Twin Cities folks;

Went to the basement to get the cooler for the turkey. It was on a shelf and inexplicably brimming with seemingly clean water. It's now soaking in very hot soapy water and after some cleaning vinegar will be ready for duty, but I'm baffled by how the water got in there.

I'm pretty sure some smart people are talking about this somewhere and I'm just out of the loop, but I'm ready to pay for some basic information services (email, calendar, search) if the provider acted as a data-fiduciary -- and, yeah, I get we don't know what that really means, but still.

My go-to grocery store is cruel. From my preferred entrance there's clear line of sight to the cronut shelf in the doughnut cabinet at the back of the store. Can't a man pick up a bag of limes and a head of lettuce in peace?

It's been much harder to cancel a gift subscription to the NYT (despite the fact that the gift ended a decade ago and I've been paying for it) than I would have thought, but I finally attempted it during business hours. So that's off the list at last.

one of the most important things I think we can actually take aware of from the (gestures vaguely) last 20 years is that the people don’t want to negotiate. They don’t want to haggle. They want to walk into store and see The Price on something that is what is advertised to be, and pay it.

Abbott take music.

I've begun meal planning for TG day, and once again I'm going to cut up the turkey into leg quarters, breasts, and wings to cook half on a sheet pan and freeze the other half for later. Works really well and yields a better portion for our small family.

When I worked retail, if you showed up and didn’t steal you were a pretty good employee. Trump can’t even say that.

The absolute best case scenario you can even come up with for Trump is “yes he’s a sex criminal but he may not have raped teens he just hung out at teen rape parties and covered up for those who did.” That’s the unlikely BEST case scenario and he’s President!!

Rewatching Glass Onion for the first time in a few years and loving the costuming, especially as it intersects with the composition.

My daily driver is the shop for a few days, so tomorrow morning I’m going to need a 1980s montage sequence to get the 57 year old car back together and in driving shape. Not sure what the song should be yet.

I really like the landscape and climate of central PA, but the high winds we get on the east end of the valley I live in are a little unnerving. Sometimes a lot of unnerving.

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Okay, sure. Of course, step one is fire Nico. What's step two? Build a time machine?

I enjoy his take on all sorts of Wisconsin and midwest stuff, but I'm really there for Charlie digging in on the data/AI scam. www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...

Fetterman, you're done. We the people of PA didn't elect you to be the turncoat that you proved yourself to be today.

Over the years I've acquired more yard tools than a renter should ever own because I know the sorts of landscapers that landlords hire and didn't want the trees and bushes butchered. Then this summer I got what appears to be long COVID, and today came the shrub-pocalypse.

REMOVE THE CAP REMOVE THE CAP REMOVE THE CAP

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

At this point I wouldn't trust Fetterman to pick up my MTO at Sheetz.

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

Man, I repeat: If art is a machine that generates empathy, AI generated art is a machine that generates apathy. It erodes trust and human connection. The entire point of it is to make solidarity impossible, because it becomes unimaginable.

TFW you're making coffee but instead make a pot of hot water because you haven't had your coffee yet.

Dallas fights back against Gov. Abbott's order to remove rainbow crosswalks, calling for an exemption.

Minority parties obstruct the majority. It's what they do. It's what Republicans did ruthlessly when they were the minority. Majority parties govern. It's their job to do whatever is necessary to get their opponents back to the table. If they can't, then everything that follows is their fault.

Onions chopped and beginning to sauté.

Have to go cut up onions for dinner, but not quite ready for a good cry.

Last night I watched a performance of Mahler's 8th sympohony on Youtube, and I had many critiques though overall it was enjoyable. Tonight I watched some old clips of WKRP in Cincinatti. No notes.

And the US is going to miss out

your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas. But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community. It was standing room only.

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

Took the new battery powered chainsaw out for a spin today, Cut up some dead maple branches I'd pruned at the end of the summer. May not make for a whole winter's worth of firewood, but it should come close. Also, it was too much chainsaw for this job, but I suspected that going in.

Why does it need a sign? Who roaming around the West Wing doesn't know it's the Oval Office? Yup, that's the only guy I can think of too.

one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!

Mask up, punks!!

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

The red maple leaves are not quite at their peak, but we may not get sunlight this nice before they drop.

Two cats and a bathrobe.

Mork just coughed up a hairball and part of his breakfast onto a plastic bag on my office floor. Calling that one a win.

Back on my blackened chicken BS this evening.

The U.S.A. must recognize the treaties they have made with our own Tribes. ✊️

Where are my politically inclined Old Hollywood lovers? We're looking for a few guests to talk Films of Resistance with us on Ticklish Business. DMs open!

J.D. Vance says you shouldn't be allowed to live next door to him; Zohran says he wants to talk to you. This could be the Democrats' message, if they wanted.

So cute:

With CrimeCat in the house I'm slowly unlearning the assumption that when something has gone missing it MUST be because I absentmindedly put it down in the wrong place. Counter-assumption: What if I put it where I planned, and then someone decided it was a toy?

Well after dark, and another year without Trick-or-Treaters. Our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks or streetlights, so it makes sense that the parents take the kids into the parts of town that have both. That doesn't stop it from being a bummer.