Some happy notes to end the day:
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are teaming up for a new @Spotify podcast called 'Renegades: Born in the USA' https://t.co/ySAATPhNLU
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 23, 2021
Clooney getting ready to bitch-slap Gym J into another profession.
George Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures are set to produce a new docuseries based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated story by @Jon_Wertheim, about a decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State Universityhttps://t.co/5R9OiR7b4N
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 23, 2021
There was a new sign over my office door when I got to work today. pic.twitter.com/E8kfByRYG6
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 23, 2021
How was your Monday?
If We Were All in Florida, and There was No Covid, How Would We Celebrate Betty’s Birthday?
Aziz, light!
Podium.
GregMulka
@Aziz, light!: ?
Just give me a second, I’ll figure it out.
JoyceH
One of the things I’ve learned recently that I find absurdly satisfying is that the fireplace in the Oval Office is a working fireplace, and that Biden uses it. Aaaaaah! An office with a fireplace!
craigie
Monday was fine, thanks. Though I am older now than I was on Sunday, which is kind of a bummer.
counterfactual
@GregMulka: [smugly superior at getting a reference that’s old enough I get it]
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Excellent! I received my first shot of the Moderna vaccine today at work which was a welcome surprise. Like I said on the “I Got the Shot!” thread, it’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. It seemed, beginning with older employees, that the pharmacy was vaccinating everyone who worked at the store, along with customers. I guess they needed to get rid of some doses that were going to expire?
TaMara (HFG)
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): That is excellent!
SiubhanDuinne
Doggos in the Oval just make my heart sing.
SiubhanDuinne
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Good on you, Goku!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Obama and Springsteen…. I should be all over it, but all I can think of is, ‘when would I listen to another freakin’ podcast.
Also:
done
Yutsano
Major looks awesome and majestic. Fuck his haters. I hope he gets a chance to bite ’em.
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Oh frabjous day! Calloo Callay!
CaseyL
I just love seeing the dogs in the Oval Office!
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Congrats! Glad to hear getting the shot has made you feel less anxious.
TaMara (HFG)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m still working my way through Obama’s audiobook (I’m bogged down by the wonky policy stuff and a shorter commute these days), but I think I’ll definitely dip into this podcast.
NotMax
Was? As days go, this is one of them.
Kristine
@Yutsano:
Pissing on their leg works, too.
Still can’t get over that jerk picking on that beautiful old dog.
TS (the original)
I would have been happy if facebook had left Australia never to return – could have taken Murdoch with them – no such luck, we still have both.
From the Washington Post. I read the whole article and have no idea if anyone lost or gained from whatever they decided.
TaMara (HFG)
Okay, time to put the ducks to bed…warm night, so I let them float around in their pool a little longer than usual in the winter.
NotMax
@TS (the original)
“A compromise reached wherein news pieces can be posted, so long as all vowels are stripped out.”
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Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@TaMara (HFG):
@SiubhanDuinne:
@Yutsano:
@CaseyL:
Thanks, guys!
The Dangerman
Nineteenth! That’s a thing right?
ETA: Missed it by that much
/maxwell smart
Comrade Colette
Monday? It was a gorgeous sunny spring day here in San Francisco, so I ditched the chilly, dark home office and went for a long walk and a pleasant catch-up phone call with an old friend. Lots of ornamental fruit trees are in unusually early bloom. It was unproductive for paid work but productive for mental health
ETA: Congrats, Goku! That’s terrific.
Auntie Anne
I got my 89 year-old father an appointment for his second shot. He gets it Saturday, and I get to stop being so anxious about him.
mrmoshpotato
It’s 39 degrees outside, and sloppy as hell in places. Shovel your sidewalk so it can drain when the snow starts to melt.
SiubhanDuinne
@craigie:
Another 2/22? Hope it was a happy day, notwithstanding the whole “being older” bit.
mrmoshpotato
Oh man. Mmmmmmmm
PhoenixRising
@craigie: getting older is only a bummer if you compare it to the alternatives.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Too bad, so sad.
BruceFromOhio
@mrmoshpotato:
Always follow the money.
PhoenixRising
Today I was able to link another jackal to a policy project I’m working on, with the likely impact of a second state getting a path to automatically enrolling the uninsured! Obamacare will really work if we can get everyone covered, and as a result of a longstanding connection from this site, it’s more likely now than last week. No one tell Cole he’s built a community that is fixing this country; it’ll give him angina.
Another Scott
@PhoenixRising: Woot! Excellent.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
@PhoenixRising: Wow! Such a great community here. It’s been a lifesaver for me in so many different ways.
TS (the original)
@NotMax:
That’s a good description of what I read. I’ll check out some oz information but given that RW politicians were involved I probably won’t understand their explanation either.
Poe Larity
Not happy after watching NHK special on covid crossing the blood-brain barrier and attacking neurons.
Effectively, those states fighting to reach herd immunity first will maximize their losses in cognitive abilities, so now we all have to live with them literally being impaired by more than ideology.
Brachiator
@mrmoshpotato:
What amazes me is that all these right wing captains of industry believed that they were safely in some bubble which allowed them to spew bullshit without consequences.
Of course some of these same fools believed that they had immunity from Covid-19 simply because the Great Orange Pimple said so.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
It was a beautiful day, and then a neighbor texted me about a covid shot clinic for 70 yo this year and over and I got an appointment and then got 2 friends signed up also, so I’m very excited. The first shot is on Wed 2/24 and the 2nd is March 17. Blessings!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Auntie Anne: that’s great!
JWR
@mrmoshpotato:
Oh good! After the insurrection, I was able to watch late night TV in relative peace, but now, just two weeks later, he’s back at it, hawking his shitty MyFascistPillow’s again. I maybe feel for his employees, (depends on their allegiances), but I hope both he and his company go down, and hard.
JoyceH
@SiubhanDuinne:
In that first picture, doesn’t it seem like Biden is subtly holding onto Major’s collar or on a short leash? I suspect Major doesn’t yet get ‘sit still and don’t run over and slurp the cameraman.’
Mai Naem mobile
I know this is all cosmetic but I love the dogs in the Oval Office. They just fit. I like that our POTUS wears a nice properly fitting suit. I am glad to not to be seeing Melania’s stupid armless coats and sweaters. I like that Joe and Jill get along and they occasionally(!) show some affection. And I freaking love it that I don’t have to see Twitter go crazy over something that Orange Dbag said. I watched a House Hunters episode tonight. I am not sure I watched a House Hunters during Orange Dbag’s time.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I know he’s getting the rescue package passed, but the patience of the cat wing of the party is starting to run thin. And we’re the ones who put him in there.
No pussy, no peace. 🐱
cckids
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Good for you!! I’m jealous; my store, union, and state don’t consider us “essential” enough to bump us up higher in the priority list. I’m 58, with minor co-morbidities, and have no clue when I’ll be eligible to get shot.
Some employees got the “use it or lose it” last doses by pure luck; sadly, now our store is out of vaccine and they have no idea how they’ll get a second dose. WA is not covering itself in glory here.
SFAW
@JWR:
I thought they used “foam” chunks, not down?
WaterGirl
When I did tech support for the University vet school, I LOVED that I would see dogs and cats and horses and cows every day through the normal course of my workday. It’s hard for me to describe how wonderful and grounding that was. Best job ever, I think.