Starting to think BlueSky is DOS'ing itself via vibe-coding again.

VA redistricting called by MSNOW as passing. Suck it, Texas.

Rounded to one significant digit, I am slightly healthier in American units (6 feet tall, 200 pounds, body temperature 100F) than in metric units (2 meters tall, 100 kg, body temperature 40C...or 300K which might be worse).

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I'm starting to wonder if "progressive" memes that look like they use the same AI meme generators as the MAGAts use are actually an op, to play the "both sides" card in visual space. (Seriously, if you want to make leftie memes, study MAGAt memes and then DON'T LOOK LIKE THEM.)

While "Born in the USA" still tops my list of songs that Americans love to play but don't understand, I think a more long-lasting and insidious cultural impact has come from misunderstanding "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree." 1/

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18. (I decided to narrow it to my favorite the month I turned 18, made picking easier.)

Really getting tired of foods I used to like going down the enshittification path of "hot is a flavor," where they just add cheap heat-spices to cover for lack of actual flavor (or bad flavors). It's like the bad old days of adding lots of spices to cover for spoiled meat.

Status report, "A moment of vagueness" dep't: www.cafepress.com/shopdetail/S... 😏

Will the Strait of Hormuz stay open? Well, keep an eye on any White House insiders buying oil futures....

But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Tuition and intuition do not.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

I've already bought and read all three of them (two novels, one novella or novelette or whatever...a prologue that got out of hand and was spun off, basically). I do recommend 'em, in case that wasn't obvious.

(Facepalm) publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo... Yes, the fake Bible verse Tarantino pulled out of his ass has now come out of a different ass.

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Must suck to specialize in any of the two or three art styles that GOP meme generators use in their prompt templates.

Police budgets often get compared to the Dril "candle budget" post. Civil forfeiture laws mean cops can basically just take your stuff and add it to their budget. And yet, charities for needy cops and their families still exist. This strongly suggests a LOT of money vanishing down the graft hole.

We're approaching a sort of financial Rapture, where they just start emptying everyone's bank accounts into their own pockets in a mad dash to take all the money before a rival can do so, in the hopes of Winning Capitalism. Then everything collapses and the survivors go back to barter for millennia.

A movie couple that would definitey have a podcast

As a lapsed "cradle Catholic," I am immediately suspicious of anyone who's already Christian and decides, "You know what? I want to join the confession that has the reputation as having the most rules, regulations, and hierarchies." Like, the Church has relaxed lately, but still.... 1/

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to those who observe.

MSNOW Weekend Prime Time Panel: It's a crying shame how the political discourse has gotten coarsened by all the swearing politicians are doing now. MSNOW Crooked a few minutes later: And here's everyone, including MSNOW anchor Alex Wagner, cussing like soldiers.

in addition to this (which i agree with), something that should put some wind in your sails is that orbán actually *was* the competent competitive authoritarian (relatively) everyone worries about, he had a stronger grip on power than i think trump ever has, and he had it for far longer

Meanwhile, the framing of that shot makes it look like Orban has a mullet.

"You've been charged with being cool as shit. How do you plead?" "Guilty, your honor." "Bailiff, give this man a Baja Blast and drop him off at the nearest arcade with a cup full of whatever coins we in Ireland put in arcade games."

While I don't plan to get any of the big armored dino toys, I am impressed by the pilot action figures from the Armorsaurs line. They use a 3mm socket accessory system and come with big sprues of weapons and armor, plus utility pieces for connecting things. Good articulation for a $10 figure. 1/

I remain surprised at the paucity of Final Fantasy Leo XIV memes.

So many news anchors pronounce Orion as "orry-on" and it makes me want to drop a satellite on them.

itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg... - Also bonus games from Paizo, Renegade, and Evil Hat, but you have to scroll down the left side of the bundle page to find a survey link. The provide the email you use on those companies' sites and submit.

Melania and Ghislane: Toxic Yuri.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

One of Hasbro's big...maybe not failings, but sources of disappointment...is that they'll put all sorts of nifty details into a mold, but then utterly cheap out on paint apps. With this Alpha Trion, only the molded moss on the back and a couple other small bits was painted (poorly). I fixed that.

Reefer Madness has been resurrected, only now they're calling it "THC Psychosis." Same scare tactic claims. (Gee, a lot of people are ending up in psych wards with THC in their system? Ever consider that maybe they were self-medicating with pot because our mental health care system sucks?)

On the other hand, you have what I think of as the "holystone problem," where you spend way too much time and energy trying to avoid anatopism. In this specific case, by trying to make the term work anyway via excessive showing of the rest of the iceberg. 1/

Speaking as someone who grew up in Waukesha and have been extremely uninterested in going back: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?

JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight. Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat. This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2. Why it matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

Regarding the 25th Amendment: if the President is still able to walk and talk, he can just say, "I'm not incapacitated, gimme back the keys." Congress can vote to say no, but it requires more than a simple majority, so if you have the numbers to make 25A stick, just impeach him. It's stronger.

Maybe DON'T dial back, because every horrible norm-shattering and law-breaking thing he's done in the past year or so has been preceded by people telling us to calm down, that he would never Do That Thing. He may have a solid record of backing down, but he also Does That Thing pretty often.

A civilization may well die tonight. Ours.

I spent a year working alongside Doug's older brother, who looks very similar to Doug but ended up a chemistry professor. :) (Also a decent person.)

I tend to get this sort of thing on desktop at work. I think some of the security companies like BitDefender have it out for sites like BlueSky and DuckDuckGo that aren't run by one of their big clients. (DDG image search thumbnails are all blocked by BitDefender here, and BSky loading is slow.)

Yeah, at this point the Iranian government almost definitely wants the U.S. to start doing war crimes on them. It will cost us allies and standing, and might even get other nations joining the fight on Iran's side in their absolute best case scenario. We were too racist and sexist to not elect him.

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