We should be building a dozen new Minneapolises (Minneapoleis?) in California. I don't care if it means the state never grows another pound of alfalfa

[watching my British patent attorney colleagues fall gravely ill after visiting their undergraduate alma mater] how awful, they've got the Cantavirus

I genuinely do not think I could beat any of the Presidents who didn't die in office in a fight at any point during their term, with the *possible* exception of post-stroke Woodrow Wilson

in Woke 2 we are telling people “Sally Ride did not go to space for you to tell people math and science are for straight men”

a critical difference between woke 1 and woke 2 is the understanding that woo is something to be fought tooth and nail

and GLP-1 agonist users, and anyone who's ever gone through fertility treatment, and . . .

there is no excuse for this, yet I'm doing it anyway

My feeling is that lots of progressive-teamers have strong nimby inclinations but are aware that ‘nimbyism’ is bad, and therefore leap at opportunities to engage in socially-coded nimby behavior.

The water thing is fake. The infrasound thing is fake. Most of the other issues are at least mostly fake. The mind-losers are QAnon-level gullible but somehow even more resistant to evidence. It's great. Great epistemic environment we've got going here. Really loving it.

The Canto Bight C-plot in TLJ is cool and fun and good, actually.

"Smoking cigarettes is cool" is one of those things the rest of the world apparently agreed upon that just does not compute in my brain, and I honestly think it's just cope from smokers and ex-smokers who were cool, or thought they were cool, in high school.

getting called a neoliberal shill and pumping my fist like a middle-aged person being asked for ID at the liquor store. “Yeah, still got it!”

counterpoint: actuarial tables suggest that smoking becoming right-coded would be an extremely positive development

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.

(no) chicken in every (Pol) Pot

I have nothing but respect for the people who feed the United States of America: the agronomists and engineers of Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland.

Suicidal Ideation French Fries is going to either win or pull up lame in the first furlong, nothing in between.

The X Files as an example of what was *good* about the '90s is a genuinely insane take.

if you're into this dogpile-Stancil bullshit, please just unfollow and block me right now, before I do it for you. the dude is generally too online but his heart is quite clearly in the right place and if you care more about Internet in-group clout than defeating fascism, fuck the entire hell off.

was out at dinner with a work colleague and told a story about a funny thing my sister did, so basically I'm history's greatest monster

In Colorado's mountain towns there is a dwindling but still significant number of people who became lifelong ski bums after graduating from CU or CC or Middlebury or Reed in the late '60s or early '70s and just never really stopped.

Colorado Springs, Aurora, Boulder

my formative yimby experience was being priced out of the neighborhood i wished to live in, and realizing that this meant i in turn would price someone else out of the neighborhood i settled for my conclusion was not that any renter involved was evil, but that we should stop playing musical chairs

Utah voters pass anti-gerrymandering initiative. Utah GOP legislators get mad, make initiatives harder. Court applies anti-gerrymandering initiative. Utah GOP legislators get madder, try to repeal initiative. Repeal attempt fails because they made initiatives harder.

eternal

incredible

This is what happens when you win more than you possibly thought you could ever win. The American Revolution spurred democratization on both sides of the Atlantic. And, in the long run, it got a true believer in it into the Holy fucking See. And more distant admirers are PMs or titular monarchs.

so anyway i made anprim disc horse bot if this turns out to have been more problematic than i intended it to be i would like to note that i have a fever

Domino's story is pretty funny iirc. they did this big collaboration with Google to get cutting edge data science to analyze their company for improvement opportunities and the answer was "the pizza sucks, dipshits, make the pizza not suck"

by God I *will* see Colorado Springs represented by a Democrat or die trying

so glad there are cis men who are chomping at the bit to decide which trannies are gusanos based off another cis man’s exploitation of stereotypes about trans women. nothing bad could ever come out of that

You love to see it, you really do

Palisade Peach Tension Headache

Any system where outcomes depend on how you draw the lines on the map instead of how voters actually vote is a bad system. Drawing majority-minority districts was only, even at its best, the less-bad option within the fundamentally bad system of predetermining results via the tyranny of the map.

I also cannot stress enough, or enough times, that *a lot* of the anti-gerrymandering work we've been relying on the VRA to do these last six decades would be unnecessary if not for the Uniform Congressional District Act, an even younger federal law that can be repealed and replaced.

there's howling at the heavens that this sucks and Roberts deserves [don't get the discord subpoena'd.jpg] and there's deciding preemptively that all is lost when our enemies are in the middle of making a brutal unforced error and

I am not much for the enshittification hypothesis generally but I do need to talk to the person at Microsoft who decided, relatively recently, that Word and Outlook should have different keyboard commands for subscript text.

Boss: You get that new gimbal system working? Engineer: Sure did boss, real live dinosaur just like you asked. Boss: what

the Ed Zitron of 2024 would be devastated by this if he still existed but of course he was killed and had his identity stolen by some very similar-looking guy, whose mental model for why AI is bad is completely different if not outright contradictory

If I had a billion dollars none of you degenerates would have the slightest clue who I am I promise you that

The #1 public advocate for ear damage strikes again

I am increasingly convinced that the reason the Youths are cigarette- and fascism-curious is that they don't have grandparents who suffered at the hands of either.

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

Sure, some of this stuff is slightly pretentious, but it also is in fact unequivocally better than nearly all of what you could find in almost every American city prior to like 2012.

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

I've got some real bad news about where the tantalum in the capacitors of the smartphone this was typed on came from.

many years and one change of preferred microblogging website later, this remains possibly my favorite visual joke of all time