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I hate you. Wordle 1,333 5/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I just shouted at my trumpy co-worker for the first time. In 8 years, I have been respectful of her opinion. Genuinely curious. Let's find common ground. "Oh, yeah, I can see how you feel that way." But the Jan 6 pardons ended a decade of civility for me.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

A powerful metaphor

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care: 1. I have just downloaded your app. 2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account! 3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2

Decided to turn on CNN for coverage of the fall of Assad, and once again, the network has become useless. First thing back from an ad break, anchor spends a full minute reading a 12-hour old tweet from Trump. Just…no. And yes, I’m now watching BBC News.

Pretty much bluesky right now is a question about how much i miss alice from queens...