Sitting in my office on a Friday afternoon pondering the utter fucking audacity of my company's branding team, which bloviates its way through how awesome their work is for multiple Branding Guide screens and then provides the color reference info on a non-searchable image that scales to, and I wish to fuck I was making this up, four-point type for the tertiary-color hex codes. Amazing.

A giant passes. May his memory be for a blessing. https://apnews.com/article/holocaust-nuremberg-nazis-jews-prosecution-e0a187c3d5e33dfef8d0b38cca9a579f

We 🩷 you, Wisconsin -- be proud of yourselves tonight. Well done.

There is a hobo sign involving three dots that means "a good woman lives here," and it makes a wonderful tattoo. This, however, is the most wonderful three-dot tattoo I've ever heard of. You must read this.

https://vogue.ph/magazine/apo-whang-od/

Baby jade plants are the real inspiration for Little Shop of Horrors' Audrey II and nothing you can say will change my mind.

Your reminder that the GOP and Christian nationalist truly hate women. Everything about women and girls, they hate. They hate women so much they are angry when men dress like them, yes, but also they just genuinely hate women and want them mute or dead.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-a-1935-tragedy-a-priest-vowed-to-teach-kids-about-menstruation/

(And yes, it was not perfect. That's why they test these things. It's still one heck of an advance.)

Love spaceflight but finding it less fun than previously to watch launches from That One Company That That One Idiot Used To Own? Watch the replay of the Good Luck Have Fun launch tonight -- first successful 3D-printed launch, hello! -- and just enjoy the fun. Congratulations Relativity Space!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RDiAdeFPcE

Could someone toss me a link to a good explainer as to why bailing out uninsured depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, which *actively* campaigned for lessened banking protections (eg., kneecapping Dodd-Frank), doesn't constitute moral hazard? No really, I'll wait...

ACAB -- ACAB, ACAB, ACAB. Jesus. 🤬

As the assailant continued to threaten the child and her family in Umatilla, the girl's mother gathered evidence and got hold of federal authorities.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oregon-police-didnt-take-sexual-assault-seriously-so-childs-mom-googled-the-fbi/

CMV: Paula Cole's "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" is the 90s-white-girl version of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car"

cc: WFUV, which just reminded me one of those songs existsq

Goddammit. Manchin is a useless shit-for-brains and I hope someone torpedoes something of his real soon now. Sohn would have been iconic in this role and this withdrawal is a loss for the good guys, for real.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/politics/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-nomination/index.html

Dear Everyone Currently Exercised Re The Return Of Daylight Savings Time: Sorry for your one-hour loss, but I live in a part of the country where DST is necessary to civilized life. Very excited we're almost back to it and wish we could keep it -- NOT Standard Time -- year-round. #EndStandardTime