I will be coming back to that Micro.blog holler conversation a little later. Y'all gave me too much to look at and I don't want to skim (ؔꇵ ˻̠ ؔꇵ)

Holler if you're reading this on the MB timeline and you aren't one of the nine folks I'm following.

It was gonna be a one-off, now it's saved as a sheet in Ulysses to be whipped into the substantially sized piece of witty ridicule y'all have earned for yourselves, Apple Engineers… mislabeling the thumbs up icon in _Messages_is just that… f$&king… stupid.

Balance is moderation and moderation is a MFer.

We don't become an autocracy, Donnie… civil war breaks out.

Wonder if this asshole really thinks he could become President or if the fuckers that throw him all that money for gridlocking the Senate are now incentivizing him to lighten Biden's vote count some fifteen months from now.

Don't let the news rags fool you, democracy does not, in fact, die in darkness. Democracy dies a very slow death, in broad daylight, from a thousand paper cuts.

Could y'all just stop being surprised by voter turnout when our civil liberties are on the ballot? At this point, this politics-as-usual political punditry and reporting has me questioning y'all's faculties.

4FS, I highlighted the minority rule inflection point before the Dems even took the senate

In case you were aware of the photo carousel lock screen/wallpaper for your always-on-display-capable iPhone… and you weren't aware of the foregrounding portraiture.

Someone holler if Morning Joe ever decides to release show transcripts. I thought it might be fun as an exercise to edit one of their four hour blocks for correctness, providing a glimpse at what my viewing experience has been like over the last couple of years.

This Jaime Foxx thing, FFS. You can't just take an ambiguous context, paint it antisemitic, and expect me to be invested in your mission of cultivating civil tolerance. Tolerance is kind of a benefit-of-the-doubt imbued property. UR doin' it wrong.

Be better folks whose ancestors (or they themselves) speak a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic.

Side note: I will admit it wasn't ambiguous when you can nail down just who the f$&k I was addressing with "you" up thar.

Y'all still be laying down the good faith gotchas for all the bad faith arguments being made for the benefit of folks with whom you do not even enjoy a shared reality. Y'all don't get tired? On that hamster wheel? Y'all don't realize you go nowhere?

Y'all, strengthen the emotional investment I have in the only paper weight I've ever owned (for thirty some years… waiting for some situation to arise that calls for a paper weight), bring me the origin of this quote. Go!

I keep thinking of things to say, thinking I'm gonna post said thing, realizing what I'm thinking of saying is mostly noise pollution, and losing all interest in whatever TF it was I almost said. Almost feels like flailing. Human connection deficiencies are kinda fucked.

In case anyone is wondering why Ron DeSantis and Lindsey Graham keep saying such stupid shit.

I'm old enough to remember when there was an element of artistry to bullshitting. F$&k you, social media, for bifurcating our information ecosystem and freezing the console with that shit locked on easy mode.

Sooo… I can slide-to-type "quintuplet", without being entirely satisfied I even knew how it was spelled… but… I can't, for the f$&king life of me, type "shit". FFS

Side note: I've decided that periods and commas belong outside quotations. The MLA can suck it. ᕕ༼ ͠ຈ ĺ̯ ͠ຈ ༽┌∩┐

I was hunched over the coffee table, jotting down a note, when, peripherally humbuggered, I suddenly found myself easing, ever so slightly, my limiter restricting holdings-eligible amounts allowable for algorithmically targeted tolerance.

I was all whoa, there's someone outside … wait … nahh, that's just the light ΡĿࢭΝΚΟptically pouncing upon the trees blowing about in this sudden gust of win…ndd … oh … okay … okay, I get it … I get it, now, ◔̯◔ smart camera algorithm…

When you realize you could totally use one of those social-media-content-creator-subscription thingies to make bank by allowing folks to subscribe to your account for access to all your content… of your dog… … …for access to all your content of your dog. #FML

And, believe me, you, he won't let me hear the end of it.

Wait, try what in a small town? It really isn't all that clear, Aldean… I may be game ¯_(ツ)_/¯

𝔦𝔱'𝔰_𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔶 - 𝔦𝔱'𝔰_𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 = 𝔭𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢

Wait… just what the everloving f$&k is imperfect about the letter 'X', Elon? Symmetry alone qualifies this letter as perfection. I get the feeling this stupid f$&ker hasn't a soul to challenge his perspective and seed innovation… just an army of yes mirrors.

Way to f$&k up the last ounce of appeal held by Twitter, sorry… X, Elon.