Susan

@americanair.bsky.social I’ve been on a tarmac in Dallas for an hour. This is the second time in 3 months I’ve been stuck for an hour or more on a tarmac in Dallas. Why did you discontinue all the direct routes out of Austin? I used to be able to get to Nashville without this bullshit

O’Hare can handle this shit and they get thunderstorms AND snow.

You would think that a city that has thunderstorms all the time would have some semblance of a plan for dealing with them vs having everything run to a literal standstill anytime there is weather.

What’s the worst airport in America and why is it DFW?

I just realized, when telling my friend about the tattoo I’m about to get, that until the age of 40 I still didn’t really think of my body as my own property that I could do what I wanted with. Like I was just renting from a very permissive landlord. But now it’s time to tear a wall down to studs.

I dream of someday writing an ethnography of mid-stage startups called “Good Boys and Daddies” and if you wonder why that would be the title, you haven’t worked at one

I am so tired of people who have never done anything but get an MBA and talk telling me AI can do a thing that I do that they have never done and will never deign to do

The thing about AI is that no one wants it

earlier today there was a group of 10 year olds on the train saying stuff to each other like "i am 31 years old" and "i just turned 34" and laughing harder and harder each time

Idk about policy or w/e but I feel really strongly that one of the only positive cultural legacies of America is the fact that there was a point at which we wanted other people to come here

Truly wild that I have seen zero pictures of this guy who was trying to kill a set of Democratic officials but Luigi was unavoidable immediately.

Not pictured: panic about ice melt

For example, I just got distracted writing this recipe and now my martini will be perfect.

My martini recipe:

2oz Kyro Gin
.75 oz Grassotti Dry Vermouth

Stir with ice while you chill a glass.

Get distracted by other tasks until you forget you were making a martini.

Remember & pour the martini, panicked the glass will overflow. Garnish with four castelvetrano olives.

Enjoy.

Would be great to have a fun, great night and not to come home to see that some fucking country had bombed some other fucking country in an escalation of aggression that has simmered my entire fucking life. Why are we *starting* wars? Is there not already enough fucking bullshit happening??

We love it! Give AI all our water!

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

“OKAY side note to your side note”

Quotes from our 22nd Friendiversary: About a Bee’s Knees “It’s not the fin, it’s the honey” (in a bad way about honey)

I’m with you. Have fully entered my Burgess Meredith “Time Enough at Last” era where I dream of being able to just read uninterrupted for as long as I wanted.

Dude you gotta check out the short story that chatGPT wrote. yeah it sucks ass but I actually really liked it, due to my low IQ

A newly sober man is the rawest kind of nerve

5. Completely absurd but super dry comedy

4. Love story, but make it realistic and therefore kind of sad

3. Accurate representation of the feeling of true, deep depression

2. Unlikeable female protagonist does same stuff men do in other movies

1. Loner/outsider stops giving a fuck and then dies

Same. Every time.

The vibe here is very Kendall Roy and Lukas Matsson.

My precious end of year vacation days have been stolen from me by an illness and I am so deeply bitter about it, which is absolutely making it worse.

Update: I am sick again

I think Julianne Moore, maybe

Handle yes, faucet no

YUP. And mom going, “Is it okay if we don’t eat til 6? I could [cook a food] before I [do an errand/chore] so we could eat a bit earlier.” NOPE STILL FULL FROM LUNCH, NO RUSH.