Wow — that’s pretty comical. Not sure how this person managed to so horribly mis-read everything I’ve said on this platform.

@joncooper-us.bsky.social posted the front page of the Daily Telegraph that included the article below—First class stamps going to £1.80. That’s $2.40 compared to $0.78 for a USPS Forever Stamp, which can send something anywhere in a country 40x larger. The UK Post Office was privatized in 2013.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to all who celebrate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’ve been re-reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, 40 years after the first time. Currently on book 5 (The One Tree). One to go. I hadn’t realized there was now a third Chronicles, so decided I’d better revisit the originals before starting on that.

Was Iran threatening to release the Epstein Files? Might explain things.

Post old memes to confuse young people

One of my favorite books in this category is Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster. The first line is “It’s hard to be a larva”

Maybe if the GOP wants to still have any kind of influence in our politics after Trump they should fire Mike Johnson, and make Rep Massey the new speaker.

I only Nixon had said “who cares?”, rather than even trying to cover it up.

“MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.” — very succinctly sums up my POV. Also the conclusion that when Democrats take back power, they can’t just do “unity” politics.

So we can now see the Grand Bargain struck between Trump, Putin, Xi, and MBS. • Trump takes Venezuela and the oil • Putin and Xi look away. • China invades Taiwan. • Trump and Putin looks away • Trump disables US weapons in Ukraine • Russia invades Ukraine. • Trump looks away. NATO falters 1/5

Bubbling this up in case you’re curious why Trump thinks we have any claim on Venezuela’s oil …

We should redact all photos of Trump until they release the full files. No more views of his pedo face. Who’s with me?

If Biden’s DOJ had done this, what would Trump have said?

Only one more sleep until the full Epstein Files are released. Of course I can think of one person who won’t be sleeping tonight …

Did we get the 15 day drop from DOJ per the Epstein law? I feel like I must have missed it

I’ve played every Call of Duty since the first one… but only ever for the campaign. Not interested in multiplayer. This new one only has online co-op campaign. It started pulling other people in and I quit and uninstalled. I stopped playing Battlefield when they did this.

Hey @cnn.com … Your article talks about “massive AI investments”. Maybe connect the dots better? AI has always been seen by billionaires as a way to reduce headcount in favor of controllable IT spend… particularly software engineers, who are often highly paid. Just look at Amazon. Please do better.

Feelings … Nothing more than feelings … Trying to forget my … Feelings of love

Is the Epstein Ballroom built yet, or are they still doing asbestos abatement after the fact? Maybe they’ll just ignore it, and everyone that visits the ballroom will get mesothelioma.

Thinking about Taylor Swift’s song Wood, and what it says about all the poets she dated before. In the UK we have a saying - “all mouth and no trousers”, which seems particularly fitting here

As an avid video gamer I finally have a way to do my part to ensure the value of all Saudi bribes paid to Jared Kushner drop to zero #BoycottEA

Dear God — is there any way we can double this rapture up with a reverse rapture where a whole bunch of bad people go straight to hell? I feel like this combo will fix a lot of problems. Thanks

Man Flu may be the worst disease ever. And Man Flu A is so much worse than Man Flu B (though Man Flu B sufferers may disagree)

With Trump gone, will the trance finally break, or will the GOP members of Congress let JD continue the slide into fascism? More importantly, with Dear Leader gone, will MAGA let that happen?

So if Cuba invaded Florida, or Mexico invaded Texas, Trump thinks we just let them have it in the name of peace? Is that our foreign policy now?

Getting fed up with headlines like this. Oh, the Model Y refresh isn’t selling like crazy? When I see a new look Model 3 or Model Y, my first thought is that Elon being a Nazi wasn’t a deal breaker for that person… But for a lot of people it clearly is. Want to get sales back on track? Kick him out!

I wonder if the hundreds of child victims think it’s a hoax? Or Ghislaine Maxwell, sitting in jail. I don’t think Trump realizes this isn’t going away.

This story seems to miss the point a bit, and maybe the car makers are too. One challenge with electric cars is how heavy all the batteries are. Perhaps the real clincher here would be making a car with 500 mile range with 1/3 of the batteries so it weighs the same as an ICE car but costs less

One thing that doesn’t get covered in movies about WWIII: As NASA and SpaceX have shown, rockets blow up a lot. And it’s not like we recently tested those ICBMs. How many would blow up in their silos and turn the heartland into a nuclear wasteland, whether or not anyone else was sending theirs here?

This story seems silly. Ryan has invested in multiple companies and sold them for peak valuations (Mint Mobile, Aviation Gin). They paid next to nothing to buy Wrexham AFC, and even if they invest $100M into it, they then sell it to a billionaire and make bank.

Saying “new phone, who dis?” instead of “I do”

Another article that misses the point. They don’t care about future hiring into the Federal Service. Elon plans to eliminate all government employees, so there won’t be a Federal Service. How hard is this for Democrat lawmakers to understand?

The thing is, if a President can override their predecessor’s pardons, then the next administration can just throw all the J6ers back in jail. Except no they can’t because that’s not how the Constitution works 🙄

I was curious about the Opeth album “In Cauda Venenum” (Latin: poison in the tail), and specifically what modern words derived from “cauda”, as “venom” was clear. Coda was obvious (tail end of a piece of music). I wasn’t expecting “coward” where “-ard” means “one who does”, as in “turning tail” 🤯

Remember no matter how bigoted this administration gets, there’s a cargo ship out there named Phenomenal Diva, just taking care of her business

Waiting to see the building designs for DOGE HQ, and have them say “we wanted to ensure every office had a window, and it turned out the optimal shape was the swastika”

So Congress no longer has “the power of the purse”. This unelected oligarch can direct Treasury money wherever he wants. So what is the role of Congress?

Oddly enough, the movie Civil War depicted a war where California and Texas banded together against the Federal Government… which seemed so far fetched in our Red/Blue mindset before Trump: The Sequel. But CA, TX, and NY pay the most Federal taxes, and may be the most aggrieved if the Fed shuts off.

It’s worth pointing out that this is almost exactly what Neville Chamberlain said, right before the Nazis rolled through Europe

It seems like Musk is getting the Government Shutdown that Congress wouldn’t let him have in December. So now he’s just shutting it down from the inside. The question is: Why We are way past time for Congress to pull this unelected unvetted unapproved citizen before some committees, and ask him!

As I get older I’ve found that if I’m in a room with multiple people talking, I can’t pick out individual conversations. Pretty sure I have astigmatism of the ears

Something about this screams “mood swings”

I understand it may be tough to try to jail someone who is about to be President. So sentence him and defer it until he leaves office. Being President doesn’t just wipe the slate clean

Trump seems to be repeating is penchant for nominating candidates he knows won’t get confirmed just to troll and cause chaos, so when he fires them or they back out, he can put in someone only 80% as crazy, and we’re all relieved. Gaetz, Gabbard, Hegseth all seem like peak trolling.

Hello Sky Dwellers. I’m new here, but really feeling the love, so let me introduce myself… I’m Steve, I’m a software engineer living and working in Silicon Valley but originally from the UK … I build enterprise systems by day, and spend my free time mocking Elon Musk and building the blue wave 🌊

It seems like AI really will kill us all — just not the way Hollywood told us