woo go golden state

probably will be, too

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

also America First

now do a meme with the Yellow Kid, sir, you have your finger on the Texas pulse

<grabs microphone> the bedbugs are a metaphor! The bedbugs are <security tackles me, drags me offstage>

is it bad that speculative private investment vastly but _vastly_ outstrips investment in public goods and leads to misallocation and a total inability to do anything good without telling a completely implausible story about financial return? I sure think so. Is this new? Wouldn't that be nice.

and yeah i’m definitely ripping off or being influenced by sontag here and her claim that fascism is pure aesthetics. i think there’s a profound truth there — and i think it helps explain why film and television (and music) can be great art and fascist in a way literature cannot.

Of course the one aspect of the US system the UK would import would be a heavily-politicised Supreme Court that unilaterally decides that decades-old rights codified in law actually aren't, and that what the law actually says is minorities aren't human.

I didn’t survive Monday for this bullshit.

This has always worked for me

was Kid Rock unavailable

The below-quoted is an amazing photograph I never saw before today. Anyway consider what Norma Jean Baker and Theodosia Goodman would have had to say to each other.

the other ten percent is candles

when your Confederate gets in the way of your Neo-Confederate

what to do if your loved one has a good call with Hezbollah

How was your call with Hezbollah?

I butt dialed Hezbollah. I texted Hezbollah but they left me on read. I thought I dialed Hezbollah but I accidentally called Hamas instead and it was awkward.

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta

fantastic photo

I got a sticker!

I mean, arts and humanities and social science funding, too

this is my “I Voted” sticker

No Strait This Month, Happy Pride

and indeed never punished Nixon for Cambodia

“The historians whose work upsets me are the right historians to get upset about and I don’t know why you are upset about the wrong things,” an essay

The thing about a lot of Wall Street research on the Trump war is that it assumes rationality and competence on the part of the actors that's hard to square with what's actually happening.

You know, when you look at all the cases the Trump admin has lost in its attacks on higher ed, and the Title VI cases over protest that schools have won, and what a poor job he’s doing with Iran, you could be forgiven for wondering why any university felt they “had to” make a deal with these clowns

"inventory pressures should drive a reopening" like it's just some kind of hydraulic process

If by "smashed up" you mean spouted a lot of bollocks and then quit government in a huff because everyone was ignoring him, then yes he did.

See, when people suspect I’m pro-AI, I want to point out that I think that these use cases are atrocious

oh well if candy crush businessman mel morris says so

Another reminder that muzzling Waltz in “weird” was a sin worthy of being beaten like a piñata.

university administrators about everything: Where will we find subject-matter experts to advise us?

*hurriedly harnessing horse to plough*: grab the morton's, will you? no no the big bag! the big one!

Have people seen these Chevron signs in California?

Wishing Colm Tóibín a very happy birthday (born on this day in 1955): “Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.”

That will never stop being disturbing. I genuinely thought W was the worst.

"AOC may not be the right vehicle for the revolutionary constitutional change demanded by this moment. But I trust her, more than anyone else in U.S. politics, to approach her own candidacy as such a vehicle, and to decide whether or not to run based on what is needed, now, in this moment."

just reminded me of when i told a coworker i was going to get an icee once and he said “icee?? you are a grown man” and i had to be like “yes, that’s why i’m getting a large”

So much is so wrong but their commitment to being specifically awful about Puerto Rico is just weird

From @timothynoah.bsky.social: "If the Benjamin is a currency for criminals, simple arithmetic tells us the Donald is two and a half times more so." trib.al/YRQ8SGJ

"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him" --J M Keynes

so many times

As noted elsewhere, I think failure is a better term than abeyance (and here I am striving for Madisonian "perspicuity," a word that is no longer much in fashion).

This is @jrakove.bsky.social ‘s music

Are grown people really persuaded by this sort of thing