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8 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Day off is done. Ton of yard work done. Even started what will be a loooooooong project: chipping off the bark from our dearly departed giant oak. Tried out some stain to see how it looks. It’s gonna be lovely. But it’s a grind of a project. Figure I’ll do a little every day.
Meanwhile the koi have gotten huge and the stupid orangey fish (god I can’t believe I even have orangey fish) are legion. Hopefully a neighbor can take a few/all orangey fish.
Big Eyes and The Lady Orangey took a nap. They’re ridiculous. From day one they’ve been besties. And yes Big Eyes is turning more orange by the day. This is insanity.
The Extra Orangey slept in bed all day but came out to see what’s the deal with dinner.
And lastly, SweetDog, The Baked Potato, and Sweet Potato Pie Pup never let me forget that Theresa is their queen and where she goes they go. They spend hours hanging out while she does yard work. I’m a distant distant second. Which is fine, cuz MeanCat is gonna murder me anyway.

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10 Apr
We tell drivers to pull into well-lit spots. If they go slow, the cops know what they’re doing and just follow them to the well-lit spot. It’s really obvious when this happens. IT IS NOT A REASON TO PULL YOUR GUN. If your gun is out, then bad things happen really fast. Also...
What is the point in pulling the driver out of the car? The original infraction was ‘no tag’ though it might have had a paper tag but let’s just say no tag). That’s not a reason to pull someone out of the car. Neither is a slow-speed anti-chase to a well-lit area. So I say again:
Compliance is not the goal of a police encounter. COMPLIANCE IS NOT THE GOAL OF A POLICE ENCOUNTER. Determine what the goal of the call is, the purpose of you being there, and work that issue. No tag? Ok. Wow. Maybe ask about it. Without your gun out. We don’t have to be this way
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8 Apr
The US has of course had issues with human rights and hypocrisy/and worse in foreign policy. But we still tried to point to our government as the model, saying ‘it works’. We are now trying to prove it does not work...and autocracies are using this to say their way is better
This is important. We elect a government that literally says government can’t work & who get paid to make sure it doesn’t. This is not unnoticed elsewhere. Or here. Democracy works if people work to make it work. We are in a spiral of proud dumb & the consequences are enormous
All China has to do is point to what we call governance or long-term planning in the US. We pass two week funding resolutions for our entire government. And barely can do that. We are making autocracy look better by making democracy look so bad. We don’t have to be this way
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6 Apr
Began the work day so excited to be ‘done’ with a major case. Ended the work day typing more warrants for that case while my sgt laughed at my foolish naive hopes.
I am proud of the work we’ve done so far on a sprawling complicated case. Very transparent evidence. Can withstand scrutiny & sunlight. The transparent truth, all cards on the table, is the most compelling of all narrative. Because it’s the truth. And that’s the point. The truth
And there must be nothing that isn’t transparent, documented, double checked and then confirmed from another angle. At every step and with every assertion or allegation or observation, the benefit of the doubt goes to my neighbors. As it must. Cuz we all matter or none of us do.
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3 Apr
SweetDog won Best Dog Ever for the 4,000th day in a row. She’s in charge of the flowers growing in the Little rock bed and the trays. She’s pleased with the progress but worried a certain potato might walk on them looking for buried boneys.
Meanwhile, history’s greatest monster is recharging his solar evil batteries and getting ready to oversee our work today. He’s warned me that he’s in a bad mood and I won’t even need to F around before I find out. So I’ve got that to look forward to, which is nice.
The fountain flowers are growing nicely. The top is gonna be two foot tall sunflowers. Who knows how it all turns out.
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2 Apr
I ever say how much I love being a local cop? Best job I’ve ever had. Finally something knocked Tybee Island beach lifeguard 1989 off the gold medal platform.
When I was on patrol I saw my job as trying to help my neighbors literally. To help them. And above all to make sure the power of the state was never misused. I embraced the truth that on most calls I didn’t know what was going on. But we could slow down & figure it out...
Now as a fancy pants detective, I see my job...as trying to help my neighbors. And above all to make sure the power of the state is not misused. And embrace the fact that initially I don’t know what’s going on but now I HAVE to find the truth. And slow down & figure it out.
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26 Mar
Home. It was nice non-insane week. And in theory I have two days off (I just screwed myself, I know) and we’ve got so much yard work. No thinking about violent felonies until Monday...
In the back I see MeanCat and he gives me easily the meanest look in his arsenal. Followed by a ‘what, me, mean? No way’ look.
They’re up to something.
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