props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

I had a premonition that POTUS is going to give them the tariff money he collected.

I’m asking everyone to vote for a new Mayor by Tuesday and rank all 3 of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in whichever order you prefer. I’ve worked at City Hall for the last 4 years and from my personal experiences I believe the City desperately needs a new mayor. Long thread 🧵

This takes awhile to get going but it’s worth watching the whole thing

I really try hard to avoid giving stuff this eyeballs but whoa nelly, what a ride. Our new Constitution or bill of rights should include that service workers can't be harassed for clicks and views.

The morning kanji practice, with feline visitors.

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 12. Obviously you should vote for Aurin. Becka is my pick for Actual Worst Person Currently Holding Elective Office (In Minneapolis). naomikritzer.com/2025/09/04/e...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold! DELI GUY: #3 on wheat. G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely. DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this

I was in Maine and we decided to drive up to Bangor and take the Stephen King tour through the town. What a stellar walk-through of the town for Stephen King lore. Highly recommended, definitely worth the price for the general tour. share.google/ra3ZRp3Bb84T...

Without downloading any new images, where are you at mentally?

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Uncooperative federalism,” Heather Gerken’s phrase, is quite good. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Y'all wanna be delighted? www.instagram.com/reel/DLwr4yd...

I feel like getting old is mostly saying "oh this fuck again" and gazing into the middle distance. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

The phone from Skinamarink has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

"I have asked the AI to mimic my writing style so you, the reader, will not be able to tell what was written by me and what was generated by the AI" is so much meaner than anything I could say about this fraud.

@aghastronaut.com Someone in my bad movie watching group made this and I thought of you.

Thing sequel / Columbo crossover called Just One More Thing

Reading Animorphs #16: The Warning as an adult and being filled with existential dread as Jake, the leader of the only resistance on Earth and holding the entire fate of the human race in his hands, being swatted in fly morph and slowly dying as his guts are smeared across the inside of an airplane.

Great work, Senator Booker! I hope you hold the record forever (because Dems eliminate it as soon as they get into power again).

I usually give electeds a lot of leeway because that's a job I wouldn't want to do and there are probably dozens of things going on in the background, but Sen. Schumer and anyone voting for the CR are not reading the moment and I'm hopping mad about it.

The war between the US and Canada is going to end with Alaska and the MN boundary waters as part of Canada because our President wants clearer lines on a map.

Fight everything. No one seems to have informed Emanuel of another sports saying: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Who knows who's going to get riled about about what. It's not like the Right is sitting around waiting for the perfect culture war topic to come along.

Yesterday was a melancholy day and I just wanted to listen to the Celeste soundtrack.

"Hey, @johnheimbuch.bsky.social, is your Robert's Rules of Order song on cassette?" "No but it's online" youtu.be/NZA7abnOvbY?... "Great I'll let @sgj.bsky.social know."

I bundled up pretty well for my walk to the light rail this morning but it was still a -20 degree walk.

The "monster in a box" rate in the OG Final Fantasy must be at least 50%. Then after a tear-down fight, it's like "here's an antidote, cheers."

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

This hamb tries to get out the backdoor every time I open it and he succeeded today.

*wakes up and feeds the cats* Okay back to bed. *in bed, thinking of legal arguments* Thanks, brain.

Putting aside legal issues, I find this all immensely frustrating because if Congress was genuinely concerned about data misuse—a very serious issue!—it could, y'know, pass a real data privacy law, rather than a law aimed just at TikTok. But oh no, we're America, data privacy is communism or whatev.

I'm pretty sure I wrote something that echoed this in my college newspaper over 20 years ago about Lunar: The Silver Star Story? Lost to the ages now, likely.

The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!

"The seething resignation of the governed." Damn what a phrase.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? Rad, and they're already trying to rescue a kidnapped Dende.

Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025

I think the Democratic messaging on this is super simple: any attacks on Trans Americans are attacks on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I've convinced myself that Santa Claus Conquers the Martians could be remade as a sequel to Violent Night.

You know what I'm in the mood for? A #cancelparty! What's that? Well, let's peek at our subscriptions and do a little CANCELLING!

Today's Sunday gym album is Nobody Loves You More, by Kim Deal.

This lad bothers me the whole time I'm on Discord in my Japanese language group and now this once it's over.

Friend's monthly bad movie night included Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992), a British film involving a man-sized frog agent that nonchalantly solves a mystery of missing British monuments, and Sir Billi (2013), a nonsensical film that looked like it was made from stolen Jimmy Neutron assets.

whoever is doing Japan's PR needs a raise www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

This is the face of the guy who pulled all my organized workout socks out of the drawer while I was at work today.

3:30 am. Lou cat barfed on the floor, then proceeded to purr loudly in my face. She does not seem to understand I start a new job in a few hours and need my beauty rest.