I tell you what, noise canceling headphones are amazing…except for the part where I have tinnitus. 😆 Turns out that blocking out everything EXCEPT the ringing in your ear is not as relaxing as you would think.

Of all the Trump appointees, I’ve found Isaacman to be the least offensive so far. And yet… Folks attachment to Pluto as a planet is kinda funny. Like, we got better telescopes, we found out there’s a whole bunch of other stuff out there with it, and we classified it appropriately. It’s fine.

And no one was surprised that day…

It feels like the 2020s are just an extended exercise in “No, we weren’t just being bossy; there is a good reason for doing things.”

Folks: The price of beef is ridiculous. Other folks: You shouldn’t eat beef. You should be a vegetarian. Folks: The price of vegetables is ridiculous….. #WeAreSoFucked

Aaaand….they paused the movie for an active tornado warning. It’s south of the metro, but policy says they pause the movie & send us to the IMAX to shelter. Paused it right at the scene of Starling & Lector talking at the courthouse in Memphis too. Sigh..

Storm pushed out to like 4:30, so I’m gonna go and hope I don’t come out in the end to a hail busted windshield, or worse, have a tornado warning mid movie. Maybe I shouldn’t go, but I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks, so I’m gonna be stubborn. Wish me luck.

Have tickets for the one showing of Silence of the Lambs in theaters at 4 PM today so OF COURSE yet ANOTHER severe thunderstorm should be blowing through between 2PM to 4PM. 😠 The weather this spring kinda sucks.

I don’t generally believe the false flag stuff, but I can see how people might believe it. Because at some point you have to acknowledge there are two options here…the Secret Service has become incompetent or the Secret Service is allowing this to happen repeatedly. Both would be bad.

Back in the days of physical media (which may be returning if things keep as they are), I always thought it would be fun to have a little store that sold DVDs & the books they were based on side by side. I would call it, not particularly wittily, Based On The Book.

Saw a post saying we should hope he’s not assassinated because they’ll make him a martyr and guys…they’re gonna lionize him no matter how he dies. Look at how they talked about Dick Cheney & no one even liked him. They’re gonna make Trump out to be a saint no matter what happens so feel how you want

I don’t know…I’m sure there are exceptions, but a lot of the people in that room have spent a lot of time of time sane washing & normalizing cruelty & disregard at the very top of the power structures of American society, so perhaps they shouldn’t be surprised to find cruelty & disregard normalized.

turned a kid onto Pratchett by explaining that basically he is doing exactly what you watch stand up comic s for- observational humour about the world you live in based ona wholly outlandish series of circumstances being told to you via a compelling story

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

Everyone immediately assuming that an attempt on the President is staged is probably not a sign of a healthy democracy.

This is the first thing I saw when I logged on this evening and it makes me want to swear off the internet forever. What the fuck has happened to us?

Oh, AMC theaters, I am BEGGING you to replace this Coke dance off commercial at the start of every movie. Nicole can stay, but the Coke commercial has got to go.

Prayers up for Enid, Oklahoma and the surrounds. That tornado is horrifying. I saw a longer version of this clip and they show some buildings completely destroyed and mentioned the ground being scoured in places. This was a big big one.

Three tornado warnings north of the KC metro. This spring really isn’t messing around with the weather. Just wind & heavy rain around here, thank goodness.

The more I sit with this, the more it pisses me off. Like, thanks for setting me up for success, boss. 🙄

You know how we’re always like “they don’t actually know what socialism is!” They really don’t.

Alex Jones out here trying to be homeless. He’s probably dumb enough to think double jeopardy applies and that they can’t possibly sue him again but they really really could.

Last week it was “we have this project; it’s due May 8. We have a little time” THIS week it’s “you absolutely can’t miss this date. This project is very visible. All eyes are on it.” I don’t know…feels maybe that urgency should have been communicated up front? I’m not planning to be late, but…

This is why I don’t want hear one fucking word from Republicans about Virginia. Columbia is 130 miles away from Kansas City and has basically none of the same concerns or needs as Kansas City. There is no reason for them to be in the same district other than rigging the vote.

Good for them, I guess. I hope it works out the way they imagine. I’m not heading downtown without a fairly compelling reason, so they’ll have to field a considerably better product to get me there. As we saw with STL recently, even downtown stadiums near “attractions” sit empty when teams are bad.

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination seems like such a silly concept & yet, here I am at 12:30am not going to bed because it was a shitty day and it’s gonna be rough tomorrow and I’m not ready to call it a night yet even though it will objectively make tomorrow even worse if I stay up.

This is me, but with reading. Every book argument on social media is like “oh, but if you read so fast what do you retain? Oh, that silly book isn’t teaching you anything. Reading should help you improve yourself.” Meanwhile, I’m over here like “I’m reading because it’s that or watch TV. Go away.”

It’s funny watching all the Mets fans on my feed acting like it can’t get worse, because as a Royals fan, I can tell you it can and we are. “Good” times.

For all my grumpiness, you can tell that I’m an optimist at heart because I just realized I have over 1500 titles saved to my Wishlist at the library that I still think I’m going to read someday. 😆 (Yes, I read a ton…but mostly stuff that’s not on my wishlist. I don’t know either.)

I’m a Royals fan. It’s really not as hard as you would think. 😏

We knew that the hacks in Trump’s DOJ would try nonsense like this, and it sucks. But there’s something kinda entertaining to the idea that they decided to Fuck Around & Find Out against an organization whose whole thing is beating the biggest assholes around in the court of law.

My timeline is almost entirely disappointed sports fans tonight. Unsurprisingly, most of them are Royals fans. This is why, when I had a fleeting thought during the WBC of getting Royals TV, I opted not until I could find out how the Royals would manage to Royals it up this year. Glad I saved my $

Not only did I forget to take my allergy meds last night, but they were also cutting grass when I went outside for lunch. It’s gonna be a long, sleepy, stuffy afternoon.

Yep. Everything hurts more often for no reason. I now have what seems to be tennis elbow from sleeping on my arm funny. I’d tell you not to get old, but the alternative is worse. (That said, build a movement habit now at whatever age…that’s what’ll help. And don’t get out of the habit like I did.)

I thought they were so busy turning themselves into Republicans Lite to appeal to those so-called centrist voters that were put off by the “identity politics” they never actually did that they shouldn’t need the left’s votes anyway, right? 🙄

The problem with our current moment is that I start to read a post like this without noticing the handle and get mad before I get far enough in for the satire to be obvious. Because it’s almost plausible in a world where the CEO of Palantir is out here posting like a bad 80s Bond villain. 😆

It’s interesting what the Discover algorithm gets up to when I post less. When I first got here it was all furries art. Now, if I don’t post much, it’s decided that I need lots of posts of dudes taking gym mirror selfies, including a guy who takes his in a pet play mask (to bring it full circle). 😆

In this week’s Costco complaints… - It appears 70% of pedestrians in the parking lot still have a death wish. - For some reason, they keep the coffee pods with the coffee makers instead of with the rest of the coffee. People aren’t gonna think “obviously the coffee is in the appliance section.” 🤦‍♀️

Just saw a Jeep ad and they presented their low starting price of “less than $66,000” and acted like it was astoundingly cheap. So if you want to know why people don’t feel good about the economy, businesses acting like a $66K SUV is a great deal would be a good place to start.

With my ongoing brunch & a movie hyperfixation, I tried a new spot this morning with easily the best breakfast food so far. Pancakes perfectly malted. Even the boring hash browns were yummy (lots of butter, I think). But the coffee was sadly average. Probably for the best or else I’d move in. 😆

I somewhat agree…or at least, I would if that language was anywhere near as predominant as he & all those Third Way consultants like to pretend it is.

I don’t know if it’s possible to read TOO much, but if so, maybe I have. I can’t tell anymore if I can see a twist coming a mile away because it’s telegraphed or just because I’ve seen too many similar plots. 😆 Thrillers are much less thrilling when the reaction is “yeah, duh” instead of “oh wow.”

Does the media get that the Pope is not a politician? Because they act like he’s running for office instead of being…y’know…anointed by God to lead his flock.* (* Yes, I know. I saw Conclave too**. And more importantly, used to be Catholic.) (** Great movie, by the way.)

And more salt than you think you need. (The book Salt Fat Acid Heat does a great job explaining this.)

TMI time: Perimenopause is stupid. Because yes, what I clearly need as someone who just recently clawed back from an iron deficiency is to have an bonus period this month just for funsies. 😡

LOL. Really puts a storm in perspective when it’s significantly brighter outside at 8PM at sunset with the storms finally blown through than it was at 5PM. That was a big’un. We got lucky.

For a supposed teetotaler, Trump sure does seem to surround himself with a bunch of dangerous drunks.

Tornado did go south of me as expected. Belton, MO got hit. 😟 I got some really heavy rain & high wind gusts. No tater hail though (see my previous skeets). 😆

Sirens in South KC. Woohoo. Should be going south of here, but I’m hanging out in the half-basement laundry room streaming the local news anyway. No one else is down here, which is extremely midwestern of us all. 😆

LOL. LMAO even. (For my non local friends, one of the KC forecasters predicted possible potato sized hail for today. He later admitted he chose it to get people talking & weather aware and it worked. Maybe too well. 😆)