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a big o7 to those astronauts. you love to see it.

i always wanted to be an astronaut growing up. even originally went to college for aerospace engineering (but changed majors when i found out that’s how you become a nerd on the ground not a nerd in space).

i still want to be an astronaut. always will.

i’d be pretty happy if the last thing i saw before a blackout was this

what i really need to do is add more indy journalists to my list as well. so many smart folks doing great work in the public interest who deserve my (and your) dollars.

i’ve tried to put my money where my mouth is and subscribe to great local news outlets. i don’t want them to simply exist. i want them to thrive. i’m going to add more to my pile soon and i really hope others will, too.

i’d say they’re punching above their weight but that’s not true. the folks over there are heavyweights. it’s just that too many don’t realize it yet.

the @sfchronicle.com has, especially in recent years, produced a large number of really fucking good investigations and it’s quite impressive to watch them churn them out with such frequency

the greatest four lines lyrically in any song ever is hands down

you're the best girl that I ever did see
the great larry bird, jersey 33
when you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet
billy shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets

i’m really proud of the work i’ve been doing lately. it’s been fun to do and i just really love the breadth and depth of the work. but also, i’d love to get a little sleep.

what's your go-to listening in the background while you're working? these days for me it's folks streaming themselves playing super mario world rom hacks.

State Judges Turn to Guns in New Era of Judicial Threats

i contributed some data work to this great piece on the rise of threats to state judges, who aren't nearly as protected as federal judges

very few feelings as bad as when you know one letter somewhere in your crossword puzzle is wrong and you have no clue which one

i knew i liked you

every now and again i remember things from my childhood i hadn’t thought about in years.

today: the brave little toaster.

oh and neither holds a candle to a Philly tomato pie

chicago style pizza is not actually pizza but it is better than most pizza

if the laptop ends up in the front yard and there’s a broken window pls tell my wife it wasn’t my fault

staring at a spreadsheet that has cells in various fields filled with various colors that do not appear to correspond to any actual data field but instead mean something only to the author of the spreadsheet and i cannot figure out who that author is. amazing. love it.

you only recommended one that i read (i LOVE the murderbot diaries and a new one is coming next month!) and i am excited to look into the rest of these

i have a depth of knowledge in a free areas and maybe i’ll build on one. i just want to go very deep into one thing and share it with the world.

someday i would like to write a book. on what? idk yet. i just know i want to write something interesting. and there’s no damn way it’ll be ai-assisted.

I do not. Will gladly take any and all recs!

The Trump administration has systematically pressured immigration judges, threatening them if they do not deport more people and firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement agenda, a New York Times investigation has found. nyti.ms/3Q3IZaU

wasamata with that?

i hope this email never finds you tbh

the president putting his name at the end of his social media posts reads very much like your parents signing their texts to you. like, i know who this is, your number is in my phone.

we good

you all keep enjoying my posts about reading so tell me what i should be putting in my queue. all genres welcome but i have a soft spot for magical realism, fantasy and journalistic nonfiction. can be recent pub or old one. i just wanna read good books.

omg don't let Debbie know pls.