𝚓𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚕𝚎𝚙𝚙 (he/him/his)

The day has come. You can find me from now on over at Bluesky: @johnlepp.bsky.social. Thanks Twitter. You served me well for 15 years. RIP.

@GraemePerrow Enjoy the warm glow of the spotlight my friend!

@johnlepp Right? Getting the award was crazy enough but twitter treating this like national news that EVERYONE is talking about is just wacky

@Graemeperrow how famous are you? Holy?

I saw one post this morning that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair long and another post that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair short because it ages them more and I just want to say that women of all ages should wear their hair however the fuck they want

@dabitch This is true, I do like a great hazy ipa. We have a lot of them out here in BC.

@johnlepp Yup, had a couple last night and drinking one now. It's really growing on me, might be the perfect easy sipping IPA. Bright but not too fruity. You CAN judge a beer by its cover. 😉

I bought a beer because I liked the packaging and naming concept. It's based on the CMYK color model, from Printer's Ale. The Cyan, ie Hazy IPA, is good. Uses my favorite hops.

Nobody could figure out why the abandoned Hendricks apple orchard suddenly bloomed in April 2019. The trees hadn't produced fruit in eleven years. County agriculture office sent two inspectors. They found sixty thousand honeybees working the property - a massive colony that had escaped from Tomás Vega's apiary three miles south. Tomás had reported the swarm missing in March. He expected them dead. Instead they'd colonized the hollow barn on the Hendricks lot and cross-pollinated every surviving tree. That October, the orchard produced twenty-two tons of Cortland apples. The Hendricks family offered Tomás a permanent lease. He moved his entire operation there the following spring.

What bothers me more than Doug Ford buying a $28 million jet on Ontario taxpayers’ dollars… …is the silence. Silence from his own MPPs like @ToddJMcCarthy while people can’t afford groceries. While kids are questioning if they can afford post-secondary. While hospitals and education systems are being deprived of the funding they desperately need. These MPPs were elected to represent their communities. To be our voice. Instead? Nothing. That silence speaks volumes. So when are they going to stand up and say, “We work for the people of Ontario, not for Doug Ford” 🤷‍♀️ Because right now… it doesn’t look like it.

This is how you run a business.

He was sharp, thoughtful, and deeply human. And you could see that in his relationship with his wife, writer and activist Michele Landsberg. They had shared values, convictions, and a commitment to making things better. Rest in Peace Stephen Lewis.

I've never sen anything more accurate

Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take "Dat my kinda woman!"

To the guy who held the door for me and then followed me a few steps before stopping on the sidewalk and calling out "I'm not trying to be weird, I just, uh, think I'm parked next to you. You go ahead!" and then waited for me to drive off. Sir, may you only encounter green lights. May pizza never burn the roof of your mouth. May you awaken every day with a restored spirit. Absolute king behavior 🙌🏻 To every man wondering if it's weird to say something like this, please make it weirder and safer every time. We thank you.

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10

How to Ensure That Your Donor Engagement is Actually Engaging buff.ly/dZuHG9T #fundraising #nonprofit

@guyfelicella Same

Who else feels this? Twitter isn’t a platform anymore. It’s a dumping ground for bots, trolls, and misinformation chasing engagement for payment. Honestly, the only reason I haven’t deleted the app is because of the few good humans still pushing back against all the madness! Cheers!

An Iowa carpenter worked 67-years at the same company and lived so frugal he only owned two pairs of jeans, one for work, one for church. When he died in 2005, he left $3 million to send 33 strangers to college. They call themselves “Dale’s kids” and meet regularly to honor him.

@LakeErieVlogger @POTUS Why do they even bother to sit down?

Those Republicans in that house right now would Suck @POTUS knob if it meant getting a pay cheque.

@gator_gum Pushed out by people or… probably more pushed out by bots… but also agree 💯

The disconnect between social media and real life has never been more stark. Before during the "I hate Trudeau" era, you'd see the odd flag or gear someone mock him or whatever.... But, outside of Twitter, nobody dislikes Carney. Nobody is talking about him. Nobody is falsely blaming him for every problem they have. Here, it's all hatred and vitriol. Spite. Anger... They difference? Most of the hatred is misinformation pushed out by people who are monetizated and get paid by the click to spew this garbage. It's so clear.

I had 7 sixth-grade boys come in while I was working, and they wanted to order wings. They asked if they had enough money to cover 40 wings and pops. I looked around, confused — wondering where their parents were. I asked if they were alone, and they said, 'Yes, and we’ve been looking forward to this for weeks!' They were so excited and were EXTREMELY polite the whole entire time, using please and thank you and trying to make it as easy as possible for me to get their order. They even told me they’d tip well 😂. It was touching to see how much the children were trying to behave well, even when there were no parents around to scold them. One of the boys even asked his friend to get off the phone while I was talking to them. They were so good that a neighboring customer ended up picking up their tab and telling them to pay it forward. I just wanted to give big props to the parents of these boys — keep doing what you’re doing!! Pictured is how they left the table. Even grown adults (myself included) rarely leave the table this clean! Credit to the respective owner