morning walk (to the startlement of the construction guys who had just pulled up to start work in the new neighborhood I was walking through)…

SpaceX(plode) Is this anything

I am begging of everyone. At this point it seems like “Artificial Intelligence” may be remembered one of the great well-intentioned but tragically flawed terms of art co-opted for purposes beyond and by forces opposed to the original intention. Like “global warming.”

I don’t know how the government contracts work, but every time one of those things blows up, I wonder: how much did we pay for that, and how much are we paying to clean that up, and how much are we paying for the next one, and how much of that money is going to whom.

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Being old enough to have lived through the CMBS meltdown it is WILD to see us gleefully waltzing toward Completely Unnecessary Speculative Financial Industry Implosion Part V: Say Goodbye To The Retirement Savings You Were Counting On Good This Time

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? “Law” is mostly loopholes loosely held together with staples and vibes.

Anyone that knows me IRL knows one of my favorite movies is The Hunt For Red October, and I’d just like to say I never thought I’d feel these particular lines so frequently in my adult life: “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”

We have an Interesting Driveway and I can always tell a veteran route driver from the newbies because the vets will come around the curve and unerringly back into the turnaround with DISPATCH and the newbies head in straight and end up stuck in a tortured 20-pt turn to get back out.

I can’t tell you how quickly I shut down the window when an innocuous-looking embedded link turns out to be to an X post, but I’m pretty sure my thumb moves too quickly to be detected by the naked eye.

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

It is very funny to me that Trump is having his little King birthday party on the same day the King of England has his King birthday party. We fought a war to never have this shit in America! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I had a sharpie, some wall paint, and an old banker’s box

NOPE Team, activate #NoKings #WNC #HVL