🎵 Now Playing: No Myth by Michael Penn from the album March on Music

None of us got any sleep last night. Seems Lucy has kennel cough. With her existing complications (diabetes, heart murmur), this could have disastrous results. ☹️

Well that can’t be good.

🎵 Now Playing: In the Meantime by Spacehog from the album Resident Alien on Music

The best definition of fascism I’ve ever heard: May 29, 2023

Watching a cute Muppet Show reboot focusing on The Electric Mayhem making an album. Billy Corgan just did a cameo. Tommy Lee cited them as inspiration. Lil Nas X said the only reason he wanted a gold grill was because of Dr. Teeth lol Animal is still my favorite band member, followed closely by Janice who is now vegan. “The Muppets Mayhem - S01 | E01 on TV Time”

My friend from high school is doing great things down in Cincinnati and just wrote a book! Steal the Street by Mark Mussman, PhD

Today is Lucy’s 13th birthday 🥳 I never really thought Snoopy looked like a Beagle until this moment when she was a little older than a pup. I thought to myself, “omg I know I’ve seen that pose in a Peanuts strip” and sure enough when I put them side by side, all I could see was 100% Beagle. So grateful for these 13 years. She’s just the best.

TENNESSEE SPEAKER APPOINTS CONSPIRACY THEORIST TO BRAINWASH AND LIE TO CHILDREN I MEAN, UM, DEVELOP STATE SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS

In a statement about her new position, Cardoza-Moore said, “[t]he materials we will be reviewing can only accomplish the mission of educating good American citizens if our Tennessee textbooks are devoid of left-aligned historic revisionism and the toxic material found in the antisemitic Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Social-Emotional Learning and Ethnic Studies.” Source Now, class, settle down. Go ahead and take your seats. Let’s get started.

Oh by the way, the State of Ohio’s Department of Administrative Services is changing the name of its Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. The new name removes the words “diversity” “equity” and “inclusion”. You know, the most important words. The words that explain what the office stands for. The words that some white people think are controversial. The new name is something like Opportunities or something or other. It’s forgettable, offensive, dismissive, and tone deaf.

🎵 Now Playing: River Deep - Mountain High by Tina Turner from the album Simply The Best on Music

😢 Tina Turner was supposed to outlive us all. I really connected to my dad through her music when I was a kid and we otherwise agreed on nothing. I’d play his Ike & Tina Turner records and listen on the big headphones with the thick spiral cord that tethered me to the stereo receiver. This one stings the way Prince did. Tina Turner was one helluva singer, survivor, and saint.

Well, fuck.

AMERICA, TEXAS, AND OHIO HOUSE BILL 51: A BLOODY BULLET IN THE HEART OF IT ALL

Today in America “…the average comes out to more than 100 Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another 200-plus are wounded by guns.…” Source: www.theatlantic.com/books/arc… Today in Texas Today “is the one-year anniversary of the Uvalde mass shooting. Nineteen fourth graders and two teachers at an elementary school were murdered.” Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/mass-shootings-cascading-impact?r=bx50p&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post Today in Ohio “State lawmakers are considering a bill… [that] would declare Ohio a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” to encourage police not to enforce federal gun control measures.

This is the view from the office break room where I work. Not my home office. The office office. The one downtown. In the tall building. Yup, that one.

🎵 Now Playing: The Na-Na Song by Sheryl Crow from the album Tuesday Night Music Club on Music

Sometimes I think centrist Dems threaten our existence more than conservatives. So much enabling. So much privilege. So much mediocrity. They don’t actively fight to hold us back but they certainly don’t actively fight to move us forward. They’re more like annoying gnats than politicians. Centrist Dems are plotting a save-McCarthy strategy for the debt fight - Politico.com

ChatGPT official iOS app is out App Store

🎵 Now Playing: Respect Yourself by The Staple Singers from the album Be Altitude: Respect Yourself on Music

Hm. That Pixelfed feed thing I thought I did didn’t exactly do what it was supposed to do. It pulled the text, but not the photo, and it’s not showing up in the micro.blog timeline. Will have to fuss with it later. It’s eyebrow and haircut day. 💇🏻‍♂️

It’s nice to wake up to Norah Jones. I wish I’d followed her discography more closely. Such a great voice and style. She has a murder ballad called “Miriam” on Little Broken Hearts and it’s probably my favorite of hers. Oh and her demo of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” is lovely too.

POST BY UNDAMNEDONE ON SUN, 21 MAY 2023

This is my favorite photo of my husband, and it will be my first portfolio entry. #happiness #laughing #lambchop #puppet #gayhusband #gayphoto #smile #gratitude #portfolio #casual #lgbtq #proud #GayPride

Just linked Pixelfed feed to micro.blog, but only the portfolio feed so you shouldn’t be too inundated with snaps from me. Gosh. I never thought I’d even consider having a photo portfolio. It’ll be a humble one as I’ve not had any formal training yet, and I’m only using an iPhone, but still. 😁📸📲

THIS MIGHT BE THE STUPIDEST THING I’VE EVER POSTED ON LINKEDIN

🏳️‍🌈 I just posted this on LinkedIn with a link to another article on book banning. LinkedIn is where my new boss follows me. And my prior director follows me. And the director of the agency that approves who gets hired for any role in the state and who is thick as thrives with the governor follows me. …I may not leave it up for very long. Hey, everyone. I keep seeing articles and hearing news about the unprecedented number of challenges to LGBTQ+ literature, the unprecedented number of anti-trans bills being signed into law, the whole “anti-woke” wave that allows for the free expression of bigotry, Christian supremacy, racism, and homo and transphobia, and I feel like I need to explain something.

📚 “Other people should not have the power to make decisions about what I read or what my children read. That is foundational to our democracy. And it’s dangerous to entrust others with that power.” - Tracy Strobel, Cuyahoga County Public Library CEO