Asimov's, Analog and F&SF outlined most of our current affairs back in the 90s.

@jayapal.house.gov I hear the SCOTUS is asking for more security. Why can't they just do regular active shooter drills like our kids do?

Very nearly at the age where the music of my youth would move from the oldies station to AM radio if either of those were still a thing. Fortunately neither is a thing so we are timeless.

I once worked at a company where some of these were actual possibilities.

One of my favorite institutions King County Library System is hiring, including jobs that don’t need a MLIS degree. Open positions here: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kcls.

@ologies.bsky.social please be aware that Dad Ward seems to have doppelganger who is a German MP. www.instagram.com/reel/Dal1hvR...

Meanwhile, in Guam a couple of super-typhoons have caused around half a billion dollars in damage & the US administration is struggling to sort out disaster assistance. www.guampdn.com/news/sinlaku...

The klansmen & Nazis seem to assert either "Helen was white" or "Greeks are ethnic" depending on convenience. The doublethink is the point.

The word "prepare" comes from the Latin "prae-" (meaning "before") and "parare" (meaning "to make ready") yielding a word that means "to make ready in advance". This implies the word "postpare" would mean "closing the barn door after the horse escapes."

And in Clacton it's Farage vs Count Binface. For those not familiar with UK politics one of these is a ludicrous parody of a Dr Who villain crossed with a dyspetic Silas Greenback from Danger Mouse. The other wears a trash bin on his head.

New: Four Houston Democratic members of Congress on Thursday demanded that ICE and Homeland Security release evidence supporting its claims that an ICE agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in self-defense.

As reported by NHK www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

people talk about what will happen When It Happens as though "It" is a singular Happening but actually there are a whole bunch of Its that will Happen at various times. Enjoy every sandwich, y'know?

Grew up where folks would light yards of red firecrackers all at once & clouds of smoke would take over the street. So I just can't get into the whole summer fireworks thing here.

Vinyl is great & all but have you kids tried wax cylinders?

Fully expect SSPX guy to declare himself Pope & consecrate TFG as HRE.

How much longer before we start naming the heat dome events? I move we start now & call it "Heat Dome Exxon".

Fascinated by pop culture's obsession with canon. Not mere continuity, but a need to know "what really happened" and to esrablish an orthodox narrative. (None of it really happened. It's fiction.)

Meanwhile I'm here looking at the 2024 elections like the Romans looked at Teutonberg Forest.

WotC wanted to make games as big as movies. Gaming grew but movies shrank & at this point I'd argue games are _bigger_ than movies & DnD was a big part of that.

Network TV viewership seems to be declining steadily at around 6% annually. Eventually it'll just be one guy watching reruns of Star Trek. I will provably be that guy.

"The door, locked. Its windows boarded up. The only indicator of what might have been is a green sign at the top of the entryway: 'African-American History'. "The would-be exhibit is one of dozens that were scrubbed from federal land by the Trump administration..." www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

The fact that some lads are out here using their one wild & precious life to hatepost about Supergirl is _weird_. Like, just the fact that there's a girl is rattling their little egos. That is some anti-macho stuff right there.

Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave

Supergirl looks fun. I hope to see it. The fact that things stay in theatres very briefly unless they are a megahit sort if screws up my ability to see stuff. It's like either a film is a once in a lifetime event or it's a miss.

In This Simulation Game You'll Be the Chief Editor of a Newspaper #GameDev #News #80lvl

This coffee pot — called a džezva — is making the trip to Seattle, and will be stationed at Seattle Center on Tuesday, serving 8,000 free cups of Bosnan coffee with an event welcoming the community starting at 6 p.m. at Fisher Pavilion. www.facebook.com/BOSNIAK.ORG/...

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even his policy proposals — free buses, freezing rents on rent-controlled apartments, five city-run grocery stores — weren't all that far outside the political mainstream. The media has conjured a radical antisemitic insurgent out of thin air.

Lmao

Why is Russell Crowe coaching the USMNT?

Why is Posh Spice's husband in all these ads?

Parabéns, Paraguay!

The DOJ is refusing to comply with a federal judge’s demand that top Trump administration officials swear under penalty of perjury that a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is truly dead.

I had a dial up provider I liked. Then one day they started being crummy. Not long after I learned they'd sold out to a national hosting company that kept the brand name & pretended to be the local companies they bought. They got so bad so fast & I fired them. This is a post about mainstream news.

Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships, and using algorithms to help decide who they should meet and sit with, WIRED has learned.

The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar  and Iran , under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.

Noted comic Hey Man goes on an unexpected journey in this series of shorts. www.youtube.com/shorts/WX7of...

Iran will be paid billions, leaving it much stronger than before Trump’s war. trib.al/ncjeQ0z

So lift all sanctions on Iran, pay $300B for reconstruction, another $24B for good measure, we don't get the nuclear materials, and Israel pulls out of Lebanon which they say they won't do. Got it.

When/if Iran gets their billions

if his birthday ends with everyone running from a horde of gnats we are truly on a path to healing the timeline

Trillion dollars. Wonder if he'll spare any of it for his adopted state's screwworm control?

Back in the 90s folks were all like, "Will BillG wind up like Howard Hughes?" And I was like all "Nope." But this 21st century space guy might.

FIFA around and find out, I guess www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/w...

Saw that this weekend is Flag Day. Disappointed to then learn this has nothing to do with Pride Month. It's a shame because hanky code is a dying language.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

“Face surveillance was already a dangerous infringement of civil liberties in the hands of ICE agents,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404media.co. “Putting it in the hands of ICE's local partners will subject even more Americans to omnipresent surveillance and unjust detainment.”

I saw a documentary starring Ron Perlman in the 90s about this

There are whole apps other than TikTok trying to make a go of microdramas. There is a whole streaming service devoted to reruns of a specific soap opera. This is all so weird.