The news of it happening doesn’t land like the video of it happening does.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMMm-ePtVfU/

It’s fucking brutal.

It absolutely baffles me that people are willing to spend that kind of money on low-quality takeout food that often arrives cold. I live just five minutes away from several five-star restaurants. If I wanted to, I could call ahead and pick up a fresh, high-quality meal in half the time it takes for a soggy, lukewarm fast food burger to show up at my doorstep—and I’d pay only a third of the price.

I genuinely don’t understand the appeal.

This is probably a real tweet, but I am not going to verify. I’m just not going to do it anymore. I have lost count of the times I have doubled checked to see if the meme or screenshot is from a real tweet and it turns out to be true.

This is my life. Plus 2 cats.

I made this comment to my wife recently. I have a total of 2600 photos on my Google account going back 18 years. 1/2 of those are of my cats. I’ve only had cats for 4 years.

UC Davis has a video on how to build one.

Egg Drop Soup.

Egg Drop is a cute name.

“Whataboutism” is one of the most prevalent logical fallacies. It never makes any sense.

I was raised to love my neighbor, to respond to hate with compassion, to tell the truth even when it hurt. I was taught that these were Christian values and by extension, American ones. We were the country that believed in freedom of thought, the integrity of history, and moral courage.

But now I see many of the same people who taught me those values embracing a movement built on denial, grievance, and revisionist history. They’ve tied themselves to a man who mocks truth, glorifies cruelty, and demands loyalty over integrity.

And the saddest part? We used to look at other nations and say, “That could never happen here.” But it is happening here. And it’s not being forced on us, we’re choosing it.

The cost of that betrayal isn’t some distant consequence we’ll face down the road. It’s already here. The values they abandoned didn’t slowly fade, they were cast aside, willingly, and replaced with something hollow. This isn’t a detour. It’s the destination. And the people who once preached righteousness have no intention of turning back.