"Legacy" Google Voice is gone, replaced by new "Pay us $10/month" Google Voice. https://support.google.com/voice/answer/9774707

I got a Datsun hat from a Nissan factory tour. Now when I go shopping old men smile and say “old school.”

#chess master Praggnanandhaa https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LDkh3wgqdBg

I have a big Bluetooth speaker, an Ion Block Rocker that’s about ten years old. It’s about the size of a small guitar amp, has wheels and an extendable handle like a wheelie bag. It has a lead acid battery in it the size of a brick, like a small motorcycle battery. I’ve replaced the battery once […]

In my ever so scientific method of just counting prepper magazines at my local grocery store, they seem to be down to 3, down from 6 post-pandemic. So the post-pandemic survivalism boom must have burst. #georgia

At least as we drift into a world where we can’t know if we can trust any digital information there may finally be a use case for PGP email.

CDC covid dashboard updated with propaganda but not data. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-statetrend.html?stateval=Georgia

I have a friend living in my garden

Make jalapeños hot again

At work they track employees' usage of the LLMs and encourage everyone to find ways to increase productivity. So people are using the LLMs to do trivial things, like list the tickets they are working on, or submit time on their timesheets- things that are faster and easier to do through the web […]

Oh well, whatever, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8eplxd7yzo

I guess they picked the wrong states to live in https://www.pbump.net/o/sorry-about-your-luck-24-million-trump-voters/

Oh sweet, due to a class action settlement from a data breach in the ParkMobile parking app I have a $1.00 credit for parking!

For all households earning less than $500,000, the combination of 2025 tariff increases and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce after-tax-and-transfer incomes on average. #tariff #tax […]

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

The one peeling Trump sticker on a truck in my immediate neighborhood is gone. Not sure if from change of opinion or just cheap adhesive as it had had one quarter hanging down for a while.

The U.S. exported 52% of its soybean crop, and half of that was bought by China. Now it’s zero. https://soygrowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/24ASA-001-Soy-Stats-Web.pdf […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You know things are off the rails when Marjorie Taylor Greene starts making sense. https://thehill.com/homenews/5527057-marjorie-greene-epstein-files/

We could have had a taco truck on every corner.

Imagine if your job forced you to fly from Korea to D.C. to listen to a demented old man blather about stairs, then failed to get you a return flight.

War on Beards Department

Can anyone point me to some good essays on the consequences of replacing public spaces with corporate-owned spaces, such as the replacement of main street shops with shopping malls and supermarkets? #urbanism #freespeech #publicgood

So the U.S. president doesn’t read his daily briefing but watches five year old footage of riots in Portland and sends in the National Guard to do landscaping?

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Whenever I go to Mississippi there’s plenty of wildlife- raccoons, deer, mosqitoes, so many mosquitoes. But this time there is a wasp nest INSIDE the bedroom I’ve been sleeping in. I think I’ll hit it with bathroom cleaner later on and hope for the best.

Woman Who Accused Joe Biden of Sexual Assault in 2016 Suddenly Defects to Russia, obtains citizenship | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/200814/joe-biden-accuser-tara-reade-russian-spy-citizenship

NBC - The trial of Ryan Wesley Routh came to a dramatic end Tuesday when he started stabbing himself in the neck with a pen after a Florida jury found him guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year on a golf course […]

I just clicked “print” on an email and it connected to the Brother printer and printed it.

Big U.S. companies reliant on H1-B visas will also need to make a glass trophy for the president. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5548568/h1b-visa-fee-trump-tech

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

Well-oiled machine. Only the best people. etc. etc. Super great business environment.

Back in Mississippi

Fascists claiming they're "Protecting Woman and Girls" yet they never acknowledge any of this stuff, it's like they don't actually care about Men predating on Girls, so long as they're White and Rich. Not a peep out of that crowd when Trump visited, they adore Rich White Paedos, don't they? […]

Price of coffee is up 20% in a year but people still have their “Trump low prices, Kamala high prices” signs up. Clap louder, Tinkerbell is dead.

Without de minimus exception, international shippers are putting absurd shipping prices on US shoppers. https://www.404media.co/2-000-shipping-international-sellers-charge-absurd-prices-to-avoid-dealing-with-american-tariffs/

Last week the public schools had the kids watch the videos of the planes hitting the Twin Towers for 9/11. This week we have to sign a form allowing them to be taught basic human reproduction.

"Recently started to move left" from an ultra-conservative Utah family is still pretty far right. That's basically Mitt Romney.

“Who wants to do business in a lawless country where anyone visiting is at risk of being chained up and imprisoned?” #georgia https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-lawless-nation

This is why you can’t keep your computer in your bedroom, Meta. Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

Clearly we need to station conservative pundits at all our schools.

This is the most impactful thing one can do to protest corporate caving to autocracy. Canceling Disney and Hulu subscriptions. I suggest you do the same. Now. And boost messaging like this to friends. Push back hard.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them - The Onion https://theonion.com/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them/

FIND AN IN-N-OUT Is this useful? Yes. You’re welcome. https://www.pbump.net/o/lets-get-you-to-in-n-out/

OH MY GOD

Without immigration, the debt situation over the next ten years will explode, as the GDP growth rate has been cut in half. So the tap on immigration will have to be reopened.

Is ANTIFA in the room with you now?

welp

I saved $40/month with this one easy trick #kimmel

Maybe these conservative religious gun families should more explicitly send their kids out at 18 or so on a Rumspringa in the modern culture for a few years before they choose whether to be baptized in Bud Light or Monster energy drink or ivermectin or whatever.