new cartoon, on the topic you'd probably guess www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

RIP Bob. Honorary #GuitarOfTheDay.

Just Bennie.

Except that this is AI generated.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Performing my yearly search for a psych counselor who takes Medicare and does telehealth (mainly). Last year I couldn’t find anyone to take Medicare, let alone do both.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Anyone have a recommendation for a home printer that will print Apple AirPrint docs from my iphone? I have an older HP but it doesn’t do AirPrint. Looking on Amazon, it’s unclear which brands or models actually have AirPrint available. Any clues? Ideas? I could just go to a print shop, I suppose.

Jeezus Christ the new quarter gives Washington Trump’s mug shot scowl. I hate everything.

Happy New Year, Bluesky.

Perfectly Trumpian display.

I have but one New Year’s resolution—By god I will train this little doggie of mine so she can spend time away from me, take commands from other people, and also learn to not to have a poopy freak out at brand new noises and situations. Price is no object. I need a real trainer. I’m not cutting it.

This is where sometimes the extreme pro-urbanism people lose me. Pricing postal service at cost to remote areas is the same as removing postal service to remote areas, which is the same as killing remote areas. The positive argument for universal postal service is universal postal service.

I hate to ruin it, but 2026 is going to suck worse than 2025. Just wait for the fallout from the midterm elections.

Honestly we did a pretty good job of predicting. All we missed out on was the fascist takeover of the government.

I haven’t been sick with anything since 2020, not even a cold, but it seems my luck has ran out, flu-wise, in any case.

I need to share this with someone

Love this by @aedwardslevy.bsky.social

I guess I should be rooting for the Bears if my team is the Seahawks.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

Qtp with a gif of your first anime…Yep.

The Christmas Essay. Enjoy, and have a lovely day, doing whatever it is you choose to do… including nothing. It’s a great day for that, too. www.patreon.com/posts/133679...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5

I wonder who will be playing in the KISS tribute portion of tonight’s “honors”? Usually they’d just get Dave Grohl to do it.

Good night Far Side

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 15,1958

Bennie with one of three small tennis balls she loves to throw around.

Just got a notice from PSE that our power will be back on soon. Except that our power came back on yesterday and there’s nothing to fix. Now I’m worried they’re going to break something in order to repair other areas around us. Please don’t take away my power!

Thanks, frozen windshield wipers, for making a horrible grating sound this morning as I started the car, scaring the bejeezus out of Bennie, causing her to involuntarily relieve herself on me. Poor baby. Poor me.

Seahawks. Cool.

Still no power. We’re decamped at a local motel with the puppy, who refuses to go to sleep.

Cool. Power’s out, plus, the garbage can is flying around in the front yard in the dark. At least it is empty. The entire island has lost power, according to the outage map. Yay.

I don’t get it, even after reading the ALT text. I’m dumb.

#TeleTuesday My self-built partscaster made from a Fender neck (Chinese, Modern Player series) and a GFS body, pickups, and parts. The best Tele I’ve ever played and I’m never selling it. The neck is from a pawnshop find that cost me $100. I sold the loaded body for $175, so the neck cost me -$75.

My house is in this picture (if you zoom in enough).

I was looking for news on Rob Reiner last night and the CBS Evening News was running a town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow instead.

This was my position during the game. I really wanted the Seahawks to win but it was good that Rivers had a great night too.

I forgot that dog daycares require applications and proofs of vax, etc. before they’ll take on a puppy. Gathering all the info for Bennie right now. I have to board her for half a day on Friday due to doctor appointments she’s not invited to.

Five fucking bullets.

SNL skit writing is so bad I don’t know how you can tell they aren’t already written by AI.

Uli Jon Roth performing the Scorpions’ “Sails of Charon,” circa 2012 in Seattle:

Dean Uli Jon Roth Sky 7

Too bad no one addresses the inherent racism in how Connecticut’s towns and cities relate to each other.

When you think about it, all chicken nuggets are dino nuggets.

The last things on the planet that will be AI enabled are phone trees. They don’t want to understand what you’d like to do. They want you to do one of the few things they are programmed to do, nothing more. Phone trees were automated twenty years ago and haven’t upgraded their tech since.

Bennie… Leave it…

You people just don't see how useful this really is

This looks like an Epstein’s Island candid snap.

I wish we had a different category for stocks than we do for money. This paper is not worth the current stock price, because if the billionaire actually tries to sell some of their shares the price will tank. So stop giving these guys unspoken credibility over who has more paper than the other.

the small language model arrived