Juli

If I follow you, no need to follow back. I don't tweet, I just love reading yours.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

Every time I get a new follower I'm startled. If I follow you, no need to follow me back. I don't tweet; I just enjoy reading yours! :)

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Rest in peace to Gene Shalit, a man whose Kermit the Frog interview went absolutely off the rails in 1984.

Nobody has interviewed a Muppet like this since.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@foster_revkim @YehudaJFriedman @AustinFranco123 @nypost Just pointing out, Kim, that YOU went after Yehuda, not the other way around. I'm assuming this situation doesn't actually involve you. You're getting very emotionally involved for someone who doesn't know either party.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@olivercampbell I am SO SORRY. Having just HAD surgery, and being in recovery right now, this is CLOSE TO MY HEART and my heart is ANGRYYYY. 🤬🤬 PLEASE tell us what happens! Let us know what you need! ❤️‍🔥

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@barrybutler9 @NHLBlackhawks @NHLNetwark @NHL And most of those ~2 million people were on my Metra train that morning. 😱🫣 Yes I speak hyperbole but it was standing room only (and wall-to-wall #blackhawks jerseys) from LIBERTYVILLE all the way into Union Station.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Tried to log into my bank this morning

Not a new bank. My bank. The one that has my money

First it wanted my password

Wrong

Tried the other one

Wrong

Reset it

"New password cannot match any of your last 24 passwords"

That is every password I have ever used

Created a new one that I will forget next week

Then it said "please verify you are human"

I am human

I have a mortgage

I paid $52.18 for bread, milk, and eggs last week

Only a human would do that

But the bank was not convinced

"Select all squares with traffic lights"

Nine squares

Three had traffic lights

One had the edge of a traffic light pole

Maybe two pixels of yellow paint

Stared at it for a full minute

Selected it

Wrong

"Select all squares with stairs"

Two squares had stairs

One had a ramp

Is a ramp stairs

A ramp is the opposite of stairs

I selected the two obvious ones

Wrong

It wanted the ramp

I am a CFO

I've fired people with more due process than this

But I cannot pass a test designed to keep bots out of my own checking account

"Click and hold until the image stops moving"

A jigsaw puzzle piece floated across the screen

Held it

"Verification failed"

Held it for thirteen seconds

My finger cramped

"Success"

Then a new screen

"Your account has been locked due to suspicious activity"

The suspicious activity was me

Trying to access my own account

Called customer service

The phone menu had ten options

None of them were "your website thinks I am a robot"

Thirty-seven minutes on hold

The same fourteen seconds of smooth jazz

Looping

Every ninety seconds a voice told me my call was important

It did not sound important

Finally a man answered

"Thank you for holding, my name is John"

That man's name was not John

We both knew it

I did not press the issue

John asked for my mother's maiden name, my first pet, and the street I grew up on

He unlocked the account in forty seconds

Forty seconds

The bank trusts John more than me

And John does not exist

Final tally

Nineteen minutes of captchas

Thirty-seven minutes of smooth jazz

One man who was not named John

To access money that is mine

At an institution that emails me every single day asking if I want a home equity line of credit

My wife walked in

She said "what are you doing"

I said "proving to a computer that I'm not a computer"

She said "are you winning"

I said "I just spent an hour deciding if a ramp is stairs"

She said "that sounds like something a computer would do"

She wasn't wrong

She usually isn't

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@ThoJuanita @lyndseyfifield Is she directly responsible for Trump? She's talking about her own experiences here. Why are you holding her responsible in some way for Trump's behavior?

Also, thus speaks a woman who has never had a relationship with a narcissist abuser. Take all the seats, please.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@sporttinggoods @lyndseyfifield This is about HER OWN EXPERIENCES. apples =/= oranges. If your local store cheats you out of $10K, will you be just as angry about Amazon cheating all their customers? Good grief.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@MustachedMarcel @lyndseyfifield No ... He's running for the power it will give him. You can't trust a narcissist to do anything for altruistic motives. It's always about what's in it for them. Look up the stats.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@Quilter6561 @lyndseyfifield Thus speaks someone who has obviously never known, much less been in a relationship with, a true and abusive narcissist. Until you have, please take ALL the seats.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@lance_corporate How about those of us for whom the script is flipped? Where the wife has to be the breadwinner, and our husbands are sending the "ok" texts? Your description isn't pointing at me - it's describing him. I get that we aren't the norm, but you're making some pretty big assumptions.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@RationalPurview

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@Benedicta_Bee Someone else posted, and they're correct -- it's Carolyn Rupp. She's actually the choreographer and teacher at Pineapple Studios in London. Her IG has all sorts of videos, and they're all just a JOY to watch. 😍
https://t.co/y6bKCsPDw0

[Masters Burner @ANGC_burner]

this fucking wrecked me

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@icecreamtzvt @TravisFrankW96 @wil_da_beast630 "they" are Christian nationalists who are using the Bible as justification for their antisemitism. You're giving them FAR more grace than they deserve. They aren't trying to make a cogent and logical argument -- they're trying to avoid the truth of His Jewishness.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@W0DEHOUSE @kangminlee @micah_erfan @grok It's not IN the Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting the ESTABLISHMENT of religion, or PROHIBITING the free exercise thereof" means that the State can't create an official religion, or stop people from worshiping. But "separation" was from a letter by Jefferson.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@billroach_ @JoelWebbon Thank you for this excellent and irenic response to a sadly non-irenic man. This earned you a follow. God bless you, brother.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@Mitch_Ulrich @FaytuksNetwork @GeoConfirmed @Support @x Please, please take this down and suspend this account. He's putting lives at risk.

[Justine Castellon @justcastellon]

There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion.

But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines.

They don’t.

Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft.

#WritingCommunity #writerslife

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@im_all_id Friend?? How about MOTHER. 😳😱 Oh gee thanks, Ma. So glad to know just how homely you think I am.

[Juli @ChicagoJuli]

@BenSasse Praise God for the hope we have in His Son. Thank you for this beautiful, heartbreaking message. "The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace." I'll be praying for you.