Verizon’s customer service is straight trash.

But I also know that I’m not the only person to be stuck on a phone for an hour-plus only to be hung up on by customer service or whoever is on the end of that dispatch line.

I don’t even think he was in my top 5 primary candidates (definitely not top 3), but I’m very glad to have someone who: 1) is experienced; 2) has sense enough to bring in smart, qualified people; 3) is fundamentally decent.

I saw this break on Twitter. There were so many people tweeting at her, volunteering to be her “found family” since her family of origin isn’t supportive. I thought it was so nice.

Yep. Mitch only started denouncing the violence when corporate donors started pulling out. He can’t function without them, and he only makes decisions based on political power. 

My favorite part was learning that the lawyer tried to get her to take off her “Daddy” hat and she refused.

The One Day at a Time reboot (RIP) talked about this too. The family is Cuban and has conservative relatives. Penelope asked one of them if she really thought a mass shooter who wanted to kill Mexicans would make a distinction between Cubans and Mexicans if he heard her speaking Spanish in public, or if Trump was…

That was the rule in my house too, and it was really the rule in my grandparents’ homes because they came up in the Depression in families with at least five kids, so they ate what was put in front of them or they did not eat, because there was nothing else TO eat. My parents accommodated food allergies (my brother is…

Thank you. I, too, hope for a better 2021 - 2020 was brutal and I experienced a lot of loss that I am currently grieving. I hope 2021 is healthy and joyful for you too.

It’s just been the culmination of selfishness that’s just been allowed to thrive as badly as it does.

I don’t understand why the messaging from Dems isn’t “we want to give you a lot more money and they don’t want to give you anything.” It doesn’t make sense to me for any Dem to act like this is an amount that makes an any kind of difference to folks who are living on the edge.

I saw a Twitter thread posted here this week (I think; time is weird now) that laid that out. Not to mention that a lot of the House and Senate are many-times-over millionaires who don’t actually live on their salaries. Nancy Pelosi’s husband is a venture capitalist.

A friend gave me a Ride the Maverick shirt and it’s one of my favorite possessions. I LOVE Maxine Shaw.

I miss movie theaters so much. Big IMAX theaters, small indie theaters that sell scones, tea, and Italian sodas ... I just love going to the movies. I totally agree that the audience is part of what makes the experience - I’ve seen terrible movies that were made better by the audience just saying “fuck it” and…

I have an acquaintance who is a geriatrician and she says this all the time. The elderly don’t have to worry about getting pregnant, so they tend to use condoms less often.

My brother had one of those - it was with HR and the hiring manager, and the hiring manager slipped and said “The person we’re hiring ...” My brother was like “Excuse me?” and meanwhile, HR is glaring at the hiring manager. My brother was like “There’s clearly no point in continuing, so have a nice day,” took his…

There’s a clip I saw where Jada’s mother does go at her. She looks Olivia dead in the face and basically says that in 2020, with the pandemic and everything else that has brought out how big an equality and equity gap there is in this country, she feels like “Child, please” (I’m paraphrasing but the “Child, please” is…

Ditto. There was a lot of “Whoo, okay, pause” from me when I listened to it.

When I read it was a chemistry class I was like “... How?” because I couldn’t figure out what the murder had to do with chemistry. The teacher just went out of the way to be shitty. Ugh.

Oh, I don’t have a stationary bike - I have a road bike that I ride outdoors (that I do love). I’m thinking about getting a trainer to attach to my bike to make it stationary for the winter, but they’re pricey and I haven’t taken the plunge.