OHIO IN THE NEWS. AGAIN.
Today Ohio joined five other Republican-dominated states—Louisiana, Alabama, West Virginia, Missouri, and Florida—in leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center, a national data-sharing consortium that updates national voter rolls. Right-wing election deniers say that the bipartisan ERIC is controlled by left-wing groups that enable fraud. March 17, 2023
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #19: Analog. A close up of the All Wave logo on my 190 gms virgin vinyl 10” record Off You by The Breeders. All Wave maintains a completely analog recording and production process. No computers. Nothing digital end to end. Kim Deal invented it. More Info
Read moreFor those that use @NetNewsWire how do you manage saving articles to read later. Star them? Or is there a better way? Or do you use some kind of other read it later service?
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #18: Portico. Another challenge word I had to look up. And I don’t come across many a portico in my day-to-day so I reached back to 2018 for this photo. I’m dressed as a Gays Against Guns Human Being here in front of the Ohio Statehouse’s portico.
Read more🤪 “He shed,” she said. Seriously. Say it five times fast and see how you do.
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #17: Early. This is my awesome Kate Bush mug. I drink coffee from it in the early mornings during our together time when nothing is awake yet. We have some of our best conversations in the early morning. It’s a very intimate, special time for me.
Read moreThe cover from my mother’s book.
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #16: Road. A page from my mother’s childhood copy of The Wizard of Oz. One of my most treasured possessions. “Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy.
Read moreI just said bye to one of my employees for the last time in person. I cried. I’ve grown close to this team. I hope I’ve been a good leader for them. Imperfect, yes…but good I hope. I set out to be a kind person first, and a manager second. I hope it mattered. I think it did.
Read moreI can’t wait to take today’s photo challenge photo. It’s going to be of something very special to me. :)
Read more🪑 ALWAYS COUNT THE CHAIRS 🪑
We have semi-regular manager summit meetings at my agency. My role has been to co-coordinate them with a small team. At the last one, I stopped in to the large conference room first thing in the morning to make sure it was set up for that afternoon’s meeting. I glanced around quickly and thought to myself, “This looks fine. No messes, nothing to rearrange, I know how to work the projector in here, the tables are all lined up classroom style, it looks like some tables were removed from the back, but I’m not worried; this afternoon will be good to go.
Read moreSeveral Ohio pension systems lost millions of dollars after their shares in a pair of failed banks tanked over the weekend. Ohio pension systems lose millions in failed banks but say they’re a tiny fraction of investments Tiny fraction? Tell that to the pension owners.
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #15: Patience. An early album named Patience from my favorite band, Over the Rhine. “I love the patience in your eyes” is a line from the song Circle of Quiet. These liner notes are autographed elsewhere.
Read more“Ohio sues Norfolk Southern over toxic train derailment - The Guardian”
Read more“Nearly every tumultuous movement in American politics has coincided with a call to ban books.” “The Librarians Are Not Okay - The Atlantic”
Read moreFlorida book bans are not a hoax
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #14: Horizon. The lyric sheet from my limited edition Scarlet’s Walk CD by Tori Amos. From one of my favorite songs, Carbon: “Keep your eyes on her horizon.” First time this has been out of the box since the year it came out.
Read moreI’ve worked at this agency for about 8 years. Most of the time it was good. I loved my first boss, and I loved my second boss. We just clicked. But my third boss, well, let’s just say we think she’s from Eastwick. Unexpectedly, she arranged this for my last day in the office.
Read moreTell Congress to fund libraries here. bit.ly/FundLibrariesFY24 Takes about one minute.
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #13: Connection. A very cool and complicated iOS shortcut that I’m not smart enough to build made this. I know it’s cheating a little but the song’s been in my head all day long thanks to this challenge so I’m submitting it.
Read moreI swear some of these Republicans would be burning witches at the stake if they still could. Democrats Need to Fight Harder as the GOP Tries to Eradicate Trans People
Read more💐 Just ordered an e-card for a colleague who not only lost her father a week ago, but also her mother in-law this weekend.
Read more🧪 Testing a Shortcut.
Read moreDaily Wire host Michael Knowles: “…for the good of society…transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” Beyoncé: Might I suggest you don’t fuck w my sis ‘cause she comfortable. 🏳️⚧️ (Fuck you, Michael Knowles)
Read more📸 March Photo Challenge #12: Shiny. A photo of the lyric sleeve from my vinyl copy of Dove by Belly. The song, my favorite on the album, is called “Shiny One.”
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