🎶 You know that we are living In a post-material world And I am a post-material girl🎶

There's a direct throughline between this and @slothropsmap.bsky.social's lament that most Americans do zero substantive reading as adults. People find modern existence so cognitively taxing that they react alergically to anything that might increase that load by challenging their priors.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

This is actually a @janecoaston.bsky.social -coded statement

What would you call this? Closing the barn door after you already blew up the barn? @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sodrock.bsky.social @claycopper.bsky.social

Tony Dungy was standing at the top of the stairs in my high school football stadium and I went out of my way to walk up and brush past him just so I could say I've touched Tony Dungy

Lol that's Colt, alright - a law professor at heart (and at keyboard). Whatever our occasional disagreements, his commitment to the mission was never in question. That he feels compelled to leave is a particularly worrying sign, given what he might've been asked to sign to as Acting Chief Counsel.

Tired: "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will" Wired: "We have abolished work and also bedtime"

Lmao the Nimbee has hit the big-time

HOYAS BASICALLY INTERCEPT THE RPO FOR A 90+ YARD FUMBLE RETURN

CAPTCHA: Prove P ≠ NP

...are we gonna do Grenada again?

Contra Don, I don't think it's a banality at all anymore, in the sense that the vast majority of the public has no realistic mental model for how things work in the modern world - and so they have no effective way of judging "objective success or failure" and holding anyone accountable for them.

Elizabeth Economy is, I assume, the Secretary of the Treasury in Jennifer Government

The alt text description of Atomic Habits as "feminist literature" has me actually wheezing this morning, thank you Sky Martini

This also works for Bill Belichick

Preview of the announcement:

An important point for everyone who thinks we can just Glonzo our way into a trifecta through anything and everything (and then what?)

When you ask Mississippi State why they're playing Southern Miss in Hattiesbrug.

This is as good an example as any of how misperception (not to say misinformation) spreads. The average skeeter is reading this and assuming this is some cockamamie embezzlement scheme Trump cooked up, rather than an established program whose most recent iteration under Biden was twice as big.

Army needs to bring back woke and LGBTQ+ Lotsa Good Blocking, Tackling and Quarterbacking + not losing to an FCS team

Taco Bell is a brand that believes in Living AI. You are all examples of the Live AI mentality.

BUILD THE ROSSLYN-GEORGETOWN GONDOLA MCCOURT DADDY

Charles Barkley ass frog

People be pissed all over the place huh

The attrition since January 20 has taken a toll, but DHS had over 260,000 employees as of fairly recently. There is not a 260,000-strong quasi-paramilitary for the right out there, and it's not good to make the normies think there is. The average Coastie, FEMA logistician, CISA cyber person, etc...

Look I am willing to volunteer myself for service as the Democratic MACcoon

Liberal policy institutions are trying to develop policies for use in governance - of course they're going to be more positivist and social science oriented than conservative institutions uninterested in governance.

If you think Third Way management speak is bad, just wait until I drop my "Left and right ideologies are obsolete Waterfall teleologies, while liberalism is the one true way because it is Agile" magnum opus

Did @horsedisc.bsky.social write this headline

FWIW this is a big part of why I think Mamdani *is* a role model, even if I found a number of his policy positions (which are evolving faster than drosophila) to be half-baked. He's a very effective communicator, and the main thing he communicates is "I hear you and will work to help you" vibes.

My "All Politics Is Vibes" Theory rests on a couple of key axioms, and this is one of them. Of course, significantly contributing to this particular dynamic is that Obama being Black gives him +10 to radical vibes, while Biden's favorite album being Liquid Swords is a +30 to moderation.

No no, you see, the press conferences and podcasts are for the *normies* not for me, the Bluesky Politics Knower and Praxis Poster whose Platonic ideal of an ideology sprung forth fully formed from the head of (redacted)

The Third Way thing is dumb, but let's not overcorrect and pretend there wasn't a wave of political gestures and signaling along these lines. Colorado even tried to legally define deadnaming!

Alright, I'll come clean: we the people of Mobile have been plotting this for generations. BEHOLD: our unstoppable sun blocker!

The world passed an inflection point of increasing complexity and a bunch of people decided that man can live by vibes alone

The notion that "there just isn’t enough violent crime to go around in our cities to be directly inflicted on everyone living in poverty in those areas" badly underestimates the everyday levels of violence in and around schools, domestic violence, and interpersonal beefs that go on in many areas.

DC hasn't had a Black majority since 2011 www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/u...

My father-in-law is an animator. It is difficult to get his attention while watching a magnificent show because he is lost in wonder. We were watching a cartoon together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to make it today. I will never forget his answer…We can’t, we don’t know how to do it

The person doesn't leave the office, the office leaves the person

Well, I guess we know what the West Virginia National Guard's mission will be: clear and hold Tenleytown

The relative progressivism of a belief is contextual, and in the US, a detached SFH in a R1 neighborhood is the dominant paradigm of the American Dream and the good life. Therefore, one can believe that the goal of progressive policy should be to enable as many people as possible to live that Dream