There were ads running this morning about all those jobs personally created by the orange shitgibbon and “the Great American Comeback.” What saved me from losing my breakfast was that I couldn’t hear properly thanks to the helicopters overhead for another day of protests. 111k dead (so far), police attacking citizens,…

I’m not a sports person, but I like this man’s ideas and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

Krispy, I know I and a lot of other people have said it repeatedly, but your posts are one of the highlights of my week. Kindness and kitties goes a long way in helping me face our scary world. Thank you.

(not) Funny story: back in February, the CDC released ICD-10-CM coding guidelines for COVID-19. Recently, a coworker doggedly structured his table to grab that combo of codes. He got about 3 hits. I googled “ICD-10, Coronavirus” which produced 3 other distinct codes (vs the CDC’s 1 of these 3 J-codes and one of 2…

As someone actually working with data analysts on “the data,” (if only for a regional health system, not the nation), I can tell you that just scraping together data is a serious problem, which, in part is due to criminally insufficient testing. I can also tell you on the regional level here, the data says we are f*cke…

Just finished watching this. It’s... yeah, it was trying so hard for something akin to Penny Dreadful, yet couldn’t let it’s freak flag fly enough to make the spooky stuff “real” or even internally consistent. Very little to do with actual history or historical figures, which would be fine so long as the story’s good,…

Thank you, Krispy. Your kind serving of kitty love is much-needed. I’m crushed with work. I do data analytics for a regional health system. It’s been rough, but my cat is doing her best to lend a paw.

Thank you, Krispy, for all that you do!

Introduce him to Russell’s teapot.

Mine’s a rabbit and he’s been doing yeoman’s work..

From the article you linked to, emphasis mine:

Forgive me. Not “booting” but rather merely allowing the pandemic team to rage-quit over his anti-science abhorrentness and/or the abhorrentness of his delightful, ever-rotating cabinet, and then not bothering to replace them in two years because why would a pandemic team be any sort of priority, even when there’s…

Every which way we turn, it’s like the orange baboon was magically managing to do the exact thing that would further f*ck us in this exact situation, starting with booting the CDC’s pandemic team and ending with pointless tariffs on China.

Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”.

Thanks for this insight. Panic buying is only really starting here and it is good to get a peek at what things will look like past the initial surge.

Ouch! That sounds rough. I hope one of the other groups worked out for you! I’ve not had great luck.

I joined as an act of desperation in my 20s when my friends were new parents and had no time to socialize. I was lonely and looking for fellow nerds. It was a massive mistake. I didn’t even make it through the welcome packet. High-flying parliamentary procedure, a billion ads for things like car rentals (???), and, as…

Though Byron probably counted as some sort of plague, not quite. They were hiding out from a combination of climate abnormalities (“The year without a summer”), scandalous rumors re: Byron separating from his wife and possibly getting it on with his half-sister, and the sort of “boredom” to which only the stupidly…

What the reviewer failed to mention is that those jokes are meant to be terrible. They are delivered by a painfully insecure hollywood wannabe. The other characters are wincing, rolling their eyes, or hurrying away from him as he says these things. Despite his terrible personality, and increasingly improbable claims…

Bruuuuuce! Showing us what’s important. “This is my belleh. And this is my bed.” Good cat.