STOP THE COUNT!!!

I'd like me some of that height... *Looks sadly in 5'4"*

It looks like the keystone cops may have tanked the State's case against Mangione. I'm not big on "frontier justice" (though I do not lose sleep over another dead CEO) but we have laws, and you don't get to ignore those laws because suddenly they become inconvenient.

The Kremlin releases video of Witkoff and Kushner meeting Putin, along with Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Ushakov. (Unclear who the translator for the Americans is...)

🚨SCOOP: ICE just signed a $30M contract to design new “mega” detention centers — including proposals to turn vacant Amazon-style warehouses into holding sites. The Lever reporter @katyaschwenk.bsky.social explains 👇 www.youtube.com/shorts/q74P8...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

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I absolutely cannot get "Hear My Hope" out of my head. It's been living there so rent-free, I woke up through the night with it still floating about in my brain. What devilry is this???

AI is DECIMATING trades you take for granted until they're ruined by reckless slop. Airport announcements? Somebody voices that. Medical diagram your dentist shows you? Somebody drew that. Your customer support ticket? Somebody answered that. College textbooks? Somebody wrote that.

Your electricity bills are going up in order to subsidize power for AI systems that may tell you to kill yourself when you eventually run out of money and go bankrupt.

Taking suggestions.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

NGL, whenever I see people organizing their bookshelves by the color of the book cover, all I can think of is "who hurt you?!" The only correct organization is by ANY classification system but Dewey (who was racist). Mine is Library of Congress. People who shelve spine-to-the-back need therapy

To this day, Fantasia remains my favorite Disney movie, bar none.

How to trigger a lot of people across the pond in one short. www.facebook.com/share/r/1KG8...

jfc, Americans do not take an oath. God damn it. We're in the stupidest timeline. The pledge is an idiotic late addition to the ritualization of America. It means nothing. I stopped saying it in school when I realized it was performative nonsense. Musk needs to sit on his hands.

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social's delightful book, living next to my papoo's much abused copy of Bulfinch (I need to have the book restored, it is my shame it is in this condition). Please consider this excellent work for your own book hoard. You will not regret it. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

He’s running.

I am going to confess. I may have broken the boycott of Amazon over the weekend. All I ask is your forgiveness. I could not help myself. There were BOOKS to acquire. Books that Bluesky placed in my path. How could I not?

EVERYONE involved needs to be brought up on charges - from Trump down to the crew. youtu.be/zzfle-Dpk0U

Hubby and me...

There was a war movie. I don't remember the name, just that the plot (spoiler) was the group had to take down a bridge. To do that, the realized they needed to destroy the up-river dam, because the bridge was too entrenched to go at directly. So, let me tell you about uncapping the House...

The centrists’ new idea is summoning the imagery of a parking lot to win elections

Now we know why Hegseth fired so many of the miliary attorneys.

I just don't understand how other countries can make universal Healthcare work but we can't. We could but, we just don’t want to lift everyone up.

Yep

I can't tell you how much I loathe watching couples HAVE TO do everything as a single unit and forcing one partner to conform. If your partner likes action figures, let them FUCKING COLLECT THEM. Don't make your S/O give up their passions because you don't understand them. GAAAH. *fumes*

It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...

My response to that would have been "I'm not the one with the 1.9 GPA."

Thanksgiving went well - politics did not come up. but I will mention this little data point - my mom (who drank the MAGA Kool Aid, but I AM not getting into it with an 84 year old woman who keeps hoping she'll pass quietly in her sleep) did not have nice things to day about the folks around Trump.

The Claim / The Researchers

The Regime doesn't have a creative bone in its body. Now its cribbing from the 1989 Batman movie.

So. I can't express how badly the Regime fucked up when placid, entitled, Long Island is done with this shit. When Long Island becomes activist - that's a tipping point. Remember, the island voted Red in 2024. This is the land of Santos and LaLota.

Blizzard's game designs suffer from this. They target a vocal minority thinking they represent the whole. And that minority suffers from its own bias when it comes to what folks enjoy, thinking they are the norm, when they are the exception, and there IS no norm. It's a vicious cycle.

Getting my “swagger” back by murdering millions of seniors

Huntington's election fraud made Politico.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

If any of y'all see any kind of "Dudebro" flex for orthodox Christianity, send them my way. I don't need that shit in, well, the religion I maintain the most gossamer threads to - but I'll be damned if this desperate need to be validated group of modern day troglodytes are going to co-opt it.

I really hate when Blizzard makes an ambiguous, player-led, in-game narrative something definitive and "canon" in external material. I hated it with Chronicles, and I dislike it now in Blood Ties. Blizzard - stop invalidating the payer experience.

Supposedly, Epstein's emails jmail.world

So the guy only cares about his son, and not the mother of the child? What was Ferreira to Leavitt? A brood mare?

Putting my own spin - politics has always been corrupt. Always. But Citizens United has made this brazenly so, and set the stage for a demagogue like Trump, and his ilk, to seize power.

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

UNCONFIRMED, but I wonder if there is a degree of plausible. Until I have concrete evidence such medications and procedures exist - I would say there are other reasons for an MRI that have far more to do with cheeseburgers and cholesterol.

Literally every law or invention that exists to prevent people from being accidentally or intentionally killed by the natural or built environment is going to be on the chopping block for these people, because they are a death cult who worship the idea of death and want to kill you

So, I admit that there are certain times where a youtube's sponsor piques my interest. There was one, a device that is supposed to record your meetings and then transcribe that into notes. And I splurged. And this thing ROCKS! Rock solid templates. Sometimes you find gems.

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