Then how do you explain the Sasquatch Jubilee?

I’d actually advise a low tech solution here. You can buy paper agendas designed for exactly this sort of thing, and we used one for my daughter.

There’s some benefits:

• it’s always where you need it, because it’ll always live beside the changing pad/table
• if there’s a “guest diaper changer”, they can use it
• if you’re tracking a late night feeding or change, you can scribble in the data without getting blasted by your phone backlight
• it’s a physical memento from that time you can flip through later

The cons include needing to look somewhere else for the time, which means checking your phone or a wall clock since that paper ain’t gonna tell you.

If you do go the app route, look into the accessibility settings on your phone to help with glaring backlight. On iOS, you can map the Siri button to apply a different black point, which basically toggles to a much darker backlight than you’d normally get.

Now, whenever I’m lurking around the kid while she’s sleeping, I just triple-tap that button and it dims my backlight to something that won’t disturb her.

Ugh, there’s an ugly tulip growing in your dandelion patch!

DD-MMM-YYYY

Ambiguity be damned.

Yeah, great, it’s the “one more lane” mentality only now it’s being applied to fucking drive thrus!

Is it really deportation when you kidnapped her from international waters?

Attack with what? All the rusted metal hulks and organic fertilizer they’ve left strewn across eastern Ukraine?

That’s too early. Should be delaying that a bit so the cord blood drains first.

It’s the store brand version of normalize.

That falls under WRONG. Lack of consent is WRONG but there’s also nothing worse than documentation that is WRONG.

At work this request means “I’m going to ramble for 45 minutes because I don’t understand it enough to form a question”.

Where’s Picasa??

They’re both playing 4D chess, but I’m not convinced they aren’t just eating the pieces.

My company (not in media) keeps bleating we need to adopt AI everywhere we can because otherwise “we’ll get left behind”.

No, clarifying questions are not entertained.

I’ve read a lot of skepticism over the years about how carbon capture is a gimmick that doesn’t work but helps prop up the fossil fuel industry as a greenwashing scam.

And then I see something like this:

The company is so confident this will be successful that it’s already begun initial work on two commercial projects, one in Quebec and the other in Manitoba. That’s despite not yet knowing how they will be fully financed or which technology will be put to use.

“We don’t know if it works or how we’ll pay for it.”

City bylaw officials, however, say the regulations aren’t new and should have been enforced all along.

That’s totally reasonable. So now that the oversight has been corrected and the social impact identified, carve out a fucking exception and make it legal. The volunteers have been operating like that long enough that clearly their system is working without causing bigger problems.

Proplifters will be propecuted.

If I were in a fire and suffocating and somehow had a long tube in a bathroom, I think I’d stick the hose out the window and breathe that air instead.

And if I found myself:

• trapped in a bathroom
• suffocating due to smoke from a fire
• i have a long flexible tube
• no windows in the bathroom AND
• I’m somehow not going to burn to death

Then I’ll just fucking die. It’s fine. That’s such an edge case I’m not gonna worry about it.

Is it a cover for some conduit in case they want to install a security light/camera later? Does it unscrew or slide off?

I find the fabric a bit rough compared to most tees, but they’re durable as hell.