Amy

Acorn season in an oak forest is a never-ending random jump scare situation from acorns falling on loud things.

'I don't know' is a super power. But also I swear to you I've been in a gazillion meetings over the years with people who bluster on like an LLM. So at least it's familiar?

Also, the comments on this app are so freaking boring now. No nuance, just a different binary thinking. I sad about it.

It's like the mirror image of X now. Same song, different verse. Frustrating.

If there were a foreign nation that wanted to destabilize and tear the US apart with civil war, then they're playing the long game successfully. The worst part is, we'd all be complicit.

Beef, Coffee, Cheese stand out. Notable upward trajectory Jan this year +.

The thing about covert control is that your autonomy becomes a problem to solve.

*He was 10 when he sent this. I don't even remember what the issue was. 😂

My youngest is headed to college this fall, a shift in the “role of mom” is in the works.

If you’ve wondered what that role looks like, may I present Exhibit A: his first series of texts to me.

I couldn’t script a more accurate summary of the last 24 yrs of parenting (he & his sibs) if I tried.

Imagine being a kid in a summer job and having to know what to do if 🧊 shows up. I know some of those kids. This sh*t is imprinting on their young minds. They won't forget this, it will change how they view policies and politics, and how they make decisions as adults.

Ok so minute later... (sloppy SQL today ig):

"Syntax error: Expected keyword FALSE or keyword NULL or keyword TRUE or keyword UNKNOWN but got identifier "NUL" at [25:42]"

The more entertaining error I'd LIKE to see:

"Ok so to clear it up, NULL has TWO Ls. Not three, and not one."

"Syntax error: Expected keyword FALSE or keyword NULL or keyword TRUE or keyword UNKNOWN but got identifier "NULLL" at [10:39]"

Better more amusing error handling would say:

"Nice. Is that how *you* spell NULL?"

@utkan.com @goravseth.com - I feel so celebratory about this months long deal that I must tag you both for an update. As of today, SUCCESS on the refund with a DOT complaint. 🎉

We have a mating pair here and the first year they appeared they guarded the feeder like their life depended on it, now they're more chill. They share with the other birds. Maybe they've realize it's a never-ending supply?

I mean, they're like, "Let us build walnut-sized nests with spider webs and decorate them with lichen."

The spider webs! Such smart little guys in their nest construction. We have so many ruby throated hummingbirds here. One day I'll find a nest. One day!

Omg I've found my new favorite account.

Hummingbird fun fact: I was told by a Costa Rican once that some hummingbirds over there like to build nests under hydrangea flowers. That is way too adorable.

Oddly, it continues to feel extremely natural to cosplay as an 18th century statesman / former president / distant relative on another account.

🤣 💀

I have informed the oxen.

I'm logistics planning for a trip from Michigan to Minnesota and Google is constantly like, PUT YOUR CAR ON A BOAT! And I'm like, no I just want to drive AROUND the lake. Google, YOU put your car on a boat!!

Yea, musk is problematic and his confidence that he can pull dem voters is ridic. Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets and he dumped a tanker truck's worth. But re: Cuban, beyond a tweet w/emojis and suggestion of connection w/voterchoice, what's the involvement? Asking 'cause I don't know.

This ongoing idea of holding nuance = 'not bravery' is ridic, lazy thinking. Holding complexity is way more work. Saying it's some form of cowardice is dismissive of the ethics and intelligence of people who chose to hold tension rather than make everything black & white to feel better.

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." - Nietzcsche

Side picking has a psychological term --> Splitting. It's not healthy or good for any of us. The end result, regardless of what "side" you're on, are ideological purity tests, tribalism, and dehumanization.

Six years before our deaths, two old men mused on what is and what cannot be known. Jefferson wrote to me:

“I am sure I really know many, many things, and none more surely than that I love you with all my heart, and pray for the continuance of your life, until you shall be tired of it yourself.”

The english colonial farmer, Henry Adams, that immigrated to the US long, long ago and started the Adams family line on the other side of the pond, leading to John, John Q, you, and I, and so many others. But, now I will research Henry Adams the economist out of curiosity!

Sir, if JQA is your 2nd great grandpa, (and I do my generational math correctly) then we share a relative, your 7th great grandfather, Henry Adams. :)

This reminds me of another #merica story. When I was in college I took a road trip with a friend from MI to TN and we stopped in KY at her grandfathers house. He had automatic weapons in his living room pointing toward the driveway and also made moonshine.

OMG!!

But that's a great story. #merica