The best version of "Feelin' Alright" is the original version by Traffic

we have a number of people in this country who are literally wealthier than kings, but with absolutely none of the responsibilities that even a *despotic* absolute monarchy has to it’s populace and it’s breaking basically everything

What is "Congress?" I remember hearing tell of such a thing in the misty past, but now believe it may be only mythical

It's so heartwarming to have two chatGPT agents communicating between family members

Have been eating more chocolate lately because at this point, why not

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

I miss when speech to text transcribed what I actually said rather than what some AI thinks I meant to say I can watch it change from a verbatim transcript to weird drivel in real time and it's infuriating. I swear this didn't happen a couple of years ago.

For personal reasons, I have taken leave of my senses

for the potato fears not death

Not a fan of term limits as a solution to anything. The President and many mayors and governors are already term-limited, and I haven't noticed any improvement in governance as a result

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

ChatGPT usage craters when students are out of school. It's clear what's going on: AI has replaced copying off the smart kid in front of you. That doesn't make it unusable in schools, but it's up to teachers to find the right formula. Logan Chapman reports: prospect.org/2025/10/24/a...

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

Preventing health care costs from exploding? Reopening the government? Lowering the cost of groceries?   Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.

Congrats workers on your new hell zone

Wishing you a peaceful day.. #RoseWednesday

At this point, why not

One observation is I don't believe the GOP really is quite pricing in how damaging politically building a gigantic ballroom and Trump paying himself 250m in the open is when people are visibly hurting economically.

*one* of the many reasons we need to get dems back in charge of congress is to do some basic fucking oversight on how many books they’re cooking and how badly they are cooked

I normally think haranguing on nyt stories is mostly misplaced because they do give you the information, but this is malpractive to put in and not mention that the anti-deficiency act was signed in 1985, which expressly prohibits the admin's actions wrt DOD budgets www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

My mind keeps circling back to this tweet from Dan Sheehan, a.k.a. @sickofwolves.bsky.social. Originally posted in 2018. Still relevant. (Unfortunately.)

Source:

🧐The pen may be mightier than the sword, but not when the NYT is wielding it

this RULES

Inquiring minds in Philly want to know: is the construction at 30th and Market EVER going to end? I think it must be on its second decade by now

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

What a sky! #CapeCod

these ones and also the like nine little old people outside their rest home with walkers and signs are my favorite protest pics

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

#IndivisiblePhiladelphia is pleased to share that Philadelphia’s Police Department reported ZERO incidents during today’s #NoKings Rally & March despite 25000+ in attendance. #GOBIRDS #IndivisblePA @indivisible.org @indivisiblepa.bsky.social

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Yesterday I was in a car (as a passenger) stuck in heavy traffic. Passed the time staring out the window at the cars in the next lane. Discovered that fully half were being driven by people who had their phones in front of them, hand-held, in front of the steering wheel

Contrast this report with Brett Kavanaugh's recent description of ICE's raids. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Exactly. Regurgitating propaganda is useless + it sure isn't journalism

I mean, yikes. If even the administration is admitting that they're stuck on minor detail such as "how much, from where, and how to get it to people", folks are in trouble.

The best part of explaining who established actors are to a kid is explaining shit like they know an Oscar winner because he once played a concussed mouse in Ratatouille 8.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Yeah- what he is committing to is transferring money from one pot to another in a way that is not normally legally allowed and then demanding the payroll system process it (with said questionable money), all in roughly 24 hours (holiday weekend) with a likely mostly furloughed office.

In a nutshell, I fear living in a world where everyone believes 2+2=5 "because ChatGPT says so"

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Literally the Russ Vought impoundment thing has completely removed the GOP's ability to negotiate. There is no reason to negotiate.

Making measles great again.