Being married to a public transit enthusiast means that, as soon as @Tim_Walz was chosen, I got a mini lesson on the Minneapolis rail system, and what Walz has done to expand and support multiple forms of public transit. We have never been to Minneapolis.
Literally nothing good about the @CityofDenver building permit department. Been waiting almost 8 months for permits for a reasonably small project, and trying to get anywhere is just shouting into the void.
Somehow I got on the email list for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I don’t know anything about birds. I want to unsubscribe, but I can’t handle the idea of these sweet bird researchers seeing their outreach number decline.
Never have I ever even a little bit wanted to go to Coachella. I’m so so glad there are people who derive joy from it but I will just never want to listen to music in the middle of the desert with 6 billion of my closest friends. The videos look like the tenth circle of hell.
I work for a for-profit hospital, so I’m ineligible for PSLF, despite doing THE SAME THING and serving the public just as much as friends who work for nonprofit hospitals.
Trying to become a runner in a city like Denver is so deeply embarrassing because I do my little 12 minute miles in the park, and inevitably there’s a guy lapping me around the lake, and another doing inverted push ups off of a bench with one arm.
The web designer for Goodreads appears to have coded the site in roughly 2005 then tapped out forever, refusing to update for either form or function, and there’s something admirable about that.
Maybe the best part of buying an electric car is that I never have to do that dumb oil change song and dance again. WHERE DO I GO. IT IS NOT INTUITIVE TO DRIVE UP TO A GARAGE AND ABANDON MY CAR.
Hey just because your patient you treated on a service trip in an impoverished country isn’t technically covered under HIPAA, you still shouldn’t post photos of their face on your instagram.
In our family group chat, my sister and I simultaneously sent our parents pictures of 1. Her 1 year old scooting around on a little bike and 2. My dog’s DNA test results. I like to think our parents were equally thrilled by both.
As the country reels from the deadliest mass shooting in 2023 in Lewiston, Maine, it’s important to note that Maine has some of the weakest gun laws in the Northeast, and that state lawmakers have actively rejected efforts to pass common-sense gun safety measures. 🧵