Renardy McRenardface (he/him)

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

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My research suggests that only about 80% of the global population could do a better job than Donald Trump. Do you really think you're in that 80%, and if so, why aren't we having lunch?

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Alpha in the software sense: buggy and not ready for production.

You spelled "General" wrong.

This tracks!

Clickbait pet peeve: "<something> just rewrote history!". If we found out that JFK had three moles on his back instead of two, it would, technically, "rewrite history", but that doesn't mean we care.

<Grouchy old man shakes his cane at you>

Remember: the only way to be over the weather is in space. 👍 (Feel better!)

Did anyone else sing "put on your nog shoes and nog the blues" in a David Bowie voice? Just me? I'll let myself out....

Perfection.

Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.

Many who come burn out after about a year: not whatever they expected. We came for 7 weeks in 2021, staying in 7 different B&Bs in 7 different areas. That let us try out the beach, the mountains, the Caribbean vs. Pacific, etc. tl;dr the beach was too hot for us, so we're in the mountains.

Fall of Assad is a blow to Russia's prestige Russian firepower helped keep the Syrian president in power - but in a matter of days, Moscow's Syria project unravelled.

You’ve got to love this headline.
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Indeed! We moved more for financial reasons - our kid was moving out and we could buy a house here for less than what we'd make on our big suburban home in Sacramento. No more mortgage. We're fortunate that we can both work remotely, too. Definitely visit - Tamarindo, Uvita, Puerto Viejo del Limon.

Oh yeah, BBC FTW, always. I used to switch between CNN & Fox just to see what they were covering: my wife would get anxious when I had Fox on, even if she didn't know I'd switched. Totally different vibe between news and propaganda.

Anyone considering leaving the US for expat life in a friendlier country? We moved to Costa Rica in 2022 and haven't looked back.

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who has paid into Social Security their entire adult life and is determined to make sure Republicans keep their filthy fucking hands off of our benefits.

Same goes for our Medicare and the Affordable Care Act.

HANDS. OFF.

The "Greater Idaho" movement seeks to allow red-leaning, sparsely-populated counties in Oregon to move over into Idaho. But we don't want them clear-cut, strip-mine, toxic-dump, and frack their way into temporary profits at the expense of the environment. #stateofjefferson #greateridaho #environment

OMG, this would be HILARIOUS! 😆

"We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship."

I.e., we want to make it more difficult for poor and rural people to vote.

@BNOFeed
Update on unidentified illness in Congo:

Today, Congo's Health Ministry held a press conference about an unidentified illness in a remote area of Kwango province. Here's a detailed summary written by our team.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

Tico dog Wicket is looking particularly scrungly after running through the cattle fields.

Cat in a library.

Hot take: Star Trek needs more of the energy of Discovery S1 and DS9—outcasts and the traumatized upholding Federation ideals better than the system itself—and less of Picard S3’s nostalgia, where Federation war crimes are ignored to fight “the youths” and throw a Federation Day party.

By tradition in our household, from the first El Donaldo term, we name the ceramic fire pit skull as El Donaldo's worst cabinet person from that week. So. Many. Choices. I think today it's Patel, but accepting recommendations!

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