I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory – right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.

Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.

Yeah, outrageous headline, obvious hypocrisy. But if you read to the end, the article is basically in support of it:

But let’s get real: both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers and making things worse. Trump and Vance have their supporters, while the Democrats are no strangers to throwing some fiery jabs themselves.

One side is spreading lies. The other side is calling bullshit – but that’s rude, so BoTh SiDeS aRe aT fAuLt.

The 19 words: “…because democracy basically meaningless…” (pause) “Government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are [fools].”

I’m inserting “fools” cuz I don’t wanna use outdated insults.

That would be called vacation time vs sick time in my org, but there are definitely differences in when/how they’re used.

Sick time is like, “I don’t feel good today, I’m just not working today.”

Vacation time is like, “I’m feeling pretty good today, I’d like to take a feel-good day. But I better schedule schedule it a couple weeks out, check with my manager, make sure there are no deadlines coming up, make sure someone else can cover for me,” and so on.

This is… silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.

I casually bicycle around town and like to see who I can keep up with to test how fast I am. More and more folks have ebikes now and it’s getting way less fun.

I encourage others to seek treatment for mental health issues if ever necessary, and I’ve heard a few success stories of people who got the help they needed from a psychiatric inpatient stay. But I’ll be honest, shit like this really worries me.

I’ve been living with depression for many years now. It terrifies me to imagine what a full-blown crisis would be like – not just because of what I might do, but also because of what the health care system might do to me.

Even as all the alarm bells go off about droughts and impending water crises, we must never compromise on our God-given right to lush green grass lawns.

We’ve finally found it: the queer agenda. Let’s get to work, people.

Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.

Hey… This is Moe Szyslak’s enemies list! They just deleted his name and put Nixon’s!

We’re already using that on the org chart.

Banned from club: penguins

But can I take them home? What if they have a collar with a name tag that has my neighbor’s address on it? Or what if they’re wearing a leash being held by a person who won’t stop saying “Please put my cat back down”?

The answer is still no.

I prefer a gender-phrase, a complex sequence of words that’s easier to remember and more secure than a single gender-word.

For example, contrast “female” with “do all the guys you know wear dresses and makeup like this?”

Shout-out to all my homies who are tired all day, avoid screens before bed, read for a bit, journal, do mindful meditation, and take melatonin, but nonetheless lie in bed staring at their eyelids for 2 hours before slipping into a kind of restless unconsciousness that’s too long and groggy to be a nap but too short to be a refreshing night of sleep.

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