If Rand Paul is on the right side of history, the world's been turned upside down.

This is my life the past month or so.

When I was younger, I fell in love with architecture & the artistry of landscaping. I nearly made one of those my career before, well, I chickened out & became an engineer because engineers are pretty much guaranteed jobs. This is a tragedy. It's the destruction of art & history, at the same time.

What the actual fuck. It's too late now, but we really shouldn't let presidents arbitrarily redesign *our* White House.

Donald John Trump is now 0 & 2 for attempts on his own VP's life.

Centrist here. Where we go from here is reject the GOP's Fascistic turn over the last 40 years and get back to the path of balancing the innovative power of capitalism against the needs to protect people from its abuses via progressive taxation, public services, strong unions, and trust busting.

For the love of Jeff, YouTube, add an option of "this video sounds boring" to you reasons to stop recommending a video to me. No, I haven't watched it. No, I don't "not like it" - I haven't watched it! It just sounds fucking boring & not like anything I'd ever watch! Stop pushing it!

No Kings includes DraftKings

“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already” how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans

The sane are taking Pepe back from the Kekistanis.

I know I've been blocked by some folks, and I've also blocked folks myself, soooooo... Here's a facebook style meme I threw together in Krita that I'm okay with folks reposting and sharing around. Just remember the alt text!

#NoKings Miami!

When someone argues that radiometric dating doesn't work for something, point out that you shouldn't use a yardstick to measure the distance between New York & London.

And as many people have pointed out, you can gamify the definitions of these terms to actually accomplish good. That's not a bad thing! You should genuinely be celebrating the fact that you've weaponized insanity to improve human flourishing, instead of whining about people playing with semantics!

Smart people can, in fact, be outsmarted. This is a fucking trivial position to take & not a hill anyone would ever have to die on. The smartest people in the world have been outsmarted in specific circumstances. WTF!

Can you quote-tweet where I said you were stupid? Or did you read into something I said what you wanted to hear to make it easier to reject what I was saying? I'll be honest, given some of what you've said, I could see calling you stupid, but I can't find it.

Yes, please, tell me.

Someone didn't read the replies & it wasn't me.

And yet your complaint is that people are consistently creative enough to outsmart your narrative.

Alternative direction, in case @docseuss.bsky.social finds my prior response insufficiently useless. I define "useful" as helping reduce entropy. Therefore, by definition, whatever I do with my money cannot be useful because I cannot violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Can't be added later. I want them to add a new post. It's something and maybe they will remember next time. We have to play by new rules. "No credit" is over. People deserve credit and the public needs images verified. That's the other reason we need sources. There are so many fakes.

I'm obliged to spend the money in a ridiculous and "not at all useful" manner? I assume this means that I can't provide people with a living wage or create housing for the homeless. So I'd build an aquarium that operates at a loss, because technically, operating at a loss is not useful.

I give it four months before I lose my job to loyalty tests. Even though I do not work for the Defense Department.

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present. A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Constitutional amendment to help address the current minority rule problem: uncap the house & set the ratio of delegates to population as 1 representative per 110% of the population of the least populous state. And revoke every state being guaranteed a representative. They've got Senators for that.

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help. My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes. I hate having to ask this

Using ChatGPT

Honestly? I'd be happy with a sequel. There's so much more about both the characters & the world to explore!

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Donald is sundowning again.

@warframe.com let people pick the first circuit mission in Duviri, because as it stands, unless it's a whale playing, most of the time you give us a guaranteed fail between the pairing of forced frame choice & forced mission type. It's bad game design.

There is one thing that universally ruins anything anywhere on the internet: Jimmy Snow starts to talk. Everything would be better if we never heard from him again.

Waterworld was literally 5 times less successful than Tron. Tron made back 10 times its costs, Waterworld made twice its cost. I love both movies, but it's beyond obvious which one was the bigger commercial success.

The original Tron movie produced a movie that made back 10x its costs & is known by just about every living human being. Kind of hard to say it wasn't a hit under those conditions.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Under the common understanding of God, everyone would be better off if he doesn't exist. Especially those with cancer.

Sucks for the AI industry.

I'm looking around at what's going on with me and my friends, and it appears to be our generation's turn to go through the death or degeneration of their parents.

"Mathematically describable" is one of the most useless deepities. Mathematics is a set of languages, with each system of math essentially forming a dialect. They're incredibly precise languages, but still languages. Call something "describable using English" and see how impressive it is.

So my hip has been giving me trouble for the past week or so, and just a bit earlier tonight, I twisted my back in such a way as to cause a very loud "pop" & a lot of weird sensations. And now my hip hurts less.

"You can prove anything with math." Okay, without adding any stipulations to any mathematical discipline, prove that "2+2= pineapple grapefruit".

In the zombie apocalypse, you want highly accurate, semi automatic, firearms (before you eventually replace them with polearms & crossbows as the industry required to produce gunpowder comes to an end and reserves dwindle). Not fully automatic, or even burst-fire weapons.

Why did they green-screen in sound tiles? Like... of all the backgrounds you could use, sound absorbent foam is what you went with?

It's true that the Rapture actually happened last week. If you're still here you are one of the damned. Sorry to be the one to tell you this.

It is with a heavy heart that I begin considering putting a 3000 dollar recliner out on the curb for trash pick up. Admittedly, decades after I originally bought it.

Begone, data scrapers! I shall not fall for your tricks!

This is what firing the scientists from NOAA gets you.

This seems inaccurate. In order to complete any level of Cult of the Lamb, you must kill the devotees of the Old Ones. Which means that 100% of us are killers.