Patti Ringo

Structures, Organizations, People... I like to build stuff.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

@noalpha And so, my original statement is still true. Help with interpretation will not be available for small issues during an apocalypse. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

There are some of us who will not survive the apocalypse.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

@noalpha Well yes, but more than that, it was in the restroom stall. Apparently people have called the store from the stall thinking they were stuck inside. The apostrophe, in this case, is the very least of their problems. 😉

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Where else are you going to get your training for the coup? 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm so over these people. Including Congress. They all gotta go. One way or the other.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations. https://t.co/3OtllgCSWP

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

@TrueFactsStated I think it should be one of the "main characters". But we need to put together a cohesive story that doesn't sound like it's from the early 2000's first. If Trump has done anything positive, it's that he's engaged many more people in politics. We can't just speak to some anymore.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

There's going to be a lot of "buyer's remorse" in the coming years.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I hate what AI is doing to publishing. I hate what it's done to the job market. I hate how it's ruined the internet. It's wrecking students' education and making people question every piece of content. I miss the world before AI more than I miss the world before the pandemic.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

We know this and yet still cut down entire forests. Completely incomprehensible.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The cheapest and most sustainable carbon capture machine of them all. 🌳

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Didn't know I identified as Generation Jones. Cool. I've never been a traditional Boomer and I'm not fully GenX, so now I have a new name!

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

Dear younger generations,

You have to understand that late Generation Jones and early Gen X were basically raised in the great transitional period between “traditional America” and the modern hyperconnected world.

Our parents often both worked. Many of us were latchkey kids before that even had a name. We came home to empty houses, made our own snacks, rode our bikes until the streetlights came on, and learned independence very early because there often wasn’t another option.

And honestly? We loved a lot of it.

We learned risk assessment by doing stupid things and surviving them. We learned conflict resolution without an HR department. We learned mechanical skills because things actually broke and had to be fixed. We learned how to navigate the world without GPS, how to socialize without screens, and how to entertain ourselves without algorithms feeding us dopamine every 14 seconds.

Were there downsides? Absolutely. Some kids were neglected. Some carried trauma quietly. Some had far too much responsibility far too young.

But there is also a reason many of us became fiercely independent, adaptable adults who can function under pressure without melting down because nobody was hovering over us every second of the day.

And yes, the movies exaggerated it for entertainment. We were not all out fighting ghosts and hacking NORAD from our bedrooms. Most of us were just trying not to get caught jumping ramps on BMX bikes while somebody’s mom yelled from a porch three streets away.

It was chaos.
But it was our chaos.

Life was better before helicopter moms and cell phones. Trust me.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

I talk about this kind of thing all the time. What we have lost is, unfortunately, more than just the quality of an item.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

My dad handed me two clothespins. “This,” he said, “is the story of everything.”

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later.

In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow.

At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action.

Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last.

The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure.

What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable?

It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

The story in my palm is about more than laundry. It’s about the choices we make and the world they create.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

@CrazyVibes_1 Oh, parents cared where we were, who we were with and what we were actually doing. But without a cell phone to monitor us, they were operating on vibes too. It was glorious! I feel sad for these kids that don't have even a fraction of the freedom we had. We learned a lot.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

I've had enough of AI. And we're just starting. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Please.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Stop using AI for basic questions. Just Google things. Read an article. Use your dictionary. Touch grass. Open a book. Ask God. I don’t know but stop using AI for everything.

[Lorraine,MFC, my father shot Nazis🌻 🟧 @bealtaine01]

@Angry_Staffer

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026:

CBS: 0

CNN: 0

Fox News: 0

NPR: 0

PBS: 0

Politico: 0

Semafor: 0

Business Insider: 0

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

When historians in the next century attempt to study the present era, they won’t be able to access our internet. A quarter of all the sites that existed from 2013 to 2023 are gone. There are well-funded efforts to destroy the Internet Archive. All that knowledge will be lost.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Real story:

Judge was about to throw out the case bc Trump controls both parties.

Before it’s dismissed, Trump tells both parties to reach a “settlement.”

Settlement shields Trump from any future audit and creates a secret slush fund that can dole out money to anyone with no transparency.

Mind-boggling corruption.

@SpeakerJohnson - you may not know it, but your job is to conduct oversight of the admin. You can’t run away from this one.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Yup

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

My credit score dropped when I paid off my car and student loans. Credit agencies said I should get more loans to increase my credit score. The system punishes you for not owing them money. They want you to be in debt. Credit scoring is a scam.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Very clever!

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

Interesting.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your eyes use more of your brain than your other four senses combined. Around half the brain's processing space goes to vision alone. So after 7 hours of screens a day (current US adult average), turning off the bathroom light before a shower tells the biggest system in your brain to take a break. I looked into why, and three separate things are happening at once.

The light part: your bathroom is probably the brightest room you walk into at night. Researchers at Harvard and Brigham & Women's Hospital tested 116 people and found that regular indoor lighting in the evening suppressed melatonin (the hormone that makes you sleepy) in 99% of them. It also cut melatonin's active window by 90 minutes. A separate study found some people lose over half their melatonin at just 30 lux, which is dimmer than a reading lamp. Most bathrooms blow past that. Flipping the switch off removes the single biggest thing blocking your brain's wind-down at night.

The water part: researchers at UT Austin combined 13 experiments and found that a warm shower or bath (104 to 109°F) one to two hours before bed helps you fall asleep about 10 minutes faster. The reason is weirdly backward. Hot water pulls blood toward your hands and feet, which radiates heat out of your body, so your core temperature actually drops. Your body needs roughly a 1°F internal cool-down to kick off sleep. Penn State found that 4 weeks of daily warm baths also quieted the body's resting fight-or-flight activity by about 20%.

The sound part: your shower is making noise your brain responds to in a very specific way. When researchers pooled dozens of studies in 2021, water sounds produced the strongest calming effect of any natural sound tested, stronger than birdsong, wind, or mixed nature recordings. A lab experiment at the University of Zurich went further: they stressed people out, then played different sounds during recovery. Water sounds cleared the stress hormone cortisol from their systems faster than anything else tested.

Nobody has run a head-to-head trial of dark showers versus lit ones yet. But the three inputs, cutting light, adding warmth, and hearing running water, each have their own data behind them. The tweet oversimplifies, but the instinct is right. A dark warm shower before bed is one of the lowest-effort nervous system resets that exist, and it costs nothing.

[Patti Ringo @paringo]

@GOP How you guys sleep at night is pure mystery to me.

Karma has a long memory. And she's good at her job. We may not all get to see it, but I trust she will handle you all at some point.

Shame on you.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Marie-Thérèse is 86 years old.

Handcuffed. Wrists and ankles.

Sitting in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana with roughly 70 other detainees.

She has heart problems. She has a bad back.

Her children in France didn’t know where she was for a week.

Here’s why:

Sixty years ago she fell in love with an American soldier. They lost each other. They found each other again.
They got married. Billy was a retired U.S. Army colonel.

Billy died in January.

Marie-Thérèse had a green card application pending.

Then there was an inheritance dispute with Billy’s son.

Billy’s son reportedly called ICE.

DHS called her “an illegal alien from France.”

This is what we’re doing to the 86-year-old widow of an American veteran.

What exactly are we protecting?

#DemsUnited #Veterans