What a blast from the past

Song of the day: Spirit Boy - Gang of Youths www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF_m... How normal all the tragic feels How tragic all the normal is #m2sod

Def Leppard still puts on a fantastic show. Last Tuesday in Vegas. 🎸🇬🇧🔥

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“The platform was also nearly 12 times more likely to downplay symptoms because the “patient” told it a “friend” in the scenario suggested it was nothing serious.” And they’re telling people to use it FOR health advice! I hope they get their butts sued.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Live music is my love language.

Song of the day: Human - The Killers www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZd... Pay my respects to grace and virtue Send my condolences to good (If you ever get a chance to see them live, do it. Terrific.)

As a newsletter writer, I'm deathly afraid of ever having my audience feel this way. 👇 I've tried having AI write mine, but I can never get it to feel like me. Sometimes it sounds like me, but it never FEELS like me. Plus, I loooooove to write. It helps me think and learn.

Unpopular AI opinion: Doing data analysis yourself is an important learning exercise. Using AI to do it in your race to be more 'efficient' that means cheat yourself out of important thought and discovery processes that drive creativity, innovation, and utimately things that make you win.

Song of the day: Find the River - R.E.M. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJG... Leave the road and memorize This life that passed before my eyes (Or, as we call it at Casa McGee, "Find the Ri"...because I put this on a mixtape for my wife, and the tape ended right in the middle of "river." 😂)

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I just did a Site Review for a real estate agent who wanted me to double-check her previous SEO vendor's work. Several pages were optimized for "homes for sale," but had no homes for sale on the pages. Folks, title tags have to describe what's on the page. You can't wish your way onto Page 1.

The last section of this article is the most important, and the one that probably no agents are thinking about. "If an agent is using AI to do the research, to do maybe a lot of the things that they may have done in the past, I can see why people would question, 'Why am I paying you?'"

"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me" you are not special and it will make you worse you should leave

My #2 all-time misheard song lyric: Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on Livin' like a lover with a RED IPHONE The actual lyric in "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is "radar phone." I can't be the only one who hears "red iPhone".... 😄

Song of the day: The Heart is a Muscle - Gang of Youths www.youtube.com/watch?v=3js8... I will not spend the years depleted of my willingness to try It won’t hurt this way forever, it ain’t worth the overtime (I don't listen to these guys as much as a few years ago, but this one is still 🔥.)

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Gotta thank the European SEO crew for the laughs on here while I was asleep. Shout-out to @aleyda.bsky.social, @nikkipilkington.bsky.social, and @markwilliamscook.com for putting smiles on my face during West Coast breakfast. 😂

Song of the day: A Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL... Still there's a light I hold before me And you're the measure of my dreams, the measure of my dreams #m2sod #IrishMusic

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Song of the day: Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write the Book www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4... Chapter one: We didn't really get along Chapter two: I think I fell in love with you (Happy Valentine's Day, all. 💙)

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

In 2025, buying a home became more attainable, but affordability is still a major challenge for the middle class.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Wait, so MacKinnon, McDavid, and Crosby are all on the same Team Canada power play unit? That doesn't seem fair. 🤯

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

Song of the day: Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4K7... Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us You, me and all that stuff we're so scared of (If the early years of your marriage are/were tough, as mine were, this song hits hard.)

Geoscientists will soon have two powerful new eyes on Earth, offering unprecedented views of the changes occurring within the planet’s upper atmosphere and on its surface. https://scim.ag/3Mg0Xpa

I can think of some peop---err, things that should be catapulted into space.

Song of the day: Go Farther In Lightness - Gang of Youths www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxv... Go farther in hope Go farther

So I just turned on the Caller ID tool on my iPhone and JFC, what a game changer...

A Man on the Inside season 1 was really good. Season 2 was wonderful. It has the spirit of Shrinking and Ted Lasso, but for seniors. So much heart. So real. Great story lines, terrific acting. And funny. I love a show that makes me laugh out loud one minute and cry the next.

Song of the day: Bye Bye Love - The Cars www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghK... Substitution, mass confusion, clouds inside your head Were fogging all my energies until you visited (In the song, that sounds like "f**king," so whenever it came on, I'd sing "FOGGING" loudly if mom or dad were around. 😅)

Hey you kids...that's what the internet was like in the '90s. F**king glorious stuff.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

I thought it might be another 43-8 Super Bowl. We're not quite there numerically, but every bit as dominant. Go Hawks. #Seahawks #SuperBowl

Song of the day: In the City - Eagles www.youtube.com/watch?v=J39L... City streets don't have much pity When you're down, that's where you'll stay (soon.......)

The people who say "Someday AI will buy concert tickets for you" have no idea how many weeks I spend - staring at the seating chart - analyzing new vs. resale - studying price fluctuations - estimating when the next ticket drop will happen, etc. I will never let an AI buy concert tickets for me.

Is there a support group for people whose dogs walk around the yard while pooping? Should I start one?

Song of the day: Rich Girl - Hall & Oates www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFuc... It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain

I recently deleted ~275 articles from my wife's real estate blog. AMA

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

Song of the day: Landslide - Fleetwood Mac www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-... Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life?

The person at Delta who creates itineraries with 40-minute layovers at MSP and SLC has clearly never been to MSP or SLC.

This is good to see.

Song of the day: Boys of Summer - Don Henley www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUI... A little voice inside my head said “Don't look back, you can never look back” The visuals on this song at the Sphere hit me like a ton of bricks. Can't wait to see it again soon. Hope they didn't change a thing.

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Song of the day: You in Everything - Gang of Youths www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBzS... I prayed the day you passed But the heavens didn't listen #m2sod

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.