The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Dr. Oz is a pickled scum-nut kook by choice but at least he moved immediately to assist; RFK Jr. hightailing it like he just saw an angry ghost is probably only the fourteenth most insane thing he's done this week.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

live view from cuomo hq

When you're kind of an unhinged vigilante and you love your little red hat maybe too much but your saving grace is that you ABSOLUTELY hate the right fucking guy

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

One noteworthy feature of every permutation of this bullshit scam (yes, it's a bullshit scam designed to push writers' FOMO buttons) is that it posits vast communities of eager genre readers who don't move or talk until their leader gives some sort of signal, like gigantic nerd sleeper cells.

I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative

The big media landscape is being steadily washed of people willing to defend the idea that we are enfranchished citizens of our nation-states, that we are owed anything, that we have the right to expect anything.

November 3rd. Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

I want Scott Adams to have functional healthcare, because I want us all to have functional healthcare. But note that he spent years as a hysterical opponent of public science and support networks, and now that it's his ass on the line OF COURSE he suddenly wants science and a support network...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

Sleve McDichael couldn't close the deal, on to the 11th

Hits to himself, has a little sit-down, why not

Holy shit two outfielders nearly knocked themselves out like goddamn Minions, that would have been an amazing way to end the series

Tied in the ninth because of course it is. These goddamn guys, y'all (complimentary)

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically. Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

Re. last skeet, see also:

I am utterly convinced that one of the great generational tasks set before us is to crush the societal impulse to be controlling and withholding, to tie strings to every gift, to means-test and gatekeep and tattle and scold. We must drive this stone-hearted shit out of public life.

It really is amazing that when a popular young Democratic politician who wants to solve real problems for people beats an old-guard institutionalist Democrat in a primary, the institutionalist Democrat just stays in the race and basically runs as a Republican.

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

Imagine a world in which this sort of two-faced goatfucking brain vampire could just be chased out of politics altogether

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: (staring morosely out the window of an unlit room) I am given to wonder how and when I must answer for the tally of souls I have laid down upon the altar of this great and terrible cause DONALD TRUMP: THESE MIGHT EVEN BE THE ORIGINAL GOLD SHOWER FIXTURES LINCOLN WOULD HAVE USED

I wanted to do a little something for Halloween, and was at a loss for precisely what, but then I remembered we have a nice big sewer grate in front of our house

It’s about possibly redefining what is possible to ask for through our elected officials. For an entire generation or more we’ve been told; “no that’s impossible or no we can’t afford that” to the point where now we supposedly can’t even afford our ideals.

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

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Did my intake to commence volunteering at a local food pantry this afternoon and let me tell you, after just half an hour of basic description of operations I now thoroughly get why they stress "please just give money, don't buy random food at retail and bring it in" over and over and over.

Hey there, folks-- I'll be in conversation with Fran Wilde tonight at Odyssey Books in South Hadley, MA at 7 PM-- there's still time to RSVP!

message gets clearer and clearer

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Hypothetically what would happen if a country twice elected a lunatic who changes trade policy on a whim, resulting in trade partners realizing it's illogical to have their supply chains be dependent on a country that keeps electing idiots, but said country's economy is contingent on infinite growth

Boston & Western MA - you have two chances to catch the thieves: * Tuesday 10/28 at Pandemonium Books & Games w @fondalee.bsky.social * Wednesday 10/29 at @odysseybks.bsky.social with @scottlynch78.bsky.social

"Trekkies are and always have been men" *Laughs at you in Lois McMaster Bujold, Diane Duane, Diane Carey, and Vonda McIntyre* you stupid bastard

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Pretty cool that the unflinchingly corrupt leader of our country is so dumb, so corrupt, and so malleable that he doesn’t have the first clue who he’s letting out of jail or why.

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

If tax rate was actually all that the rich cared about the way they try to scaremonger the public into believing they'd all be living in the UAE, it's literally all just a longform con

Trump 2.0 remains a live experiment in "can you do authoritarian consolidation entirely based on control of the information environment while repeatedly kicking your own coalition in the teeth" (I don't know what the answer is! the experiment is ongoing!)