i'm just over it. give me policies. give me a manifesto. give me pledges, and then if you try to break them you don't get to say 'well you voted for this'.

let me vote for something concrete, not a person and a think tank and polling.

Literally just told my doctor I cannot possibly, we gotta just increase the meds.

I want to be excited when my phone rings because someone I know is calling me

In the US, it’s National Library Workers’ Day, and I would be remiss to let it pass without reminding you that the “library workers are magic” narrative leads bad places. Love, respect, and cherish them, but also pay them, staff libraries appropriately, and let them draw boundaries.

Thirding the Neutrogena hydroboost! I live in CO with the driest air I've ever experienced, and it actually keeps my face from shriveling up and falling off every winter.

Haha thanks, and to you as well!

Lol all we got is a promotional campaign that makes more work for us. I saw some treats in the break room and got excited, but they were left over from something unrelated 😅.

I'm listening to my coworkers "independently" arrive at a conclusion I've been insisting on for literal years, and I know I should be happy they got there, but I'm going to SCREAM.

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

I was going to say "ceiling" but then realized I needed to be much more specific. I do kind of love this, though.

teaaaa

In my town we had three but you were loyal to your favorite. (The most NJ thing I've ever heard is that after I moved away, there was an unsolved, presumed mob-related, murder in the parking lot of my fave. It's still open and I'll go back.)

I miss diners more than anything else about New Jersey, and I miss the beach A Lot.

Extremely considerate of Bluesky to go down on a morning that I had to get my blood pressure checked. Lowest it's been in months.

The best thing about this is nobody's favorite dinosaur is the apatosaurus.

THE UNNAMING FAILED IT'S A BRONTOSAURUS EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S A BRONTOSAURUS

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.

HUMMINGSAUR

A skeet by Misty De Méo@cdrom.ca that says Reading Wikipedia and has an image of text that says "Spilling tardigrades across the moon is legal." The skeet directly below by Andrew Lawrenceo says "so fucking do it then"

Really excellent timeline work, here.

This feed is almost as good as the splashdown itself, if you're looking for some serotonin this evening.

I'm moonscrolling

An orange cat sitting on an ottoman in front of a large TV mounted over a fireplace. His head is tilted way to one side while he watches Integrity soar toward splashdown with three beautiful chutes slowing its descent.

Bagel was DEEPLY invested in splashdown. I, of course, was completely chill (I was NOT chill).

SPLASHDOWN!!!

15 minutes to splashdown and my beta blockers are WORKING.

I AM blaming PMS, but it's just an excuse honestly.

The back of an orange cat, sitting very intently watching the NASA feed of Integrity flying toward Earth on a large TV mounted above a fireplace.

Bagel is extremely invested in the Artemis II astronauts' return from their lunar flyby mission.

I kept telling myself to remember to pre-order this, but I kept forgetting, so now I have briefly set aside my delicious lunch (that is how you know this is Important) and pre-order has been accomplished!

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."

Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.

...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

PLEASE this '70s shag cat tree is the best thing I've seen today.

The last moon mission had slide rules, now we got IP addresses for the 4k streaming. Humanity actually can do good things when we stop fucking around.

NICE

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow