Notes
Tuckums
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid drags Tucker Carlson for filth. Her delivery on this, [chef’s kiss] perfection. And for the nostalgic, Jon Stewart’s 2004 appearance on CNN’s Crossfire, showing just how much of a dick “Tuckums” has always been.
The Poll Worker’s Tale
I originally posted this as a Twitter thread, but felt I needed to post it here for posterity. —F Over the last couple of years, I had the privilege of serving as a poll worker here in San Francisco. Pre-pandemic, I planned on serving again this election. Concerns for my own health and safety led me to sit this one out as a poll worker. Being a poll worker is largely a thankless task. Here in San Francisco, it involves an hours-long training session to make sure we understand election law, voters’ rights, how to setup and work the equipment, and what to do if something goes wrong. Then there’s Election Day itself. It can take 15 hours or more from setup to breakdown, assuming
Twenty Years Later…
I don’t remember exactly when, but it was around this time 20 years ago (Summer 2000) when I launched my very first blog, Fredo Today (or fredo today or fredoToday or whatever random stylization tickled my fancy at the moment). Through a couple of web hosts (Host$ave and DreamHost), a variety of blogging platforms (Blogger, Greymatter, Movable Type, WordPress), and a few domain changes (grapefeed.org anyone?), the blog evolved but ultimately fizzled out within 10 years. The content I generated has just about disappeared from my clutches since then. Now it probably only exists as a series of zeroes and ones somewhere in “the cloud.” It’s probably just as well; I’m sure revisiting the musings of 22-year-old me would be a cringeworthy endeavor at best.