The Greet One

I have, once again, lost out on the FIFA Peace Prize.

Falling asleep at a work meeting because he was on the computer all night is very relatable!

Explaining to my IRS caseworker that every dollar I spent over the last year counts as a business expense because staying alive is my business. "A big gold watch is good for my self-esteem, therefore business. Bounce house? Local reputation business. New couch? Sleeping through TV business."

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Dangerous rhetoric.

I realize there are only like 5 people who may do this but I would strongly suggest giving this a read. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Looks like an outlet is about to publish this, so I'm going to get ahead of it. In 2015, while covering him as a presidential candidate, I engaged in a brief, but highly sexual, affair with former Gov. Jim Gilmore (R-VA). It was a mistake and I learned a lot from it. I hope you forgive me.

We'll probably never know how much they're stealing in total, but will they eventually steal more than the US Government spent in 1942? Surely they have or will steal more than Gov. spending each year up to 1917 ($1b or less). What's the ceiling? World War $ levels? polidiotic.com/by-the-numbe...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

What did Epstein know about Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize lecture and when did he know it? How many times did Dylan practice saying Don Quixote? youtu.be/6TlcPRlau2Q?...

Instead of this being about DoorDash's own stats, I prefer to read this as s State Of Local Commerce report being sponsored by DoorDash. I want a Nestle Water Safety Report and a DraftKings Fiscal Transparency Report and a Papa John's Geospatial Data Strategy.

There's a lot of things to like here, but my favorite is the brief moment where he implies Jackie Kennedy might have already added Onassis to her name when she was in the White House. Who can be sure?!

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

"What might result from the refashioning of our sensorium, as we rehabituate ourselves to the gentle hum of electric motors rather than the roar of engines? To the absence of the smell of gasoline? Might those experiences be the first steps towards decarbonization?"

On the doctor's orders - wine as a cure for melancholy, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. archive.org/details/b216...

I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct. I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo. What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

"Gaffes*" are scandals, but policy and moral failures are not, according to the mainstream press. *Calling a close family member an Aunt is not a gaffe.

JFC

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

The ballroom thing is a catastrophe for them and a travesty for America. Trump should meet his political end over it. 300 million in bribes to destroy OUR heritage, OUR national property, and build a hideous, un-American monument to himself. At a time where the government is imploding.

I read all the news headlines of the day, nodding like Trump pretending he's listening to someone, but in my head, I'm thinking of news headlines like ""E.T. Goes For Bailiff's Gun"

"Instead of being honest about burnout, why not use AI to lie to everyone?" Surely that will solve the burnout.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

I ❤️ my hometown. Well done…

With bringing light to dark times, it was very therapeutic to be out among the crowds today.

Dick Van Dyke is a great villain in this episode, but the long back and forth with the nun who absolutely cannot fathom Columbo isn't some random burnt-out schlub in need of feeding at the soup kitchen is incredible.

At this point would it be better to just flood the airwaves with AI slop attack ads of Republicans just so no one believes anything anymore? Because this is only going to get worse.

October 16, 1968

Along with Soros, three more organizations that have yet to send me the money I was promised for joining their organizations.

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Charon ferries us across the Styx and into the 10th inning, a strange and haunting place. Logan Gilbert, the human marionette, greets us.

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

About 18 seconds into this clip the President claims he probably knows and dines with people who pay anarchists and protesters. Sounds like something a news org should follow up on! (I know he has no idea what he's talking about, but still sounds like good headline material)

Things are escalating dangerously! @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social

Conservative white men show humility to two things, and only ONE in public. PUBLIC God - It's easy. God isn't real. There's no consequences of showing humility to something that isn't real for them. They know god isn't real, so it's not really showing humility. PRIVATE Their dominatrix/dom.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

this is our cracker barrel moment

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

always a bridesmaid, never a fully automated cyborg killing machine

people/link, internet provider, print ad, imagery (1985) archive.org/details/1985...

I have a two-step solution to our modern loneliness epidemic: 1. Haul immense stone slabs over long distances to build a Great Temple to Aten; 2. Gather at the Great Temple to Aten.

Hey Bluesky, especially Angeleno and Labor Bsky Can we get a load of signatures for the Cal State-Dominguez Hills Labor Studies department? Which is a really valuable (and unusual) dept and is under restructuring/budget cut threats Thanks y'all! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

A good example of the kind of science dying during this regime, we've finally solved the South East life expectancy issue after decades of trying to figure it out, but it's a bummer that no one wants to hear and the exact kind of reporting Trump's people hate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsTo...

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system