peter baker! evil shit! compare and contrast!

pave the darien gap?

he’s “reshaping” CNN, NYT, CBS also reshaping what it means to sane-wash illegality

Bruce Chan, San Francisco Superior Court Judge, is part of that class of people in the USA who somehow cannot conceive that it might be worth having punishments for reckless drivers in order TO REDUCE PEOPLE BEING KILLED

NYT reporters and brass love love love to drop this shit “The revelations about Mr. Chavez come at a moment when the nation has been deeply at odds about who, among its prominent men and women, deserves to be glorified.”

venezuela! baseball! classic!

what was the secret sauce of amy madigan’s performance?

Teaching is the inner core. But seems like “having a university experience” should rank much higher mentally for both administration and faculty, in order to facilitate that core need.

this whole history and verbal and philosophic architecture of having strong preferences between interesting movies, in some ways, is quite weird, in that it is almost fully because of stupid things like the fucking Oscars, which were crated to promote & self-fellate the industry

(tech journalist:) Sitting next to a group of toddlers on BART debating if they are old.

michael powell writing a terrible article once a month about mamdani for the next four years: maybe the best use of his few skills, but very very far from laurene powell jobs’ best use of money.

this is end-of-the-republic stuff. thanks john roberts. your sad rictus of a smile has been the metaphoric CITGO song, at the end of trust in american institutions, for two decades. trump admin is taking advantage of your lawlessness.

ah yes, hard to believe anyone would want control of government or ability to set agendas for the country, based off of populist anger… yeah that’s crazy

Board of Peace to nominate Netanyahu and Trump for Nobel Peace Prize 🏆

This is the matter with Kansas.

After catching blocks today, have no desire for another, so I guess this is going to be a screenshot & comment… but, like, what’s the point of saying things like this. This is not even micro-blogging, it’s just saying “YERP! YERP!” or “BLECH! BLECH!”

Well hm. @davidallengreen.bsky.social ‘assays’ (tries) a couple thoughts after a post that’s alarmed abt what it might mean LLM companies r going to undercut the entire pedagogical system… & ends up blaming students who might not already be as in love with Montaigne as adult writers; so odd

yeah weigel is trash & loves to put a finger down on the scales on trans issues when he thinks he can get away with it. he knows how to clean up after himself, tho, most days…so doesn’t often break containment, outside of those that know to look for & clock it. but it’s a longterm pattern

omnipresent, though the dynamic seems: 1) people responding to latest outrage (PRTLO): “the asswipe said something horrifying!” 2) people looking for reality about what’s posted online: “uh, looks like clip was misleading & made to create outrage” 3) PRTLO: “if you’re not outraged, fuck you!”

so I may be mainly a reply-guy on here, but have to honestly ask with some concern for philosophy Bluesky… what (if anything) is the problem in replying like this, to catch a block? (AITA?). Because this seems like a philosopher really misunderstanding LLM tokenization, and being overbearing.

This is a poorly argued piece that seems to change its thesis from paragraph to paragraph, and even makes a head-scratcher transitions sentence to sentence.

Quisling wannabes; not even writing down their policy of supporting the white supremicists.

NBC: next up… a new winter sport that’ll absolutely blow yr mind how old it is [45m of something w/ Snoop] NBC announcer (atter 10 min of silence while non-US athletes perform): here he is! ready for Zuzzic! loaded half limp, 1440. devolved into rotes! Oh man, no pipe?? Awooooogah!!! McKay!

“Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening.” yes yes yes yes fuck yes. This ls how you talk about fascism.

lol Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas stay losing losers. Pass into the history books and stay there, as the unlawful on-the-take goons you are. Roberts, Gorsuch, Barrett: not paid-off by the conservative machine quite as much, so want to keep their 401ks.

let the genies cook

broadcast tv announces: “X continues assault on history” who is X?

NPR getting tough on a Trump issue?

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.””

stories about what Olympic medals are “expected” are in general lazy and bad (esp. making non-polled, non-scientific expectations into news-reporting… generally bad). such stories may be forced by editors, but even if so, it’s still a really shitty, dumb way to present things to the world.

Like Trump, U.S. Embassies Are Raising Cash for Lavish July Fourth Parties (are you in acid? does this make sense?)

What does this mean? Did someone give us all acid?

One thing that San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan explicitly did NOT list, in his litany of all the various factors he needed to take into account, is whether a light sentence might continue to make ALL STREETS UNSAFER because drivers are basically immune. Why do judges think like this?

There should be this, and there should also be a Figure 8 track so that the skaters have to do both left and right curves. There should also be one that has hills. One with hurdles. One with slush traps and heavy barriers. Steepleskating.

Not an insightful, helpful, or useful article. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

“Hungarian Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-Információs Hivatal Accounts”

I guess this is Bluesky now. Which is probably 600% better than X, and also better than other alternatives at the moment. But is this what we’re wanting Friday before Valentine’s? Not shit-fun hell posting?

Appreciate Mike’s work. But JFC, please get editors to put shine on a headline. Because this sucks: “Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites To Expose Anti-ICE Accounts” Should not be buried under that shit. How about: “DHS Opposes 1st Amendment For Those Online, Wants Files”

Norway, England, Slovakia, Sweden — countries where politicians have resigned because of ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania — countries where politicians are under investigation because of ties to Jeffrey Epstein. United States of America — — —

Piggy love can be cultish — Jacobson regularly meets fans whose dream is to be on the receiving end of her signature move. “It’s a delightful thing to see a room full of people, from news reporters to A-list celebrities, get in line to be karate-chopped by a pig,” he said.

cop behavior

Killing People Elsewhere Could Help Republicans

wildly boring-written NY Times sports article about Eileen Gu. written with soporifics in mind, as if to deflect attention, even as they get to say they’ve covered the story.

a malevolent, recidivist goblin army has been gathering forces against the energetic progressive nature of The New Deal for many, many generations. This is not new. They are old enemies.

This is a “Surya Bonali did it first and did it better” account. 👍👍🤙

[cut to downhill skiiing from ice skating] “we all know what happened 4 years ago”… lol NBC commentators are always so terrible. Don’t give good context. Don’t introduce people to a sport to create fans. Don’t acknowledge other countries’ exceptional athletes except in extremis Bad tv.

I always start wanting to root for my native country. NBC always makes me want to root for others.

stupid stupid people on nbc sports usually, but it really does take an extra brain lesion to be allowed to be a commentator for the Olympics

really hate NBC coverage of sports where countries other than the USA are dominant.

psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, pedophiles running the US government