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Joe is one of the ONLY legislators I’ve heard of taking concrete actions to counter corruption in government.

Hey @neguse.house.gov tell em the WAMPs (Weird Ass Mountain People) sent you with a note … 😎 Fuck em up sir

I have offered 3 different people actual money to beta read a book and have gotten exactly nowhere. I promise I can write, guys, I have a whole trophy about it.

I am FINE with sunrise being later if it means I still have a bit of daylight left after work.

Ok so what is the deal with produce right now? Can I eat lettuce?

I feel like ASS. Time to have a dinner of half a cucumber and a lil dish of blue cheese dressing. Thank you @mishafletch.bsky.social for teaching me that was a better dinner than no dinner.

Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app

I once disassembled a chicken run with an elderly Vietnamese lady who spoke exactly 2 words in English: “Good dog,” which she said to Artemis, which is why I agreed to help. I am a sucker.

May your memory someday be a blessing, and not a warning.

Does anyone have any books to recommend concerning divorced people who have tried very hard to find a romantic relationship again and failed? This can be nonfiction, or fiction if it has insightful things to say.

“Verify your age” “Call 267-8433 Because the next best thing to new Is Dalworth clean! 🔔”

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There is a little brown bird absolutely LOSING ITS SHIT outside my window. Little brown bird, please fuck off.

Okay. Okay. I will stop moping. I will stop laying in bed spraying whipped cream directly into my mouth. 1 2 3 here we go … any second now …

Why Don’t Printers Work

I finished a painting today. It’s bittersweet, because it’s the farm I will never have. My body isn’t capable of caring for a farm alone anymore. But a part of my heart will always ache for the farm in Mansfield, a dream I achieved and lost, so I made myself this fictional farm.

You gotta make it through the day. It might happen tomorrow. You don’t want to miss the glee.

Every person I know who reads The Onion has sent me this article, and it is a joy every time. Also very accurate. Banner here will try to eat anything I put in front of him, including my jacket. (Note the sweater on the ground that did not pass muster.)

I would like to be here.

Hope is so very dangerous.

Do not leave your dogs outside unattended if fireworks will startle them or you'll have no dog, maybe.

Do I know any botanists? Or do any of you know any botanists? I have questions for a book

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

The Onion's "Birth of a Nation" premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET, just as our Founding Fathers predicted. Tune in live. https://youtu.be/_cTi_vTwwmU

Frozen fruit bits! Frozen peas! Get weird about it and eat a frozen egg and cheese biscuit!

Every so often I have a dream in which I have to play the part of Christine in “Phantom of the Opera.” It never ends well for me. Sometimes ridiculed, sometimes straight up murdered (but not because of my singing.) What an odd manifestation of anxiety for my brain to produce.

“Thiel has argued that the Antichrist could manifest not as an individual but as a world government that seizes power by promising to protect humanity against existential threats such as AI or global warming.” This man has been talking to AI.

He has pulled EVERYTHING out from under his house and is very pleased with himself.

Tonight!

Companies are so set on getting as big a profit margin as possible, they won’t let us buy from them. It’s like a Yogi Berra joke.

Great quote from John Green: “No assessment of humanity that fits on a bumper sticker is accurate.”

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

Five random facts, huh? Let me see if I can think of ones not commonly known. 1. My anxiety manifests as preparing for things that are unlikely to happen. I would be priceless in the zombie apocalypse. 2. I have had a number of fish tanks. 3. I wanted SO BAD for the Loch Ness Monster to be real.

My time has come

An old friend read my novel “Capricious” and really liked it, and I’m having feelings about it.

MASTERFUL

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The reason gay marriage worked as a wedge issue is because it went undefended at the top level for so long. The moment it started to be defended, it stopped being a magical wand that Karl Rove could wave to scare people. Courage is the path to victory.

Dammit my backup choices of New York (around the Finger Lakes area) and Massachusetts (Boston-ish) are not immune from climate disaster.

This post becomes bewildering when you read “barrister” as “barista.” Goooooood morning.

FINE, I will continue existing. But I’m going to complain about it the whole time.

They keep finding new ways to make me want to buy gold and hide it in an abandoned mine in the mountains

OH, this has brought a bit of light to my weary soul.

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them