duality

I bet there are a lot more yachts with drugs on board than fishing boats.

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

Jacob Marley, looking over his shoulder: Now. Do you see how it's done? Jeffrey Epstein, shrugging his chains into place: I guess so, let's find out.

Once again, Jason shows that Loeb is full of crap.

If the North-going Zax and the South-going Zax had been Mike Johnson and Chuck Schumer, that story would have been about half a page long.

What I got out of the original Toy Story movie is that it’s not my fault that my room is messy, my stuff moves around when I’m not there and when it hears me coming, just flops down wherever it is.

No Kings Day is defined in the Constitution, it is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

There’s a running joke in Doctor Who, where a new regeneration of The Doctor sees the TARDIS that a previous Doctor had, and says, “Oooh. I don’t like it." I think something like that should apply to the first day of every month, possibly every year. Oooh. I don’t like it.

If the next sports franchise in Portland isn’t the Portland Frogs, we’re missing a golden chance.

The public supports the Portland Frog over Trump 73% to %19%, according to the Tadd Poll.

I think we should replace “how do you feel, on a scale of one to ten?” with "how do you feel, on a scale of ‘f*ck this’ to ‘f*ck that?’ “

Have the Magats started explaining $47’s hands and cankles as holy stigmata? I mean, if he’s God, it’s the natural conclusion.

I think it would be nice if Charlie Kirk got a stone as big as the one on Taylor Swift’s ring, except it’s from his kidney.

We need a TV series where a dozen British authors meet in a room, and Stephen Fry and Dame Judi Drench give them a genre, a topic, and a character, and they have one hour to write a scene. The scenes are read aloud and one writer is excused. Repeat until one is left. The Great British Book-Off.

and this is while i’m STILL waiting on my goddam 2024 refund.

fustigatory: an archaic adjective to describe the act of fustigation, which is an archaic word for beating someone up with a cudgel. Now you can look up ‘cudgel’.

acrophobics: A group of people who are afraid of heights, meetings are usually held in basements.

@tkingfisher.com Needs a sign “This Way To The Goblin Market"

kludgey: adjective, from programming: a fix to a problem that is inelegant, inefficient, and/or not well thought out, but for the moment fixes the problem.

flummery can be either a historical sweet soft dessert, or more contemporaneously, effusively sweet insincere praise, as in a Cabinet meeting.

invaginations is when a section of the cell membrane folds inward to surround something, and keeps going until the walls meet and close off into a vesicle. Guaranteed laugh in first-year cell biology lecture.

candlepins is the form of bowling I grew up with in New England, I never bowled tenpin until I moved to upstate New York, and I had to ask why the balls were so damn heavy.

cultureless: the state of a civilization that plows roses under and makes plans for a national pro wrestling event.

Jackalope constellation This is a Jackalope constellation from the Observatory at the Wizards’ Acadeny of Epic Systems Intergalactic Headquarters (it’s real, look it up). @tkingfisher.com , it is my considered opinion that Grandma Harken modeled for it.

I can think of few things that would enrage Robert Heinlein, who wrote of machine intelligences like Mike Holmes, Minerva, etc., more than to see an AI trained in fascism to be named Grok.

I hope that when the Voyager spacecraft are down to the last few usable watts in their RTGs, and everything's shut down except the radios, that JPL tells them to burn all the thruster fuel they have left. Why not? Pedal to the metal, then off into infinity.

Pronouns Has anyone realized that if we all actually did stop using pronouns, we’d all sound like The Incredible Hulk?

Put Rachel Maddox on speaker when you’re in your workshop, because she speaks truth to power tools.

In the 2000’s, the right was run by the Tea Party In the 2020’s, the right is run by the Spill The Tea Party.

Thank God there’s no tariff on popcorn.

I bet all the other letters of the alphabet are jealous that *they* don’t get a month /sarcasm. Happy P R I D E.

Eagles know...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

The government is being ransacked in a way not seen since the War of 1812, and the Pres is tootling around Mar-a-Lago and jerking himself off with meaningless tariffs. What an abomination.

The muskrats have the Treasury, trillions of dollars. This is going to make the Northern Bank robbery look like Moe bullying Calvin out of his lunch money.

You know, for all the training and emphasis we got at USPS about computer security, it looks like DOGE just walked into Treasury with their key card. How did they get past MFA and multiple layers of restrictive server access?

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Well, now we know why they weren’t interested in meeting with the Biden transition team.

When I was a contractor at USPS, I had access to Personally Identifiable Information as part of the work. Every year, there was required training on handing PII. The idea that Elon has just waltzed into Treasury and gained access to the PII of everyone in the country, is absolutely staggering.

How To Be a Writer, #111: Open laptop Look into the void Scream into the void Consider that maybe the void also sometimes feels this way about you Ask the void if it takes milk Choose a nice mug for the void And maybe a chocolate biscuit Lose yourself in the void Tea

DurangoAnarchists on IG giving an example of what information is actually helpful instead of sharing vague ~*Resistance Vibes*~ nothing burgers 🖤✊🏽

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

Two things are true: 1) Indie bookstores have been bouncing back, for at least a decade. Tons of new ones have opened, older ones have flourished. 2) It's a precarious business with tight margins, which needs community support. Sales are weak this holiday season so far. They need us to step up.

women have reported being tracked and stalked by people who sneak airtags into their purses or taped to their cars. absolutely disturbing this has to be written but seriously useful and practical tips here to make sure you’re not being tracked:

Waiting for MTG, Mrs. Jewish Space Laser, to be appointed administrator of NASA.