Bob & Susan & Gordon & Mr. Hooper

Over the hill

My office is too quiet so I walk to a crowded cafe where I hunch over my laptop and wear my earbuds and enable noise cancellation because I like to be around people.

I can't wait for the gerontocracy's day of reckoning. I hope they sweep every last one of us olds out of power.

Oh good, more discourse about Bluesky. I need to follow more accounts that post photos of artwork, birds, or cats.

Why do I do my best coding at 3:00am?

Good morning to everyone except the toddler who just smilingly came over and washed her hands in my coffee. Like a little raccoon

Nature Reclaiming Unused Capitol Building

I've been surveying the state of non-fried potato chip substitutes as a favor to my increasingly sensitive stomach. The technology used for adding flavor to styrofoam has come a long way.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

I'm a fan of Matt Shearer and I was delighted to see him interview this new local celebrity. This guy is a real one. And although the comic timing of the editing helps, he's also naturally hilarious.

His fake populism has always included barely disguised contempt for the average person. Now it's adorned with hallucinations caused by a failing mind and decades of believing his own bullshit.

This is because there’s generally only a couple of ways to be right (e.g. 2+2=4,) and conceivably an infinite number of ways to be wrong (2+2=anything else, from 5 to “chocolate pudding.”)

I keep making unplanned visits to a local muffin shop after I finish a run, wanting to see why it's always crowded, and standing in line until I notice the "Cash Only" sign near the register and remembering that I didn't bring any with me.

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

It's funny when some old timer who fancies himself mayor of the town enters a fast food restaurant and turns on the charm to tell stories about the shops that used to be there and the people who ran them because all of his memories are from the 1960s and the teenage staff sport blank expressions.

I used to walk by this plaque every day on the way to my office around the corner.

Every weakness in our political system – the Electoral College, the makeup of the Senate, lifetime terms for the Supreme Court, the acceptance of gerrymandering – has been weaponized by the fascists to steal our government from us.

It's illegal to ask a job candidate about their age in Massachusetts, but apparently it's fine to make college graduation year a required field on the application form.

Death, taxes, and the roar of heavy machinery somewhere nearby.

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

An unplanned 3:00am coding session will hopefully ease my brain enough to get a bit more sleep.

banana burps

Ummm...

Little kids are so lucky that strangers always smile and wave back.

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

I was today years old when I realized it would be useful to add emoji to most calendar events.

It's hard to dress for the air temperature both with and without daily 40 mph wind gusts. Climate change springtime.

My voice chat logs must be filled with searches for "Shit!" after I accidentally tapped the microphone icon.

Correct but also the internet can maybe help us find Penny’s legs, she has lost all of them at once, what can we do

Why does he always chicken out on Tuesdays? Does he only stop to consider the consequences of his rash decisions after he spends the weekend golfing and Monday on Executive Time?

Lesson learned. I had the best of intentions, but when I commented about something I knew little about and attempted to get into the mind of a government official I chose one of my words poorly. I've now expanded my horizons and deleted the comment to avoid becoming a main character here.

Brilliant. In effect, he asked "Are we the NIMBYs?"

It's easy to avoid multitasking when you can't remember the other thing you wanted to do.

Caffeine waits all week to finally start working on Sunday evenings

Someone in my neighborhood must have an entire bookcase full of novels about mysterious bookstores that they're donating to a Little Free Library one book at a time.

Slightly diminish a book Charlotte's Weeb

These baby Eastern blue #birds fledged today. I will miss them but I expect the tree swallows trolling their house for weeks will move in quickly

Racist MAGA voters are the target audience for these authoritarian fever dreams. Their dark fantasies about diverse cities make them all too willing to believe tales of aggressive ID checks to enforce order there. And they're eager to curtail the voting rights of brown people who scare them.

When wading through the muck remember to strut.

I can either lie in bed worrying about my future or keep making coffee until I'm convinced I can solve all my problems by 9:00am.

When the definitive biographies of him are written, long after his death, few people will want to relive the decades when he was an unavoidable and malignant presence in our lives.

Things suck. But, the second civil rights movement is going to be fought with a much larger porportion of the population in support of it, and with a citizenry that thinks nostalgically about the relative prosperity and strength of the United States during its era as a multicultural democracy.

I've been growing tired of YouTube's algorithm and spending time removing videos from my search history to avoid being force-fed more of them. So I decided to pause watch history completely and it's great. I see nothing but my subs now. I can live with it not remembering my progress in a video.

Good morning everybody!! Artist: Muratami Yutaka

This is wonderful.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/