FuglyDuck

If we’re very, very lucky….

Dudes flying with Johnson and Vance and (huh… how far down we gotta go to find someone not nuts?) and a freak accident happens.

Or maybe the aliens come to take them home. (They owe us an apology.)

Inauguration is what? The 20th?

So like 4 years and 15 days.

Yes.

All the time.

I’m there at least once a week and I usually chat with the librarians for recommendations and to catch up with a few staff I’ve gotten to know.

They also have around 30 different clubs going on weekly, one of which I occasionally lead (teaching people the basics of 3d printing and design,) and that’s not including the dozens of book clubs they got, or the movie clubs.

And then there’s the larger events like “art days” or visiting cultural groups. The drag story hour, the princess story hour; the story hour for adults.

The major alternatives to prom and homecoming dances.

The tabletop gaming sessions.

Bingo night. Gin, hearts, spades and bridge night.

Most libraries will have something for everyone, even the poorly funded Hicksville ones where the churches likes to sell itself as an alternative 3rd space.

Church is not a great place for third places- unless you happen to be like all the others at that particular church.

No church will actually accept you unless you’re the same as them. The “sameness” doesn’t have to be about race or orientation or accepting that.

They might be totally willing to let you in the front door, but unless you conform, that won’t be for long.

Libraries are a much, much better 3rd place, and they don’t try to ram theology down your throat to use it.

You’re not crazy. no.

But, eh, he’s been meeting with World Leaders™️through out Biden’s term, and that’s really not normal either. (well. with the exception of the sitting president asking an ex pres to do some negotiating or something. That kinda happens.)

He’s not even in office.

Greeter? you think the people at walmart want to be there? 60+ and the best job they find is minimum wage and standing on their feet all day getting ignored by people mostly so other employees don’t walk out the front with loot?

apparently everything. Why do women need to “look better”?

The car’s alright, because it disincentives car culture just that little bit (even if it hasn’t led to good public transit in most of the US), and because they’re about a billion times safer.

even in the best-transit-places, the transit here sucks.

well, technically not ‘food’, but water is pretty much a superfood in that drinking sufficient amounts will improve virtually every aspect of people’s lives. (unless you happen to live somewhere with Republicanium Pipes™️)

But yeah. It always cracked me up when people point to berries (those Acai stuff, for example) saying “super food” because they’re “high in good stuff”. Like. Every other damn berry.) (and those greenhouse strawberries we get in winter? Much lower carbon emissions.)