OK, I made a mistake reading a political piece this morning and getting triggered. Nope. I need to nope the fuck out. You know what, Virginia, you deserve who you elect. Back to regular programming of nonsense.
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Abigail Spanberger is the front runner for democratic nomination for Virginia’s governors race it seems. HELL FUCKING NO. I do not want yet another woman to contest an election and lose for democrats. No. Do not fucking depend on white men and white women to show up for you, in particular the latter. Just fucking get a moderate white man and win please!
I hate planning trips. Because once I get into it, I get into it and I obsessively plan it out until I have all the bookings and tickets completed.
This [reddit thread on smog in salt lake](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1h8arq0/i_live_in_utah_this_is_not_fog_this_is_the_air/) was illuminating. I did not know this affected a LOT of places in the rockies, including Denver and seems like this is normal at this point of the year.
The cross posting experience on Micro.blog is so so so poor. So many clicks. So much ambiguity. Like cross posting options should be visible at all times below post window and let me choose where I want to cross-post. Even the smallest things ugh.
Swim meet weekend at University of Maryland College Park. This is the location I absolutely hate coming to because of insane traffic on capital beltway. This year though because the kid is older, we are now in the morning session, which means the swim meet starts at 8, warmups at 6.30, so that meant leaving home at 5.30am, and which meant we were all up by 4.30am this morning. We get here and the parking lot is already full! Did the fucking Americans camp out here all night or something? Unfuckingbelievable. Anyway 2 days of this and I will be ready for some nice naps!
Damn, Silo season 2 so far has been absolutely riveting 4 episodes in!
Wait Amit Agarwal, yes that tech blogger who made google scripts earns 13 million a year?!! wtf. Totally chose the wrong profession 😂
If FIFA signs up with Ticketmaster for World Cup ticketing then there is no question in my mind it will be an epic disaster. If Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is any indication, then it means 90% of all tickets are going to be bought by scalpers and bots who in turn will put them on reselling platforms like Stubhub/TickPick for thousands and thousands more. People will complain and still end up buying them anyway, and Ticketmaster won’t care because they own half of the resell platforms also anyway so they make more money. I really hope they take the Olympics route that Paris did and lock down the resales to their own platform, and prohibit price gouging by resellers. In fact at Olympics if you resold a ticket, you actually ended up losing money because you spent 10% in reseller fees and you couldn’t sell it for more than the actual ticket price – that was a splendid model, and I hope FIFA does the same!
Not only was Blockbuster one of my favorite tracks of the year but it’s [single shot video](https://youtu.be/-urTPhh7gNk?si=2x7RV0-SX_ZFe3xH) was also my favorite music video this year. There is so much going on in the video and they pull it off perfectly in a single shot!