This is hilarious to me because my group chat with my best friends is made up of me, a Jennifer, a Tracy, and a Sarah (with some alternate spellings and nicknames). I don't know what kind of paperwork my parents had to complete to name me Danielle instead of Stacy.

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 4h ago

Yes, it's true, parents of Gen X girl babies were legally required to name the baby Jennifer but you were able to apply for Stacy or Tracy or Sara(h) if you filled out the paperwork, got it notarized, and paid a small processing fee.

Every time one of my posts break containment I don’t know how people who regularly get a ton of replies from strangers stay on social media. I’d be shutting my account down if this happened to me more than a couple times a year. People who seek this level of engagement are not the same as me.

This is perfect sleeping rain and it’s cruel that I have to get out of bed and go to work

I do not and will not ever understand people who pay a bunch of money to come to a concert just to talk through the entire thing and I’m surrounded by them right now.

I guess the O’s must have won because I can see the fireworks from Camden Yards reflecting off buildings downtown from Pier Six

Looking pretty good Baltimore

It’s very annoying that Pier Six Pavilion will not let you bring in a sealed bottle of water. Stupid Live Nation.

I severely underestimated how easily and how many people would just adamantly believe things that are just so clearly not true.

If you're wondering if your state is now officially included in the outbreak, don't worry you don't get to know who the additional states they identified are.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 24h ago

Breaking news: The CDC is expanding the cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states, adding six states where illnesses have been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, according to individuals familiar with the investigation.

Because they don't provide an immediate confirmation email, every year I'm super paranoid that something didn't go through correctly when renewing my Newport Festival Foundation membership so I can be guaranteed tickets for the Folk Fest, but I just the confirmation and survey so I can stop worrying

TIL from Planet Money that salmon sushi is not really a Japanese thing. Norway came up with it to sell their fish to Japan. Some Japanese people will still not eat raw salmon. 🤯

Don’t talk to me about AI until it can accurately sort my real email from spam email and not send spam to my inbox and real email to my spam folder. The point of the spam folder is I shouldn’t have to see the spam but if I have to look through it to make sure it hasn’t eaten real stuff it’s useless.

Camouflage cat

Hilariously I have now been invited to two different Orioles games today

Had to click through to see what this post was referring to. I’m like is this an Orioles post, a Democrats post? Turns out to be a Bluesky post.

I'm not the most involved O's fan, but seriously we do we continue to live out the definition of insanity? We just keep trading away our best, most beloved players for a bunch of prospects and old pitchers that we do what with?

Can’t go to work. Actually I have a dentist appointment so I do have to kick her off

As much as I adore live music, every time I see videos from large music festivals they look like a nightmare to me. Just 10s of thousands of people jam packed in. No thank you.

You know what smells really good when they’re cooking? Mushrooms. Mushrooms smell really good when they’re cooking.

One way that I have definitely turned into my mother is that I do not like to stand in line for food. Hence why I have never been to either Clavel or Cafe Dear Leon though we did do take out from Clavel once during Covid lockdown times and I’ve eaten Cafe Dear Leon that other people have bought.

Busy day tomorrow. Farmer's market. Driving out to the county so I can buy some new shelving for my record collection at Ikea while my husband donates blood nearby. Then going to see the new Spiderman.

I should know better than to read the book for book club so far ahead of our meeting because I've read so many books since then I don't remember anything about it. I even had to ask someone to remind me what book we read.

My new coworker has a super nerdy joke about p-values on his office door and I kind of love him for it

emotional intelligence, generalized anxiety disorder, kalamata, platinum record, pad thai

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

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I know it’s a bonus we get half day Fridays during the summer, but I feel like I’ve barely gotten any between the days I’ve had to not take mine on a Friday because I’m the manager in charge or being on vacation. I think I’ve had exactly one so far and will get one more next week on our last one.

Y'all please click past the headline before you share a story. I mean I guess make fun of the US for including Wakanda in trade data, but do so knowing that you're all sharing a story from 2019 not 2026.

WXPN is doing a Throwback Thursday with songs from 1996 and hearing "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers reminds me of how much I loved that song back in 1996, but then it got so overplayed I still don't really like it anymore all these years later. What song(s) are like that for you?

E-readers are convenient for having lots of books, being easy to hold, and easy to take with you but when you open a book it always shows you words, which is not something my brand new Kindle is doing right now. I open books and get a blank screen.

It is too nice outside this morning for me to have to be at work