I grew up very poor. The government was commonly why food was on the table. One thing tonight has taught me (yet again) is that a lot of folks are fine inflicting pain and suffering on others, as long as they no longer have to endure it. Just exhausting.

Am I mad about not getting paid? Yep. Will it force me out of my home? No. Will ending these ACA subsidies bankrupt other people? Yep. Decision isn't hard to me. It sucks. But this "deal" isn't worth the pain and suffering that will be inflicted on millions of Americans.

Doing The Thing

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Good lord. Buy a house at age 25 (I know, I know, lol) and pay on it till age 75. Well past retirement. With interest you probably pay double the value of your home if not more. A 30 year loan at 3% for $300,000 pays $155,000 in interest as is.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

It's 330 am, I've got a cold my son gifted to me, and I'm at the office not getting paid. Another day as a fed.

I appreciate the legal reporters explaining the likely reasoning behind the SNAP ruling but also rube goldberg-ing our way to maybe possibly giving food to hungry kids is pretty damning in itself

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

What a great night. Did my part today in GA. We even got a new mayor in suburban car heaven that was discussing improving city walkability in his first press conference. Here's to hoping for follow through.

World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto and friends

punt block thicc six for Dallas

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

I am a federal employee and I just have one thing to say: LMAO

I think you will overwhelmingly find that those of us who communicate the impacts not only find a Cat 6 unnecessary, but find that the entire scale fails at proper communication of impacts in many scenarios. Plenty of cases where Cat 2 brings far greater impacts than Cat 4, for instance.

After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion

Panthers get a walkoff FG to beat the Packers at Lambeau

When they stop whining, Man City has such beautiful flow both on and off the ball. Satisfying to watch.

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

The OU kicker is an absolute beast. He should take another inch off his shorts for every 50+ yarder he hits.

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Purity culture

That dude slid into home just for the picture that he's going to blow up to 10 feet wide in his basement.

Between keeping up with various sports ball and one more turning myself with civ I was dreading setting my morning alarm only to discover the joy of the fall side of DST. One more hour baybeeeee

i hate the player AND the game (solitaire)

Another look just because

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that

One thing I miss from Twitter is being able to tag a company like Amazon and publicly shame them for having delivery drivers out potentially killing kids in giant trucks through neighborhoods. Yes, just had one go through mine.

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

THEY. WERE. DOING. THIS. WITHOUT. PAY. NOAA’s hurricane hunter pilots (and Kermit The Frog hanging from the control panel) fly into Hurricane Melissa. Extraordinary bravery, saving lives. (🎥 Cmdr. Danielle Varwig, NOAA Corps).

Civ games remain goated for the ability to play with a tiny human sleeping on you.

"Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity; little whirls have lesser whirls & so on to viscosity" - Lewis Fry Richardson

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure). bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

It is pretty amazing how rapidly #Melissa is reorganizing in the hours it has between Jamaica and Cuba.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 polar-orbiting satellite made an extremely fortuitous pass over Hurricane Melissa right before it made landfall in Jamaica to provide these stunning images of one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

I was worried for my crew mates when I saw them circling in the eye for over 20 mins. Looks like the very rough ride was confirmed. Plane had to leave early. They reported svr turb and a "sawtooth" eye. Looks like they moved 600-700ft up & down during this stretch in ~1 min.

direct relief is legit, and because they work in the region already, they can scale up more easily. please donate if you can

The "good" news about storm surge in the Black River Bay is that most all the land that floods is a natural flood plain that hasn't had much in the way of building occur. The exception is along the immediate coast.

Per NOAA/AOML/HRD’s Sim Aberson, the 219 kt reading will be the fastest wind ever measured by a dropsonde if it passes final quality-control checks.

For the non-meteorologists, this is showing some of the strongest winds down to the surface we've ever measured in a hurricane. The average wind speed from 150 meters (~500 ft) to the ground is 215 mph.

A 10am EDT update from the National Hurricane Center now puts Melissa's sustained winds at 185 mph. Full text: www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...?

With a central pressure down to 896mb as of 9am EDT, #Melissa has joined the elite sub-900mb group of Atlantic hurricanes... it is now one of just seven: Wilma 2005: 882mb Gilbert 1988: 888mb Labor Day 1935: 892mb Rita 2005: 895mb Milton 2024: 895mb Melissa 2025: 896mb Allen 1980: 899mb

893mb with 13kt wind in the eye with that latest dropsonde. Making a run at sub 890mb before landfall. Ugh. This will be historic for a lot of reasons, none good.

This meso loop of #Melissa from CIRA is absolutely stunning at it makes its closes in on landfall in southwestern Jamaica. rammb-data.cira.colostate.edu/tc_realtime/... #hurricanemelissa