Problem with networking: one call leads to another, and then you have to do more calls

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I need the small joys in life and I will happily pay up to a thousand US dollars for a framed first printing copy of “Trump Dood. Wat Nou?“

"Why some US cities thrive while others decline: New study uncovers law of economic coherence of cities" phys.org/news/2025-09...

shake the mothballs and dust out of yr cardigans and prepare the decorative gourds, motherfuckers

This is appalling.

EU 🤝 USA: constitutional arrangements that are a poor governance trap, yet difficult to change

French procurement/defense base shenanigans, and griping about the same, is one of my favorite simmering geopolitical subplots

After several minutes researching reasonableness of Queen Victoria's complaint about her House of Lords statue (that it makes her look fat), I find that it was. (Lost track of post I was going to reply to)

@maiamindel.bsky.social on the Millei crisis: someunpleasant.substack.com/p/homo-econo...

I've been holding onto a feeling that most people don't really interrogate their deeply-held beliefs at all, and it just keeps getting stronger.

The problem isn’t just that Trump canceled a shutdown meeting with Dems the day after agreeing to it. He also presented the public with a delusional list of Democratic demands that was quite bonkers, even for him, making a shutdown far more likely. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Kid prevents a school shooting, gets punished for it. Absolute madness. He could not have reacted in a more ideal way to this situation.

this quote from bruce fucking schneier has me rolling "We could say that you’re dumb, you should have done better. I don’t know," Schneier said, later adding, "She’s in the Trump administration right? You know, what do you expect?"

Oil and gas industries will devastate the entire Texas economy by outlawing renewables before they cede their prime spot and the nature of both markets is such that crashing the Texas economy would be in their best interests

My electric rates are up 15% because our large president shut the renewables off

I think Miller wants to desensitize people to these boat attacks and then start vaporizing migrants.

I /like/ Mamdani but I do not like how he gets wielded like a cudgel constantly, getting stuff like this where you become the enemy even if you say you support him but not with the right words or enthusiastically enough

The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings newrepublic.com/article/1997...

They are abetting his usurpation and imposing on us an utterly alien regime, one far more oppressive and unbound than the one the founders of our republic rebelled against under the banner of natural law. They have robbed us of our power to govern ourselves under a rule of laws. This must end.

The makers of Tylenol have to weigh the pros and cons. On the one hand, Trump is telling people not to take their product. On the other, he's single-handedly spiking nationwide demand for headache relief.

What do you call it? The Originalists.

Backhanded optimism: "you won't regret the surgery six months after you get it"

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

douthat is a liar because he knows that obama did so repeatedly

If that's not you, I'm sorry, that's a skill issue

But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Tiktoker alone.

The broccoli head haircut thing all the Gen Z kids are rocking looks terrible

Resignations assist autocrats — remain on duty until fired, and contesting the firing. Make it harder.

The self styled leader of the opposition in Israel and nominal liberal Yair Lapid declares that he will take no part in a government that has Palestinian citizens of Israel represented in it. Jewish supremacism is the consensus opinion among the Zionist bloc, from left wing to right wing.

Christ almighty. I don't think any single person made more noise about this precise false belief being rampant on Bluesky than I did. But the amount of delusion it takes to look around the world right now and say "the PROGRESSIVE epistemic bubble is getting really bad" really boggles the mind.

revealed preference is that many US elites prefer crony capitalism and promises of a mechanical god to science and innovation

This is a powerful signal of genuine leftism, though

If you think about it, it's a variation of Goodhart's law. Just as any measure ceases to be a good measure when it is a target, a heuristic for navigating conflict ceases to be a good heuristic as soon as it becomes a mechanism for adjudicating conflict.

This is extra fun given how many admin flacks now refuse to identify themselves—sort of the white collar equivalent of wearing a skeleton mask.

Trump once said that he hasn't changed since he was seven, and like other seven year olds, he won't stop crossing a boundary until someone enforces it.

Examining pictures of nieces from last weekend to send to sister: "well, maybe it's best she not see that one. Or that one. The fire looks much closer there than it actually was."

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Pretty remarkable that in 8 months we’ve jettisoned the Constitution and freedom of speech with barely a peep. I’ve seen more protests out of Britain in the last 24 hours than in the US. Yes. I won’t “pre-capitulate” to Trump and assume he can achieve this. But what has he done. He’s declaring

I'm probably overly sensitive - but doesn't this sound borderline admiring?

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

I did not think that threats and bullying would work this well, I have to say. Mea culpa.

I hope people realize that when you do this kind of stuff it diminishes any conversation about the reality of what we’re seeing right now and how to deal with it.

Every baby I have ever known thought it was hilarious when I hurt myself, so what does that say about human nature, Mr. Rothman

of course it was Carr, this is just straight-up Modi-style coercion bsky.app/profile/theb...

Marcus Aurelius, engagement killer