Great example of someone taking their own preference and turning it into a moral failing for any who don't share it. I also don't like getting into a car that smells of fast food (especially old fast food) but I don't compare people to serial killers for it. WTAF? People need to stop doing this.

For some reason I keep thinking about my poorest days 40 years ago, and realized I *can't remember* what kind of clothes I wore, where I stored them (certainly no closet/dresser), how/where I did laundry, etc. Plenty of memories before and after, but a disturbingly precise hole around that one time.

The anhedonia is hitting hard tonight. None of my usual forms of recreation - books, TV shows, music, video games - appeal to me *at all* right now. For the last couple of weeks all I really want to do in the evening is get to sleep as soon as I can. Bleh.

Oh yes, do tell me how this isn't a cult.

Final shirt tally: 8 to fabric recycling 12 to the chores-only pile 43 still in active rotation 6 more on the way

I'd feel a lot more inclined to give bluesky the benefit of the doubt on the new guidelines if I weren't constantly the target of blatant rules violations, including coordinated harassment campaigns, or if reporting them had ever even once had any effect. As it is, no. #blueskycensorship

"Funny" t-shirts have been one of my things for ages. I used to buy them regularly, but I've slacked off for the last couple of years. Too many warped, frayed, and/or stained. So I just bought a half dozen new ones. Soon I'll cull the current collection (about 50 in active rotation) and buy more.

Not only did the Colts win, but they won by *exactly* as many points as my spreadsheet predicted. One down, two to go. #nfl

Those are supposed to be pumpkin pies. That's not the first thing that came to mind. 🤣

If you believe in restorative justice, you have to believe in it for people who aren't your in-group, and even for people who have harmed your in-group. It's not *any kind* of justice if everyone involved has to be far away from you.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Tech protip (hi Circular folks): if your servers are overloaded, punt some of the expensive stuff (e.g. so called AI) to a separate lower-priority queue. That will let you respond with the basics in a more timely way.

Aa a former open-source maintainer, I believe that "It's OK if our feeds and moderation suck because you can build your own" is a shitty attitude. We could *always* have built our own, but the whole point of this exercise is supposed to be a stable and decent baseline.

Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA" Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?

Between the Homan allegations and the "oops" DM to Bondi and free-speech-gate and a whole lot of other things that even Republicans are getting outraged about, it really feels like the wheels are starting to come off. Faster!

If this Circular 2 can't even get sleep analysis results (servers broken) then it's useless to me. Researching alternatives that don't require a subscription, and ideally that do processing locally so this can't be a problem. *sigh*

My Circular 2 ring hasn't been able to finish a sync for two days. This was one of my concerns buying it. Without a subscription fee, how do they pay for servers? The ones they have seem badly overloaded, but not quite dead. Only had it a couple of months, too. 😡

There are plenty of DEI hires in Trump's regime. Their version of DEI stands for Donald Expressed Interest. 🤢

Babies and elderthem, this is the president's pick for a US Attorney position. Never prosecuted a case. What kind of qualifications does Trump actually look for? Oh. We know. Blind loyalty, and... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...

I called someone out for ableist behavior. Now all their friends (or OnlyFans subscribers) are making all sorts of bogus reports against me, and bsky moderation is happy to aid the brigade. Again: spoke up for a marginalized group, got hate for it, bsky moderation helps the haters.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

I am now haunted by the idea that UPS trucks are predators.

This was giving me deja vu from when I was reporting on Brendan Carr and Project 2025 last year. So I did a super quick review of his tweets and yeah he posts this creepy GIF of Jack Nicholson a LOT. Including to Brian Stelter multiple times

Power matters. The same words directed at a member of a marginalized group or at a member of the dominant group have very different effect. Using anti-discrimination laws, designed to protect the first, to protect the second is inappropriate at best. Using them *only* to protect the second is evil.

What the Washington Post did in firing Karen Attiah was reprehensible, but I think most of the awfulness lies in the *general concept* of social-media (or general off-duty-conduct) rules for employees. Even without WaPo's selective enforcement those are evil. They enable state censorship by proxy.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

Coast Guard showing you can stop the drugs and apprehend the criminals without committing possible or likely war crimes. maritime-executive.com/article/uscg...

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Today would have been my mother's 84th birthday. This is the last picture I have of her, from about a year before she died. Our relationship had been difficult for several years, due to a combination of dementia and other mental illness, but I still miss her.

New dad level unlocked: 21yo child asking about a favorite rum brand. (Rumhaven BTW. So smooth. Like 10x more so than every other brand I've tried.)

I don't know if it will have any tangible effect, but the way Trump's NYT case got tossed for reasons usually limited to incompetent people representing themselves, is pretty tasty. So is some of the wording of that rejection. They've had enough of his stupid tantrums.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

🪬🧿 Ships don't sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Stochastic terrorism includes threats as well as deeds, and either way it's very much their thing. Expect more of this now.

Corporations are, at best, amoral. If they think they can find business stability under authoritarianism, they will pay the "tax" & move on. Boycotts change all that & will force business to recalculate. They are probably the most powerful tool at our disposal at this juncture.

There's a debate about whether AG Pam Bondi doesn't know the law, or knows and doesn't care. Considering the recent procedural errors by peers (e.g. Noem) and subordinates (e.g. Patel) I lean toward "doesn't know". It's part of her job to make sure those people know the basics, and she has failed.

A preview of where we're headed. Real Handmaid's Tale stuff. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Rather proud of the fact that I never subscribed to Disney+ in the first place, even though it had nothing to do with politics. They just never offered enough to justify paying for a fifth streaming service.

Another great example of "oh no people are joining us let's gatekeep the fuck out of them so they go away again". Very effective strategy. Bet this person didn't even cast a useful vote.

It looks like @graze.social is very close to what I was thinking of building myself - a Discover feed that actually responds to my expressed interests. Very cool. Can't wait to experiment with it a bit.

"Liberal" has been tainted by the left. "Libertarian"has been tainted by libertarians themselves. So I guess I'll have to be a liberationist.

I felt like I had a good night's sleep, but my Circular 2 ring disagreed. Apparently my heart rate remained kind of high (for me) until 3:30am, so it only counted one hour as a nap before and only four hours after as proper sleep. Not sure what caused that.

Yes, I've changed my name here. Now it's the same as what I've been using on Tumblr, and doesn't have any emoji to annoy screen-reader users. I might change it again soon, if I can find anything that resonates.

If they ever read it, I'm pretty sure this regime would condemn the Declaration of Independence as hate speech.

The stuffed tenderloins were delicious. Kale still sucks.

Dinner tonight is cranberry walnut stuffed and prosciutto wrapped pork tenderloins. Yum! This one has kale as a side, which I'm not wild about, but I can tolerate it and shouldn't let it go to waste. It's supposed to be healthy, right?

The people who have been most engaged for the longest time are also closest to burnout. It's not that they don't care. It might be because you weren't there to share the load. If you just woke up yourself, at least take one full shift before complaining that others aren't doing enough.