Lucy, looking. 🐶

Sleepy Lucy Beagle needs her nails trimmed 🐕

BONE DRY

Eve - Over the Rhine The first Over the Rhine song I ever heard was Should from their album Eve. My high school friend, Keith, put it on a mixtape for me. Years later, I learned the song was written about someone HIV positive, which made it even more meaningful for me. 🎶

PRODUCTIVITY DYSMORPHIA & ME

How to Overcome Productivity Dysmorphia | LifeHacker.com Finally, you aren’t defined by your accomplishments. Your accomplishments should be defined by you. You are more than the deadlines you meet, the subscribers you rack up, or the money you earn. I needed to read that. A few years ago I was winning awards and scholarships and accolades for my accomplishments (you can read about them on LinkedIn 🤓). And then, well, nothing really.

IF YOU FALL, I WILL CATCH YOU, I’LL BE WAITING…

It’s about thyme that you met my husband ♥

CORRUPTION, MONEY, POWER, AND RUSSIA

January 24, 2022 - by Heather Cox Richardson: In 2004, Yanukovych began to work with U.S. political consultant Paul Manafort, who was known for managing unsavory characters, and in 2010, Yanukovych finally won the presidency on a platform of rejecting NATO. Immediately, Yanukovych turned Ukraine toward Russia. But in 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych from power in what is known as the Revolution of Dignity. He fled to Russia.

DIMINISHED POTENCY AGAINST OMICRON? SOUNDS LIKE A LIBERAL PLOT.

DeSantis slammed the FDA’s announcement in a statement Monday, saying the Biden administration “has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law.” Link Forcing medical professionals to choose between treating their patients and breaking the law? You mean like you guys do for women in Texas? You still don’t see the hypocrisy? The irony? The party of “we shouldn’t politicize mass shootings” who readily politicizes wearing masks and getting vaccinated and , I donno, science, now wants people to blame Biden for taking an ineffective drug off the market?

MORE CANCEL CULTURE FROM THE PARTY THAT BROUGHT YOU CANCEL CULTURE

Florida state GOP lawmakers advance bill prohibiting schools from ‘encouraging’ talk of sexual orientation and gender identity in some classrooms - CNNPolitics: HB 1557 is being strongly opposed by Democrats in the state and a number of LGBTQ advocacy groups, including the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that works on suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth. The group said last week that if passed, the bill would “ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, erasing LGBTQ identity, history, and culture – as well as LGBTQ students themselves.

QUACKERS

Biden caught on hot mic calling Fox reporter ‘a stupid son of a bitch’ - CNNPolitics: President Joe Biden was heard calling a reporter from the Fox channel a “stupid son of a bitch” on a hot microphone following a White House event Monday afternoon. Well, I mean, if it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck and it goes to work every day with a whole bunch of other ducks.

NPR SEGUE SONGS

Carmella (Four Tet Remix) by Beth Orton on Apple Music I love it when I recognize NPR story segue music because it’s already in my collection. 🎵💿🤓

MORAL & INTELLECTUAL DECAY

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech - CNNPolitics: “Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany - including children like Anne Frank - in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay.” -The Auschwitz Memorial Fun fact: a group of unvaccinated idiots is called a Kennedy Junior.

BOOM 💥

For Conservatives, When it Comes to Civility, The Mask Is Off | HuffPost null: Today’s conservatives don’t even know how to wear gloves or pearls, much less how to bother to clutch them. ✋🎤

LITERALLY CANCELING CULTURE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Award-winning books banned as culture wars enter the US classroom | World | The Times: Books that tackle issues such as race and sexual abuse are being banned as Republican-led school districts target award-winning novels in a right-wing version of “cancel culture”. They’ll come for your books before they ever come for your guns. 📚

If angels walk among us, certainly Dolly Parton is one. Also, Jeni’s ice creams are the only ice creams served in heaven. Also, I want this ice cream.

apple.news Stop Using Safari Immediately (at Least for Now) - lifehacker Yikes. And no real replacement option for iOS.

I TAKE IT BACK. THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE WATCHED IN A LONG TIME.

Our Second Civil War | Opinion: The victory, and immediate action, of Glenn Youngkin as governor of Virginia are bringing hope to many. It feels like a groundswell of those who have seen how everything woke turns to, well, the stuff all over the streets of Democrat-led cities. The resurgence of the Right must be swift and merciless in releasing the stranglehold of the Left on our institutions. Unbelievable.

ALEXA, WHY IS IT SO COLD IN HERE?

Amazon Echo - SNL - YouTube Seriously one of the funniest things I’ve watched in a long time.

CAUSE AND EFFECT?

Newsweek headline 1 (cause): Ron DeSantis pushes Florida bill to protect white people from “guilt” about racist past Newsweek headline 2 (effect): Black Authors Are Being Pulled From School Libraries Over CRT Fears 📚

WHO’S THE SNOWFLAKE NOW? ❄️ 🐘

Ron DeSantis Pushes Florida Bill to Protect White People From ‘Guilt’ About Racist Past: It also prohibits making people “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.” Prohibits making people feel discomfort? What is it, Immodium? A silver bullet? Better than a therapist? Nope. Just white privilege. Unbelievable.

A BASKET OF DEPLORABLES®

Analysis: A grave week for civil rights, democracy and a presidency - CNNPolitics: Taken together, the measures would allow all Americans the right to a mail-in vote, create Election Day as a national holiday, standardize voting rules and restore protections against racial discrimination in state voting laws stripped by the Supreme Court. Republicans brand the bills as a federal takeover of the election system and rebuff criticism of state voting laws, which are rooted in Trump’s lies the 2020 election was stolen.

SHORTCUTS FROM SIX COLORS

Sharing all my shortcuts – Six Colors A random smattering of Siri Shortcuts from Six Colors, most of which I have no idea what they do but am hoping to learn some things by looking at them.

¿WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Why celebration of MLK Day without legislation defangs the civil rights leader’s legacy - CNNPolitics: (Notably, Manchin and Sinema’s intransigence calls to mind Martin Luther King Jr.’s withering observation that “the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens' Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.") Almost every year on this day I post my favorite TEDx talk somewhere on social media.

“A group of millennials is called a debt” -Rena Hundert (@RENAHUNDERT) 😂🤣☠️

BY ANY RATIONAL MEASURE

Top Ohio court strikes down state’s gerrymandered congressional map - POLITICO: “When the dealer stacks the deck in advance, the house usually wins. That perhaps explains how a party that generally musters no more than 55 percent of the statewide popular vote is positioned to reliably win anywhere from 75 percent to 80 percent of the seats in the Ohio congressional delegation,” state Supreme Court Justice Michael Donnelly wrote in the court’s majority opinion.

EIGHT YEARS OR LONGER

Most people with alcohol and drug addiction survive : NPR It typically takes eight years or longer to achieve long-term remission even with high quality treatment and medical care.