Furthermore, I think showing you the notifications from people you follow would be quite helpful for a number of large accounts (of which I am not one at all). If your account is big enough, you can't just block people giving blockable replies, too many of them.

Self-Portrait by Max Beckmann, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137489

John Bolton on TV, as I wait for my MRI, not saying anything crazy, tho he is a crazyman.

Roman Polanski should have gone to jail for drugging and raping a 13 year old, and then shunned by all, not allowed to make movies (and no, his young wife's grisly death doesn't excuse this). And one would guess this was not the only time or the first time he did it.

Trump has successfully turned attention away from Epstein now. And I don't know if it will come back.

Autocrat kidnaps autocrat, tries to take his place.

I do think this one is funny. I'm happy to live in the Year of the Potato. Just hope it doesn't mean I'm moving to the Eastern Bloc and eating only one food.

No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet. Cat Emmie is submitting to whatever Flannel is doing. I think the dog is nibbling on the cat's ear? But I don't really know. And Emmie regularly puts up with it. Does she like it? Beats me.

Alter kockers for the win!

One highlight from last year, my "Kilroy was here" hard-boiled egg.

Listening to The Daily and the young lawyer who left bc disillusioned at firm caving to Trumpwas at SKADDEN!?? Evidently Skadden knew they had a reputational problem getting recruits under Obama, and broadcast that they would have unlimited hours available for pro bono work and a strong DEI program,

If I were going to do a heist from a museum, I'd do a reverse heist, find the Rembrandts, Vermeer, Degas, etc from the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, steal them and return them. Every bit as fun to watch as a regular heist movie.

First day off my medrol dose pack for the pinched nerve in my neck causing intense pain in my forearm. Yes, it was working and now it's not. But what I didn't realize, tho now seems obvious, it was wiping out ALL my aches and pains, and getting them back is it's own special Christmas present.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, yelled out, "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot Happy Christmas, your arse, I pray God it's our last." With the boys of the NYPD choir, still singing "Galway Bay" And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

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@weisenthal.bsky.social From listening on Ezra Klein, 100% on Moby Dick, but reaching back to Walter Ong, absolutely another of my favorite books. Have you read the anthropologist Jack Goody's unfortunately titled The Domestication of the Savage Mind? Covers related territory.

There are moments—most of them have committed murder—and many have everlasting monuments. Who are the people, you may ask. Gazing over the torn flesh you spot yourself. - James Tate, "Rising Absenteeism" thomaswmorris.com/poetry/james...

This isn't really an absurd concept bc you cannot make a block list of the toxic accounts on here, too fast moving. But since bluesky blocks are nuclear, getting other people to block you is as good as blocking them. If I'm on a block list that tankies use, that's fine with me.

Has any novelist brought ORLANDO up to the present? Because that would slap

The Brown/MIT shooter, killed people then went and shot himself. That makes him harder to find, not easier. Was a disgruntled former student. There's never just one, you have to go through every student who seemed off. That takes time, but they lucked out with a witness. Nothing wrong here.

If they actually manage to deport a US citizen, which they are obviously going to do sooner or later, what is the recourse in court? For immigrants who should not have been deported, I believe there's no recourse at that point. But for a citizen, that can't be true.

We honor the bravery of Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander who risked his life to protect those under fire. The lesson, yet again, is all too clear: Our safety is bound up together.

The odd relationship between Emmie and Flannel.

1980 I was visiting Provincetown MA, went to a double header of The Kids Are Alright (The Who) and The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff). Absolutely blew me away, both of them. Someone passed me a joint, and I got high, which was perfect. Next day I got what turned out to be strep throat.

I just realized that if we manage to impeach Trump for withholding money from Indiana unless they do what he wants, then both his first and maybe third impeachment we’ll have been about him trying to extort his way into getting what he wants.

My dog does something she thinks is hilarious, where she jumps at my face and pretends she's going to bite my nose. I don't find it hilarious even though she's a small dog, a lanky 18 lbs. She only does it when she's really worked up, when it's hard to isolate it as what she shouldn't do.

Drivers in PDX don't seem to know when pedestrians have the right of way, which is always, always. The city knows they have a problem with pedestrian deaths. That there are a few corners that have clearly painted crosswalks and provisional stop signs saying Stop for Pedestrians is +

Via Andrea Tinker: A University of Alabama alumni group has hit a fundraising goal for two student magazines -- one covering women, one covering Black culture and lifestyle -- to resume publication. UA suspended them last week, claiming they ran afoul of the Trump administration's anti-DEI polices.

I was 20 minutes late to get my haircut, but she was 30 minutes behind on her schedule, so all good. Indeed I am glad I was late now.

Relatedly, I, a strongly right-handed person, have discovered it's very hard to wipe my butt with my left hand. Lots of things are harder, but this is the worst.

My dog got spayed this week, is in the cone, and on drugs. I found out yesterday that last week I broke a bone in my right hand, and my hand is in a splint now, but no drugs. I feel like shit, she feels like shit. I have to feed her by hand, which is ridiculous now.

It's going to be incredibly tricky to fix things without destroying the Constitution while doing it. GOP Congress would love to pass unreviewable laws. I'd say, start with the most important problem. You want something unreviewable when you don't trust SCOTUS. Fix that.

Today I watched The Return of Doctor X, a 1939 63 minute b or c movie with Humphrey Bogart in a lead role. And that, friends, is why the studio system had to die. There was no reason for Bogart, who was already a star, to appear in this dreck, and I wouldn't have watched it if Bogart wasn't in it.

GOP Speaker really is a terrible job, ask any past GOP Speaker, and see their bodies strewn about the Capitol building. Yet they do seek the job voluntarily.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing. Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!

In my day, courting involved dancing skyclad under a full moon, burnt blood offerings, and—this is truly the worst one—you had to talk to people on the landline Like, cables ran THROUGH THE EARTH, all manner of demonic voices came out & you were just supposed to say, “hi! this is Kerry speaking!”

And he keeps deporting workers from jobs US citizens won't do, like agriculture and meatpacking, which seem designed to raise prices.

My puppy Flannel seems to be stuck in this odd pose. Is this roumding?

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

Sometimes cats walk over your lap very daintily. Sometimes they just jam their claws into your leg for no reason.

This made me remember from yesterday that I can't forget that David Remnick fired Ryan Lizza I should find out why. So just tried, and the NYer decided based on some sexual impropriety, but they are being all closed-mouth about it to protect the injured party, while Lizza is being pugnacious about +

Xi isn't an economist, but a decent engineer is fully capable of understanding how bad deflation is, if it's explained. If no one feels safe spending a couple of minutes to do that, China is in worse shape than I thought. We're all doomed bc no one can explain anything to any country's autocrat.

1920s juries were not taken to crime scenes and so the murder scene of Emily Kaye in an Eastbourne bungalow was brought to them in 1924 thanks to the craft skills of PC Edward Er Onan Shelah (1890-1962) at Brixton Police Station. #CM150 #Museum30 #making #truecrime

Someone in my building bought a mirror, and these warnings on the box are heroic.

You can't solve misinformation in the marketplace of ideas is the heart of it in one way of looking at it. More speech won't solve the problem at all.

5 am, can't sleep, my eyes are irritated, and now I itch all over. Should get up our of bed and read. Apparently people do that.

Uggh, Tidal has decided I love show tunes more than anything. Lie. I like good to great musicals in their entirety, not individual tunes. I do deep dives where I listen to every version of say Chicago, so I listen to a lot of Chicago for a while. +

The Chevy Corvair endorses Andrew Cuomo.