I think I don’t have a pollen allergy, but it’s the time of year when I start to wonder whether my immune system has developed one after all, or whether the oaks have just put so much grit in the air that biking through it is mechanically irritating my tissues like breathing sandpaper
received a baby scrapbook as a gift and it has a series of ‘my first holidays’ pages where the manufacturer suggested holidays but made it easy to write in your own. better believe we will be documenting baby’s first general election day AND baby’s first DC primary election day
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
4. Watch in frustration and embarrassment as dog either doesn’t know what’s being asked of them or doesn’t trust that it’s in their interest to obey
5. Increase volume and aggressive tone of dog name yelling
6. Repeat daily
Lincoln Park is swarming with men my Dad’s age whose dog training practice appears to be:
1. Let dog off leash in open space
2. Yell dog’s name if they get too far away or bother someone
3. Never reward or even clearly identify desired behavior
“‘Who knows when love begins? Who knows what makes it start? One day it’s simply there, alive inside your heart.’ As you all know, these timeless words are from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s beloved musical Phantom of the Opera…’s 2010 sequel musical, Love Never Dies. I am not making this up”
“In 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote” and then read a very dry admin law holding from some case other than Obergefell
I’m headlining a wedding next month and unfortunately most of the material I’ve come up with so far would be very funny to the grooms but leave their families bewildered and bored
[Madame Giry voice] would you speak that way in the presence of the promposer
How many of the 50 extra days y’all took to submit it would you estimate were dedicated to apostrophes? 😘
Yesss
There’s a nice trick toward the end where the piano takes up the sweeping melody that the character has previously used to declare her fondest hopes (“But I dreamed of…”)—while the character herself, heartbroken, quietly stalls out on a single pitch
current musical theater tune playing in my head: Almost Real from Bridges of Madison County open.spotify.com/track/027to3...
We were talking with friends about Scouting and someone asked my favorite merit badge. I said Orienteering and my husband immediately was like “that sounds like how a character from Wicked would refer to conversion therapy”
major train-related twist!!
As a veteran Republican senator, I know Trump’s economic policy is imbecilic and his treatment of refugees is inhumane. But if I don’t go along with all of it, I could be replaced by someone who votes just like me but actually believes this shit.
I spent one day around a “hell yeah” guy during GOTV late last year and I’m afraid I’ve inadvertently become a “hell yeah” guy ever since
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
A bunch of elite galactic cops chasing a terrifying superpowered assassin just used the phrase “flatbed shunter”
Pandora’s Star + Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton. I just started the second volume. Highly recommend!
I’m reading a mostly very good science fiction action novel with a hilarious and I think unintentional running bit where the author’s clear obsession with trains seeps into characters who have no business being obsessed with trains
Incredible choice of phrase when the actual leadership of the actual city have spent all week telling him exactly how this CR will destroy us
youtu.be/5nKqJL98-aw
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
this week may merit a break from my break from drinking
lol distinct but related phenomena: gays I’ve met socially and exchanged social media handles with but who don’t know my last name, and colleagues who’ve seen my last name in writing but understandably aren’t aware some ancestor of mine decided some radical vowel shifts would be fun
said my last name out loud in an inter-office meeting, prompting startled murmurs from people I’ve known for years
I must know how many dollars Pasek and Paul demanded in exchange for allowing “This Is Me” to be re-recorded as “We-go-vy” I MUST
“Feels like 12°” why do terrible things happen to mediocre people