@KYSecState @Women_Vote While recent decisions from your office have earned my respect, you’re getting awfully close to losing it with the name calling and childish polling for insults. Be the adult in the room.
@jeffvandermeer Me in the garden: “Look at you, you’re getting so big and showy!” to a shrub Or “Not today Zerg” to a weed. Or “The bees really love you, beautiful!” to a flower. Totally normal. ;)
@ElieNYC Yes, this. I had a former co-worker who legally immigrated from Cuba as a teen and she was terribly racist against anyone brown or black. She would tell people when she was introduced to them “I’m not Mexican” as part of her “nice to meet you.”
@jeffvandermeer I grow lettuce just for the country bunnies. They tend to ignore everything else when there’s lettuce around. Costs pennies for the seeds.
@matthaig1 What would you say to that young man, if you were given the chance? I was 17 in 1989 and so, so naive. I would love to have 5 minutes to give her some guidance. :)
@jeffvandermeer I stopped to watch a raccoon family leave the trash bins outside my workplace early one morning. The parents held a wire fence down so the babies could cross. I thought this was adorable, so laughed a little. The “teens” stared sullenly at me the whole time. I totally felt judged
@matthaig1 One of the best pieces of advice I’ve seen lately is to be kind to your future self. If you can do something today that makes your life easier tomorrow, try to do it today. I love that. Helps the procrastinator in me do better.
@propublica “Over the past two decades, officials have awarded seawall easements to more than 120 property owners, who have sometimes paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to bypass rules designed to protect the public shoreline” - name all 120 of the other property owners bypassing rules.
@BrianLehrer@EberleBruce One of the guests correctly pronounced Kamala then immediately “corrected” it to rhyme with Pamela, as if he wanted to make sure to mispronounce her name. Come on. At least call them out on stuff like this.