Cranky McCrankymom

Uuuuugh, I'm sorry :( We deal with pain so incredibly poorly here and I'm sad to hear that you're suffering for it.

Muscle relaxants worked great for me when I was younger, but in recent years I might as well have been eating M&Ms. Hell, even the Tylenol was more effective.

One was a mailman and the other worked at a cafe in New York's Garment District.

May all her teeth fall out, except one which should have a toothache.

It's remarkable that the national media is saying the takeaway from Talarico's win over Crockett is "Democrats are too far left" when the two of them are so ideologically similar.

It's almost as though "too far left" means "too Black."

I was forced to use an AI chatbot for 10 minutes at work. Since then I have been quite rude to AI evangelists at work.

I've only looked at AI output when someone shoves it under my nose or I accidentally use a search engine that does an AI search. Then I curse loudly and run away.

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"If anything in today's issue offended you, we congratulate you on still being able to feel things. What's that like?"

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Oh absolutely. It's a fucking awful catch 22 and I hate it SO MUCH. I hate that people are going the extra mile to be awful.

I hope she wins enough to retire *and* to pay the legal fees of a few dozen other trans folks so *they* can win and retire. Holy goddamn guacamole.

Y'know how sometimes your email software cuts off the subject line of a message in an awkward place? I just opened my email and my eye was caught by "Gamers defend ICE" and my brain went "I'MSORRYWTF?"

Full subject? "Gamers defend ICE detainee". Whew, that makes more sense.

It's a small thing, but our family in Israel probably won't be able to get here to celebrate Passover. I suppose it's possible, but it's highly unlikely. I'm not even sure when my youngest BIL, who was visiting, will make it home to NYC. All of this on Purim is...rough.

everybody stay clear on the fact

that several fascist autocrats

are using the needless death of innocent human beings

as a power grab / attempt to manipulate public opinion

when their popularity is low.

I think the frozen shoulder is joints... assuming the rotator cuff is a joint? Or maybe it's a secret third thing. Anyway, I have the return of frozen shoulder on the left side and the beginning of the return on my right side. Super fun. And all the tingling and dizziness and anxiety and...

She's definitely a lamed vavnik. No question. My only doubt is whether there are 35 more like her.

As many others have already noted: Please try preschool teachers next.

Pardon me while retire to my fainting couch in shock and surprise at this completely unpredictable turn of events that *none* of us could possibly have guessed or been yelling about for months.

::eyeroll to infinity::

Given the context, this could easily be racism, classism, *and* sexism, plus the whole misoynoir thing. But yeah, when housing issues come up, classism becomes more likely. "Those" people might be Black or Hispanic or they might be "The Poors" or they might be ::gasp:: BOTH!!!!eleventy!!!

I think it's a pretty safe guess. Alas, guessing "racism" is usually correct. Although sometimes it's "classism" instead.

Person I previously respected: Just because it's being done by an immoral and unethical government doesn't mean it was bad to bomb Iran.

Me: Uh...yeah it does. That's kinda how that works. Also, it's *two* immoral and unethical governments. Just sayin'.

I'm not 100% sure because these days who knows, but...yeah, I'm pretty sure we weren't at war then.

::cries::

An exact description of what happened to me.

I always want to see their parfait date 💞

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

::endless screaming::

o_O I'd be thrilled if every federal agency immediately ceased using *any* LLM/genAI, but somehow I suspect that's not where this is going to go. Why do I feel like this is going to end up with the feds using less safe, less competent/coherent technology that somehow puts $$ in Trump's pocket?

It makes me googledebonkers that MS Outlook absolutely refuses to whitelist important email addresses or domains. No matter how many times I tell it to always give me email from jufj.org or my old friend, it ignores me. And important messages end up in junk or bulk mail, which is frustrating.

TFW you *know* you shouldn't unblock that neighbor to see what they're saying about this issue and you do it anyway ::facepalm::

Yuuuup

Dear person in my PokeGo group:

"Incense" and "incest" are very different words. It would be best not to mix them up. ::coughs::

Love,
Me, desperately trying not to laugh and hoping autocorrect was involved

(I used to occasionally pick up the LaRouche paper on campus when I was in college and I needed a laugh. One time I picked it up right before taking my first dose of a muscle relaxant. A friend was sitting with me and I was reading bits of the paper aloud. It was apparently HILARIOUS.)