I can’t believe we all nearly forgot the very special emerald boy existed.

I was thinking the same thing. It’s kind of the next logical step for platforms that have locked their users onto their sites. What good is a walled garden internet if you can’t link 100% of your users to real world consumers. Hello TSA internet.

Incoherence has never stopped them from finding scapegoats before, so why now?

I can’t put my finger on it but it feels like they’re missing a word. Golly gosh, I just don’t know what it is. As a white person I’m not wise enough to know.

We would need David Bowie to come back only to be taken from us again. I don’t know if I could go through losing him again.

May I suggest my 1-year-old’s current favorite toy.

A psychology phenomena you might be interested in is the Fundamental Attribution Error. It’s when people tend to attribute personal qualities to other’s actions rather than material reasons. The classic example is “They were late to work because they are lazy” vs “They were late to work because there was a lot of traffic.”

My dad had a very fulfilling 4th of July. Since my second child was 3 months old they’ve had an aversion to my dad. They are over 1-years-old now. They would cry and push away. My dad tries to not be bothered by it. He’s a sensitive guy though, and it’s kind of obvious he wishes he could hold his grandchild without them crying. I send my dad pics of them most mornings because of how much my second means to him. And during my second’s baptism he saw my father-in-law, who sees both my kids much more frequently, holding them no problem. It really affected my dad. I felt really bad for him. That is until the 4th when for some unknown reason my second fell in love with my dad. We went over to my parents’ for dinner tonight and they only wanted to be held by papa. My dad is over the moon.

My first had a few of body autonomy lessons happen this holiday weekend. They’re almost 3-years-old. On the 4th they pushed their cousin (a few months older) down a slide without warning, which was a little scary for their cousin. Then on Saturday they remembered to ask another cousin for a hug but forgot to ask to give them a kiss. And when their cousin said, “Maybe,” that’s does not mean “Yes.” Then today we were swimming at my parents’ and my mom tapped their butt as a joke, and my first said, “I said stop. Stop means stop. That’s my private part and you can’t touch it.” I’m really proud of them.

Thank you for spreading the word that COVID is not a “seasonal” problem.