šŸ«  Struggling with some focus issues this week as I work. Iā€™m doggedly hyper focused, but on the wrong priorities. I canā€™t get to the tasks I wanted to start and finish on Tuesday because I keep working on other stuff. Iā€™m supposed to have this eLearning course done this week and I donā€™t think itā€™s going to be physically possible unless I work on Saturday or Sunday.

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MATTHEW, WEā€™VE TALKED ABOUT READING THE COMMENTS BEFORE.

microblog://post?text= Our agency director is having a press conference with the governor today and her executive assistant sent an announcement about it. It had a link to the governorā€™s Facebook page, which I didnā€™t even want to click on because now it means I have to clear my cache and Iā€™ve got like 400 open tabs, but I did click on it and whatā€™s worseā€¦I read the comments. I still cannot believe how willfully and confidently ignorant the people of Ohio are.

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AND THATā€™S WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE

ā€œWhassa matter, Garfield? Cat gotcher tongue?ā€ I chuckled when I had that thought. It calmed me down from being angry at whatever IT pro did this while finally installing some light cable management at my desk and who didnā€™t leave a note. At least they set it aside and didnā€™t like, stomp on it some more. And they carefully placed this beautiful, broken paperweight right next to my semi-sacrilegious calendar which I LOVE hanging here at the downtown state owned office tower.

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Most People Are Good by Luke Bryan My god do I ever hate contemporary country music. šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®

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I think I might need more Garfields for my office desk downtown. And a better cord management system, ew.

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Hereā€™s a Betty Davis song all about booze and liquor and drinking and getting drunk and drinking more and also drinking. Great listening for your next happy hour or disco dance or fine dining experience. Not particularly recommended for playing at 12-step meetings, however.

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I went down some YouTube rabbit holes about a decade ago and stumbled onto this one-of-a-kind way-ahead-of-her-time artist named Betty Davis. I immediately realized this funkstress supreme was a underrated touchstone who opened up a helluva lotta doors for a helluva lotta women. She died in 2022.

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šŸ˜­ Iā€™m still upset that the episode of 30 Rock with Oprah Winfrey got yanked from all the streaming platforms and digital stores. I mean, I get it (although Iā€™ll never really get it since that first ā€œI get itā€ is about to be followed up with a ā€œbutā€ which means I donā€™t really get it), but it was so funny! I wish they couldā€™ve AI edited out the B-story and kept Oprah and Liz (and Pam).

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I mentioned PunkPost: Beautifully Handwritten Cards Mailed by Artists For You the other day. This is the PunkPost card I sent Michael for Valentineā€™s Day. Cool, huh? ā¤ļø

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A very un-Trumpy performance delivers for Trump at Supreme Court (Apple News) It was a spectacle that almost nobody would have predicted: Joe Bidenā€™s only nominee to the Supreme Court urging Trumpā€™s lawyer to be more assertive. šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

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Honestly my weight loss goal is to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the Kate Bush Fish People shirt that I got. Hereā€™s the logo/image. Isnā€™t that gorgeous?!

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There was a band called Frente! in the early mid 90s that you might remember. They were Australian and did an acoustic cover of a New Order song called Bizarre Love Triangle. Their original song Labor of Love got some radio play, too. But their second album, Shape, wasnā€™t particularly commercially successful or popular but it is such a good album. They were maturing in their writing and playing and it really deserved more recognition.

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Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung is one of my favorite 80s songs. Along with the original, thereā€™s an orchestral version and a re-recorded version on Apple Music and Iā€™m listening to all three this morning. šŸŽµ

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Because of course they did. I am SO ready for reasonable people to all light a torch, grab a pitchfork, and be done rolling over and taking it from the right wing once and for all. End the corruption. Eat the rich. Tax the churches. Abolish legalized slavery. Fix the goddamn environment. Care for the vulnerable. Hand out healthcare like itā€™s Halloween candy. Obliterate fascists. And lock him the fuck up.

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šŸŽ¹ Still audio-reading Resistance by Tori Amos. Still crying in nearly every chapter. She just finished reading The Beekeeper at the end of this chapter about her mother and visions and death and nothing but surely thereā€™s something and so I listened to the song and Iā€™m a wreck. An absolute wreck.

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šŸ« I hate to complain but I will. There are very few things I hate more than sour blueberries. Iā€™d take a paper cut over a sour blueberry. Iā€™d crawl through a bat-infested cave on my hands and knees over a sour blueberry. Rather than suffer another sour blueberry, Iā€™d watch a Kardashian on the television. Be a bit like A Clockwork Orange style for me, but Iā€™d do it!

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šŸŽ© If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to Why don’t you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz!

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Bleaugh. Gross. RIP, SNL. ā€œNikki Haley digs at Trump, takes Civil War question in SNL cameoā€

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I love Punkpost. They hand write & mail greeting cards. Price incl. 300 characters ($1.50 if exceeded), postage & envelope, plus fancy handwriting & doodles. Add-ons incl. a printed photo, confetti, & gift card. To make someoneā€™s day special and support an artist, check them out.

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My brother and I have talked for a few years about getting a matching tattoo. I decided to see what ChatGPTā€™s tattoo designer might come up with. I gotta sayā€¦I really like this! Iā€™d want a human artist to interpret it in their own style, but as a starting point I think this kinda nails it.

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Added my Prince symbol pin to my pinboard at work office. šŸ’œšŸ’œšŸ’œ

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Mommy, is this a critical race theory? Utah is the latest state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus and in government

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AUDIOBOOKS: DO BETTER.

Iā€™m audio-reading Tori Amosā€™s ā€œResistanceā€. Itā€™s incredible, and quite an informative lesson in politics. Iā€™m surprised by how much Iā€™ve learned. Throughout it, she recites songs as spoken word pieces, and let me tell you that woman can emote. She should seriously do like a mini-tour of only spoken word pieces and solo piano pieces. The Deconstruction Tour. I can see it nowā€¦ But using Apple Books to audio-read has been a lackluster, underwhelming, if not downright frustrating experience.

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I mean if the jackboot fitsā€¦

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Today I learned that being an Authoritarian Follower is, at least in part, a hard-wired genetic thing that impacts about 18-20 percent of us (and republicans take advantage of it all the time).

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