Kernersville's Board of Aldermen flipped from Republican to Democrat last night (the mayor, who's been around for a LONG time, is a Republican and won re-election)

We’ll never defeat a country with this capability

Not to give Johnson any credit whatsoever here but I think he does grasp something that has eluded Democratic consultants for decades, which is that trying to constantly please voters by shifting your position based on the latest polls or election results is read as being weak-willed and ineffective

Phoebe Bridgers didn't go hard enough on this doofus

What ICE never says

Morning teaching and commute after a late night hot pot has been one white knuckle experience let me tell you.

Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory

How fucking internet cooked are you to talk about haters on the internet? Unplug the machine, man.

if mamdani wins new yorkers are allowed to talk about their bazingas or whatever for one (1) week online.

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

imo they sort of knew who he was, but (a) he was constrained by a legion of normies last time and assumed he would be similarly restrained this time; and more critically (b) the other guys were saying "more of the same" and just like today affordability was the key issue. so they bet on that change

Media orgs are confused and upset about last nights Democratic wins. I don’t recall a “questions remain” after Trump or GOP wins.

Electoral stuff is just a tool in the box but this is good. And all of it shows public opinion still matters a hell of a lot. Pursuant to the second thing, the media continues to affirm its utter uselessness

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Oh yeah

Europa Universalis 5 is crazy. It's crazy. It's smooshing together EU, Crusader Kings, and Victoria into one big game while incorporating at least some elements from every EU4 expansion. This is demented in a good way. It's making my head spin.

Started EU5 as perfidious Albion and I'm having a real my god it's full of stars moment.

She's so cute

Just seems unnecessarily confusing.

We all get to have an opinion about public technology

One of my fun sliding doors moments and the local minor league soccer team. I get there eventually, promise. Circa 10 years ago I was shopping a book on games/labor to a leading publisher of the left. I was told thru my liaison that they "wanted a PhD to write it".

Rest in Peace to the Railhawks.

Saw someone compare EU5 to Dwarf Fortress (in an approving way) and I'm amped

It's so refreshing to see someone actually confronting the realities of nonvoting, who non-voters are and what actually motivates them, and attempting to address those concerns directly, and not turning into a self-serving, dishonest morality play.

Not that I want to talk about Brianna Wu but I do think that her weird attempt to move left is a solid indicator of where things are shifting, dark as they are. Not sure you can mix lack of tact with grifting but she somehow finds a way.

Me since I turned 47

The kid is like a different person post-drivers license. She's almost extroverted now. Going out with pals. Drove 30 minutes to see a friend, texted to let me know she was staying the night: Her: I'm staying. Her: we at bojangles rn

I see the gloating about Man U being up at halftime has worked out for the NBC Sports team

Aw man, Gyokeres was having a great game, too. Been worried his legs were about to fall off.

They did several of these and they're all in my top Youtube videos of all time. My favorite is this one tho. The bear destroys Anchorage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Yj...

And Gyokeres is having a really good game

Burnley are completely discombobulated. Could get out of hand.

Inevitable. Inexorable.

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Vincent Price (Yacht Rock 2005)

Once again

Closing with Foreign Pavement. www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

Psyche now, Real Life soon www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

Yeah Yeah Yeahs now, Dirty Sanchez soon. Gonna go full indie sleaze for 10 minutes. www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

Roxy Music now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs soon www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Freeez now, Magical TF soon www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

John Rocca now, Madonna soon www.twitch.tv/brock_toon

INFRAVISION w/ Zanias now, MVTANT w/ CRYB soon www.twitch.tv/brock_toon