People keep asking me if I’m thinking about retiring soon. I’m 53! Is this a GenX thing, like people have forgotten that people currently in their 50s exist?

Bullshit artists see how good LLMs are at generating bullshit, and assume everyone else's jobs can be replaced as easily.

Literally watched local police escort a school bus yesterday because this shit is so common

And that a lot of that work NEEDS to be quiet

#1 question has to be: Why should the American people trust a person who accepted a $50,000 bribe about ANYTHING????

I know of abductions that have happened today, too—that has not stopped at all

A little pressing, yes, since they could be in my neighborhood or yours abducting people right now, while at least we’re pretty sure Jonathan Ross is not

I hope he has a charlie horse just as he’s about to fall asleep and when he hobbles out of bed to try to stretch it out he stubs his toe which causes him to windmill his arms, knocking his bedside glass of water over onto his pillow

- as though those of us outside Mpls weren’t involved. We have not even *begun* to approach rent support here—we’re still trying to make sure families are fed.

Where I am in the burbs, things look pretty quiet from the outside, but there are people experiencing roiling terror beneath the quiet. I had a friend ask for donations for her Mpls neighborhood rent support -

They’re terrible employees, which… maybe not bad role models for this moment

No, I mean the cat having to pay rent. Sorry. Had a funny image in my head that wasn’t translating. Your cat probably doesn’t have a bank account. I guess I am a landlord to a couple of tenants who pay in random hairballs