Marc

Gym done

I’m going to watch it tn and will report back. The snippets he told me about did unfortunately remind me of things I have done.

Friend: Have you seen The Residence?

Me: No, is it good?

F: It’s so good and the main character reminds me of you.

M: Oh?

F: Yeah, she’s autistic. …and SO smart.

Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People - KFF Health News Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.

BREAKING: Everyone at the Department of Health and Human Services who sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for programs like Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and more, has been fired.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Hotel lighting and sleepy

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Wait so the plan is literally to take government workers researching kidney disease and keeping the water clean and have them make iPhone cases instead

Hooooooly shit.

The money is going to what now

The current systems housing all your tax info- your income, employers, your SSN, your DOB, your addresses, your banking info, your children's names, SSNs and DOB - is on a system so old that its unhackable. It has never been breached by an external actor, ever.

So ofc they want to change it.

Let’s go punch our problems

Oh wow. Same.

i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives

3 months sober. Well technically 3 months and five days but it’s never too late to celebrate a cool thing, right?

lmao. lol. hahahahahah

Nothing fits

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Inside and outside

Inside me there are two wolves. So it seems like I put on some weight. But it’s just the wolves.

Monday. Again.

My mother to me the other day: “It’s so funny when you simply refuse to interact with someone who can’t keep up with what you’re thinking.”

Me: “…time is finite and I don’t need to spend mine explaining simple things.”

Happy eclipse day 🌕. Cast some spells.

Shaved

The brutal, beautiful irony of this happening after Schumer spent 18 months supporting genocide and disavowing the humanity of Palestinians, truly Homeric

Anyway I saw a cyber truck last night and briefly considered going to jail

OPINION: USC’s compliance in the face of political threats betrays students As executive orders threaten students’ rights and freedoms, my university falls far short of its educational mission.

This student polemic is better than anything the NYT op-ed page has published about universities.