bird feeders must be kinda crazy at first if you're a bird. you've spent your life up till now mostly seeing one seed at a time. a hop or two between em if you're lucky. nothing has prepared you for this. and then they're everywhere? it's like finding el dorado and then finding another one next door

It becomes clearer every single day that MAGA is just DEI for lil' stinkers.

Make a Bond film casual Yard raker

Man, that was a pretty egregious no-call. Glad the pats got it done anyway, but hell.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Drums In The Deep

This case unironically rules

This post rips because I never look at the poster until after I've read the post

Nothing informs your understanding of the police as a gang with state backing like living within sight of one of their precincts for a decade and watching them flagrantly, constantly violate laws they enforce on everyone else because they find them inconvenient.

It's probably a little too on the nose, but when I was home in ABQ over Thanksgiving I definitely saw at least one "VOTE WHITE" sign in someone's backyard while diving down tramway. Glad that guy lost.

The older I get the more I truly believe that you can't trust anything said by an entity that doesn't shit.

I'm going to say the same thing about SCOTUS overturning birthright citizenship that I said about them overturning Roe, which is this: Of course they're going to do it, doing it is foundational to why they entered the legal profession. It's a core value for them.

In the exact same way that the left sees the right as incorrect but the right sees the left as illegitimate, they don't think of this as illegal, they consider the law irrelevant.

Not just that, but what the hell did these jerks do to portishead?

The price per pound for sides at my grocery store's deli counter has increased by 1/3rd in the last 6 months, you dick.

It wouldn't be a fraction of the disgrace he deserves, but at the very least I hope the practice of calling these Kavanaugh Stops fully saturates history and the law.

This is true, but it's also true that destruction and creation are fundamentally asymmetrical. Firing is cheaper than hiring, ignoring a law is easier than following it, and pursuing your goals recklessly is just more efficient than doing so conscientiously and that's a major part of their success.

Fun thing that just occurred to me after having spent several weeks in Austin, TX this year: I've seen a LOT of Waymos. I've never seen a human in a Waymo.

you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.

The couldn't be more true - every time some slice of effort is cast onto the individual it's transferring away the cost associated with the maintenance of trust. "Shopping around" for healthcare is the prime example, where they wash their hands of the cost of vetting anything so you can "choose".

I've never attended reinvent, but I WAS recently in Vegas at the tail end of it and the best advice I can give anyone attending is to get out of the casinos and off of the strip. Vegas is a fascinating place, but the casinos are sterile nonsense through and through.

The Sandias looked like an area I hadn't leveled up enough to reach.

Truly the greatest thing about the open web was the lack of personal business models. Say what you want about GameFAQs, but at least it obviously wasn't a grift.

The winning message for the left in '26 and especially '28 will be anti-predation. I don't think the national democratic party has the stones to righteously call the politicians, companies, and agencies greedily flensing americans predators to their faces, though, and that's the entry price.

This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas

"With National Park attendance down so dramatically over the last few years, the system is in crisis and funding has to be found elsewhere. That's why the Interior Department is partnering with ExxonMobil to bring limited, responsible gas extraction leases to Yellowstone", probably

I think the successful message for the left in 2026 and 2028 is going to be full-throated anti-predation. It's insane that you can click through a dialog that legally makes you the fuckup if using the platform in a normal way leads to your suicide.

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

Sitting here at a relative's house watching the Walmart-branded Whoville screensaver just scroll by on the Roku TV that's always on and having a weird feeling about it.

Honestly the MSNBC->MSNOW rebrand kind of cooks

Nobody's going to get $2000 checks, but if SCOTUS rules against the regime's claimed tariff authority they'll sure blame them for it.

What I want to know is what @schumer.senate.gov 's imaginary friends on Long Island think about all of this.

The real story here is that his fans think that if they dangle enough money in front of him it will make him hyperfocus on the metrics they set, and that will ultimately pay off. They don't understand hyperfocus.

This image for me has been like the "honk if you like pizza" bumper sticker in a way. I see the same thing, seems bad, but I'd never have thought about it again if other people hadn't be so vocally horrified. A reminder that maybe I don't see the word the same way most do.

It might seem flip at first, but Chris definitely has the core of all this right: Talking machines are performing only the public part of human intelligence. Being embodied is the foundation of being human, no matter how loquacious the conversational partner is.

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

A while ago I said kind of off-handedly that Cuomo was a "political ghoul" and I don't know that I've ever accidentally been more right about anything.

I will say that every single person who threatened to leave NYC absolutely should, because NYC's actual magic is that it makes amazing people that the rest of the world are lucky to meet. So leave, make room, go do other amazing shit and let the greatest city in the world cook up the next batch.

It's a full supermoon, btw. If you can get a clear view it's pretty amazing tonight.

This was the line that proved he was a killer (complimentary).

The one and only thing maga and I will ever agree on is fuck Joe Biden.

I'm ecstatic that Mamdani won, because NYC is so much a part of who I am, but I think we're all underselling the actual First here: He'll be the first actual badass in Gracie in at least my lifetime. Not a clown, not a boss, a clear leader with real and transformative goals for the city.

This idea that if a politician ever did any good work then we can't move on is absurd. Whatever his achievements, and these all seem worth noting, he's not the man for right now. Obviously. Like, obviously.

The "clean cr" language is nakedly political, even if it doesn't sound that way. Remember that the only reason we're here is because the republicans burned their once-per-year simple majority budget shot on the BBB fiasco, so now they need to compromise on the actual budget. Time to compromise.

It's infuriating that this has to happen, but taking a slightly longer view these volunteers become tomorrow's operational experts with unimpeachable credibility. If things are going to be rebuilt, it will have to be on the backs of the invested because we've squandered our organizational capital.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

I'm 100% sure that I'm the only human on earth and bluesky that reads this as isomorphic to the NYLUG/NYLNX beef, and Paul here is Ruben 🙄

Look, I understand and am furious at the fact that now our *best* outcome is yet another octogenarian gerontocrat in the fucking senate, but "no nazi tattoos" HAS to be the bar.

There is a fundamental asymmetry in the world, and it's inescapable: the garden grown over a year burns in the same day as the garden grown over a century. Societies that can't understand this and commit to defending against the arsonists are doomed to never see a 2-year crop.

My Star Wars was an extended view vhs rip from the laserdisc versions that I got as a Christmas present from a very strange (complimentary) uncle. If I could get those versions remastered on physical media I would pay thousands of dollars for whatever weird media appliance they needed.

I worry a lot about the fact that the right has a set of organizing principles that they break and change the rules to serve, but the center left mostly just works to preserve the rules themselves. More blue seats are great, but to what end? Why, other than having "control"?