I see lots of people protesting the current administration, but promising common ground on the point that the government needs to be smaller and more efficient. I think this is a mistake. Here's why :

Potatoes, lettuce, beets, Choi, kale, peas. Soil temp is 50 degrees, let’s do this!

My kid: if I wasn’t radicalized before, I sure as hell am now.
Me: WORD.
My 85 yr old dad : “I know it’s terrible, but what can we do. [kid] is just gonna have to grow a thicker skin.”
RN.

Just cancelled my subscription to the WAPost and switched my primary credit card away from Amazon. On the hunt for more ways to stop financing the steal.

youtu.be/K-aPFGNO5Wg note the bystanders

IG just convinced me that I need to rewatch the west wing for my (fantasy) mental health.

Just set up a recurring donation to... the Internet Archive. The Wayback machine will soon be the only source of CDC information. It won't be updated -- but it's still there.

So Kruegman is leaving the NYT because... unlike the WP which openly caved to pressure, the NYT has apparently been diluting the special sauce for the last six months. And here I thought I knew which one I respected. contrarian.substack.com?r=22n80&utm_...

I updated my operating system and now my computer is trying to AI every single damn thing I do. It's like auto-complete on steroids, not sure I'm a fan.

Teaching a class under the new regime on nominalisation — how to turn a verb into a noun, a noun into a verb, etc. How the fuckety do you talk about grammar when the sky is burning?

I was gifted an Apple Watch, and hey, why not, I set it up… and promptly forgot my code. No problem — it unlocks when my phone is nearby, and when is THAT not true? Until yesterday …