It’s a dreary day here and I’m sick over the upcoming election, but today we’re focusing on making our home as comfortable as possible for whatever comes our way. Today: Finishing up painting the foyer and hallway. What are you doing to make your home as comfortable as you can?
If Biden wins this election and Dems don’t immediately take steps to: Abolish the electoral college, make voter registration automatic at 18, and move to grant DC and Puerto Rico statehood, then we know this will happen again.
We can’t make people vote, but we certainly have to make it far easier to do so. How else? Extended voting times (one 18 hour period… what?!), mail-in ballots, restore voting rights for those convicted of crimes, a new holiday: Election Day.
Elections are important and we should want everyone to participate. The only ones who don’t want this are the ones who benefit from fewer people voting.
Apple Engineer Novall Khan feels spiritually related to AOC. Both super smart women trying to make the better world. I bet they do make it better, too.
🍿 We watched The Way I See It and, after being annoyed at how good of a photographer Pete Souza is, we enjoyed it.1 In not too long a time we’re going to see, literally see, a stark contrast from Barack Obama to the Orange Turd. Oh, I suppose I’m wrong now that I think about it. We’re literally not going to see the contrast because there will be essentially no photographic evidence to support Trump’s humanity while being president.
It was only me being jealous. ↩︎
📷 A northeast path from Prospect Park West into Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. 8:31pm.
Late evening walks make for a less crowded park which is, under the circumstances, a more appealing prospect. #adayinthelife
Not only am I still in disbelief American newspapers aren’t running banner headlines demanding the president resign, I can’t understand how the hell people are still showing up for work at the White House.
The president is sick with COVID-19 and does NOT give a shit about you. He will get you sick and you will get your family sick.
Trump got the nuclear football guy sick? Trump has gotten more military personnel sick than, I imagine, any terrorist could have hoped to do themselves.
📰 I can’t believe I didn’t know the Newseum app, Today’s Front Pages, existed. This is the kind of thing I’ve dreamed about. It’s available for Android too!
While two old white men argued last night… Greenland’s ice sheet got smaller and smaller.
“Folks, talk about whatever you like because I have no control over this.” -Wallace
I’m a bit embarrassed to say that all it took for me to forget about Instagram was moving the app to a folder on my second home screen. I haven’t opened it in days and forgot about it enough that Instagram sent an email saying “Your friends have new posts!”
$750.
I don’t agree often with Marco Arment but I completely agree there are too many scams in the App Store.
Maybe it’s time for an App Store within the App Store. That’s where the curated apps would completely checked by Apple. The others are there, just with fewer checks.
DeSantis is like the Florida of governors.
Thank Ted It’s Friday!
Nothing, on any level, will ever get better in the United States until the United States adopts a single-payer health care system. Everything revolves around that.
As I watch the West Coast burn, I am reminded of the show Newsroom and this scene about climate change. Now, sure, it was fiction.
The West Coast being on fire is not.
📰 Woodward had recordings since February and we’re only hearing about them now?!
New rule: Ted Lasso needs to be on 52 weeks a year. We’re in a pandemic and it’s incredibly important to see some optimism on a weekly basis.
I keep seeing headlines that read (I’m paraphrasing) Biden campaign brings in $300 million (Clinton brought in $150 million in same time frame)
The fact this kind of money is needed to win anything is depressing1 because I imagine there are many folks out there with fantastic, live-changing ideas will never be able to raise that kind of money.
It’s also hella gross. ↩︎