It's funny to me that when he was named WH comms director Anthony Scaramucci was universally understood to be a weird joke, but right now he's going on international podcasts giving incredibly well-informed and cogent analysis on what's about to happen next in the Iran situation.

Same. In the modern era your phone should never interrupt you.

Post-Covid I developed an MCAS/allergic reaction to casein, the protein in milk that makes it white and shows up in all kinds of dairy and processed food products. This is literally the first time I've thought "...yay...". I miss cheese so much.

They think they're saying something like "fighter jets don't know about tire wear" but what they're actually saying is "I don't know how to cook because I own a chef"

Nice.

I don't know if any of this horseshit is true, but I DO know that if nukes go off as part of this thing it will be because some sour-smelling disciple of Teller came up from a basement and convinced Trump that it's not war, it's High Impact Construction

"Red Delicious", the apple that is famously half accurately named.

'Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”' And the "leadership" of the Democratic party still acts like these people are honest partners in a shared project.

Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image

Mussolini defined fascism as corporatism, a "merger of state and corporate power".

The bright red critical word in this is "Schmittian", which is the core of this whole thing. Carl Schmitt, as much as any single person, laid the ideological foundations of Nazi political methodology and the ways that the right can subvert and capture liberal democracies. They're all nazis at heart.

That were remain available to be Completed when the time comes, unfortunately. They don't consider us legitimate Americans.

I stopped playing this years ago yet I an FURIOUS to learn this now.

Today I told fascists to fuck off by teaching teenagers basic zinemaking at the local library

Yesterday I told the fascists to fuck off by facilitating an Idea Wall for our community clubhouse in this red-but-becoming-purple little town. Bunco! A 5-K! Pancake breakfast! Live music! So many good ideas!

Today I told fascists to fuck off by supplying my neighbors with groceries while they shelter in place. Last week I paid their rent. All with help from y'all!

Yesterday I told fascists to fuck off by initiating the spring cleanup at the community garden.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

1 lb browned ground beef, 1 box kraft mac and cheese, salt, pepper. Mix. Eat. Bachelor's dinner. This isn't an event or a thing, it's just young men eating. Calm down.

So I'm going to take a maybe contrary opinion that coprolalia is essentially the same as incontinence. If it's not controlled it's not acceptable in a shared public setting like the BAFTAs. I understand the activist angle here, but Delroy Lindo getting used to being called a slur can't be our goal.

We live in this wild time where most companies act genuinely angry that they have to go through you to get to your money.

I've been a political news junkie all my life and instead of watching the SOTU I read in bed for an hour before falling asleep and it turns out I have wasted so so much time

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It's amazing how much power and enthusiasm is just sitting there waiting to be catered to by anyone willing to stop pretending that we all have to meet the hard right halfway.

Everyone is saying this, but I want to pile on and point out that you dont need an id to ride a train, which I know from a couple decades of regularly riding trains.

I have a vague recollection of a vegan tofu-based pesto recipe that came out of an old-school / punk cookbook from the pre-internet era. Anyone have any idea what the book or recipe might be?

"The only thing better than a short meeting is a shorter meeting, I think we're done here"

@hoovybaby.bsky.social postal banking now

The Orb: "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld". It has the additional distinction of being almost 20 minutes long.

These demands are proffered in exchange for a funding block that will kick into effect after the currently approved ICE funding runs out in 2029, though. None of this has any actual stakes, they've already given up the real game. It's so *frustrating* to see this limp kabuki parading as action.

The level at which we've normalized setting civic policy based on biblical literalism never ceases to make me want to scream. This is crazy-person talk, where the policies of a modern nation of more than 300 million people are being based on bronze-age oral histories. It's madness.

The right response here is to say "wait, so not actual handguns - fingerguns? They were fingergunning you? You're detaining them because they fingerbanged you yesterday?"

The problem with the national Democratic party is that what they want is to go back to the dance card era of genteel party politics, and if they win power that's exactly what they'll seek. Meanwhile the national Republican party is saying out loud that anyone who isn't MAGA isn't a real American.

I will find you, I will go to your profile feed, I will forget that I’m scrolling your profile feed, and I will like a bunch of stuff

Can anyone give me an earnest defense of the pro bowl in the modern era? If it's just there for the superbowl machine to spin up, give both teams a bye week to rest up instead of making some of the stars risk an injury, right? I just don't understand the case for it.

I don't say this with doomerism or animosity, but what on earth does anyone think the current Dem leadership will be able to do with this if it falls in their lap? Look what happened to Starmer, feckless leadership squanders opportunities.

I'll have you all know that my child who is a huge fan of @tmbg.bsky.social, Epic the musical, and Greek mythology in general saw my pinned post and applauded.

That Tom Hohman press conference was pretty interesting.

This doesn't end unless individuals considering stepping into vacant roles in the administration know for a fact that the role is open because the previous holder is in prison. This is a good first step.

So based on their SNL set I guess Geese is Butthole Surfers for people who are the age now that I was wham got into Butthole Surfers?

Google lost the power to disappoint me a long, long time ago but this Is particularly gross given everything

The single most powerful and enduring piece of agitprop I've ever personally witnessed is the J.D. Vance couch thing.

I've been digging though old playlists on old services, and just fetched up Ratatat and... damn. It's pure distilled something that I don't even have a name for anymore.

Guys the people currently grabbing up power in the USA are part of a network that openly believes in "passive eugenics" so yes they are trying to kill everybody. They think the planet is overpopulated with "the wrong kinds of people"

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

Buckley's problems with Nixon were only partly ideological, fundamentally he hated Nixon for his annoying aesthetics. Buckley would have fawned over Trump so hard it would have made Lindsey Graham blush

It's important to understand that he wears that canister on his chest because of the deposition he was pulled into over deploying gas against protesters weeks ago. He wears it everywhere and throws it once in a while because it's part of his costume. It's media, and they win media this way.

People around here are starting to prep for the storm. The local hardware store is so busy you'd think they were selling milk and bread.