Michelle Newcome

How much trouble are we in if things pop off in Taiwan?

I've done a lot of things in life. I'm an expert in my field. I get paid really good cash money by people to build programs. Yet nothing will ever top the A+ I got in a class on Ulysses when I was a 21 year old English major.
And my copy with all my notes is in basically a shrine on my bookcase.

Isn't the world a glorious place filled with remarkable moments? Thank you for the great explanation and for your obvious joy in sharing science.

Elon Musk is overdue for a visit from three ghosts.

You're honestly the first voice I check to see if something is freak-out worthy or just at "remain vigilant and vote" level. I appreciate the intellectual rigor you bring to public discourse.

I'm not sure what this is in reference to, but the problem with our current events is that I can think of at least a dozen - maybe even several dozen - situations to which this could apply.

Cutting SNAP is a helluva way to hit your dumb KPI.

When “the public decided they’ve had enough of experts”, they really were saying it’s time to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about order us around. And here we are, slowly drowning in it.

I live under a highway overpass now because I forgot my ID once and ran out of gas because I couldn't buy any without it so now I can't go home.

I don't know, what he's describing will happen sounds like a good time to me. Like, "Sir, from your lips to God's ears."

Ditto

"And make us a permanent minority" is speaking volumes. Johnson does not consider all Americans to be "us" he only includes himself as an us when it's about white people.

They have to come up with some kind of coded language since they can't use ghetto queens anymore. Those racist dog whistles are getting a workout.

The Last Frontier = O Brother Where Art Thou meets ConAir.

Thank you, AppleTV, for providing laundry folding television with a tinge of AI uncanny valley plot and endless cgi overexuberance.

and it should require two people to carry it and represent your favorite repressed memory. You have two hours."

"Bakers, your showstopper should include 14 different flavors from a mix of continents as well as a biscuit, a loaf of yeasted bread, at least 2 different sponges, 3 kinds of buttercream, a jelly, tempered chocolate, sculpted gold leaf,

I really do love the Great British Baking Show, but the showstoppers have become ludicrously over-complicated.

I feel this so hard.

Fixing sidewalks should be a responsibility of the city, not the homeowner. Likely very niche and specific to Atlanta. But for real, our sidewalks are a mess and little old ladies can't be using all their money on sidewalks.

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

AWS coming in hot with all proof I'll ever need that running a coms down tabletop exercise scenario is worth it.

It's a start and abandon online shopping carts kind of day.

Do people really not understand the mass comms aspect of social media (aside from, um, the Atlantic)? Like, how is that possible in 2025?

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

"And the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them."

But how do we do this?

Business Continuity, IT/DR, Crisis Comms

This really needs to be the strategy everywhere. Cartoon suitup to defeat authoritarianism.

Tuxedo cat inside a Target shopping bag

Who doesn't love a fresh Target bag to cuddle into? #Caturday

Publisher here. It is, indeed, impossible. Algorithms have been tweaked to a pointless point, but outside of sandwich boards on commuter routes what choices are there?

I wish we could have decided to decry authoritarianism instead of fascism. But, I guess it's just harder to spell and not as sexy to rail against.