Great blue heron and friends, Anna Maria Island, FL IG: j.lulu_photography

Yup...so many phone applications sold as solutions for problems that don't exist.....

Are you sick of winning yet?

Why are you as a man not being gentle and kind

Wow--that's a scary looking bacterium! The stuff on the right looks bad too.

I can attest to this. Personally.

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He said, in a weak but firm voice, "This form we live in is a fragile creation. This euphoric sensation is liquid separation."

Rock and roll musician: splish splash I was taking a bath People in the 1950's: this is the devil’s music

Potential kinetic energy batteries are nuts

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Great Karen Hao interview. A.I. development could be used to benefit humanity — if we make that choice. Right now we’re headed in the opposite direction. youtu.be/j721VYEClz0

Denouncing “classical liberalism” stands out, because “classical liberalism” was a go-to conservative line—meaning basically “individual liberty good, regulation and welfare state bad”—and the right today is directly opposed to freedom. This is one way to distinguish conservative from fascist.

This is the not-so-secret reason why Congress has so many doctors and lawyers and coal barons and so few bartenders. It’s not that bartenders lack ambition or civic pride!

When I was 15 the nerds were reading the Wheel Of Time books by Robert Jordan. Early 1990s.

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

’”I’m Olivia Nuzzi.” “I’m Mike Lindell.” “I’m Benny Johnson.” “I’m Rudy Giuliani.” “I’m Clav.” “I’m Bronze Age Pervert. Those stories, plus Curtis Yarvin, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Just read the dang thing already! It's your patriotic duty.

It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

All seven of these things are sensible, and most of them are fairly centrist, pragmatic things that well-functioning societies do.

Literally extortion by a mobster in a projection racket.

The board that governs it was concerned that homeless people were keeping themselves alive

More of this, please!

As the billionaire class gets richer, the growing online community is offering tips on how to survive with very little. www.wired.com/story/the-al...

Higher education is not vocational training. It’s preparation for life.

Hmmm not sure about being Macron. Is he good?

On vacation this week. Had to get my foot x-rayed at an urgent care place, fortunately just a strained, inflamed ligament, not a stress fracture. Method of injury: completely ordinary walking around. Limping a bit for the remainder of the trip. Yay getting old! 🙃

Clive Lewis MP writing in Byline Times

We should be on the lookout for any nefarious actors who are trying to impose Christian Law too. Or any religious law. They might try subverting our pluralistic society by, say, putting Ten Commandments posters in the schools, just as a hypothetical example.

This sentence is a horrifying rollercoaster.

There Is No Alternative, also known as TINA - how Margaret Thatcher bullied the U.K., and now a phrase deeply associated with neo-liberalism. Maybe it’s the headline writer rather than Clinton who chose those words, but they are so deeply coded.

ok who says that last one

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

This is what they took from us.

Aside from the racism and transphobic nature of the “Michelle Obama is a man” comment, the hysterical (and ironic) thing is that these nut jobs are *obsessed* with gender and sexuality, and they insist that progressives are engaged in some covert operation to “impose” this on others.

Cool youtu.be/w8iMnOU7Ag4

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

Our grandparents and great-grandparents lived in desperate poverty, and they made life better for us. Was it hard? Incredibly difficult. But they organized, unionized, had thousands of strikes, raised taxes on the robber barons, the billionaires of their day, and expanded the social welfare system.

great ask in the legal advice subreddit

For $600 billion, Americans could get: $200B: universal free child care for all kids before TK $95B: generous free college plan $150B: Free in-home care for 4.3 million seniors ... with money left over.

I knew this was a Threads post before I even saw the logo. It has the worst publishing and literary takes I’ve ever seen. The discourse of snails eating pages in a letterbox.

New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Been laughing at this for 45 minutes straight

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Forget about Hegseth. This is the real D-Day celebration right here.

People want stuff that just works. My boat's engine is actually older than the boat. It's an old single piston diesel engine, it has like 6 moving parts total, and it's going to outlive us all. I hope the move for more permanence and actually owning stuff continues and we see more stuff like this.

This is bullshit unless your sole criterion for "liberal" is pro-capitalist. The most important core values of classical liberalism -- individual autonomy, agency, and flourishing, security against arbitrary power, etc. -- are not only compatible with socialism, but MANDATE it.