Keep fighting? You were fighting and then you gave up. You folded like a house of cards RIGHT after your party's voters showed you they were behind you and liked what you are doing. Lucy is NOT going to let you kick the football. Not this time. Not next time. Not any time. Wise up, bro.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

THIS!!!! For everyone I know in California, this right here!

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

But I will give 10:1 odds that @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will be right next to those pundits making the argument against meaningfully helping the people who voted for them and who they nominally represent.

as recently as this morning I would have said "there's nothing that can possibly happen to make me wish dick cheney could have lived just one more day"

If you have 8 million to just *give away*, you can afford to pay more tax.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Took her into the vet yesterday evening after she took a tumble. Turns out it's nothing serious; slight inflammation (possibly because of the fall) and a small wound on her rear foot. Because of the wound, she gets THE CONE OF SHAME!!!!!

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

"If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday." Truth being delivered by @monteiro.bsky.social buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

I'm reminded of this famous clip from Dr Who tonight, for some reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYo...

Anyone paying attention to late night for the past decade is unsurprised. Fallon is a disgrace.

how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"

@steveinskeep.bsky.social as a sustaining member of @opb.org I'm extremely disappointed that you and @npr.org chose to platform the book tour of one of the folks that lead to your organization being defunded. Why should I keep funding NPR if they keep bringing this nonsense to my breakfast table?

What do you mean… you have “registered” for the protest???

As they say, love the writer (@monteiro.bsky.social), hate the topic. Aside from one year a decade ago, I've been doing my best to stay out of the "Building The Torment Nexus" business for a couple decades. Not a perfect record, but the world and I both ain't perfect. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

@gameonysus.bsky.social dropping truth bombs. My initial intro to Waypoint/Remap was @patrickklepek.bsky.social guest starring on MinnMax. I loved @gameonysus.bsky.social being an unapologetic Horizon-stan there and her presence tipped me over to be a library tier member. #DontStopNKeepDroppin

Remember when all those Republican governors ordered flags to be flown at half-mast to honor the lives of MN state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette? Yeah, neither do I.

So, April of 2024, i gave keynotes at two separate business and data science industry conferences, and told them exactly this was going to happen: That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.

You think this is some sort of game? Do ya!?! No, buckoo, this is REAL LIFE!!!

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

Agreed with the Cooler Heads here. This act of political violence may one day soon serve as pretext to justify federal occupation of progressive cities or even unaccountable militias imprisoning people of color without due process at impenetrable, inhumane black sites. Well, I sure hope not!

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

Charlie Kirk advocated for and promoted political violence every day of his life, and his work is a large part of why we are where we are. Do not weep for Nazis.

it’s possible to 1) note that the shooting of charlie kirk is the direct result of a culture and politics that he spent every single day of his adult life cultivating, without 2) celebrating the act of violence itself. but some people are going to do 2, and also anyone doing 1 will be accused of 2.

This is apparently a real headline, not just some Photoshopped screenshot... www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

Saw this while swinging by the gift shop at the Contemporary. Here I thought this was a family establishment!

When the kids plushies get into Mommie’s little helper.

Fucking all of this. blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-0...

You know this, but for your readers: If we keep up this trend, we are on track for "the last time Baltimore had a per capita homicide rate this low was literally two generations ago"! We literally will have more than cut it in half in three years! 2022: 57.9/100k, 2025 projected: 24.2/100k.

At @dragoncon.org and saw a guy with what looked like a six-month old in a baby bjorn. I congratulated him on an excellent chest buster cosplay.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

One of the themes of Dungeon Crawler Carl that hits me every time is when someone from the outside is aghast at being treated like a crawler. “This isn’t fair!” I’m a real person!” “This is cruel!” It was always cruel. You’re just a psychopath.

Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

Biden would use almost none of these words. Biden got bodied. Mamdani would use most of these words. Mamdani is cleaning up. Democratic consultants don't know anything. "Change your words to appeal to the people who are mad at the Cracker Barrel logo!" is just bad advice.

I'm not a programmer. My first week at "the cat picture company", I got a "starter ticket" to fix some weird, edge-case display bug. It should have taken a day or two (mostly learning tooling and process). Eight days later, the root cause was in the framework and handed to a Sr SWE. #OnlyOneExample

It is sadly ironic that those working for managers and executives who should read this likely don't have "Fuck You" money to allow them to forward on the article without fear of repercussions. www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-memo...

Scalzi told the entire truth. Most of your classics suck.🤷🏿‍♂️ And if there was a book written by a terrorist like Abubakar Shekau, that advocated slaughtering white civilians because they were inferior, US schools would never assign his books to white students. But I had to read Heart of Darkness?