I kept waiting for a face-hugger or a cat to jump out of the box

Not wanting to count sheep before they're hatched but it seems all but certain that there will be enough backlash to doom the R House majority, well beyond range of any known ratfucking techniques. Some of the R redistricting might even backfire, and wind up flipping previously-safe districts.

Got this 2004 Nanjian (I think) tuo from @white2tea.bsky.social back in 2016. After 10 years in my storage it's time to try a taste. #tea #teasky

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... I feel pretty sure this is going to backfire. Dilute The Republican dominance of safe districts to marginally favor winning in previous no-go zones, in a year where your Party's President is less popular than last week's garbage?

Retcon "Calvinball" to "arbitrary and capricious judgements corrupted by factional partiality" and you've got something that sounds like an indictment of King George

When will we have D officers and candidates with the courage to say it loud that Republicans are too stupid or delusional to govern? Because you know that the R leaders behind this _actually believe_ that discrimination against white guys is a problem.

"I admit I sure did fuck that up" is in fact the beginning of wisdom, and the pissing on this person for doing that is kind of depressing

medieval fanboys be dropping into your margins like 'optime dixisti sancte ieronime dulcis' ('you said it best, sweet saint jerome!')

If ever there was going to be hope of getting rid of "qualified immunity" the utter lawlessness of the Trump II immigration enforcement drive should provide the occasion www.techdirt.com/2026/04/28/l...

The only winning move is to not start the game.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

It is, however, the right move if the goal is for Republican governance to so totally shit the bed that many people who always thought they were Republicans to change their minds for the rest of their lives, marginalizing MAGA.

Look at the bright side. If Iran maintains a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely, causing a 20% decline in oil consumption going forward, that will accelerate the deployment of renewable alternatives.

This 2006 Mengku Rongshi Da Xue Shan is reminding me why I like puer cha #teasky

On a long car ride with spouse last weekend, listening to a book on Audible and having it be constantly interrupted with alerts, I grabbed her phone and disabled all the alerts that were not for messaging and alarms. Every app installs with alerts on, even though most alerts are not interesting.

To be clear, I think it's fair to assume the can opener of Russia (or the US and Israel) being too risk averse to attack a nuclear-armed state. But in a world where that assumption proves to be unjustified, I think people underestimate how difficult this decision really is.

Because they know a cartoon version of history where the whole Articles of Confederation period just didn't happen

...running an attack on heaven by sinmaxxing so hard Christ converts into a black hole from sheer acquired mass-energy and oneshots God by trapping him in something not even His light can escape from

This 2012 Mengku Rongshi Qiao Mu Wang is not even old enough to drive, let alone to drink. But I'm drinking it anyway. #teasky

The real question is whether he's got the juice to break through the Crazification Factor and go sub-27%

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

The King's Hessians are abusing the locals and ravishing their daughters.

It's a format that never gets old. Orwell documented it 100 years ago, maybe it was Wigan Pier, or else Down and Out. You don't need to be an Orwell completist to benefit by reading those.

I like the characterization that hope is the epistemically humble position Despair is thinking that you know what the future will be Hope is leaving open the possibility that you're mistaken

Somebody looked at the trajectory over the weekend and thought "I am NOT riding this bomb all the way to the ground" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yes let's not Letiza James this one please

2001 Au Lao Shan sheng puer by Hai Ling Hao, via Yunnan Sourcing Still smokey AF after almost 25 years #tea #teasky

Christmas laser + sprinkler

Looking at a search of posts for "faceting" and somehow this is included among the discussions of gemstone cutting and various subfields of computer science

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit

Dog status

Gotta give up on the idea that fares will cover operational costs though That's brutal hard, for a capitalist Or a neoliberal But I repeat myself

Nix on the '18/'28 comparison MAGA is not going to stop making things worse between now and Nov '28 The '26 -> '28 trend we're hoping for is more along the lines of 1930 -> '32 And then onward for 3 more cycles, until R presence in the Senate is an afterthought

Starting the 3rd old raw puer session of the day, having tossed the previous ones after a few steeps because the #tea wasn't really worth drinking. This 2006 Haiwan "Shēnshān gǔ shù" at least passes that. I think I need to sort my puer cakes into two piles and throw one of them away. #teasky

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I'm waiting for one of these people who had actual skin in that game to call Hegseth a dishonorable dirtball who was born American by mistake, while looking right into the camera. Get that into the stories that legacy journalism has to talk about because important people are talking about it.

And the anti-immigrant interlocutors in my life would deny that without offering any alternative interpretation, or say "Hell yes that's what I mean" without apology, depending on how much class they have.

Survival of the fittest! Have to clean up the national bloodlines!

@historianzhang.bsky.social I'm looking at marshaln.com/2011/11/on-t... and am reminded it promised "...a book on the history of tea practices in East Asia." Any word on that?

This has more resonance than one might have thought, back in the day

I gather that H. Clinton has *still* not learned which speaking engagements she ought to decline, for respectability's sake

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Nice rant, but if Hegseth is tossed tonight, why would you expect his replacement to be an improvement?

Everyone is reading this kinda wrong. This is the WH recognizing things are getting out of hand and they're trying really hard to damage control. It's probably the first honest to god time I've seen this administration do this.

Any day you don't remind yourself "I don't have to engage with that" you were either staying offline or you weren't being mindful.

They would not be altogether wrong. The purpose of the New Deal was to make America safe for Capitalism, not to inaugurate the Socialist Order.

Partying like it's 1999 and you're the Telco equipment makers