meg worley

I had a class with him in college. He added a grammatical error to one of my papers.

It's only 8am, so this may not be the weirdest factoid I learn today, but it's a contender: Christian Bale's father married Gloria Steinem.

Can affirm via both knowledge and experience!

My previous whining about having "Pink Pony Club" stuck in my head? Now it is "Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny Off a Bus." Come back, Chappell Roan, all is forgiven.

And yes, I resent the hell out of the time I spend factchecking. One day I am going to combust from resentment, in a pillar of flame with billows of the most acrid smoke you've ever smelled.

Seriously, factcheck everything, esp. the things you agree with. Half the things I chase down turn out to be bullshit. I suspect that filling the left up with false information is part of the strategy, and I ain't playing. Surely most of us are too smart to be conned like that?

Factcheck as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I did verify this for myself, btw. The top 5 search results for the org name plus “DEI” (all on the ASM domain) yielded “This page is under review.” Feh.

Do I have any friends who are members? Not for long, I hope.

Yesterday I learned that isopropyl alcohol is often referred to as IPA. Hilarity ensues.

Do any of y'all use Ground News? I'm tempted, because I feel compelled to see what Fox is saying about any particular thing, and then I need to take a shower, or at least plunge my head in a bucket of isopropyl alcohol.

A few days ago I asked about a “What’s Trump Done Today?” website. I feel stupid for asking now, because the perfect one — succinct and authoritative — is the White House. Problem solved.

All together now: Why do medieval heraldic manuals matter to literary historians, Megan?

That or nothing, at the current rate. I shoulda stayed in Silicon Valley.

And I'm in a very Democratic state. I can't imagine what it's like in Tennessee.

Any ideas about what forms of feedback Congress is listening to now? I've called my (Republican) representative three times since the election, and they made it clear they weren't interested in hearing from voters -- even the time I claimed I was a Republican voter.

The cardboard box that held the $150 cat tree...

Today's photo I couldn't take: Four adults standing sheepishly in the parking lot by the sledding hill, their arms full of sleds and saucers and innertubes, while their small children expended all their energy climbing all over the mountain of filthy snow left by the plow.

Ooh, thanks! What a pal.

IKR?????? I've fallen into the Uncanny Valley and I can't get up!

I wouldn't check it every day, that's for sure. But I'd like to have it there.

Huh -- apparently I can't edit out the dangling modifier. Oopsy.

Having spent plenty of time in small towns in South America, this surprises me not a bit.

😂 Yes, well said. I don't hate my village of 600 people, but I do miss the appurtenances of city life.

Ah, right! I'd seen the memes but never noted their creator.

I feel like a dunce for asking, but who is j galbo?

Okay, we're four days in. Surely someone has created a "What's Trump Done Today?" website, with a bullet-point list of executive order and other codswallop, organized by date and with links to details? If not, why not?

Interesting. Has the CPSC taken a public position about AI-generated images, then? (Not doubting you -- just curious.)

And some of us are an hour from a Walmart, much less a store that actually carries stuff we need. Dropping Amazon is a much much bigger ask for those in rural America.

Then shouldn't it be known as Cusipasta?