Lisa Schmeiser

We are watching this alleged Role Model person on SNL and I simply cannot take him seriously because he dances like Jimmy Junior from Bog’s Burger and there’s no Zeke to hype him up.

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

The beatings will continue until morale improves

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

This happened after the "DON'T DO THAT" judicial ruling handed down yesterday, in case you're wondering how well that whole checks-and-balances thing is working out.

A bowl of kale salad accompanied by a small green box of Oral B dental floss

Extremely prepared for kale salad desk lunch today.

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits : Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

So McKinsey identified some of the big challenges in selling AI and demonstrating any ROI was atop the list -- "many customers see AI hiking IT costs without being able to offset these by slashing labor costs."

More from @theregister.com 's wrap-up here: www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/m...

Usually I skeet, "I am asking once again for term limits on columnists," -- but for those who want to know why, Qasim Rashad lays out a detailed and persuasive case for why lengthily-tenured pundits are ultimately bad for the discourse by examining the career of only one. Worth reading.

Amphibiantifa

“The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees." -- Roland Barthes

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

It makes me a hell of a lot less inclined to shop, period. Aside from books. I will always buy books.

The thing that gets me about the days of the year that Amazon has its little sales is how so much of the Web becomes so BORING as every editorial outlet left standing tries hard to get that affiliate revenue with their own selections.

"What to buy" roundups are right up there with gift guides, IMO.

The Lost Songs Project | Mark Blankenship | Substack This is a music newsletter that rediscovers forgotten hit songs. What made the tunes popular back then? Why are they still awesome now? We're gonna find out. Click to read The Lost Songs Project, by M...

There goes @markblankenship.bsky.social bringing me joy with his newsletter again. You need to subscribe to The Lost Songs Project: lostsongs.substack.com

Covering AI as incorporated into workplace communications, so do I.

Some context from EV Reporter: Tesla is just entering the market. It's fun to dunk but let's look at the bigger market picture.

evreporter.com/tesla-sells-...

Was looking for the u/peng reference since his work in the r/bayarea subreddit & his clean-ups have done so much to highlight this issue; glad to see it buttoning up the piece.

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

Imagine learning that not only are you infertile, your government is now going to make you pay more taxes because of your medical condition.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Day two of @bookshop.org's anti-prime sale, so go and get your holiday shopping sorted while you support independent booksellers.

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Reply in thread with what you've bought & I'll share my picks!

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

Great work comparing the journalistic mission statements from Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - High Country News Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.

Incredibly powerful first-person reporting from High Country News:

"I saw it everywhere: a woman alone with a toddler in her arms, looking terrified as the men around her screamed about a world that had lost the face of God."

www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Apparently some pundit types need to be reminded that resigning from your job is not cancellation.

Hell of a ride when you read these two back to back: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I love kale salads but OMG the flossing

New Shark Tank idea: Prepackaged kale salad mixes that include the dental floss you'll need afterward. So tired of supplying my own.

I know all y'all outside of California think we don't realize what a shitbag he is, but I assure you, we do!

Go here to help your fellow American residents: www.feedingamerica.org/ways-to-give...