Influencer? Nope 🐽
I guess there are people who make money by “blahgging” on whatever platform they use. “Traditional” blahgs like this one, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, whatever.
Oops. Interrupting to report an incident of marital discord over whether Trump knows the definition of “hubris”. I wasn’t exactly listening closely to the radio but it sounded like he had used that word. I’m not sure in what context. I know I shouldn’t denigrate his intelligence because somehow he has this stranglehold over all of the folks who weren’t born with built in Bullshit Detectors. So he must have some intelligence. But why does he say and do so many things I think are stoopid? THEY’RE EATING THE PETS being one of the things at the top of my list. Maybe “Musked” federal employees can eat people’s pets if they can’t afford regular groceries? I dunno. In full disclosure, *I* have looked up the word “hubris” a few times over the years.
Aaaaanddd… I have totally lost my train of thought after watching whatever episode we are on in Silo season two. I can’t board that train again but I have *never* expected or wanted to monetize my blahg. It’s all about meeeee emptying my brain of whatever detritus happens to be in there that needs to get outta town. Higgledy-piggledy or not and whether or not anyone else cares.
I don’t have much else tonight but I will just say it is soooo nice to have my “old” boss back. And, oh yeah, that pic is a light bulb campfire in our symposium booth last weekend.
March 6th, 2025 at 8:56 am
On the subject of words tRump doesn’t understand let’s talk about his Tues night mention of trangender mice studies. I didn’t listen to his speech on Tues but on Wed I started hearing people ranting about the government spending millions to study transgender mice. What?? said I. How could that be? Then this morning I learned that it was tRrump who started the story. I don’t expect many people to know what transGENIC mice are, least of all tRump. But some of his advisors must have at least an average IQ and should have double checked his stupid assertions. TransGENIC mice are used in research and are define thusly: Transgenic refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means. Transgenic organisms are generated in the laboratory for research purposes.
Hubris is a great word. So useful today. Another good word I’ve heard recently is Patrimonialism (a form of governance in which all power flows directly from the ruler. There is no distinction between the public and private domains. These regimes are autocratic and exclude the lower, middle and upper classes from power.)
March 6th, 2025 at 12:45 pm
I’ve never ever thought of monetizing my blog either; no one would pay anyway! I didn’t watch T’s speech but I did hear about the transgenic mice. WTH?