I'm liking this theory. Go on....

But the songs in musicals don't contain any key plot points, usually, just emotional tangents. And as long as you see the title in the program, you should pretty much know what they're getting at.

I almost always associate MAGA either with "those people you haven't thought of since high school" or estranged parents. Did you ever see that multi-blog-post analysis of estranged parents' forums?

AI does not understand humor.

I keep thinking something has to snap.

OK, so, if you don't want to fail, you don't do experiments. You stick with what you know you're good at, and just do a lot of that. And I guess you have more product, but less growth. And then you're not doing art any more, you're just doing a craft. And I don't want to be a craftsperson.

Mortality aside, I'd like to get these things looking and sounding good before I'm knocked down by my next all-consuming health issue, you know?

Creatively I feel like I'm just making messes this week. I know art gives you permission to fail, but at 55 it's not permission to fail I'm worried about, it's having enough *time* to fail.

I don't normally eat pork and beans (and it's honestly kinda gross), but I was feeling lazy and wanted something different, and my question is: is it normal for there to be a 1000:1 bean-to-pork ratio?

I read and watched this twice before realizing AOC was the one actually posting this, sPoNgEbOb cAsE and all 😂

Ha, I just got up from the desk and thought to myself "wait, did I say 'astronomy' or 'astrology'?? Shit, I hope I didn't accidentally say 'astrology'..." ...and ran back to the desk to check. I don't know if there's a way to edit on BlueSky so I'm glad I used the right word.

More about psychology and sociology than about, say, astronomy or physics, I assume.

On the plus side, it's making social media a little easier to get up and walk away from. Maybe that was the whole point.

Saw a similar one in the past that said (approximately) "I don't know how to explain to you that people just don't have conversations like this"

TBF, I don't think the weeks after this will/would be any more ideal.

I should say *we* have to, to be more clear; it's a thing I often say, particularly when talking about anxiety. A sort of quasi-motivational thing.

You have to run TOWARDS something, not just *away* from everything.

"We must be pee mates!"

I kinda wish that all of my art/music/electronics social media was better isolated from my political social media, so I could do the "no politics in the first and last hour of the day" self care thing.

Oh, yeah, you're gonna say "no blue light before bed" too but let's be realistic.

The first time he was elected, East Ave Wegs got rid of their kosher section. So who knows.

They want us to have lots and lots of babies—they're mad at people who are single or gay or just not having kids—but they also don't want birthright citizenship. So, clearly, they only want CERTAIN TYPES of babies. Babies that *match*.

They're not actually concerned about legal immigrants vs. illegal immigrants; they're concerned with people who LOOK or SOUND like they COULD fit their stereotype of "illegal." That's what it's about now, they just haven't said it out loud yet.

This probably sounds simplistic, but they have really mutated into the Conformity Police.

Only Marxists would want Number Go Down

I have to wonder how many people closed the blinds and tested this.

Hello, Hillary Rodham Clinton! Or Hypnotists' Resource Center... um... Heavy Rocking... Cantaloupe?

Requiring users to type on touch screens was an "advancement" I'll never make peace with.

You are assuming we're inserting these USB cables in well-lit places and/or have good eyes. I often paint one side of the plug to make it easier.

It does feel like a lot of entities are just rolling over.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??