You ever call a House rep and ask them how they manage to walk without a spine?

evergreen.

cracking open a new reel for my Viewfinder...

I am now rewatching "Sneakers" for what is (I think) the 7th time

love how I carefully selected the different tomato plants in my garden specifically to ensure a reasonable and consistent crop of tomatoes throughout the summer and then the plants go "lol, yeah, no" and now I have a million tomatoes at once.

no one has ever been more relatable when talking about an unreliable colleague than John Cryer in the new Charlie Sheen documentary.

Do not fight inside the frame. Fight the frame.

fancy paws tonight

I'm just saying, Fat Bear week and the Rapture falling in the same week seems suspicious to me ...

what if it’s just the fat bears that get raptured?

Don't forget that Fat Bear Week voting starts tomorrow at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern. You can see the bracket and read about the bears here: explore.org/fat-bear-week

y'all, my mom got some new inspirational wall art and for some reason she thought this specific message belonged in the... bathroom.

Documentary story telling method I love: using the subject's written words, voiced by carefully selected actors, to narrate parts of the film. Tactic I absolutely hate: using AI to simulate the subject's voice to narrate the documentary. It is so lazy, weird, and fucking creepy.

so when I was a kid, we had a family friend who worked for the local hostess factory and we would get these in bulk and put them in the freezer and that's all to say that I can taste this picture

Birdie, my tortie, is the sweetest, most cuddly of all the cats I've had the joy of sharing my life with. She also has strong opinions--about wanting MOAR SNUGGLES. Yesterday I had to unfortunately gently remove her from my desk 3 times during a zoom call because of aggressive cuddle attempts.

been three weeks on the freelance project and I have not seen or been asked to create a single slide deck nor has anyone even uttered "AI" to me other than referencing some Zoom settings that are locked by administrators.

I've been thinking this exact thing way too much, and then I find a new level of self torture and think about 2000 and the Gore/bush election and all the hanging chads and really bad ballot design and then I go back to Reagan and then I have to lay down on the floor for awhile.

affordable rent is the secret to having nice things like art and music and writers and cool shops and vibrant cities.

several months ago I went to a local event about how to fight fascism where they had a historian as a speaker. I hate to tell you this, but voting and protesting have consistently been the solution. (Or the military turning on the leader, which I'm not ruling out just yet either)

omg www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJsSWU7/

sidenote: I'm currently in the middle of a rewatch of "The Good Place" AND I'm a philosophy minor AND I was raised as a Calvinist so I think I'm kind of an authority on this topic

definitely not the good place, definitely not the medium place, definitely not the original bad place, but a whole new special jumbo size combo plate really really very bad place.

I am eating an apple that I just picked off my own little backyard apple tree and it is one of the best things I've ever eaten. (third year with the tree, first year any fruit made it the full season, I've got probably about two dozen apples total from the little tree this year).

y'all, if we can make it through this week I think fat bear week is next week.

I still think this is one of the sexiest scenes of all time. youtu.be/d8sDpSZeDBE?...

shut the fuck up friday but every day of the week.

Relatedly: meritocracy myths really have us powerfully brainwashed, especially in liberal circles. And that is one way to understand the capitulation. Ezra Klein types *still* believe success is driven by virtue and intelligence, and that their path to success logically must be the path of virtue.

every. single. day.

empathy for me but not for thee

as part of my recovery from burnout, I realized that losing interest in (or ability/focus for) reading was one of the biggest signs my brain and heart were struggling. repropritizing reading was both a part of my recovery and is part of my commitment to my mental health

this is hard facts.

little treat to wake up to the news that my TV boyfriend won some Emmy awards.

starting to think this social media thing might not be good for brains

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

I am 56 years old and none of any of this makes any fucking sense at all. I am old man shakes fist at cloud. I am "that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works" personified. I should not be this old and this terminally online, I should not know what a groyper is, it's against nature.

reading the quote posts has given me the kind of internet joy I thought was no longer possible

"Limber up" and "Double-tap" live rent free in this head

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way. by Ezra Klein

you know the rules

"See? You bite. Everything is so nice and then you bite." -Me, to my cat

the world's largest spider is currently on my ceiling, and honestly? in the year of our lord 2025 if this is how I die i'm actually ok with it

hate watching Virgin River because apparently what I need right now is bad writing, bad acting, and gorgeous scenery

In Utah, it is legal for people to conceal carry on college campuses including in classrooms & it is *illegal* for faculty to tell students that they can't have a gun in their class Imagine teaching in those conditions Imagine learning in those conditions Especially in this time of white supremacy

Milton was wrong, it’s OTHER people’s minds that can make this place hell.

there’s a lesson in this about what battles you choose to fight and how you choose to fight them.

If you have professional development budget, there are a couple seats left this week. It's about telling a good story and getting your message across effectively to your audience, and how to advocate for yourself in broken organizations (aren't they all). www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

talk about playing the long game...

with all the discourse about packing for travel, I am fondly remembering all the business travel I did in the mid 90s when checked luggage was free (and the default), and we boarded the plane from the back to the front like logical, civilized creatures.

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.