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I found this American flag under the picnic table in my yard. It is little, and broken. But still good. I am going to reclaim it. It is not a symbol of the right, or the left. It is my Ohana, my family, and I want it back.

My spouse and mother of my kids just said: “Mother’s day is like The Purge”. For 24 hours I get to do whatever I want. And also you must do what I say.” Not sure how she knows about the Purge. But okay. I’ll let you know if I survive. ;)

It's against their morels

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

60 Minutes, already at war with CBS corporate over its efforts to settle Trump's bullshit lawsuit, just did a piece on the Equity Arc school musicians barred from playing with the Marine Band because of Trump's anti-DEI nonsense and paid to fly the students to DC to perform with retired Marines.

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

CVS so weird yes. Since I am not a famous YouTuber I am going to give this one away for free: Film a session where you shop CVS or Walgreens and make the fanciest gourmet meal you can muster out of sad lunch meat and other random “food items”. I’m looking at you @ryantrahan.bsky.social

Someone told me once that I am prone to “Whistling Past the Graveyard”, but I prefer to call it “Ignoring blatant problems that will definitely come back and kill me.”

I just had my first Very Serious conversation here on Blue Sky so expect some silly BS to flush out the vibes.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Still Watching? Yes | No

I was screen sharing in a big meeting today and the topic of Harvey Balls came up. (those are the round indicators used to visually show progress, like a pie chart) Damn did I do that google search carefully. 😆 If you are going to go search now, do it right: “Harvey Balls Status Indicator” 👍

Breaking News: Is Every Headline a Question Now?

but what did Sam the Eagle think of Kendrick Lamar's performance

I grew a pineapple! Just ‘sayin.

I was looking at $8 eggs today and it hit me, it’s actually not an egg shortage, it’s a chicken shortage.

Take your finger off the stove. Weird stuff is triggering us every 15 minutes. Once you feel that pain, stop. You have the signal. Move to unfettered, limitless expert scheming. Find unusual solutions preserving the good that counters the bad. @mayaonstage.bsky.social Need your help! PassItOn.

NOT a good week to watch Gladiator II for the first time. Or maybe the best week. I can’t decide.

Gulf of Deez Nuts.

I dare you to use “Feckless in a sentence right now. “No, you’re feckless!” Doesn’t count.

So begins the second unlikely term of Dolores Umbridge.

I was checking all my recurring subscriptions today and got really annoyed until I realized being alive and breathing on earth is basically a monthly subscription anyway.

Let’s play ‘Opening Acts’. Bands that belong together. -Anthrax & The Cure -BananaRama & The Monkeys -10,000 Maniacs & Crowded House -Men Without Hats & The Seagulls You get the picture. Carry On.

-Men Without Hats & The Seagulls Come on folks, I know you can do this.

I am just now realizing that Frosty the Snowman is basically the exact same plot as Frozen 2.

I just accidentally typed "Thinksgiving" instead of "Thanksgiving" in a text, and now I'm sitting here thinking that a national day of stopping and giving some actual thought to things isn't the worst idea.

Now is the time of year where our family enjoys some of our most time-time honored traditions, such as: "Is the tree straight NOW, dammit!?!"

"I've always wondered what your greatest fear would be. Now I've seen it. It's not that no one will hear you. It's that they'll hear you and just won't care." - Dune Prophecy S1E2 - Could be useful in combating untruthful conversations.

I think that going on a walk and doing all that sniffing would be like infinite scrolling for a dog.

I have successfully negotiated a “honey-did” list to document all the household repairs I have done before they were requested.

We're in a new super-sophisticated age of the Mechanical Turk. Except there's not one in the cabinet secretly playing chess. It's all of us with our prior thoughts informing future answers. The leap from specific prediction to generalized application of that "knowledge" will be longer and costly.

@mayaonstage.bsky.social Here's a good one “The spread of misinformation is one of the key challenges for contemporary societies" Turns out it doesn't take effort to avoid misinformation if you have been taught how to think. This is why educating kids is critical. www.psypost.org/high-fluid-i...

Every time I misspell something on a google, I immediately redo the search so it doesn’t think I’m an idiot.

Just Testing Ignore This Holy Crap I’m Going To Go Blow Up A Reply Chain Now

Stop talking about the difference between theory and practice. You’re not going to be the first person to step off a cliff and fall UP, so that theory of gravity does not need to be tested time after time. A real theory will hold up, otherwise it’s a hypothesis you are talking about.

Me.