Now that I'm posting nerdy accordion stuff: the geometry of a piano accordion keyboard enables some funny fingerings that wouldn't work on a piano, but nobody uses them in print. I have never been able to tell why.

Since, for reasons, people seem to be posting Battle Hymn stuff again, I figured I'd write it out for accordion.

🎶 two, four, six, eight, time to transubstantiate 🎶

California actually wants people to vote. They go out of their way to enable it. I love that.

also we clean floors with a stuffsucker

Japanese people being interested in LA county voting machines and finding they already worked in Japanese is the most 21st century California story. California: we’re kinda getting the hang of multiracial democracy, and we’re good with computers.

LA County developed a publicly owned and open source voting system that supports 18 different languages. It's ADA compliant. (Though a second generation voting machine is coming out to make it easier for low vision and blind voters). No Diebold, etc. no proprietary black box software

It’s a little depressing, though also amusing, how contemporary this feels.

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES

nigeria??? what, did the epstein files come up again?

heritage leaking like a wicker basket gives me no end of schadenfreude

I respect Mr Vexler and I won’t try to psychoanalyze why he misunderstands the US, but he misunderstands the US.

Well, I know I've heard about there being so much oversupply during peak solar+wind hours that CA needs to actually pay neighboring states to allow us to offload some power. It seems like maybe this is the same issue that Australia is addressing by having free-power hours?

i get DM requests from strangers sometimes and they’re usually scams from accounts that get suspended hours or days later but this one was the weirdest in a while: “hey i see we’re mutuals so i decided to follow you” from some cryptocurrency enthusiast of course

my local subway sandwich shop has been out of veggie patties for months i can’t wait for woke to come back

A friend asked me why a P-8 Poseidon would be circling above the inner suburbs of Boston. I said I don’t know but if I had to guess, it’s probably hunting for submarine sandwiches.

hot take: making up fancy names for particular train lines gets in the way of efficient timetable planning and stops people thinking about the system as a system with reliable transfers. i don’t care what the train from maastricht to rotterdam is called or if it involves a transfer. that’s the goal.

Oh, and after all the millions of dollars spent on advertising, the harmful policies and all the demagoguery... Stop. Picking. On. Trans. Kids. The Rs lost to me four times in six years. That should've been a hint. But apparently it wasn't, so the voters made their thoughts crystal clear tonight.

the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP

So now some minor party pulls out of the coalition and we get a no confidence vote and snap elections right? This is a democracy right?

I am not a socialist but I know the difference between socialism as in trade unions and poverty relief and social housing, and socialism as in gulags and show trials and stealing the seed corn. If any Republican politicians wants this difference explained very slowly, I’ll gladly take their money.

hilarious graphic right now on msnbc as they call it in california

So what's up with Seattle?

governor of florida, andrew cuomo (r-fl)

Please check all that apply

When I first moved to Fairfax, Virginia, my elderly neighbor said he was very glad to see us moving in, because there were too many black people and too many foreigners in the neighborhood, and it was becoming just like the neighborhood in DC he had left. He must be turning in his grave.

'“You can stop donating now. Thank you,” proclaimed the subject line of an email from Newsom’s campaign to supporters last week. “We have hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50.”'

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I kind of appreciate The Bulwark employing Cathy Young and editing out the transphobia. She clearly hasn’t actually changed her mind and continues to publish transphobic nonsense elsewhere on occasion, but in her Bulwark pieces I can see exactly where it would’ve gone and it ain’t there.

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My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

Hey @crunchlabs.bsky.social the rock-paper-scissors machine works a lot better with a dab of lubrication on the plunger. I bet plain vaseline would do the trick and that stuff is a dime for one of the little baggies used to stock first aid cabinets.

somebody needs to do a novelty bluesky account with european lowbrow culture for the benefit of americans @vjpsyverson.bsky.social says it should be me but i feel i’d run out soon and would have to rely on submissions

one underappreciated way in which voting matters is that politicians are very aware of what demographics are most likely to vote, and favor them

reason number 274 why progressives should get over their distaste for running candidates for local prosecutor elections is that somebody needs to prosecute political violence

in which a dutch poli sci professor is asked why on earth some people submit blank ballots and says he has no fucking clue and there aren’t enough of them to do research on so we’ll never know nos.nl/collectie/14...

My take as usual: if you understand what things HRT will do to your body and you really want those things, you will almost certainly benefit. This has fuck all to do with how exactly you identify, which is at once intensely personal and socially contingent in medically irrelevant ways.

i've already encountered left-NIMBYs calling him this

that’s it imma make myself a pantsuit now

the odd effect of growing up near a giant complex of chemical factories is that random loud noises in town don’t bother me since they all sound like this or that pressure valve or malfunction of the flare stacks and if it were serious there’d be a siren

Catholocism has always had weird little heterodox sects syncretizing with some local religion. Tradcaths are like that but their religion is Conservatism. Vance is illustrative here.

One night recently, I got a Signal message Would I be interested in seeing an internal Trump admin memo? I said yes (duh). Then, I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. The memo shows how the VA is making access to health coverage header for just one group: Male vets w/ breast cancer….

He is also wrong. Male, to the VA, means assigned male at birth. People who are assigned male at birth can lactate. The difference in breast development is not directly genetic; it is entirely hormonal. Breast tissue does not care whether the hormones that stimulate it come from an ovary or a CVS.

polandball youtube channel continues to have the best international relations takes youtube.com/shorts/n6i9n...

Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.

today in you can’t just streets that are also highways and hire somebody to blow a whistle at people and expect things to be magically safe

yanukovich was positively tasteful by comparison…

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

in which a dutch poli sci professor is asked why on earth some people submit blank ballots and says he has no fucking clue and there aren’t enough of them to do research on so we’ll never know nos.nl/collectie/14...

it’s so weird how we keep having all these very strict rules about new buildings but if your *existing* apartment is basically guaranteed to drop 7 feet in a perfectly plausible earthquake scenario then good luck have fun