I had a nice chat with Teferi at the Furby dance floor, and we watched two leather strapped demonettes walk by us to the dance floor and Teferi gives me this understanding nod as he walks to their direction and presumably save Zhalfir

the primary motivator for uygur trying to draw these as new dividing lines is TYT revenue vs. expenses

LIVE NOW: it's time for CARTOONS! Every Friday, we get together for Discordian services, where we watch public domain animation and talk a buncha shit. Swing by and check out the stream — all are welcome! #Cartoon Watch: church.fsofcabal.com

Today's adventure: walked to the library (mistake, it was a long ass walk, mostly up a big hill, and hot), got a library card, and took the bus back home. Please clap for my agoraphobic ass

it's a little like the case of McDonald's passing a scalding paper cup of coffee to an elderly woman in a car after the franchise had been repeatedly warned its coffee was much too hot ...but it's much more like the countless cases of bars that have been found liable for exactly that behavior

the big thing here that people refuse to understand is that this isn't about whether this woman deserves $300K because she drank a dangerous amount of alcohol, it's about whether the company should be punished for failing to ensure the safety of their customers

our tort system has two* different purposes, to make victims whole and to disincentivize bad behavior. they’re both important. when people are mad about a verdict it’s often bc they’re locked in on only one of those functions *that I am talking about in this tweet

Looking at you Target you’re dead to me, I see you and your new muted palette ads with soft diversity

I assert that if a company betrays us once it’s over forever for them. If we don’t make the cost of business irreparable, they’ll always just swing to whatever is convenient and re-earn our favor to betray us again.

Too late you lose, plenty of good coffee elsewhere

I don't know who's going to MagicCon Vegas, but I NEED THIS GOOSE MOTHER SHIRT PLS HELP

[normanrockwellguy dot jpg] i think corporations should be held responsible for failing to follow laws intended to protect consumers

Top prosecutor in Florida removed from probe into ex-CIA Director John Brennan after expressing doubts about the probe. abcnews.com/US/top-prose...

two things that cause me cognitive difficulty: i am fully willing to believe allegations about gallego could be true, and i have an extremely difficult time giving allegations from anna paulina luna credibility. we'll have to wait for more and better reporting on this.

The 8 month old apparently likes carbonara

This post brought to you by the 3 miles of high speed stroads I had to ride to get to the Arboretum today. There's no way I could ever bring my partner or our kids on a ride like that. The Hammond Parkway has no shoulder, much less a bike lane.

Damn I was really hoping we'd get a "Haste" shirt similar to the "Deathtouch" one from ATL - but I love the neon teal choice for the Vegas stuff.

This good for many reasons but I'm begging a whole bunch of you to watch AT LEAST the first 20 minutes where Dan talks about young, hungry influencers who will do anything for a pat on the head and some free stuff. Because everyone needs to hear that: whether you're one yourself or just on socials.

Isn't this just Avatar?

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment. That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

"somehow, things are more racist"

In my mid teens if someone had said to me “when you are middle aged, the leader of the opposition is a black woman and the leader of the party polling in third is Jewish”, I really would have had a much more optimistic idea of how the future was panning out.

Having worked for DOGE in any capacity needs to be a mark of absolute shame. When they destroyed USAID they caused the deaths of countless people in foreign countries. Here in the US, they enabled the theft of 300 million citizens’ private info from government databases. They are monsters.

BAD NEWS: Unfortunately, the original bipartisan-supported bill we supported through Senator Mizell’s office was swapped out at the late hour with a bill that does literally nothing to protect survivors. All support has been pulled. But despite pushback, the bill has advanced out of committee.

This MS data center? 1.35GW. Approx 900 or so hospitals worth of power.

Still just mind-boggled over this: "Microsoft’s emissions could surge 44% due to just one West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas."

Caitlyn never thought…🐆

The administration does not know what it wants, except that it expects to be able to shakedown everyone else to pay for its dumb misadventures. Hoekstra and Lutnick are just guessing at what Trump is going to do. And Trump is just going to pick a random position.

In evaluating legal arguments and advocacy of academics like Randy Barnett and Kurt Lash, consider that their statements about the Eastman disbarment reveals that they think lying to courts and the public is neither legally nor morally blameworthy. They think lying is fine; judge them accordingly.

We had our annual board meeting for @modamhist.bsky.social this morning, so let me remind you that Modern American History is a first-rate, open access journal that puts out some incredible work. If you're not following them here, what the hell.

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

at least it'll make England fans feel at home

Wouldn't the "return" trip be FROM Metlife Stadium TO NY's Penn station? The illustrious Grey Lady, foremost source of Real Serious Journalism, incapable of constructing a single sentence to accurately describe travel from point a to point b.

I am under fucking attack

BAFTA really pulling defeat from the jaws lately. So many self-inflicted wounds. Really disappointing as a member.

#ICEstapo

4th Cir., 2-1: it was clearly established law that officer could not shoot (and kill) man having a mental health crisis while holding a hatchet at his waist who never made a movement or indication he would throw it at officer 25 feet away or anyone else. No QI. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

And, yes, that was his appalling defense: he only intended to sexually assault her if she was into it. 4th Cir.: that is enough for specific intent, you sick fuck.

There's a lot going on in here about whether Navy captain's admitted "conditional intent" to sexually assault a 14 year-old he met on base is enough to be legally-sufficient "specific intent" under the UCMJ. 4th Cir.: yes. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/227...

learnt from the very good book on gladiatorial life I'm reading that powerful Roman men generally wanted to be depicted in statues as looking tired and worn because it conveyed them as being hard working and self-sacrificing. which explains all those baggy eyes.

the expectation comes from propagandas about polymaths and so much of it is self publicity but also much of it is just stupidity, for instance who on earth actually needs to know what an actor thinks about any topic thats not a movie or the arts

Evan made a great point and I want to repost it again because I think it deserves better traction than it has gotten.

black slang generates and aggregates meaning across decades of folkways and lived experiences. way before y'all saw the gladiator sandals on the innanet, we were noticing that every dude manning a grill had 'em on. taking it out of context erases that accumulated power.

the difference between foolishness and wisdom is thinking you could take a point off Serena Williams at tennis vs knowing you can beat T Rex at arm wrestling

Yes, Iran is kicking our ass in the meme war but the bigger problem is that the world knows that we had an agreement in place that fulfilled all of the US’s stated goals and Trump ripped it up cuz a black dude signed it and then bumbled his way into a disastrous war of choice. It’s a reality problem

It’s not the inconvenience people long for. It’s a longing for consistency, reliabiliy, and simplicity, appreciation for things that are truly *yours* once you buy them, and being EXTREMELY sick of black boxes, forced obsolescence, product-as-service, and never knowing if the next update is going…

…to ruin your experience. People are fed up with how tech treats their customers, and with the constantly degrading quality of newer technology.

I should have this said in my last post, but if you're not following Julia you should be! She's one of the few national reporters covering disability issues and is doing exceptional and important work.

Every couple of months, I have a new/different idea for the kind of business I want to start in Japan to get residency. Current obsession is a conversation cafe. People come in and practice speaking their second, third, etc language with native/fluent speakers. And there will be a cat.

Absolutely mystified by the recent uptick in white men asking us to let them become better people *in public office*. No?? Please go be a better person not on my dime and not when you’re representing the people you’re doing the slurs about??????