THIS is when I start whistling and singing loudly, with a little rocking and such. "Loud voices without context trigger my autistic need for comfort." I will tell people if challenged. Dead Milkmen songs are the BEST :-)

Y'all need: bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

I'm past 60. Do you know why us punks wore boots? We called them shit-kickers - we could kick the shit out of skinheads and Nazis. That's why the boots. Also they were cheap military surplus. And comfortable - you could kick five or six skinheads in the balls and your feet still felt great. Now?

And unlike Musky's toys, note that it neither blew out the test structure NOR exploded in-situ. Hmmmm.... almost like NASA still has some institutional swagger. GO TEAM :-)

LICE Lying Immigration and Customs Enforcement

I drive a '17 BMW i3. It is painfully KUTE. Initial range was 120 miles except dead of winter. Last night I put it on to charge after 99 miles w/ 23 of range left. It's not always that level, but battery capacity is about 94% of day one after not quite a decade. Aluminum frame. Carbon fibre :-)

Oh fuck my life, this is SOOOOOO ME. I have client calls every Wednesday. For a few of them I could just use a recording of what I told them six months ago, but hey, it's a billable hour to be on screen and clean shaven and "hmmmm" and "interesting point" for 50 minutes. It's not a living.

Several countries are selling cheap EVs that are small (2-person), easy to park, and have low electricity refill costs. Why aren't we doing the same? I would prefer one over an electric bike instead. How many more people feel the same?

@aprildaniels.bsky.social here's another data point for you.

Remember, kids, Chrome is spyware.

Given the behavior of the supreme court, and the immediate actions down here in the Sullen South, it's kinda fuckin' obvious that it's time to FINISH THE CIVIL WAR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFB...

So I had my training as a poll worker today. I've written about 1k SOPs/forms/etc and taken 37 products through FDA review - in prior life designed and made stuff for Navy, CIA, NASA. I know processes & training. Was NOT impressed. This whole thing still runs on local expertise and tribal skilz.

1/6. No, this is wrong. Not about the fuck up - it was HUGE - but the nature of the Worldcon is that each one is its own organization. The Glasgow Worldcon addressed the Chengdu fuck-up head on and was a model of transparency and went a great way to restore the credibility of the award.

I've been saying and writing for at least a year and a half that the "AI boom" is a fucking con, and the purpose of the data centers is Amurikan style "social credit scores." ... **BEFORE** all the data was exfiltrated from the agencies by DOGE.

My Kentucky Derby winner combo of one of my psychiatric complexes and the last thing I ate? Autistic Pancake

If the wheel is the peak of innovation, why do people keep reinventing it? tedium.co/2026/05/03/w...

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Even when I was amongst the smoking sinning class, I was all for non-smoking restaurants, bars, airplanes, taxis, buses, malls, and etc.

Don't call it "expanding" SCOTUS. And, for God's sake, don't call it "court-packing." Call it **right-sizing** the Court. (There are 13 circuits now -- not the 9 circuits there were when it was set at 9 justices 157 effing yrs ago!) Or call it *modernizing* the Court. Thank you.

And if you crack down on unions, there's no reason for mobilized workers to play nice. Time to break things, eh?

Hmmmm. No, actually, it's not that tasteful. Honestly, I've been a lot of 'interesting' places, and I've not seen anything so tacky.

So far in the ATL we have spotted: red, yellow, black, white, green, and today: purple. They are uglier in color than in their base metal.

Film I've watched many times that isn't one of the famous star wars|trek or marvel or whatever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-KC...

There is actually good history for why we have dealerships - back in the mail order days, who did you take the car to if it was a lemon? Like many solutions to one set of nasty problems, it created even more ...

He's on the REPLACE list. How many current candidates are openly discussing the replacement of leadership?

Nine people were injured in a mass shooting near Indiana University last night, but you might not have heard about it because it’s the sort of thing that happens every single day in America. It’s long past time we did something about that.

Have you played the wikipedia game "catfishing" ? Weirdly addictive. I usually get 2/10 or so. Today I got 9/10 because the random picked stuff I knew about. It's a mind twister. Check it out! catfishing.net

people in positions of media influence on here posting AI and fake videos of Trump to be funny right now are just ensuring people trust the media even less and every time I see one I want to scream! he's already bad enough! thank you for your attention to this matter!

My non-religion believes that securities fraud is a FUCKING SIN, because you don't steal. FFS. Christers - kill them all.

I could never work in that kind of neatness. I require at least three piles of drifting paper undisturbed by modernity, and a jumble of random cables, pens, tape dispensers, rulers, desiderata, and whatnot - at a minimum - in order to get focus.

For all y'all who aren't signed up to get my brilliant and insightful monthly, which I post from inside my Oracular Cave (where the wifi is strongest), here's a look back at predictions from only six weeks ago (don't do that often) plus AI and more! Free! www.cdm.expert/blog/i-might...

AND all movies must start at the published time, not after 30 minutes of bullshit.

No outrage after video of the same soldiers raping imprisoned Palestinians. Hmmmm. MAGA ain't Christian, they are at best Christers, but scratch a bit and you find Moloch and Mammon are their gods.

We all known A*azon tends to sell books bellow list prices, but I've recently found them selling books at below WHOLESALE prices. I know this because I own a store. That's fucked up. Anyways, support your local book stores. Shit's tough.

"Cheese is the one thing that acts indestructible, how much is your blue cross deductible?"

But - it will be a very efficient portal, the trains run every four minutes. You're welcome :-)

I'll just leave this here, apropos of nothing in particular: thehardtimes.net/blog/hegseth...

I caught the end of some vacuous coverage of how "dangerous" the new Claude model is, which is the kind of blatantly obvious PR bullshit that anyone in the industry for a few decades can smell in the first sentence of the presser. #NPR and #PRI and #WABE please: www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-i...

I've noticed this also - my generation kinda sucks, and our kids are kinda fucked up also. Having boomer parents seems to have been a multi-generational curse. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/what...

I gotta say, about book four or so, I though that given a chance, Cary Grant would have made a great Samael. Heddy Lamar as Brigitte Bardo, and Humphrey Bogart as Vidoq. YMMV, but I sometimes saw scenes in B&W like the great old Noir movies.

I am somewhat reliably informed that there are about 2.5 pounds of copper and about 1.5 g of gold in the large Flock cameras. Someone should know that.

I often use Ezra as Exhibit 1 when explaining why progressives, leftists, socialists, communists, and free thinkers all use the word "LIBERAL" as a slur on privilege posturing.

Tax based on weight. Turn if from annual registration USA style into monthly subscription w/ annual tag renewal automated if you are current.

Well, alas, yes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eczema on Black skin is more common, often more severe, and frequently is not diagnosed — and it simply doesn't look the way most doctors are trained to recognize it. @eczemasupport.bsky.social #eczema So we've got a nifty article up that we hope might help, with cites. xz.care/blogs/news/e...

Us Mudders would have been good company, though usually a bad influence...

I was a kid watching the first Apollo launch and landing, on an old school B&W tv in a big wooden box. Flashbacks, kinda sort. I figure anyone at NASA who saw that has only got a couple of years to retirement. What a fabulous achievent!

Meanwhile, the spineless tools of the system known as the @democrats.org can't even pass an internal rule that no AIPAC money can be accepted. Fuckers couldn't find their dick even with professional help.