Because you know, the presidential candidate who loses the primary supporting the one who won it? that's never happened before.

I feel like the craziness is just WAY UP this year.

The Trump camp talk of rigged elections I feel is SOOO dangerous. I just want someone to ask them how long they are suggesting they have been rigged.

Gabby Douglas is just so beautiful, in motion & stillness, just exudes grace & strength.

I had to take a break from reading the DOJ's report on BPD. It's...horrible. I mean, being white and not originally from here, my awareness of how awful policing is in the city came late, but I've been listening & believing. But, y'all, it's really really bad and I don't know how we can fix this. [link]

Just had to jump in at work tonight because my check-in broke the build. Which is weird because I hadn't checked in anything since coming back from my vacation. Turns out an API changed in an updated library. Not my fault, yay. Also a pretty simple fix.

The tough thing about policing reform is that it touches all this other stuff. You need to address criminal justice reform, schools, economic opportunity, and like fifty other things.

There was a conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is a man? Really?

And the systemic racism and institutionalized segregation in this city. I literally live in one of those rare thin fuzzy zones between the black butterfly and the white L that define Baltimore. Couple blocks east is old money white mansions and JHU's footprint (I've seen the term plantation used, I'm wary but giving it thought), sharp dividing line at Greenmount, complete with stone walls. The fuzzy zone eases into a back middle class bumping up on Morgan State, an hbcu. I mean, the maps are in that damn report, I can find my house based on where the line is. This isn't self congratulatory, I fell for the house and the block before I really understood much. But landing here has made me more cognizant, because things clash, neighbors here want to be neighbors, but there's this thing and ish.

I will have to read that when I have emotional energy to spare. Not right now.

Hazel just nopes out. Even when they taste good!

Jadzia is like that to the point where she started refusing ALL TREATS because sometimes I gave them to her after I did the topical flea treatment stuff. She was eating the glucosamine for a while, actually, but now I have to shove it into her canned food and hope she doesn't eat entirely around it.

I call Walter's glucosamine pills his treats. They are apparently pretty tasty. Even the cats are willing to eat them.

Before Harvey had been taking his glucosamine/chondroitin/msm treats long enough to start feeling better, I emailed the outfit that makes them to offer my congratulations on the flavor. Guy emailed me back, and I ended up in a fairly long email exchange with him about the improvements in Harvey's activity level, ending with me sending a video of Harvey chasing his tail after he'd been taking them for a month.

There was a conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is a man? Really?

Yep. I don't know how I stumbled onto it, but it is cray-cray with a side of you-are-shitting-me-you-do-NOT-believe-this-crap: link and link and more, but really, who wants to read up on that?

Warning: links may make you feel dirty and also despair for mankind. Uh, so to speak.

There was a conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is a man? Really?

Yeah. Totally nuts, but, hell, Obama drew fire for ordering mustard on his cheeseburger.