March 8 on the calendar where it is printed: "International Women's Day" and "daylight saving time begins (clocks forward)
Thank you for having International Women's Day on the shortest day of the year
Was really rooting for gin in this competition.
I accompany my 88yo Mother to alll kinds of medical appointments and because of that I have a lot of opinions about geriatric healthcare but maybe the simplest one is this: stop weighing people at appointments.
More important metrics? Grip strength, balance, amount of weight they can lift & carry.
We're going to need to tap the sign so much
The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.
BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns.
One of my regular yoga students gave me a short story they wrote—“feedback optional” he said—and I am so humbled.
Freeze frame from the end of an online conference, Hosts Christopher and Ari signing off.
Also? Happy Birthday, Chris 🙂
“John, the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in response to an email about the programming. “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.”
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
✨ moment of silence ✨
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
As a texture-sensitive individual I softly object.
Was in an .edu environment recently, and the QR codes on the slides were illegible, even from 6 feet away. Shorten your URLs! cmdrkeene.com/shorten-link...
“… kind of like Pluribus, but with more mirror-gazing”
Beauty Influencer Supervillain origin story tagline:
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
🧵A perfect thread
As I am stuck in bed
Recovering, not loafing.
I gotta say: it's really been fun watching sports and men's sports at the Olympics. I'm glad male athletes are getting their time onstage.
*High key
I was on a curling team for years and I STILL have to look up the scoring stuff every once in a while. See, I can look at where the stones ended up in a round and tell you the score, but I can’t always remember WHY that’s the score. It’s weird.
! @weratedogs.com com goes beyond what you've already heard about the Ring Cam ads and includes excellent reporting about ICE and, less surprisingly, about finding lost dogs
For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy
These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa
(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
)
Who decided to make Groundhog Day an entire decade?
The Trump administration, finding new ways to assault women and children.
InDesign no longer exports to PDF. I think it has something to do with the update, but not 100 percent sure. Trying to save to IDML crashes the app. Clean uninstall/reinstall of ID & Acrobat didn’t work. Turned off Adobe fonts, background tasks, etc. Have been poking through fonts, styles, images…
Posted a question on LinkedIn —I can’t find examples of large projects besides your book 🔎 or example of team workflow. YET. 😈
One thing that is true in this age of "AI" is that authenticity is going to be prized more than ever before. A single hand-scrawled sign is going have more impact than the smoothest "AI" image because the people seeing it knows it comes from someone's brain, not a tuned algorithm.
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Cocktail fixins for an aviation, set out on a kitchen counter: 2 parts gin, 1 part crème de violette, 1 part cherry liqueur, Juice of one lemon. Shake it up with some ice. Strain into a glass. Garnish with cocktail cherries. Enjoy.
The finished cocktail in an everyday glass. Much more purple in person.
Anyway. Quittin’ time.
Aviation cocktail.
Yay.
