Desire to avoid becoming a scared, closed-minded jerk is fantastic motivation to work on myself as I age.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Time for a locally brewed beverage and listening to the new episode of Shooter Jennings’ Electric Rodeo. #outlawcountry

Rarely do I go to Target but if I did and someone said hello I’d be like “They paid you to do that! You don’t really like me!”

I like to think how awesome it was for the first people to discover honey.

‘How running for time instead of distance completely revamped my half marathon training’ Here are five expert-backed reasons why this method really works

This was a good article about #running IMO.

www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/...

A grape harvest crew sets the freshly picked grapes out to dry at the side of a vineyard

A grape harvest crew sets the freshly picked grapes out to dry. Without the intense summer heat, the humidity during fall and winter poses a different challenge. It is vital to ensure the fruit is dry before being packed in boxes and shipped all around the world. #WeFeedYou

A tractor on the side of a cabbage field

A cabbage farm in upstate NY. Cabbage is one of the hardest crops to pick. Huge crates are pulled by a tractor, workers have to rush to keep up and fill them. Picking cabbage requires long hours of bending over and cutting the plant and is done in all sorts of weather. #WeFeedYou

One more thing to charge, update firmware, update pwords and apps, store, step around, make noise, blast ads, collect data, send push alerts, require maintenance blah blah yadda yadda. Oh and lighten your wallet.

Graceless Mamdani? More like Gracie Mamdani amirite?

I’d like to see AI try to eat newsroom Election Night pizza.

Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention

"When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video." www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

My aloof wife won’t steer anything without assurances said steering is behind the scenes. Anything less betrays aloofness.

LOL the entire airport experience built on mediocrity. Without mediocrity it collapses.

IMO the hate #BayArea gets from outside is nothing but LOLable. Problems? Of course! But lack of places with incredible vibes ain’t among ‘em.

"Tomas" shared this video from Madera County, CA. "The almond harvesting season is ending, but right now there is still work. We are paid minimum wage to chop up the trees that fell or broke due to the weather or the shaker machines." #WeFeedYou

Farm workers harvesting sweet potatoes

Farm workers wake up at 2 a.m. in Merced County to get ready to harvest sweet potatoes. They share, "We have to drop off our kids at the babysitter before we leave for the fields. The lack of sleep is tough, but this work feeds our children." #WeFeedYou

Sunrise over San Francisco Bay w Alcatraz Island and downtown SF backlit under layer of low clouds.

Dang the light this morning was top notch.

I'd like stores to just round their prices plus tax to the nearest dollar. I recently got charged $5.07 for a beverage at fancy market. I gave them a $20. Got $14.93 back. C'mon.

If there's one thing church hierarchies are known for it's holding people accountable.

LOL MFers reading resumes.

Good. It’s pretty scammy and creepy ecosystem! Better off staring into space than scrolling FB or Insta.

Politicians come and go. There’s no objective, politically rational reason to cling to campaign sinking under weight of self-induced disaster unless …

If only James Baldwin would have left behind some books we could have read …

I totally get desire for a non-man bf but it seems like there are way better options for that than AI.

For every Ivy-educated tech bro preaching “be an HVAC tech” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) there are many blue collar Dads (like mine!) who say “dude, get an email/laptop job if you can, esp if it pays well” bc they aren’t romanticizing manual labor.

I’ve got a regular #running route with substantial elevation gain. Normally I run it clockwise which means steep start with the gain in first 25 percent and rest gradual downhill to flat. Today ran it opposite w 75 percent gradual uphill and steep down finish. Def upped degree of difficulty.

Except we’re kinda married to “United” in the branding. It’s the first word in the name, it’s on most of the merch.

Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn’t Be In Poor People’s Grocery Carts NORTHAMPTON, MA—With her remarkable ability to determine exactly how others should be allocating their limited resources for food, local woman Carol Gaither is considered to be one of the foremost aut...

Timeless classic from The Onion.

theonion.com/woman-a-lead...