Ginny Simmons

even if smart glasses worked and looked cool I don't want them. please let me rest, it's bad enough that I pull my phone out of my pocket to look at it, I wish I did not.

Computers should still scream at you if you try to go online.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Thank you for listening. (8/8)

I’m not making more of this than what is - just relaying one person’s real life experience of “crime” living in the middle of Washington DC for more or less two decades. (7/

THEN I got into the driver seat and found a single AirPod I had been missing for days, left lodged beside the seat. I swear I had already looked all over for it. I cannot explain this. Now nothing was lost and something was inexplicably found and returned?? (6/

On a whim, I emailed the company I had planned to return the items to, very briefly explaining what happened, and they chose to return my money in full anyway. Now nothing was lost. (5/

The next day, I came back to my car, and someone had left all the belonging that looked of any importance (insurance information, etc) on a stone ledge directly next to my now locked car. Nothing was lost, other than the bag of clothes to return. (4/

The next day, I found someone had ruffled through my glove compartment and taken a bag of things I left the car floor that I had packaged up, labeled, and planned to return via mail. There was no additional damage to the car. Disappointing, but livable. (3/

Last summer, I had to leave my car carrying too many things inside my home in a very heavy rainstorm, and to the best I can figure, I accidentally forgot to lock it. (2/

Just wanted to give one person’s story of crime in DC. This is the only street crime I have experienced in my many years in DC. (1/

Thank you for listening. (8/8)

I’m not making more of this than what is - just relaying one person’s real life experience of “crime” living in the middle of Washington DC for more or less two decades. (7/

THEN I got into the driver seat and found a single AirPod I had been missing for days, left lodged beside the seat. I swear I had already looked all over for it. I cannot explain this. Now nothing was lost and something was inexplicably found and returned?? (6/

On a whim, I emailed the company I had planned to return the items to, very briefly explaining what happened, and they chose to return my money in full anyway. Now nothing was lost. (5/

The next day, I came back to my car, and someone had left all the belonging that looked of any importance (insurance information, etc) on a stone ledge directly next to my now locked car. Nothing was lost, other than the bag of clothes to return. (4/

The next day, I found someone had ruffled through my glove compartment and taken a bag of things I left the car floor that I had packaged up, labeled, and planned to return via mail. There was no additional damage to the car. Disappointing, but livable. (3/

Last summer, I had to leave my car carrying too many things inside my home in a very heavy rainstorm, and to the best I can figure, I accidentally forgot to lock it. (2/

Thank you for listening. (8/8)

I’m not making more of this than what is - just relaying one person’s real life experience of “crime” living in the middle of Washington DC for more or less two decades. (7/

THEN I got into the driver seat and found a single AirPod I had been missing for days, left lodged beside the seat. I swear I had already looked all over for it. I cannot explain this. Now nothing was lost and something was inexplicably found and returned?? (6/

On a whim, I emailed the company I had planned to return the items to, very briefly explaining what happened, and they chose to return my money in full anyway. Now nothing was lost. (5/

The next day, I came back to my car, and someone had left all the belonging that looked of any importance (insurance information, etc) on a stone ledge directly next to my now locked car. Nothing was lost, other than the bag of clothes to return. (4/

The next day, I found someone had ruffled through my glove compartment and taken a bag of things I left the car floor that I had packaged up, labeled, and planned to return via mail. There was no additional damage to the car. Disappointing, but livable. (3/

Last summer, I had to leave my car carrying too many things inside my home in a very heavy rainstorm, and to the best I can figure, I accidentally forgot to lock it. (2/

RIGHT NOW is likely a pivotal moment in US history. Dictators almost always take over capital cities, usually by force, to assert power and control.

A thread to help make sense of this moment and how we fight back:

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The "parasitic (online Democratic fundraising) ecosystem could not thrive without the tacit approval of the Democratic establishment. The relationship between the Mothership network and the official party is not adversarial; it is deeply symbiotic."

Simply a must read from @adambonica.bsky.social

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Took my son to a friend's birthday party, made awkward small talk with the other parents.

Rather than asking "what do you do?" I asked "so what do you get up to?" to a bored-looking dad and he perks up, telling me how he's an amateur figure skater.

Much better than hearing about some job.

Standing up for the silent majority of voters who celebrate and treasure their right as Americans to owe $11,000 for getting rushed to the hospital on one of the worst days of their lives. It's called "being moderate" and it's how you win elections.