Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

the REAL hot story in DC is whether the arboretum plant sale on Saturday is gonna be rained out

"oh they mean it like dusting your wets" I mumble, relieved, as other people in line shuffle away

An ad at CVS. "Treat your can't stop popping well.", it says, for a brand called Well Market popcorn.

on a sleepy morning this took me a solid ten seconds to parse

you'd think "what if we changed the focus every 90 seconds while continuously ratcheting up the pressure for an hour" would be sustainable, and yet

among a million objectionable things with this manifesto I do not think any company that talks this way about civil servants should be allowed to have contracts with the government. that much open contempt for your customers/clients should be instantly disqualifying

for 50-something years the GOP has led a war on government and civil service and the Dem response has been to basically concede that bureaucrats who execute their agendas aren't real people

don't miss #8, which suggests federal servants are lavishly overcompensated (?!) to the point of fiscal irresponsibility. no one who talks this way has any business getting contracts with the government

not a single person skeeting about the Johnnie-middie croquet match which makes me think we have a crucial hole in natsec bluesky coverage

I told my husband "JD Vance is arguing with the helldude!" and the look on his face while I tried to explain will haunt me to the end of my days

A tumblr post from user bloomfish. "Patient on the Pitt: wahhh my feet hurt Doctor: no problem sir we'll stitch you up. Get me 100ccs of lorazepam stat and intubate. Oh no, why isn't this working? His feet are still in danger! *uncovers sheets to reveal hooves* Other Doctor Who Is More Woke: those are his hooves you bitch. Prep 10000ml of Ketamine. First Doctor: damn. I was wrong and it almost cost this poor patient his life. Second Doctor: 90% of all patients are secretly horses and anti-horse bias kills thousands every year. As Doctors we need to check our prejudices, and you can read more about this on www.somepatientsarehorses.com"

Google Docs has gone to shit so quickly over the past two years it's remarkable. I bought Scrivener and use it for everything because it leaves me the hell alone

The Gen X-millennial difference is that my Gen X coworker thinks it's fine and normal to send me an impromptu Zoom invite to discuss a single question whereas I have a reaction like an animal being hunted for sport

so that's what the sirens were about. have been trying to explain to friends in the suburbs that the cops do not in fact make us any safer but it never sticks. what a disaster

So, Park Police did this. They were hi-speed chasing someone who was ON FOOT and they rammed into a civilian vehicle absolutely destroying it, crashing through a stop sign, another parked car, over the sidewalk, through a home's fence and retaining wall and into their front yard. At 13th & MD NE.

"god, this Finu Linu guy is everywhere, isn't he?"

St. John's College does not claim this man. MA Johnnies are already their own category but he gets no association with us whatsoever

exactly what I said and the response was that akshully those voters are just "demanding", less likely to vote if they don't get "exactly what they want", and "noisy on social but there aren't that many of them"

a lot of bsky liberal caricatures are unfair but these people do in fact exist

I had two Dem comms people, including one former DNC employee, explain that impeachment is a bad message for the midterms because it motivates R voters who might otherwise stay home. not even exaggerating, that was the whole argument

dinner leftovers (scrambled tofu and kale w/roast cauliflower and red onion, all with garam masala and some sliced olives)

a popular suspicion is that they want to crack down on RA requests but people are also worried about hormones, birth control, etc. we're all watching to see if this egregiously illegal shit will go through

fellow feds, how we feeling this morning? on the one hand we're pretty numb to it all by this point but on the other this is an unwelcome reminder of how much they actively hate us

they have it on tap at The Green Zone

our girl cat (pictured) once ate a dangerous amount of pure dark chocolate and after she was deemed safe the vets spent a half-hour trying to figure out why in the world she did it. not pica, not sick. she simply must consume

thanks, is it being replaced with another grocery store or is this part of the whole redevelopment plan?

anybody know what's up with the Starburst Safeway? shelves have been practically bare since Tuesday and they're only getting worse

you know you're hitting middle age when all of your friends have a lot to say about acid reflux

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"Guy who watches TikToks/Reels in public without headphones" deserves its own category for its ability to induce madness

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