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To paraphrase a LinkedIn post I wrote, it’s tough to be a creative taking part in the group therapy session on LinkedIn. It’s lame that they think AI + whatever else negates the need human creatives, bc contemporary professional life needs it’s humanity and creativity more than ever.

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Having to spend any amount of time with J.D. Vance would make me want to die too.

Every time I read the news I want to scream. Like literally scream.

This is insane.

These folks lie about/are scared of everything, huh.

Reading the Atlantic piece about loneliness and feeling grateful. Without knowing the power of what I was doing, I spent decades building a life that prioritized a very active kind of friendship. I worried that my way was insecure. Pathetic even. In actuality, I was feeding my brain and my soul.

Lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo

I have started, stopped, and deleted about 20 posts today. The gist of the deletia: I do not know how to function in a world where the bad guys always win and people are increasingly morally bankrupt and intellectually empty.

Who among us hasn’t accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a secret group chat with major NatSec implications?

It’s pretty funny that the people who spent years shouting about the Deep State ended up voting for its creation.

Just made a bad pancake that was a pretty good pancake, all things considered. (First time vaguebooking on Micro.blog, what a day!)

A byproduct of America’s descent into authoritarianism is that Azealia Banks is once again tweeting banger after banger. This timeline sucks but at least we have that.

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“NPR’s analysis found that, of its verifiable work completed so far, DOGE has cut just $2 billion in spending — less than three hundredths of a percent of last fiscal year’s federal spending.” (NPR)

Amazon is 100% going wreck the James Bond franchise with underwhelming ten-episode seasons about Blofeld’s early years and Q coming to terms with being autistic.

Having enough money and power to make the world a better, safer, cleaner, fairer place and choosing not to is a crime against humanity.

Whoever first said or wrote “everything’s a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works” truly cooked.

I just spent 10 min on Twitter as per my immersion therapy practice. Wild that some people get up, yawn, stretch, do their breakfast routine, and then get on the internet and lie about everything for no reason except to oWn ThE LiBs. Do these folks not have hobbies? Friends? (Don’t answer that.)

I’m not American, but the idea of RFK in charge of HHS is insane crazy Driving Miss Daisy to me.

My therapist low-key suggested that I stop reading the news and I think she’s right. On the other hand, I don’t want the money I’m paying for the NYT and Apple News+ to go to waste. #sunkcostfallacy #iknowhashtagsdontworkhere

The CaNaDa ShOuLd BeCoMe ThE 51sT StAtE folks are just the biggest losers imaginable, huh.

People who know things about government computing systems are… worried. (The Atlantic)

I legit think about this Atlantic article every day.

Another consequence of Luka Doncic getting traded is that the most annoying people on LinkedIn are now going to write 1,000 tHoUgHt LeAdErShiP posts about how no employee is irreplaceable.

I assumed it was going to happen but I still can’t believe he’s blaming the plane crash on D.E.I.

I’m wondering if the When Harry Met Sally Super Bowl ad (Hellmann’s) will resonate. I like the nostalgia hit, but given the state of cultural literacy and the changed attitudes and politics in re: sex and sexuality I’m not sure it does enough, or much at all.

It’s wild how Move Fast And Break Things ends up breaking everything, huh.

In re: the current New York Magazine cover story and the attendant social media commentary, a friend said something trenchant and worth sharing: “A good reminder that, for most people, politics are just a personality.”

In case you were wondering why TikTok users are suddenly posting about “cute winter boots.” (via Taylor Lorenz’s User Mag)

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This is real. Dick Wolf is going to accidentally make NTSF:SD:SUV:: someday.

The personal is the political. What we do, say, eat, drink, read, watch, wear, buy; who we love, hate, accept, reject, associate with, fuck; where we live and work; if and what we drive — can and will be viewed through a political lens by others. It’s unfair and reductive, but it’s where we are.

It was a Nazi salute and he did it twice because he knows nothing can or will happen to him.

I will forget my mother’s name before I forget about Jaboukie’s all-timer on MLK day five years ago.

Conversation from my 🏀 Discord:

Him: Too bad the US tanking won’t get us a top draft pick.

Me: I mean, it will. But Russia owns your picks for a few years.

It’s lame that the Dodgers got Sasaki, but the way people seem to be upset about how the team with the most money has a huge advantage over the teams with less suggests they don’t know how America works. ⚾️

Everything feted as original in advertising has been done before and that’s okay. Ads don’t need to reinvent the game to be good or effective. There are only a handful of story archetypes and yet we still watch and read. Knowing the tropes of dystopian sci-fi doesn’t make me not want to watch Silo.

Somehow, losing Bob Uecker and David Lynch on the same day makes thematic sense. Both were true originals who coloured outside the lines and not only were they not punished for it, they were celebrated. There’s a lesson there, but I’m not sure it is applicable to our terrifying present.

RIP David Lynch. 🍿

Baseball just lost a real one. ⚾️

Reading the Atlantic piece about loneliness and feeling grateful. Without knowing the power of what I was doing, I spent decades building a life that prioritized a very active kind of friendship. I worried that my way was insecure. Pathetic even. In actuality, I was feeding my brain and my soul.

I stopped posting on Twitter forever ago but can’t seem to delete the app or my 50,000+ tweets bc of all the bangers I’ve liked/RTed over the years. I basically only it for dynasty basketball research reasons, but, while there, I check the temperature of the zeitgeist. (Spoiler: it’s bad.)

A relatively minor gripe considering everything else that’s going on but when did we decide as a culture that literacy didn’t matter?

The singer whose most famous track is about a cheater singing at the Trump inauguration is wayyy too on the nose. The writers are getting lazy. This show is probably about to get canceled if they’re doing stuff like this.

People with power/money stoke divisions between people with less/none to accrue more power/money. We’ve always known this. But why? Why do people with so much need more? It’s a sickness. They watch people struggle and suffer and fight and die and they laugh and count their gains. And they enjoy it.

Zuck bending the knee + slobbering all over the ring to satisfy the worst people alive is infuriating, yes, but it’s also (further) proof that he has no actual principles. I wonder what Meta employees think about working for a boy king who doesn’t seem to believe in anything.