A lovely contemplative piece of music - about 27 minutes of processed piano bliss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjs7...

Jesus Christ. These people are as incompetent as they are evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

DID YOU SEND THAT LETTER TO HARVARD?

While this is obviously a good idea, the fact that they have not up until now had such a "war room" speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the Democratic national party and its leadership.

Riiiiight - throw massive tariffs at a country's exports and expect no retaliation? What in the actual... WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? Really. This is unfathomably stupid.

Thinking about Elon saying Empathy is a weakness. Then I saw how his stock is collapsing, and I felt sad that his electric car company is failing, and then I remembered that empathy is a weakness. So, to hell with Elon, *by his own logic.*

Poilievre is cutting off press campaign access because he's afraid. Hard questions make him sad. Mostly it's because he's afraid of being outed as a Russian asset. THAT would explain his entire campaign, as well as his refusal to get a security clearance, insistence on message control, etc.

Stick a fork in it - it's done.

Shumer has officially outlived his usefulness to the Republic. He should resign.

Using the S&P index chart for the past few presidents, Trump v2 is a catastrophe:

La Depeche, Tesla store, Toulouse, France A dozen Tesla vehicles burned at a store in Toulouse, France. Arson is suspected amid global protests and vandalism attacks against Tesla and Elon Musk. Good.

My angle re: Zelenskyy-Trump mess: The peace proposal had European Peacekeeping forces. Russia said nope. It's a base requirement so: deal breaker. So, Trump didn't really have a deal, and so had to blame someone (Z). He hates Z because 2016/Biden. This makes Z the problem, not Trump or Russia.

💥This from the European Commission: “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.” The US’s global standing is in smouldering ruins. Astonishing.

Facebook seems to be down.

A wee reminder: The President signed a continuing resolution on December 21, 2024, that runs through March 14, 2025. Lawmakers will need to pass another CR or complete appropriations to avoid a government shutdown. So, things could get pretty spicy in the next week or two.

Present mood youtu.be/NHblSCUIdCk?...

A study in the UK explains the failure of the left. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rh...

Seen in Brooklyn this AM: an egged cybertruck with a bag of dogshit and also unbagged dogshit

Looks like snow is in the forecast. For like, almost every day this week. Ugh.

The Democrats and what's left of the FBI should immediately work together and arrest the punks who took the data from Treasury. Laws were broken. So PROSECUTE THE LAW. DO INT NOW WHILE YOU CAN. If you don't your weakness will smell like victory to the fascists.

Also: A lovely cover of the song "The Free Design" by Stereolab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN5v...

I'm thinking Trump's Tariffs are a smokescreen for the coup that Musk just pulled at Treasury.

Something very big is happening. The Fuck Trudeau flags are being replaced. This is in Alberta.

Just thinking about Trump's labeling of Cartels as terrorist orgs. IIRC, part of int'l agreements on refugees is fear of terrorism. So, if cartels are terrorists then Mexicans and Central Americans can legally cross the border with refugee status: the opposite of Trump's ideas re immigration. Yay.

Marianne covered this song by Espers. "Alchemical devotions of the night Desanguinate limbs veined with valleys of ice. Children of Stone your crystal cages of light - Crown of Creation - bring me into the light." Her wish has been granted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBUt...

So, the Trumpy FAFO at the FAA was a fast mess. ➡️ January 20: FAA Dir. fired ➡️ January 21: ATC hiring freeze ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

I like the Star Trek mythos, I felt that I should see the latest, Section 31. Do yourself a favour: don't. The writing is laughably bad. It left me feeling like it was cooked up in ChatGPT. The actors were competent and did as directed, and the direction was awful. It was bad. Stay away.

It's going to be a long and miserable four years. www.ndtv.com/world-news/d...

Their music is hysterically funny. It's fairly energetic metal and this parrot just shrieks over it. If an LLM can be a conversation partner, Waldo can sing in a band. In a world of chickens and pigeons, be a Waldo.

Trump announced "the External Revenue Service" and how he will tax foreign countries. WTF? Tariffs, I guess? This man is an idiot and clearly has no idea how that sort of thing works. At all.

Fran at Franlab explains why she's not going to high profile concerts. (TLDR: the ticketing companies are fucking evil): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PT5...