A CHAIR THAT'S BUILT FOR ME
I’m in the market for a new office chair. The one I have won’t stay raised and slowly lowers itself throughout the day. It’s super annoying. I decided to search Amazon for “big & tall” office chairs. Here’s one of the product photos from my search results. Another one that’s equally as classy has a large man wearing a suit and way too short of a tie. He’s sporting a classic stock photo “Hmm” pose.
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Read moreIrony as big as a billboard. Wait. Is this irony? Or just an unfortunate coincidence? I always forget since that stupid song where she screams like a banshee about rain on your wedding day.
Read moreVOTER SUPPRESSION? MORE LIKE …YEAH, IT’S VOTER SUPPRESSION.
GOP-Dominated Pennsylvania Court Declares Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional – Mother Jones: The ruling will be appealed, but it demonstrates the staying power of Donald Trump’s big lie. It demonstrates a few other things, too.
Read moreA “paws” in Lily’s busy day of napping and also napping.
Read moreLucy, looking. 🐶
Read moreSleepy Lucy Beagle needs her nails trimmed 🐕
Read morePRODUCTIVITY DYSMORPHIA & ME
How to Overcome Productivity Dysmorphia | LifeHacker.com Finally, you aren’t defined by your accomplishments. Your accomplishments should be defined by you. You are more than the deadlines you meet, the subscribers you rack up, or the money you earn. I needed to read that. A few years ago I was winning awards and scholarships and accolades for my accomplishments (you can read about them on LinkedIn 🤓). And then, well, nothing really.
Read moreIF YOU FALL, I WILL CATCH YOU, I’LL BE WAITING…
It’s about thyme that you met my husband ♥
Read moreCORRUPTION, MONEY, POWER, AND RUSSIA
January 24, 2022 - by Heather Cox Richardson: In 2004, Yanukovych began to work with U.S. political consultant Paul Manafort, who was known for managing unsavory characters, and in 2010, Yanukovych finally won the presidency on a platform of rejecting NATO. Immediately, Yanukovych turned Ukraine toward Russia. But in 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych from power in what is known as the Revolution of Dignity. He fled to Russia.
Read moreDIMINISHED POTENCY AGAINST OMICRON? SOUNDS LIKE A LIBERAL PLOT.
DeSantis slammed the FDA’s announcement in a statement Monday, saying the Biden administration “has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law.” Link Forcing medical professionals to choose between treating their patients and breaking the law? You mean like you guys do for women in Texas? You still don’t see the hypocrisy? The irony? The party of “we shouldn’t politicize mass shootings” who readily politicizes wearing masks and getting vaccinated and , I donno, science, now wants people to blame Biden for taking an ineffective drug off the market?
Read moreMORE CANCEL CULTURE FROM THE PARTY THAT BROUGHT YOU CANCEL CULTURE
Florida state GOP lawmakers advance bill prohibiting schools from ‘encouraging’ talk of sexual orientation and gender identity in some classrooms - CNNPolitics: HB 1557 is being strongly opposed by Democrats in the state and a number of LGBTQ advocacy groups, including the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that works on suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth. The group said last week that if passed, the bill would “ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, erasing LGBTQ identity, history, and culture – as well as LGBTQ students themselves.
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Biden caught on hot mic calling Fox reporter ‘a stupid son of a bitch’ - CNNPolitics: President Joe Biden was heard calling a reporter from the Fox channel a “stupid son of a bitch” on a hot microphone following a White House event Monday afternoon. Well, I mean, if it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck and it goes to work every day with a whole bunch of other ducks.
Read moreNPR SEGUE SONGS
Carmella (Four Tet Remix) by Beth Orton on Apple Music I love it when I recognize NPR story segue music because it’s already in my collection. 🎵💿🤓
Read moreMORAL & INTELLECTUAL DECAY
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech - CNNPolitics: “Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany - including children like Anne Frank - in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay.” -The Auschwitz Memorial Fun fact: a group of unvaccinated idiots is called a Kennedy Junior.
Read moreLITERALLY CANCELING CULTURE
The Handmaid’s Tale: Award-winning books banned as culture wars enter the US classroom | World | The Times: Books that tackle issues such as race and sexual abuse are being banned as Republican-led school districts target award-winning novels in a right-wing version of “cancel culture”. They’ll come for your books before they ever come for your guns. 📚
Read moreIf angels walk among us, certainly Dolly Parton is one. Also, Jeni’s ice creams are the only ice creams served in heaven. Also, I want this ice cream.
Read moreapple.news Stop Using Safari Immediately (at Least for Now) - lifehacker Yikes. And no real replacement option for iOS.
Read moreI TAKE IT BACK. THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE WATCHED IN A LONG TIME.
Our Second Civil War | Opinion: The victory, and immediate action, of Glenn Youngkin as governor of Virginia are bringing hope to many. It feels like a groundswell of those who have seen how everything woke turns to, well, the stuff all over the streets of Democrat-led cities. The resurgence of the Right must be swift and merciless in releasing the stranglehold of the Left on our institutions. Unbelievable.
Read moreALEXA, WHY IS IT SO COLD IN HERE?
Amazon Echo - SNL - YouTube Seriously one of the funniest things I’ve watched in a long time.
Read moreCAUSE AND EFFECT?
Newsweek headline 1 (cause): Ron DeSantis pushes Florida bill to protect white people from “guilt” about racist past Newsweek headline 2 (effect): Black Authors Are Being Pulled From School Libraries Over CRT Fears 📚
Read moreWHO’S THE SNOWFLAKE NOW? ❄️ 🐘
Ron DeSantis Pushes Florida Bill to Protect White People From ‘Guilt’ About Racist Past: It also prohibits making people “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.” Prohibits making people feel discomfort? What is it, Immodium? A silver bullet? Better than a therapist? Nope. Just white privilege. Unbelievable.
Read moreA BASKET OF DEPLORABLES®
Analysis: A grave week for civil rights, democracy and a presidency - CNNPolitics: Taken together, the measures would allow all Americans the right to a mail-in vote, create Election Day as a national holiday, standardize voting rules and restore protections against racial discrimination in state voting laws stripped by the Supreme Court. Republicans brand the bills as a federal takeover of the election system and rebuff criticism of state voting laws, which are rooted in Trump’s lies the 2020 election was stolen.
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