Heather Lou

I'm a blue dot in a red state. I like dogs more than I like most people. I believe in science, kindness, truth, and love. I'm a lifelong student. No DMs
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[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

This entire thread is worth your 20 minutes! @masonsflower

[LINE IN THE STREET @LineintheStreet]

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LINE IN THE STREET - A Film About Gerrymandering
The Right to Vote

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Grandma thought it was just a sweet photo with Grandpa at Disneyland, until her entire family surprised her for her 70th birthday

[Allison Floyd @AllisonRFloyd]

BEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR.
BEAR.
BEAR.
BEAR.
BEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.

I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.

[Melissa @JustAMomNamedMM]

I’m so single that if I win an all-expenses paid trip for 2, I’m going twice.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

A new, more clearer video of the collision between a helicopter and a passenger plane in Washington, D.C, has been released.

Via: @visegrad24

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@MattWalshBlog Wouldn't that be comparable to our national debt?

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@DrPrepZilla @TrumpDailyPosts And circumcision is genital mutilation

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@Bubblebathgirl @NoLieWithBTC You must suffer from TDS

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@sjf995 @TorstenProchnow @charliekirk11 Or they are able to do their jobs from home. Working.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@TorstenProchnow @charliekirk11 And "pandering to the bureaucracy" is sending the people back to the office. These people have been working from home the past however long. And are obviously able to do their jobs from home.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@TorstenProchnow @charliekirk11 People appreciate working from home because it frees up their commute time, puts less wear and tear on their vehicles, allows lower transportation costs, prevents transmission of viruses, allows for easier or cheaper home meals, etc.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@TorstenProchnow @charliekirk11 There is nothing saying that they were not patronizing those businesses before now. They may have been going to eat at restaurants for the past 4 years because they were saving money on transportation costs.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@Rusty_Weiss @elonmusk You mean, like it was before affirmative action? Hahahahahahaha. There was a reason it was put in place, and it's because companies didn't hire on merit back then. They hired on race and sex or whatever else they prioritized. Sure as heck wasn't merit.

[DrByronHapner @DrByronHapner]

Hey @UHC. Completed a hysterectomy yesterday afternoon, discharged her home in the evening (saving @UHC and everyone some money). Discharge medications included 12 Vicodin. (retail cost $30). Vicodin DENIED pending prior authorization. Patient in pain all night. Way to go.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@Matt_Pinner @NusbaumVirginia My dad taught me to laugh at myself. He said that everyone else would laugh at me anyway. Life is too short to take oneself seriously.

[Letty Esquivel @LettyEsquivel12]

@JohnFugelsang Watergaetz.

[missmellie (Deb) 🌊 @IMmissmellie]

@LqLana

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@CryptoNGold @LadyDubh @odin06 @briantylercohen Which Christian values are you speaking of? Old or New testament? Dietary and clothing restrictions? Women obeying their husbands? Please, be more specific.
Surely, you aren't speaking of feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, welcoming immigrants, loving they neighbor, etc.

[Heather Lou @hthrlu]

@CryptoNGold @briantylercohen I don't think #fact means what you think it means lol