“Santa Clause is Coming to Town” was never the warm & fuzzy song other people wanted it to be, for me. “He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake.” C’mon, now.

Got schooled today about Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa, the significance of each, how many days (nights) long each one is, and the meaning of light. Is this what my parents had to live through with each of my siblings… AND ME? My God 😥

Well, 1066 was quite a consequential year. (Yes, I went down a history podcast rabbit hole today because I watched KING & CONQUERER yesterday and I’m loving it.)

This has irked me for years. If it’s so powerful, so easy, and so ubiquitous, **show me** how it makes my work more efficient — while not using fossil fueled energy or potable water or polluting air. It’s been years of marketing drivel and still 0.00 viable use case scenarios.

Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥

Listen, who invented Veggie Straws?

It’s finally over.. lol

The longest night of the year… begins *transforms into ancient being, while sipping hot chocolate in my fluffy PJs*

OMG 😆

I’ve spent the past two days as pediatric ward attending and frankly we need both more and even better vaccines not fewer

Is there such a thing as a northpaw?

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

And yet…

*Laughs in descendant of enslaved people* Oh? We’re using highly selective ancestors now? Bet.

Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels. h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com

jis.gov.jm/117-canadian... Thank you, Canada!! 🇨🇦

NINETEEN NINETY SIX 🤬

This

Noticing, reluctantly, that when I have a bowl of oatmeal (with blueberries, craisins, walnuts, almonds & flax seeds) for breakfast… those are good days.

This happened *a lot* in December 2007. ijs… 🙃

I love that there is a property management software company out there called YARDI (this is for Jamaicans only #IYKYK 🇯🇲)

This seems like important news

This can include your grocery & store runs, especially Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s. I’ll never understand why people in a doctor’s office, dentist or pharmacy aren’t wearing masks for their own protection. Get a mask you like and wear it. Often.

“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with bars.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

The price we pay as a society for the majority of UX/UI designers making things “more dynamic,” or gameification.

Caucasity

Is that the peace I felt come over me this morning ?!?

Holy 😳

Uh… so even though I did not want it, my phone has become Liquid Glass. WTF 🤬

Here’s something good instead: in New Orleans we were talking to some locals who told us about their favorite restaurants and I was thinking how great all of the diversity of local accents and fun local cuisine across the U.S. is. What a big beautiful country we have here. It belongs to all of us.

Why is the word spelled A-G-I-N-G, and not A-G-E-I-N-G?

Right before falling asleep, the kiddo looked me square in the eye and said “National Aeronautics and Space Administration — that’s what NASA means. For *everything* in outer space.” That’s right, kid. Per aspera ✨

Mama Bear 🐻 🥰

"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”

That this was even up for debate is disgusting. I’m so ashamed.

This is the sustainable outlook for any institution, any profession (even, dare I say it, any professional) - to be driven by values.

Do you have any winter solstice rituals? I’ll be doing this one:

Byron Lee & The Dragonaires 🇯🇲 Ska youtu.be/Jt10udQEK1k

She has the looks 🎶 The pretty face 🎵 And don’t underestimate the use of BODY LANGUAGE - HA!

My Mom would have loved this lol - just learned the German phrase “fahrt auf” which means drive up.

no

Be the light you want to see in this world 🕯️ 🔥 ✨

How to report an Amazon package that arrived, but… the listed contents were not in the package? 📦 #PoppyShow

No, thank you.

Invested in the newest @merriam-webster.com dictionary as a gift for my own sanity. I still write in cursive (occasionally), send postcards to friends, and write checks. Am I an OLD?

Good

Good Morning ☀️ (These are my people👇🏽)

This is on my LinkedIn, before 7AM on a Monday.

🚨 Montgomery County, MD 🚨