@ess_trainor
@thelindsayellis
I have spent more hours riding with cops than I can calculate and this is exactly what most of it was like. It made for a very icy quiet ride when I mocked a lieutenant after he told me he had a good sense for when something was "off" about a car and that's why he ran the plates.
@ess_trainor
@thelindsayellis
I've also been on the flip side of that. My first ride along we got sent to two 5150s, a meth house cleanup, and a domestic violence call. That shift convinced me that doing that every day would break me.
@tough_schmidt_
If that's how he feels, I'd like to know when
@SenatorCarper
thinks impeachment or removal IS appropriate. What is the point of it existing if we can't even remove a president for inciting an insurrection?
4yo: Daddy what kind of fish is Dory?
Me: *looking at Google* She's a Royal Blue Tang. Her family is called a "clan."
Wife: Don't.
Me: Dory is part of the Blue Tang Clan.
Wife: Why are you -
Me: *whispers* BLUE TANG CLAN AIN'T NOTHIN TO FUCK WITH!
Wife:
@IChotiner
"I’ve been very disheartened to see public calls from California members for her to step down."
Yes, how terrible that Californians are dissatisfied with their Senator missing over 3/4 of Senate votes this year and hold up the legislative agenda they voted for overwhelmingly.
@drvolts
Joe Manchin doesn't actually want to enact policy - he wants to win elections and have photos making it look like he enacted policies. He wants to have signing ceremonies for bills that accomplish almost nothing.
@RottenInDenmark
@zacharystone457
Look, a tweet insisting that Brazilians do not talk about race and have no racial tensions should qualify for an episode of
@IfBooksPod
while also disqualifying the person from talking about race relations pretty much anywhere.
@KayFellowz
I'm a parent and short of a doctor telling me I can't vaccinate my child, I can't imagine being so irresponsible with someone's life for whom I'm responsible that I don't vaccinate them.
Rum and limes.
Rum and ginger.
Rum and coconut.
Rum and pineapples.
Rum and cola.
Rum and lemons.
Rum and tonic.
Rum and soda.
Rum and grapefruit.
Rum and coffee.
Rum and chocolate.
Rum and bananas.
Rum and guava.
Rum and mango.
Rum and water.
@drvolts
I'm honestly surprised he took a positive position on the John Lewis VRAA, but then I expect he'll eventually just say it also doesn't have bipartisan support, so what are you gonna do, just let people vote?
@danidonovan
I once tried to explain to my wife how hard it is to pay attention to a conversation sometimes - that there is an almost physical sensation of my brain being pulled sideways, often resulting in me not listening because I'm chanting, "Just listen to them"
@danidonovan
"Keep listening. Keep listening. KEEP. LISTENING! Shit, now I don't know what they're saying because I'm chanting 'keep listening.' That sounds like just keep swimming kinda. We haven't watched Finding Nemo in forever."
@RottenInDenmark
My wife recently listened to the Tipping Point episode, having been a huge Gladwell fan for forever, and was quite upset at how credulous she had been about it. I reminded her that I was too and everyone is susceptible to well-written, authoritative sounding prose now and then
@slack2thefuture
@GavinNewsom
@ericgarcetti
Let's spare some blame for
@LASDHQ
,
@OCSheriff
and other depts that all refused to enforce any restrictions at all. Newsom had other means at his disposal, but law enforcement not enforcing the law was a major hurdle - and I don't know what remedy there is
I've been burning through video essays on various movies for the past few weeks and it's triggered something in my brain. Strap in, cause I'm gonna talk about how
@mikeyface
's movie reviews are liberating to me.
I was watching Die Hard last night and had forgotten how much "the experts don't know what they're doing" was a big part of 80s movies. (cc
@RadioFreeTom
)
@Nerd4Cities
This is always such a weird retort to support of transit. "But what if I want to drive?"
Then drive, my dude. The goal is provide a different option.
@JennyENicholson
When we left the theater, the friend seated to my right said the best part of the entire movie was just me constantly gesturing as though to say, "What the everloving fuck?" in a way that "perfectly conveyed that [I] was being personally insulted by the movie"
My Twitter feed: JESUS CHRIST STAY IN YOUR HOME YOU FUCKING SAVAGES!
My Instagram feed: Let's go out and party to support our friends in the service industry! Just wash your hands lol yolo
@ebruenig
Liz Bruenig: I made this life choice and am happy with it.
Other People: Liz Bruenig is a fascist trying to enslave women.
This seems like standard operating procedure for
this site.
@WANbulance
@ebruenig
Best thing ever for us was the nurse hotline on our first night home when our daughter would not stop crying but wouldn't latch and the nurse on the phone said, "Look, those nurses at the hospital are great, but they're ridiculous about breast feeding. Go get some formula, Dad."
@JoeAuerbach
@thelindsayellis
Fat-shaming has been on my mind lately because my 4yo has become obsessed with Peppa Pig, who regularly mocks her father for being fat. Like, almost every episode.
Really hit home when my daughter said, "Daddy, you need to get fit so your tummy won't be so big."
Bliss/happiness/enjoyment is not a zero-sum game. There isn't a finite amount of it. Help create more of it. Drink what makes you happy, and share why you love it with others, and if they disagree, that's cool too.
"What really quenches my thirst is when I take an old can of clams, throw them in the trash, drain the juice from the trash bag, and mix it with ketchup."
- People who like clamato
@KT_So_It_Goes
That's what my 2yo's mask looked like yesterday because he had been eating crackers and, being 2, kept licking the inside of his mask when I put it on him.
I assume that will not make you feel any better and actually only create more questions than answers.
Leaving for Seattle in the morning and it's always hard on the 3yo and when I gave her a big hug and said, "I love you so much, Pumpkin," she responded "I love you so much and I'll always be your pumpkin" and now I have to tell my wife we're buying a pony.
@KT_So_It_Goes
My 5yo has been wearing masks for a year. They never look like this. Like, ever. Also we just send her to school with 2 masks in case she has a nosebleed or something .
@upzone_CA
The only reason this is incorrect is that having laws on the books that can be used against others is always ok. It's the enforcement of them against "me" that's the problem.
@mikeduncan
- you said that the Haitian Revolution really changed your perception of the American Revolution. Any chance you'd consider doing a Revolutions Redux to revisit the AR with that new perspective?
In being as authentically patriotic as possible, I will celebrate like the Founders by drinking 2 pints of overproof New England molasses rum, getting blackout drunk, and burning the property of people loyal to the current executive authorities.
@IDoTheThinking
Also almost any new multifamily housing or just denser housing in general is always relegated to being on highways pretending to be streets or next to literal freeways.
Maybe we could try building them where the nice SFHs normally go.
@JennyENicholson
The person 2 seats to my left stated very loudly about 5 minutes in, "I can't see him, but I know that Matt hates this more than anything ever right now"
@hankgreen
I have a friend that works at Google. I am constantly envious of him and have to remind myself that he got there by being incredibly smart, going and getting a Master's Degree, etc. and that I still get to swim in his pool and drink his beer so who cares?
@editingemily
Sitting at my desk one day, my boss is making a copy of a prod database to push to a test server. I hear "oops" come from his office. Then he closes his door. Then the phones start ringing. He did the copy the wrong direction and wiped out 20 years of police data.
I didn't watch the debate. I had a 1 year old pull himself up onto the couch using my balls as a hand hold and then proceed to pour milk all over me and the floor and frankly it looks like I made the right decision.
@d0ubletr0uble66
@edgarwright
Not a line read, but Stephen Tobolowsky's reaction in this shot - getting his head all the way around to look dead in the camera - is so perfect. It belongs in a museum.
@RadioFreeTom
Wait, if Hillary called Trump supporters deplorable, but he was gonna vote for her. Wait. Let me get out some paper and a pen to sort this out. So, he wasn't supporting Trump until Hillary said a mean thing about Trump supporters, which he "wasn't" but it was about him....
@SohrabAhmari
@JonahNRO
The internet is bad because it incessantly mocks a man who had the decency to try and settle a score with a stranger who said a mean thing by emailing his employer in what can only be construed as an attempt to get said stranger disciplined or fired in private!
12 years ago today, I got picked up at the Oakland Airport with
@alcademics
by the woman who would eventually become my wife. We, of course, ended up at
@ForbiddenIsland
and the evening gets pretty fuzzy from there.
@SimoneGiertz
@MrBanankartong
Hope you feel better. Also I think you should build some laser shooting robot and offer it to your doctors just to see how they react.
@ebruenig
We were doing this when my 2yo had gastro and they gave us anti-nausea meds for him, except I had to take the apple juice, then his stuffy had to have some, and THEN he'd take it.
@washingtonpost
It's interesting to get this very skeptical of Democrats opinion from someone at the *checks notes* Federalist Society. Yes. Hmm. Very serious. Much balance.
Anyway, my recent discovery of
@mikeyface
's channel has been a revelation. I don't always agree with his perspective, but he is always able to find the positive - the value - in everything he works on.
You know that feeling when you make yourself a Mai Tai & that first sip is so transcendentally good that you clap your hands & are pleased with yourself and then you slip into angry despair because you'll never invent anything as perfect as this, but then you just keep drinking?
It's very weird that someone stealing soap gets a ton of attention but there are no references anywhere on that Fox station's website about
@HomeDepot
having to pay out $72.5M in wages it stole from its employees.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but martinis with olives are grossly overrated and vastly inferior to the martini with the traditional lemon twist.
@ZenOfDesign
I remember finding out the original He-Man was on Netflix and sitting down to binge it for some nostalgia hit and I couldn't finish the first episode because it WAS SO GODDAMN BAD. I literally texted my mom to apologize for that being on the TV every afternoon when I was a kid.
If you're running a restaurant, support your staff in enforcing mask wearing. If I walked into your restaurant and took off my shirt and walked up to place an order, I guarantee you your staff would be ALL OVER me to put my shirt on. 1/x