🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄

I made this Kiev cake from scratch to standard Soviet specifications. I can't decorate with frosting to save my life. The Karl Marx factory would have fired me on day one.
#homemade #kievskiy

It's my birthday today. I went poling like every Friday. Did not quite get to the suicide spin. Next time. 🤞

Screenshot of email from CMS that reads: "CMS Announces New Drug Payment Model to Strengthen Medicaid and Better Serve Vulnerable Americans The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tackling high drug prices and protecting the American taxpayers through a landmark Innovation Center initiative designed to lower prescription drug spending in Medicaid, improve health outcomes by increasing access to critical medications, and strengthen the Medicaid program overall. State Medicaid programs that choose to participate in the GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS) Model will be able to purchase drugs included in the pilot at prices aligned with those paid in select other countries, allowing Americans to benefit from fairer, more competitive pricing." This phrase is highlighted in yellow: GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS)

Which idiot stretched the definition of an acronym to make up this bullshit from CMS today?

"GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS)"

Wtf is this Trumpcare shit???

Congratulations to #NYC on their excellent choice for mayor!

Yay to us Californians for passing #Prop50!

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Whoa. I really thought this inhumane sack would outlive us all.

Good luck to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in tomorrow's NYC election!

Good luck to California in tomorrow's redistricting vote! @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

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This is so true. It's also true for our behavioral health professionals. They struggle day in and day out.

Who takes care of the people who care for us? Why do we expect superhuman resilience from these people?

California!

Special election day is this Tuesday for Prop 50! That's 2 days from today.

Vote YES.

Fuck Trumpism.

I don't like being sick on Halloween. This is not fun. I demand my money back. 😭

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Merry Samhain, glorious folk!

Witching.

Local duck pond at sunset. Sky, trees, and brush reflecting in the water. Low fountains on either side of a small island of trees and brush. It's calm. Geese, ducks, coons, and other such birds reside here, but they're not very visible in this specific shot.

Does the TV doctor not know the definition of the word "insurance"?

Also, I will just say that the new CMS communications and materials are lackluster, IMHO.

But, what do I know? "I am just a [local government worker], Jim, not a [federal regulator]." ✨

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Blank office wall of light grey with a simple wall clock showing about 10:35 in the morning. On the wall, there is a makeshift banner with a fall leaves border, saying "Wall of Thanks." Below it, there is an instruction sheet that's ot readable in the picture, but it just provides people with instructions on how to leave thanks for their coworkers. All around the wall, there are pastel coloured post-it notes that people had added to the wall. Since the time I took the picture, the number of notes has increased and continues to grow.

Got tired of all the negativity all around.
Went rogue at work this morning. Getting good engagement and fun reactions 😁
#positivityintheworkplace
#goodtrouble
#resistanceisnotfutile
#givethanks
#bekind

White rabbit has been rescued and is now safe. If anyone in the Simi Valley area is missing a white rabbit with red eyes that is litter trained, let me know.
#lostpet #simivalley

Taped to bathroom stall: a red sheet with black text that reads "Please Make Sure EVERYTHING Flushes Before You Exit!" and a yellow sheet below that with red text that reads "This Includes SEAT COVERS! PLEASE Be Courteous of Others!" In this last sentence, "of" is crossed out with a black pen and "TO" is written below it.

Lots of passive aggressive things happening in the women's bathroom this morning. 🎪

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Had to leave the rabbit at the park. It was exceptionally skittish and stressed, munching on dried leaves. It will probably feed a cayote today.

Gotta love it when the spouse's J-RPG pulls out an obscure vocabulary word. Today's gem?

*Obsequiously.*

Used in a sentence: "MAGA heeds Trump's words obsequiously."

But, really, anyone missing a rabbit in 93065?
#lostpet #simivalley

"So she was considering in her own mind..., whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

A selfie of me bending down and looking very stern. I drew tribal-like lines and dots with black eyeshadow, red lip liner, and silver eyeliner on my face.

It's Halloween season: an excuse to misuse makeup like I'm 5.

Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker — Penn Wharton Budget Model The Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker reports the federal government’s daily cash operations, including daily spending, receipts, and deficits.

Love this tracker from UPenn. My favorite is the expense breakdown. USDA Farm Service spending is up 788.7% YTD. Farmers can STFU. TIPS interest is up almost 200% over the past 90 days, understandably. Wild data. Great charts. Props to econ/fin nerds. 👍

budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

Happy birthday 🎉

This tree likes to pretend we get fall in SoCal.

And, now, the project will cost more, too. Up by a smidge of a few dozen millions in just a couple of days.

I am so shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

I attended yesterday's LexisNexis Protege webinar. All I could think about as I watched Protege draft legal eagle documents was just how the Spreadsheet was supposed to revolutionise work and how much paper pushing we still do. AI is a glorified Spreadsheet iteration, not the cotton gin, people.

"Now, I know this might sound crazy -
But I've smelled the plastic daisies,
And it seems we've found ourselves in Hell."

- Avenged Sevenfold, "Mattel," 2023

I just have to say that I am exceptionally proud of Moldova's strides toward EU membership.

And, I also realized that my passport expired. 😂

Selfie of me, pretending like all's dandy.

My least favorite part of grief is that it just doesn't end. Time does not heal like people say - it's a myth. I just go on and play pretend like the gaping hole isn't there.