JFC, what a whiny baby.

West Wing S4e18: Access This feels so incredibly quaint now. 😩

This administration is vile.

Costco run Nap Phone calls to reschedule appts next week Early dinner Nap Unsuccessful "Voyager" viewing Bedtime Today is not a great sign. #POTS #MCAS, #LC

“Black Americans have experienced high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalization, and death”“Those factors are now leading experts to sound the alarm about what may come next: a prevalence of long Covid in the Black community and a lack of access to treatment.” www.msm.edu/RSSFeedArtic...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

Good.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

Once upon a time, there was a blog-cum-community called Shakesville. Shakesville was an emphatically safe space before "safe space" became a buzzphrase for bigots who like to make people feel unsafe. There, people graciously taught me lessons I would need to move through a world of wild diversity.

This too…

This one hits hard.

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Isn’t this prescient. Be sure you always evolve. Don’t get stuck. Keep learning and doing. You can do that in silence. No one needs to know how you work, just work. #SheShed

It’s not a male loneliness epidemic, it’s a male asshole epidemic.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Jfc

Today's Wordle is the name of our local celebrity moose! Also a Winter Olympics thing. But yay, moosey!

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

Today I have successfully installed a pellet stove thermostat and accepted a (very, very, very PT) job offer. Can't nobody tell me nothin' today.

Amen, Rev. ❤️🙏❤️

Wow.

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Pepsi prebiotic soda. We doing too much now.

Me: /moves family to slower-paced environment for the sake of several nervous systems, tells them "we're supposed to walk before we run" Nike: HERE ARE FOOT BATTERIES TO MAKE YOU MOVE FASTER PAST WHAT YOU ARE ALREADY NOT NOTICING

Where "funny" = "mortifying"

Once it crosses some kind of inflection point in size and scope it stops being a rational philosophy and morphs into a nearly self-sustaining ball of grievance and hate. At that point, it cannot be resolved by talking alone. I hope Spud learns the right lesson. He probably won't though.

The reason it is ok actually to punch a fascist in the face is because it is literally the only language fascism respects. That's *the reason* fascism is *a fucking problem*.

My kid would not get punished for this any more than he would for literally kicking a bully off a smaller kid. We don't teach them right from wrong for funsies.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Pediatric staff finally found the results for my pre-teen's second CBC (they lost the first round). Ped nurse on the phone: Well, his overall cholesterol is fine, but his triglycerides are high, so you'll want to back of sugary sweets. (My kid is ARFID-level "picky" but grows anyway.)

“You have to lower your expectations from Biden’s job numbers.”

Schumer: ball’s in your court Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

Our new asceticism: all grind, no gospel.

That's our girl.

Yup.

Spouse just suggested showing up empty-handed at my uncle's house after the sudden death of his wife/my aunt. I would be haunted by the ghosts of both grandmothers, my mom, and my MIL if I didn't at least pull a pan of brownies together, damn. 😒

o rly

Juxtaposition: a man mourning his sister's sudden death immediately books a trip home to a deep blue state. He packs his TPUSA hat. It's not his only hat. It's < freezing here and no time for ballcaps. He is 1 of 3-4 conservatives in our large family, but the only one who visits often.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Car repair, IEP meeting, and a death in the family that struck like lightning. Today is a goddamned whopper. As always, fuck cancer.

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

This guy is working on a Modal A and now I miss my late FIL.

New auto shop is showing repair videos instead of Fox News. #winning

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.