does anyone know the term for the casual honorifics used in conversation in place of someone‘s name (either for effect or because you don’t know their name)? to wit: buddy; friend; boss; sweetheart (non-gender specific, American South); etc. There must be a name for them. and which do you use?

you ain’t leading but two things right now: jack and shit, and jack left town, Charlie Brown.

one reason i’ve wanted to get this nonsense out of the way is that winning the elections is not enough and we need to be talking about what we’ll do when we win instead of catastrophising about it not happening

this aged like bruichladdich

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

Gratified on a clinical level to finally have an ironclad example to point writers to what I mean by “don’t get cute”

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

love to imagine out loud the super-xenophobic reboot of Lonesome Dove

Nichols is a good example of a white person who doesn't understand that fascism can be unevenly distributed. Just because YOU aren't experiencing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This is loser shit.

saw a good post on this & lost track of it, apologies to whoever said it: I understand bemoaning how long it will take to unfuck our country after this, & how unpleasant it will be. Also: 1) it can happen faster than we think 2) say it takes the rest of the lifespan of every 45+y person on here (1/)

Well hit me up cause we're selling individual pieces now because it turns out people are more than happy to overpay in the name of charity one mini at a time DMs open baby

<breaks out the little tin drum yet again> our qual studies last year found limited anti-migrant sentiment, even with Republicans. concern over immigration was entirely about a perception that the border was out of control, which we saw across the board. anti-migrant beliefs are not mainstream.

I failed to get a screen grab but very much enjoyed an AI-generated news item in my google feed about UNM beating CSU 40-10 on the back of a dynamic offense and strong, suffocating defense. That game hasn’t been played yet. it kicks off on Saturday.

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

YEEEEEEEAH BABY LET THAT EYE COOK

looks like a concept album from a very-late-career Conway Twitty

Blood Meridian undid me

okay but whom amongst us has not told some friends that we're only joining them at the pub for one?

I want to thank all the veterans who have served this country, but especially the transgender veterans who served and still desire to serve in spite of being treated like 2nd class citizens by the very country they defend. Thank you all for your service.

increasingly of the view that anyone who doesn't sound like a maniac when discussing the state and future of the various Powers That Be isn't serious

listen to this and know that lamenting time is over, and that we resume that hard, unglamorous work by which the victory will be won

been clear for a while that many of our Dem colleagues - electeds & pros - won’t be in our number come the victory. add a few more names to that list. we’ll do it without them. a friend reminds me: people whose names we don’t yet know will be front & center of the fight, too. we‘ll win this thing

this is it, this is the winner

QED

Oregon and Iowa are two good teams who are about to play a deeply stupid game through no fault of their own

Current Cignetti pulse rate: 65

Cignetti currently demonstrating the level of excitement I associate with a middle-aged dad whose new chili recipe turned out pretty good

saved all the enormity and bare-assedness for the end. worth it.

FUCK ME RUNNING

none of this is either big or nude

some are born orthodontists, some achieve orthodontics, and some have orthodontics thrust upon them

folks can I tell you about somebody else who’s occasionally invisible but always around

out here looking like the bad guy in an off-brand Batman comic. “Owlman’s most sophisticated and dangerous nemesis: The Puffin!”

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

An outspoken minority shrieks "We don't have to be!" while a majority of Tesla shareholders prepare to vote Yes on the question "are we the dumbest motherfuckers alive?"

<breaks out little tin drum again> in our voters studies last year, everyone but hardened Republicans disliked that ad, including most Trump supporters we talked to, who found it mean-spirited or worse. No evidence it worked, and to insist it did suggests a desire for it to have. Which it didn’t!

turns out trans people ARE people

We did it for you Dick Cheney

okay but he’ll always be MY mayor

BLUE WAVE IS ON

Congratulations Abigail Spanberger. I can't wait to work alongside my union siblings to force her to go back on her campaign promise of not repealing right to work.

it's a photo-finish between the cruelty and the stupidity, really

first thing anyone in that damn place has done to make me proud of my degree in a good while