Jeff Spindler

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

It seems so weird to just be going about our normal lives, celebrating holidays and going out and watching sports etc when our brave troops are fighting in the Venezuelan War.

Morning Phone Sticker 2-Pack Two stickers of A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME. More official Jeffr...

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@joannahastings.bsky.social Thanks so much for advising me not to buy a Tesla because of Musk!

I'm still on Twitter/X. It's nice here, but honestly it's a bit of an echo chamber, and my focus rn is on understanding folks who joined the MAGA team & are cautiously optimistic - but could swing back. We need them. They're not, for most part, on here.

Some observations so far:

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I'm really frustrated with the news media reporting on Trump's illegal and unconstitutional machinations as if they are actually happening.

Trump Names Himself Principal Ballerina of Kennedy Center Ballet Trump took to Truth Social to announce a purge of the company's ballerinas.

Trump declared on Truth Social, “I will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.”

A million cars have disappeared: What NYC is like after one month of congestion pricing Congestion pricing began on January 5. One month in, traffic is down, public buses are faster, and transit ridership is up.

It's amazing that all cities don't do this.

RESIST

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A cromulent word, indeed

#RobertBenchley got it right...

Coweta Fire Battalion Chief fatally shot while aiding stranded driver ‘There's just no sense in it’

Husband of a friend of my sister’s killed www.times-herald.com/news/coweta-...

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.

both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.

Europeans must be going hog wild on TikTok using centimeters and talking about how much they like tiny coffee and affordable healthcare.

Hell yea

After filing a restraining order

photograph of a rock garden, one standing upright with a frowning face and crossed arms drawn on it with charcoal.

Three weeks into his managerial position, Leonard is annoyed to find that the rocks still refuse to organize themselves by size, color or shape.
(repost from November 2016)

you need to do all those things. Happy Birthday!

I have the Amazon echo in my bathroom set to speak only German. The green ring was flashing, so I asked what my notifications were. The answer came back in English with a German accent, and the numbers spoken in German.

Where’s MI? I don’t see MI! MI MI MI MI!

The emergence of Charles, trying and failing to plan a surprise party for his tail:

Jimmy Carter Deserved Better. So Do We. An underreported chapter from Carter’s career.

As we remember Jimmy Carter, let’s also take a moment to remember what a ginormous dick Ronald Reagan was.

I love it when movie theaters provide those little extras