Just a reminder that FIGHTING is super-effective against ICE. This has been your morning note about Pokémon types. PS: DOUBLE-super-effective against DARK + ICE.

Gamification is the opposite of learning to appreciate the thing for its own qualities.

draining the swamp. Back into the public water supply.

It would be delicious if the "builder" (sic) president were impeached for permit violations.

Our Lady of Vigilance

Nobody voted for a ballroom.

Today's BlueSky vibe summary via furia.com/skyq/skyq.html:

A. And yet, B. I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable.

"...brain the size of a planet, and a bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle. Were you asking about bridges in a specific context? I need to think carefully about this. 'Take me to the bridge' is an iconic James Brown call-out. [generating Python artifact]" Great.

Without context, this looks metaphorical. With context, same.

Rights expressed without corresponding responsibilities can maybe be poetry, but not policy.

I rarely claim any kind of prescience, but I gave up moving pictures because of manipulative backgrounds even before the foregrounds became manipulated.

Scroll flicks until I feel disgusted by humanity: Twitter: 0-1 CNN: 1-2 MSNBC: 2-3 LinkedIn: 2-3 Threads: 2-3 TikTok: 2-5 Facebook: 4-10 (usually 4-5, but at the moment I'm getting a lot of pickleball highlights) YouTube: 4-10 (same) Bluesky: 2-* The Guardian: usually * Reddit: NA I Love Music: NA

I did not think Trump would bring peace to Israel and Palestine, and I will be happy to be proven wrong. I also do not think he will bring peace to Ukraine, or restore a functioning democracy with a dedication to human rights and equality in the US, and please can I keep being wrong.

I do not want to read the Epstein files. I want competent non-partisan professionals trained in criminal investigation and law enforcement to do their jobs upholding laws that exist to defend the vulnerable against abuses of power.

understands only one problem, which is that he is looking at something and his name is not the biggest thing on it.

I hope you already listened to anything from last week enough. open.spotify.com/album/1CxJmF...

Risk, doubt and failure are human traits, but not the ones that *make* us human. You are not less human when you succeed, or even when you know you are going to succeed before succeeding. The thing that makes us human is *intent*.

As a Swift fan I do not claim to rate "super", but even so, listening to Taylor talk to Seth Myers about bread and Travis and music made me feel better about the world and humanity in exactly the way that listening to Oompa Limpa or any of his orcs talk about literally anything makes me feel worse.

I think I could get a Nobel peace prize for proposing that we give Trump a Nobel peace prize in return for him declaring victory and resigning and leaving and taking all his hats and medalions and orcs with him.

when the only groups you understand are current enemies and people you haven't turned on yet, and some of the former are bad people but all of the latter are.

I talked to PJ Wehry on the Chasing Leviathan podcast, and now you can hear us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...

In principle I am in favor of having government. But with this particular government, shutting it down might actually be better.

Temporary Speedboat!!

The nihilist idiocy of nationalism is grimly encapsulated in Trump telling the UN that all the countries in the world are simultaneously going to hell by accepting people from each other.

You might benefit from a spasm of his whim if he sees himself in you, but if HE sees that fetid soullessness in you, so will everybody else.

claim whatever bullshit reasons they can think of for each arbitrary fight picked, but betray themselves every single time by the terms in which they claim victory.

I read this, and I have not had occasion to take an oath to personally defend the constitution of the United States as an officer of its military. If you heard it, and have, you should be busy. rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

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After detailed A/B scrutiny of lossless audio using several of my most beloved and best-sounding songs, I can report that those songs are all still tremendous.

fear cities because cities are where people go for, and to, help.

"democratic": by informed consent of the people "socialism": for the systemic collective wellbeing of the people But government is always a defensive formulation. What I want is infrastructure for channeling the energy of the curious into systemic progress towards joy.

Making cream of wheat with oat milk. Left-wing violence.

that the two secrets to "business" are gilding and bile.

when you work diligently to establish a very particular vibe, and that vibe is "full of shit".

when you threaten to send your insurance lawyer after a former district attorney, deputy attorney general and FBI director, and he texts back a thumbs-up emoji.

telling all of the countries in the world, at once, that they are going to hell for accepting immigrants from each other.

Script note: instead of having Trump pause like he thought he had already banned gravity, we should have Melania climb up the stopped escalator normally, but Trump's aides should help him lumber awkwardly back off the left escalator and around to the right one, which is still working. 1/2

You can't rise to an occasion if you believe everything is beneath you.

In any event, I wish both Sauron and the hobbits well.

You would say a lot of stupid things aloud, too, if you had no internal monologue and nobody ever said anything sincerely nice to you because you are awful, and you can't appreciate jokes or read books, and the last new song you liked came out in 1978 and the one before that came out in 1825.

Meanwhile, telling that there WAS a law against one corporation owning too many local TV stations, and "too many" was 40% OF ALL THE TV STATIONS, and that wasn't enough.

like a chickenpox party for government. (But including chickenpox. And measles, and polio.)

defenders of women and free speech like I am a defender of tacos. (But without the culinary or cultural fondness. And not tacos in general, but specifically some ones I already ate. Also, it will turn out that I have never seen or eaten a taco, and somehow also ate them with a fork.)

"a mine that at this point seems more dead canary than coal" The week well summarized.

The future billionaires and their power-consolidation corporations are trying to sell us is a future of glossy vending machines. The future we want is a future of kitchens.

This government is, unsurprisingly, a reality show, but if it seems like terrible TV to you, that's because none of us are the audience. Trump blurts idiocy and then watches TV to see who can get on his TV first with an asininely obsequious defense of it. Trump is the audience.

"...is a captivating musical project that blends diverse influences to create a unique and immersive sound." Remember to delete the boilerplate "artist bio" before hitting Publish.

If nothing you can do will keep you safe, you’re being given an opportunity to just do the right thing.

The man who gets all his information from television thinks that if he controls television, he wins.