just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

If I ever achieve "fuck you" levels of wealth, the signs will not be subtle, but they will be absurd. Like buying a drum scanner for 110 negatives.

Sometimes you biff a photo so badly that it comes back around to almost being good. Minolta Pocket Autopak 460Tx | Lomo Tiger 200 CN

Absolutely love this.

"Going where you don’t belong, I decided a long time ago, is the root of all misery and the soul of all adventure." - Peter Egan

And by the time an injunction is issued, *if* an injunction is issued, the damage will have been done.

Low level anxiety watching this NAS volume rebuild but definitely needed to expand photo storage space.

Being friends with talented artists is amazing and I am so grateful for it, but it does come with the downside of making me *profoundly* aware of the fact that nothing I ever make will ever speak to people even half so strongly as an artist's half-finished thought will so comme ci, comme ça I guess.

Starting the countdown timer for Trump to declare ADP a terrorist organization.

Past me is looking really, really stupid for having said things like ”SCOTUS doesn't play Calvinball."

Given that Earhart was involved with the National Woman's Party and a supporter of early versions of the Equal Rights Amendment, this might actually result in the release of some rather embarrassing records of governmental surveillance.

I spent so many happy hours wandering Myst Island (and later Riven). It was always such a peaceful place for me, as were the novels that appeared later on.

The modern-day Ernst Röhms are beginning to understand how not-at-all it matters that they were trying to be "one of the good ones."

"It's only when the empire's breaking that you see their teeth." One little line from Al Stewart's song "Rain Barrel" that seems apropos at this time and in this place.

Feels almost like having a case dismissed for a Rule 8 violation should result in an automatic revocation of all bar admissions for the attorney who signed the complaint.

If i tried to do what Charlie Kirk did but from the left and in evangelical churches, they would kick me out before i could even set up my "trans people are nice and cool, change my mind" booth.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

That is not the response of a person in full possession of his mental faculties. Absolutely wild that we not seeing daily front-page articles about our president's very obvious mental decline.

Not sure what's gonna keep me going if I run out of spite.

How am I feeling today? Well, I've had two cups of coffee, a 16-ounce Red Bull, and slightly more than a pound of red licorice. Whole new level of stress eating over here folks.

Trump economy primed and ready to kick in.

Every sign is a bad one folks.

On the positive side, there is a reasonable chance that the impending collapse of the US will inflict enough suffering on me that I will finally have a fighting chance at creating worthwhile art.

In a sane world the lawyer filing this case would be disbarred for putting something so blatantly frivolous before the court.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Eye-opening to discover how many people respond to "I think [person's] views were horrible" with "so you're saying [person] deserved it." The right clearly equates disagreement with wishing a person dead. The right disagrees with me. For the first time, I fully understand what that means they want.

I really wish the future didn't seem so bleak right now. All the safe, plan-for-the-long-term decisions I've made feel utterly not worth the sacrifices I made for them.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Precisely this. Kirk was not engaging in actual discussion with anyone. His entire brand was baiting unprepared undergrads into providing content that he could heavily edit for use in advancing his audience's favored narrative fantasies about clueless kids.

I want to live in a world where this headline is never apropos again.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

My enemies may be in power, but my idols are still alive and fighting and right now, that's enough.

Vicki is underselling this album. Gods damn.

The worst part of resolving to start writing anything other than legal documents again is sitting down and realizing that I have nothing coherent to say outside of legal commentary because I've left that part of me to lie fallow for so long.

The *trailer* for one of these is 2 minutes of ads sandwiching 30 seconds of the most boring, generic, summary you've ever heard. Company is clearly banking on being able to shovel enough ads in before people realize how shit the content is to make money on people only listening to the first 10 min.

Also for parasocial weirdos like me!

This leaves me reassured that I am, at least, not *the* dumbest Porsche person alive.

C'mon man, history has always looked most kindly on those who simply yield! Just look at how we we still remember Vidkun Quisling, Ernst Röhm, and Neville Chamberlain!

There are few things in life that can bring as much pleasure as watching a friend excel at something they love.

If you don't have at least one friend whose photographic work is so good that is makes you want to throw all your cameras away and give up, you aren't really a photographer.

Absolutely love the composition here; the way Vicki has set up the shot with the walk-on passengers mirroring the vehicles just feels completely perfect to me.

Dorley / (kimmy) crossover dystopia where Steph has to get into the robot in order to have basic human rights.

“The Department of Justice's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will ‘redact every Republican’ from an Epstein client list.” 🧐

Apropos of nothing in particular: "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."

My experience with "crunchy" types going back into the late '80s was almost always that they were very right-wing folks. Current granola fascism seems like a natural outgrowth of a movement that always seemed to me to be rooted in a survivalist fantasy of existing without needing anyone else.

Test roll seems to have come out alright. Fujica GL690 | Fujinon AE 100mm f/5.6 | Lomo CN 800 #BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat

I am going to miss living in a country where we didn't have frequent, deadly, epidemics of easily preventable childhood diseases.

GL690 works. I'm officially a slave to big negative now. Fujica GL690 | Fujinon AE 100mm f/5.6

It is absolutely astounding to me how easy it is for right wing idiots to turn a completely imaginary thing ("the left is saying that all white men are evil") into something that most of society just accepts as true despite its obvious falsity.

The downhill slide really accelerated like mad once it became feasible to change people separately for every part of an experience. These days the system is structured such that we have to pay for the access to pay for the experience.