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Happy 99th, Vasily Arkipov! You're STILL being credited for saving the planet!

So thank you (and others like you, every day since) for maintaining your wisdom, perspective, & authority when everyone else is advocating actions you believe are wrong.

#patienceisavirtue

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Bet: the next big storm forecast to make landfall anywhere from Biloxi to Fort Myers will result in a tweet saying "Mexico ruined the gulf through years of mismanagement, so we're giving it back."

#renamethesharpiegate

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The quandary of being a speech writer for DJT:

Q: "Do we have to put it up exactly like that??? This makes him sound like a tool. It's so ... petty."

"Doesn't matter - you know he likes it. Just type it in."

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

When someone tells you "I gotta be me," they're attempting to justify behavior they know will negatively impact you.

The cost to them could be losing you. They might recognize that, hence the justification.

Or, they might not recognize it.

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OK, fine, I admit it: we have something in common.

#myscotusbro

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Re: Pacific Palisades wildfire coverage, Megyn Kelly had homophobic fearmongering coming out of her whatever.

#dountoothers

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Thomas Homan, 2019: "I'm a taxpayer, you work for me."

Other officers ...

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

"The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations."
("Silverado," 1985)

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

I've made a bed under the radiator cooling shroud of our huge diesel emergency generator ... it's a quiet place (as long as we don't lose power and it kicks on!) and no one will enter the room overnight and disturb me.
(​Picture is from a week or two ago.)

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So I'm saving about 3 hours of commuting, $7-8 of gas, and, happily, it should be over 55° and sunny when I ride home tomorrow afternoon!

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(It's 50 miles one way, so even if I left an hour before the shift ended, I would have less than 5 hours of sleep before needing to return ... in the car, because there's a heavy rain forecast for the morning.)

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

It's Sunday night, Dec 29th, and I'm closing in on the end of 2024 in a slightly unusual way: for only the second time in the 2+ years I've worked at this medical facility in Brooklyn, I'm staying here during a short-swing instead of traveling home for the night.

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https://t.co/0T7lFr31zk

Excruciating. In fact, I couldn't watch all the way through ... as per Monty Python, "Skip a bit, brother."

And, oh yeah, like everyone else wants to: why?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

No way
https://t.co/tsH9qBUplL

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

Scratch that:

Endeavor to fill available time on his schedule (in between his marathon tweetfests, obviously) with insignificant tripe such as renaming mountains, thereby limiting the damage he'll cause to our international standing, economy, and morale.

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

Will GMC rename their popular truck line "The McKinley"? Enquiring minds want to ...

... throw up at his staggering pettiness.

Please please please - SOMEONE - get him to focus on more important things.

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

It's Christmas Eve Day, and 100's of millions are thinking of peace & harmony.

Meanwhile, my future president is gaming out how best to start testing the waters in speeches about renaming Greenland something analogous to Sudetenland.

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

Dude, YOU'RE on his list.

#sotheydid
#happynow?

[bjshredder @bjshredder]

Very cool, Mike!

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:-)