I’ve been off this hellsite for a while and don’t miss anything EXCEPT the cool people I met. Join 🔵🌅. I have invites.

Welp, that’s me gone. I’ll miss interacting with all the genuinely cool people I’ve met on this platform. You can find me on Bluesky at “Elon Musk Welcomes Child Sex Abuse Imagery Poster Back to Twitter”

You never notice power lines until you’re in the middle of a severe thunderstorm warning and then all of a sudden you hear yourself saying things like “I don’t like how clumped together those wires are” and “the pole is listing a bit.”.

I’m delighted to share that not only do I get to give the keynote presentation at a conference tomorrow, but I get to give it remotely to a big room whose A/V technology will turn me into a giant disembodied head - AND, right on cue, I have a positively Vesuvian zit. Baxter FTW.

Day 2 of pinched nerve in my back. White hot pain. Any movement excruciating. Meanwhile, Calm app has entered the chat:

RT @sesamestreet: The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX

Okay smart plant people - what is this? Squash? Melon? It just showed up in our garden.

GOOOOOOOOOOAL.

Cocktails, sushi, and FIFA Women’s World Cup. Hell yes. #WatchWomensSports.

Yes, that’s a gold Apatosaurus tattoo because preschool is Gucci now.

No matter how the rest of the day goes, I can say I got to see @BDHerzinger and you didn’t.

The truth of this takes my breath away. I need this on a plaque in my office.

One of those days I’m grateful to have been lifting for a while - to be strong enough to take the big shears and do great violence to 10ft long hell-vines choking my beloved holly tree. Enjoy your slow desiccation in the sun, losers.

.@mcpnews An enormous thank you to Sergeant Hahn who showed so much kindness to our kiddo, spending time showing him the police car and talking about being a cop. Sergeant Hahn blew Wee Man’s mind and put a smile on his face that will last a month. Love our community.

I thrive on routine. For example, the routine of putting hand cream on before needing chap stick, then using my shirt sleeves to open the chap stick until the cap flies across the room and rolls under a dresser. Routine calms and frees me.

Happy Day, my fellow NBs! If I may quote ee cummings:. “To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”.

Uh. How did they know this is my dream come true. …BRB.

“I will wake up early to make time to lift again! I will get stronger gradually but progressively!” = SMART. “I will crank leg day up to 11 from a few squats and lunges to three aggressive reps of 12 Bulgarian split squats!” = DUMB.

“Mommy! I got dinosaur tattoos! Want one!”. *forgets about all the meetings she has the next day, some of which require a solid first impression* . “YOU BET!”. *time passes*. “…oh no.”

Me, 20 years ago, imagining working in DoD: “It’s going to be so intense and I’m going to be so serious and fearsome and attack problems ruthlessly.”. Me, 20 years later, waiting in a vast E-ring suite for a meeting to start, sees colleague: “yo YO! What’s good!”. 🤷.