Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Fun things to do with dogs as they approach middle age.

Watching Jim Jordan fail repeatedly and spectacularly to become Speaker of the House is the kind of feel-good news story I think we all needed this week.

make collaborative office apps more like multiplayer videogames, you cowards, cont:

* i'm a fucking level 80+ google docs user don't put me in a fucking doc with someone who centers text with spaces or tabs, or can't type faster and 60wpm

* battle royale mode for google slides/keynote where every 5 minutes the meeting keeps going a slide gets deleted

* departments/groups are actually clans and you can properly set up eg 5x5 deathmatch meetings to set okrs

Apparently, today is #PronounsDay.

I think the world could learn something from Finnish language here.

Finnish basically has two pronouns: hän (he/she/they/etc.) for people of all genders and se (it) for animals and other objects.

No sweat, though. Pets and other animals (up to insects) are called "hän" increasingly often as people realize animals are more like people than lifeless objects. Referring to your favorite plushie or computer as "hän" would sound a little quirky, but also cute.

Also, in informal situations/spoken language it is normal to call humans "se" (again: *any* people, including the president and your great-grandmother) . 😁

So even if you mess up these two pronouns, it's *way* more often than not totally fine and nobody's offended.

Needless to say, when one's first language is like this, in spite of all the good will in the world, keeping up with diversity of pronouns in English can be hard at times. Doing my best, in English it IS important...

Imagine being considered the third-best option after Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan.

All that goes through my head as I read about the dumpster fire that is the speaker of the house election is …

Thoughts and prayers
Thoughts and prayers
Thoughts and prayers

… as clown music plays in the background.

The U.S. will send $100 million in aid to civilians in #Gaza and the West Bank.

“If #Hamas diverts or steals the assistance, they will have demonstrated once again that they have no concern for the welfare of the Palestinian people, ” #Biden said. “It will stop the international community from being able to provide this aid.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/18/biden-humanitarian-aid-gaza-west-bank-00122212

Open letter to male GOP House members: If Jim Jordan threatens to wrestle you to the ground be aware that later he will offer to find a friendly doctor to give you a checkup. #houseGOP #SpeakerOfTheHouse #JimJordanVote

Unfortunately for all of us, Republicans really are the fucking embodiment of the old saying: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

@GottaLaff

I'm hoping to see more than 20... need more defectors....

just had a vote for John Boehner... 😂

8/ Ha!

Via George Takei:

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

Meanwhile, via Tamar Hallerman:

Judge McAfee rejected requests to dismiss charges against Ken #Chesebro and #SidneyPowell in the #Fulton election interference case, appearing to clear the way for their trial to begin later this week. #legal #Georgia #TrumpIndictment

6/ Via Rupar:

lol Byron Donalds gets a vote and we're going off the rails already. Buck then votes for Emmer. lots of murmuring

Connolly: "No to election deniers. Hakeem Jeffries!"

Republicans didn't like that

Jim Jordan loses for the second time. Add his name to the undistinguished list of GOP Losers that populate our politics.

#Poltiics #USPol

5/ Via Scott MacFarlane:

A new defector. Rep Vern Buchanan (R-FL) does not vote for Rep Jim Jordan on second ballot

Via Angry Staffer:

That’s 4.

We’re only in the Cs.

Time to tap out, Gym.

And Chavez DeRemer votes McCarthy. It's over for Gym. He'll lose by more this time.

4/ @emptywheel cont'd:

Aguilar: 212 to 200. No amount of election denying is going to take away those vote totals.

In addition to not passing a single piece of legislation, never placed a piece of legislation that has made it to a committee.

Hellbent on banning abortion nationwide. Giving cover to Jan6.

15 days should be enough.

2/ OFFS.

Via Matthew Gertz:

A selling point for Jim Jordan according to his nominator today is that he has the "courage" to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Cole: Unlike any other speaker we have had, he has had the courage to talk about a long-term plan and to get at the real drivers of debt. We all know what they are. We all know it's medicare, social security..

Lol, weeee! 1/...

Via @atrupar on #House #GOP #Speaker vote:

Don Bacon votes for McCarthy -- the first GOP defection from #JimJordan

Wife of NC congressman Don Bacon receives anonymous text messages warning her husband to back Jim Jordan as Speaker or he 'will not hold any political office ever again' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12643181/amp/nc-don-bacon-jim-jordan-speaker-vote-texts.html?ito=smartnews Absolutely freaking bizarre. The GOP #GQP Banana RepubliKKKans are a disaster.