Pete Ehlke

@rfc822.net

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A friend on slack says "I have a ton of work to do before EOD, and I need a shower, a nap, and a juice box. Only one of those things is happening anytime soon." I reply: "Enjoy your nap!"
The ancient Son I Am Disappoint meme
A very old grey tabby cat basking in a sunny spot
A letter from the City of Tucson, Arizona directed to a data center construction manager. Tucson had forbidden any city resources from being used in the construction, and were _furious_ to discover that its general contractor had fraudulently obtained a construction water meter at a different location and was illegally trucking Tucson water to the site. The city has repossessed the meter and demands two acre-feet (652,000 gallons) of water credits as compensation.
On twitter, Adam Grant asks "What's the worst career advice you've ever received?" Monica Lewinsky replies "an internship at the white house will be amazing on your resume"
The cast of Living Single, which Friends mercilessly ripped off.
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But, man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
A picture of my legs while I lay on the couch watching Olympic bobsledding. The TV and a grandfather clock are in the background; there's part of a red cable-knit blanket on my shins and my cat is adorably peeking out from under the rest of it.
An image of 17 AI company logos. They all look like more or less stylized buttholes.
Carol Sturka in Pluribus, saying simply “atom bomb”
Ryan Lizza writes: It is surreal now to think back to that room, the one overlooking the courtyard garden that became a metaphor for our decade-long entanglement. It was dazzling during spring’s full bloom and foreboding when winter stripped all signs of life. And lurking underground, way in the back, was the invasive bamboo, which grows like a cancer, and if not tamed, would march through the entire courtyard and kill everything.
George Hincapie and two other riders during the particularly muddy 2001 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race. They are absolutely covered in mud from head to toe.
Adam Grant tweets: What’s the worst career advice you’ve ever received? Monica Lewinsky replies: An internship at the White House will be amazing on your resume.
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
A picture of a protest poster from the 1st Trump administration. The Clash guitarist, Joe Strummer, is pictured on stage at the height of his powers, microphone in hand, embodying the great Clash line "let fury have the hour, anger can be power, you know that you can use it." Overlaid is a quote from Henry Rollins: "This is not a time to be dismayed. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for."
A protest poster with a photo of a fired up Joe Strummer at a microphone. Overlaid is a quote from Henry Rollins: “This is not a time to be dismayed. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.”
Littermates Kang and Koddos, grey tabbies sharing a chair. Kang crossed the rainbow bridge a week later.
An image of the LED display from the 2007 Boston Mooninite panic
A large tree growing through the rungs of a ladder abandoned behind a cinder block building. The ladder cannot be removed without destroying either it or the tree.
Two elderly grey cats, sisters, cuddling together on a white chair the day before one had to be put down.