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At Colonial Williamsburg with my 8YO

Guide: does anyone have any questions?

8YO: *raises hand*

Guide: Yes?

8YO: how much longer will you be talking? I want to leave.

WaPo headline: The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA's future Chris Buskirk put tech elites at the center of power in Trump's Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an "aristocracy" is needed to move the country forward. Picture: a man with a short salt-and-pepper beard, and, inexplicably, a page boy haircut, looks grumpy at the camera.

No one who thinks page boy and beard is a good look should be ruling over anything.

My 8YO just gave me the sweetest hug to make *me* feel better after I forgot and squeezed her shoulder where it was sore from her Covid booster, and I feel like the worst and best dad at the same time.

Okay, but it feels like not making every post about me personally is missing an opportunity

Is there no problem it can’t solve!?!?

Yeah, but I think it mostly just sounds bad because Ohtani is so huge. If Tørd Førgusson or whoever (I don’t know who tf is on the Dodger) had been pitching, the meaning would have been clear, you know?

He was the pitcher that got the loss.

I think wanting to be President for more than 8 years would be a pretty massive red flag all by itself

If he would just consider the administration’s feelings a bit more…

It’s like they think that if you don’t look like you stepped out of a Dickens novel, you don’t deserve help.

Two masters of the horror genre

And here I am, a shitty person with stupid ideas instead. Story of my life.

His reputation was right out there in the open, but for *ahem* some reason white progressives were willing to look past it.

Incidentally, as if I didn’t have enough reasons to love him, TIL that Gene Kelly left the Catholic Church over the exact opposite of this (that they supported Franco and didn’t help the poor as much as he thought they should).

If you don’t, are you really even living?

Micro-internships are the future of unpaid labor

There’s nothing like oral surgery to make you realize how often your 8YO accidentally hits you in the face while playing gorilla.

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It feels like they have maybe 3 or 4 people in the administration who are capable of doing a job, and they just have them do all of the jobs.

Specifically, GEFTA says: “Each employee … furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse … at the earliest date possible.”

It isn’t even arguably ambiguous. There’s stuff about excepted employees too, but both are clearly covered.

You mean the disappointing part

Be that as it may,

All I know is I found a hep cat dictionary from the 1920s and it kept me busy for an entire afternoon

As I approach 50, one thing I’ve noticed about slang and pop culture is that, from the Baby Boomer generation and earlier, it all seems hokey and old-fashioned, and from the Millenials on, it all seems contrived and silly.

I feel lucky that GenX is the only one that has been cool this whole time.

My 8YO is sobbing because she got to the end of The Phantom Tollbooth and there’s no more of it to read. ❤️

Portland, TN is the one that kills me.

It’s Q1 for us

"“We’re worried LGBTQ content will be deprioritized or cut entirely and that LGBTQ and especially trans employees will be on the chopping block," says one EA employee and member of the Pride Employee Working Group. "Few of us feel heard right now.”

I’ll believe it when I see it. 😒

I was scared to start Hades II because I played original Hades obsessively* and didn’t want to be disappointed, but holy cow, it’s fantastic.

* How obsessively? Despite not being unusually good at games, I played enough to get <8 min runs with 3 weapons, <10 with all of them