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7:01 while waking up my 4yo son: "Dad, I really don't want to go to school today. School makes my teeth hurt"

8:30 while dropping him off at school: "I was thinking I can stay here for a few days. See you next week!" (today is Tuesday)

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Successful birthday weekend (as measured by desserts): cheesecake at home with the kids, Bundt cupcakes from dad, giant doughnuts from mom, cookies at Second City, more cheesecake at Nando's

Poll: These are the top 10 countries Americans want to leave the U.S. for - Talker Research Is an international exodus coming? In a Talker Research survey, 17% of Americans said they’d like to move outside the U.S. in the next five years, with Canada being the top destination.

Interesting survey released this week:

17% of US adults want to move internationally
5% plan to take steps toward living abroad in the next few years
2% have already started the process

65% described US society as having become toxic
40% saying living in the US is no longer enjoyable

California Dreamin' - 2020, by JARVIS COCKER with backing vocals by KIM SION from the album LOS ANGELES RISING

I've always found California Dreamin' to be haunting but this Jarvis Cocker rendition even more so.

Analysis: We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government | CNN Politics Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

Even just the headings in this article from @zbyronwolf.bsky.social are enough to make me pull my hair out.

Musk allies now in the government’s HR office

Musk’s actual role is unclear

People are supposed to know about the people who run their government

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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#pinkskyStory

A highlight of our trip to Lisbon was the Jardim Da Estrela Park where we encountered a friendly peacock #pinkskyPost

Kamala should do rallies again. With Newsom. And Jasmine Crockett. And Buttigieg. And AOC. And Wes Moore. And Bernie. All of them united. One rally per month. Mostly about billionaires taking over. Groceries and jobs. Fuck this clown. People want to fight back. It would make his diaper explode.

When the 4 Non Blondes said “And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high
and I scream from the top of my lungs WHAT’S GOIN ON?!”

I really felt that.

On Misery Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

Things that will give you a hangover before the age of 35: maybe alcohol

Things that will give you a hangover after the age of 35: alcohol, no alcohol, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough, traffic, dreaming too hard, spicy food, too much sun, 4:30 meetings, fluorescent lighting, the news

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

Any other parents increasingly getting the sense that we're raising kids during the last stages of a self-destructing empire on a slowly dying planet? Or is it just me?

Back at work after a lovely vacation to Sagres, Portugal 🇵🇹

Guess what my son's favorite song is?