Yes, it took me a while to get semi-cultured.
Inspired by this: https://youtu.be/U9BStYV_wzY
My 40's: Do we still get hangovers?
My 50's: Not at all.
My 40's: Really? Cool! How'd we manage that?
My 50's: Well, if we drink too much my heart starts going like a Buddy Rich improv set, which also puts us at risk for a stroke.
My 40's: Fuck.
My 50's: What, you expected it to get better? Same thing goes for caffeine, by the way.
My 40's FUUUUUCK!
My 50's: Yeah.
My 40's: Also, who's Buddy Rich?
My 50's We've seen him. He drum battled Animal on the Muppet Show.
My 40's: Ooohhhh...
I see a lot of people on the bird app vowing to stay and fight. I get where they're coming from. We built a lot of communities over there. But the internet's primary virtue is that it can route around damage and remain intact. Route around Elmo and his peons. We gain nothing by wrestling a pig in its own mud puddle.
So this is what my girlfriend got me for my birthday: A pound of dice.
She knows me so well. I love her.
1. Elton John leaves Twitter citing "misinformation"
2. Elon Musk asks him what misinformation he means
3. Right-wing freak tells Musk Elton John's account was probably hijacked by his "marxist social media person"
4. Musk appears to agree with this
One might call this ironic - Jon Schwarz #RIPtwitter
"Person who cannot win party primary leaves party, bemoans partisanship"
—is not exactly news. We saw it with Joe Lieberman in 2006.
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Sci-fi and fantasy nerd with a potentially fatal addiction to politics. Library staffer, Whovian, Critter, and grumpy old man.