LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Oh my GOD. Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit. To non-lawyers: this level of incompetence is BREATHTAKING. It is absolutely incomprehensible. This is a "mistake" that will be taught in criminal procedure classes for GENERATIONS.

Depending on where and how much ChatGPT is used in TurboTax, it could either be really effective or a shocking disaster. I wouldn’t write the effort off out-of-hand… but I also wouldn’t put money on them getting it right any time soon.

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Seeing amateurs who think experts just take too long and are too worried about details attempt hard things and then fall flat on their faces is one of the joys that makes it so hard to stay away from Trump news. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...

Huh. I guess "Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate" *is* fewer syllables than "We hope you're desperate enough for small comforts at this moment in time that you'll ignore Starbucks' striking workers and Target's embrace of fascism."

I needed a break this weekend, so I cooked up a little incremental game prototype where you build a data center, ruin the world, and doom humanity with AGI #godot #indiegamedev

Americans became obsessed with Harry Potter when they should have embraced Carry On, in this lecture I will…

Jamie Raskin heard people saying on Blue Sky that if you are happy about the DJT / MTG breakup that *does not* mean you'd welcome her into the party and he said "oh, we can't have that." As I've observed before, the Democratic Big Tent only has an opening on the right side.

Any tent with MTG in it is a small tent, she doesn’t like other people.

I get this. But I also understand the worry it causes. I’ve watched the Lincoln Project so I know how the story goes.

We need to ask why “abandon the winning strategy” is the advice given so often by people who claim to be on our side. And why politicians keep following it despite it never helping.

Didn’t Depeche Mode write a song about this

Pfft. People existing in public is disgustingly performative.

"Is this time-effective? Of course not. We’re dispersing the labor previously done by one person across five paid employees and hundreds of parents and guardians. But is it cost-effective? Also, no."

In re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Do An Abundance Of Popularism and Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & such

I think we have to not vote for politicians who run against their own party as part of the strategy. We have enough problems, we don’t need to magnify them by electing folks who aren’t on our side.

This thread is a perfect illustration of why e-bikes are an absolutely mobility gamechanger for so many people. (NB: We need to forever bury the idea that e-bikes are "cheating")

It's Friday so it's time to identify another ten lyrics! Last week five people guessed eight of them, which is pretty dang good. Of course now we have to it all over again. www.thudfactor.com/friday-10-wh... #blog #music

Taken a crack at @thudfactor.com's Friday 10? Then try out mine! Didn't even know it was a thing? Try out mine, then go do Thud's! filmoptimist.blog/im-not-shy-s... #blog #music

It's Friday so it's time to identify another ten lyrics! Last week five people guessed eight of them, which is pretty dang good. Of course now we have to it all over again. www.thudfactor.com/friday-10-wh... #blog #music

"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

GOP gov. Youngkin stepped up to replace at least 25% of missing SNAP funds from Virginia’s surplus. That was before the election. After the election Trump squawked and Youngkin killed that program. Even though it wasn’t SNAP. Even though the money was Virginia’s. cardinalnews.org/2025/11/13/f...

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Actually it’s making the appeal of “use AI to write emails!” much more clear to me.

"Slop" fast became one of those terms where using it unironically to describe a movie that actual people actually worked on sends up HUGE red flags for me.

A French engineer got a lot of news coverage for solving the Zodiac Killer case. But what's the real story? Find out in my latest video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=esXR...

I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect

"Primary them all" is laziness and if you are too lazy to figure out if your senator / congressperson is harm or help, you are probably too lazy to judge a replacement. Fortunately, @joshtpm.bsky.social has a framework. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

I started doing this as an experiment a few months ago and other folks who have seen me do it have taken up the practice without me even evangelizing the effort; once you see it, it's just so obviously useful.

If I wanted to feel like an entrepreneur I’d start a business.

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

What little CS knowledge I have was hard won over a long period of time. I still don't really care for it, except where it's pragmatic enough to help me make better decisions while I work. If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.

Hey, remember when the Democrats ran for decades on “elect us so we can keep reproductive rights” and then SCOTUS overturned Roe and Democrats didn’t even have a communication plan in place? Good times.

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Tim Kaine sent out a letter to his constituents saying he really believes we can win this ACA fight but only if we work together and stop the infighting. This is rich coming from someone who was part of only 8 senators to break with the caucus.

Putting aside arguments around this capitulation about strategy vs. people suffering vs. effective protest vs. shooting ourselves in the foot etc. etc. etc., increasingly my big problem with Democratic leadership is that they leave me grasping for what, exactly, the party stands for.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

GOP politicians run only towards their most right-wing base, while Democratic politicians are constantly running *away* from their base, then getting pissed when the base doesn’t turn out.

There’s some sort of law of conservation of defeat that says the Democrats must respond to extraordinary electoral shellacking of Republicans by giving the GOP another unearned win.

OMG I am never going inside one again

Of the ten we started with this morning, only two remain. The bookend lyrics of #1 and #10 are also, coincidentally, the most political songs on the list.

Looking for a few moments' distraction from the madness of the world? Stop by my blog and take a crack at identifying ten random lyrics. It's the Friday 10! #blog #music

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At least George W Bush wanted to put food on your family.