That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

Birds 🧪

I’ve used a ton of software in my lifetime. Bose wins for flakiest, most user-unfriendly. I recently changed internet providers and had to set my SoundTouch 30 speaker up on the new router. That… was an experience that reinforced my decision to never again buy another Bose product.

Sir, you grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Absolutely no one was encouraging you and your little friends to bring guns to school. You are thinking of a Looney Tunes you watched one time in 1954.

Anyone else having a ton of issues with the new @duolingoverde.bsky.social flash card feature? Nothing like being told your pronunciation is wrong only to have it parrot the exact same pronunciation back at you as a correct example. If these are their AI improvements, no thank you.

Last hurrah. Back home tomorrow, back to work on Monday.

Caught a “Stuff The Bus” promo on TV this morning. You know, collect donated school supplies. Wouldn’t it be great if the taxes we already pay go to things like this? To teacher salaries? To healthcare? To things that make meaningful impact for everyone?

I need to stop waking up every morning thinking it will be a normal day. Or maybe this is now normal? Scary thought.

I don't want a ballroom in The White House. I want healthcare.

Love me a bit of Sade.

Let them eat cake.

Enjoying a couple of mid-afternoon beers at Oak Bay Brewing in Hyannis, MA. Great mellow spot.

Good job, Duo. 🤦‍♂️

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For the most part, I still love Apple's Magic Mouse, but I absolutely hate having to put it up on bricks every time it needs charging.

Watching clips from Back to the Beginning on YouTube and man, I wish I was there. The lineups have been epic. I’ve been beside-myself giddy all evening.

In addition to kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and adding trillions to the deficit, other parts of Trump’s Budget are also harmful and unpopular. We need to make sure more people learn about them.

Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

I’m really getting tired of these wrong answers on DuoLingo. And of course they want top tier $$ to tell you why you’re wrong. (They ignore punctuation and case.) If you speak German, can you explain why (if) I’m wrong?

I think all they’ve really managed to do this week is encourage more people to turn out for the No Kings protests. Being underwater on every issue before July is pretty impressive.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

Did I accidentally install DuoLingo After Dark?

BIBO: Bias in, bias out.

I hate living in the future.

Autocorrect and Duolingo do not mix.

“So many supermodels want to date me. You don’t know any of them because they live in Canada.”

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

The White House has just released a new official statement as the economy crashes: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh.

This. Do not normalize what’s going on. I’m tired of once-solid journalism like @nytimes.com now pushing “oh well” bullshit.

And at one point Teslas were only seen as hippie lib-mobiles.

Elon is accusing people of committing crimes while he’s actually committing crimes.

Trump just called for a *permanent* displacement of Gazans from their homeland. If you’re on the left and you didn’t vote for Harris, I don’t wanna hear a DAMN thing about how someone needs to do something.

I can't believe it's 2025 and we still haven't figured out how to embed closed captioning in downloaded meeting recordings by default. #accessibility

Gravity Warfare made for a hysterical NYE game night.

‘Twas the night before Christmas…

Current mood. 🎄🎁

Rauchbier, cookies, and trivia with friends.

It’s disappointing that Disney doesn’t provide the original version of Muppets Christmas Carol, with the “When Love Is Gone” sequence. That scene is key to the whole story and sets up the closing number (which shares the melody).

The best part about getting some Christmas shopping done early in the year is the feeling you get when you can’t find the things you bought and tucked away for Christmas.

Went hunting for gnomes today. A few of our many finds.

Monikers is the new post-feast game of choice here. What’s yours?

Well, I made it to Thanksgiving, but now I’m out. #Whamageddon

We have two medical workers in our Thanksgiving group today. One is here, and has already been given a heads-up that they may get called in. The other is not here yet because their relief is MIA. Be thankful of the time you have together, and for the folks staffed to be there when you need them.