Dudes rock.

Again, I got to emphasize that as a welfare caseworker I had to do a training where they told me it was a crime if I accepted a bag of tomatoes from a client that I helped.

Humans rock

Haters gonna hate, I guess.

Just 1 window into #Helene devastation, by no means worst (watching videos of people on rooftops w/in inches flood, entire houses floating away) but touches home as an academic: Warren Wilson College in Swananoa, NC w/ students, faculty staff trapped on campus no running water, dwindling provisions.

The grey lady-

a couple of cartoon characters are running from a flock of birds .

Alt: Hans Moleman on the phone ordering "tge largest seedbell you got" then quickly admitting "no thats too big"

I really want a "meh" button.

My mom and oxygen-dependent stepdad have been without power and cell service outside Asheville for almost 36 hours. It's officially called Fletcher but closer to Fairview, off of Emma's Grove Road, up a dirt road not far from Emma's Grove Baptist Church, between Gravelly Creek and an unnamed creek.

...specifically the concept of "Watch Trump take your money"

Assuming this conversation ends... "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD" "Well, true true"