"Suicidal empathy" is essentially the only reason we didn't eat Elon Musk when he was still an infant.

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They indicted the ham sandwich but they did not convict. I'm pleased; TBH, I was worried they might nail him on a risible de minimis offense on pure technical definitions of assault. Happens all the time, sadly. But the system worked.

If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Are we certain he means weight and isn't referring to British currency to shave 77.2 million dollars off the butcher's bill?

"AWRITE NOW LISSEN! THERE WERE A LOT OF RUMORS ABOUT WHETHER _ALIVE!_ WAS REALLY _ALIVE!_ -- WELL THE TRUTH IS WE WILL RELEASE WHATEVER WE PERFORM FOR YOU, THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE -- LOVE -- YOU! BUT PEOPLE, LISSEN -- WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ALL PLAYED IT TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME!"

Is it a mistrial if one of the jurors mistakenly eats a state exhibit?

Vermont BLUBRRY license plate I saw on way to coffee shop today might belong to somebody who really likes fruit or could belong to somebody who really misses the heyday of the New England whaling industry, who can say? (Maybe they're very emotional and break into tears a lot.)

This seems very funny to me because the Republican women judges and prosecutors I knew in the county I practiced law in for 25 years were not accommodating of grey areas or less doctrinaire. I believe in diversity and remediating lack of diversity on moral principle, but women are individuals.

IT HAS BEGUN!! Y'all know what to do! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

It’s common to say that social media was a mistake. I understand that logic. But in my local context I’ve spent this week in a lot of struggle I cannot speak of. I’m comforted by the stars of hope on the far horizon, as here night seems without end. Such stars form constellations to navigate by.

22. If voters are acting like they were scammed, they should know Trump wasn’t alone. The media scammed them, too. And the Democrats should never play nice with scammers.

15. But the intensity of the blue wave suggests something else. Many voters seem to be reacting as if they were scammed. Every single county in Virginia shifted left, even the whitest, western-most ones. In New Jersey, the Democratic candidate wiped out gains Trump made with Black & Hispanic voters.

5. THREE: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York, and Abigail Spanberger, the governor-elect of Virginia, are very different Democrats who certainly disagree on policy. That is not a weakness. It’s the strength found in a multi-racial ideologically heterodox organization like the Democrats.

I can’t read this piece because I’m stupid enough as it is, I can’t risk being made any stupider.

The art thief's van ran out of gas as he drove away from the museum because he had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh. #joke

THE HIGHLANDER and ZARDOZ are a great double bill because you can put Connery in literally any fucking costume you want but by God he isn’t going to do accent work

Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Oh, that's seriously good.

Remember how his family eventually gave his father a fake office, because he was suffering from cognitive issues, and they made him believe that he was working all day, when it was all just make believe? Me thinks this is kind of the presidential version of that.

Seriously, this needs to be the campaign slogan of every Democratic candidate in '26 and '28.

I'm old enough to remember when the idea of warm-blooded dinosaurs, much less proto-avian dinosaurs, was a wacky fringe hypothesis in search of more evidence; and I'm still young enough and hopefully always will be young enough to be delighted by feathered theropods. I love them.

I think I'm becoming musically obsessed with Cigarettes After Sex.

One last thing, I guess, about Zohran. Cities are under constant attack from MAGA. And Zohran's campaign felt like a love letter to cities: the pluralism, the communities, the neighborhoods, the activism, the people, and the culture that makes cities great. It was NY but could have been anywhere.

Does this mean if we learn the secret of her real name and say it to her face, she'll return to the dark forest and never bother us again?

He's right: we try to vote them out of office and then they try to redistrict us out of having our votes matter. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe.

TTRPG pitch: Reverse Delta Green where you are shapeshifting undercover alien spies working for a benevolent intergalactic government doomed to go mad containing humans and the various insanities of human life from escaping earth.

Well, better "thoughts and prayers" than the Texas National Guard. I'm surprised Abbott is showing more restraint than usual.

New goal: live life in such a way that hard-right chuds call for a "moment of silence" at my most notable successes.

A huge problem is that the majority of Americans don't understand immigration law issues at all--who actually gets deported, how deportations work, etc.--which Trump exploited on the campaign trail. But then his Admin cranked all the dials to 10, and people are now seeing the ugliness in plain view.

Painting LaGuardia as a fiscal conservative by citing his initial struggles upon taking over New York at the height of the Depression requires you to also paint the New Deal as fiscally conservative, eh? The New Deal was democratic socialism in full and LaGuardia embraced it. You're a pretzel here.

It’s a big, weird, happy tent this morning

My new piece for @mcsweeneys.net up today. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Like, there are some journalists on Bluesky I don't block almost immediately when I encounter them! I voted for @joshuajfriedman.com for mayor! But it basically comes down to "who's here solely to further their career" v "who's here to shitpost about Alf's dick down here with the rest of us"

Reading this review reminded me of why House of Leaves so completely bounced off of me: a book that was full of cool and interesting ideas by a writer who was ultimately more interested in performing some sort of too-clever-by-half literary stunt than he was in actually telling a story.

This is and has always been the essential limit of Trump's "deal making", which has always been based on bluster and threats. It worked to a degree in NYC in the '70s and '80s *because NYC was a fucking trainwreck in the 1970s and the people he did it to didn't have alternatives. 1/2

DUMB TELEVISION 11/4 [TIMES ET] *MARTIAN DAY* 9:30am - Darkstar: The Interactive Movie 11:16am - Dave, Dez & Chris Watch Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park 1:05pm - Movie Jo Night: Daughter of the Mind 2:52pm - Martian Shadows Marathon! (1/2)

The greatest problem Silicon Valley faces these days is that it's all well and good to have AI writing things that are edited by AI then summarized by AI and then used to train AI, but you have to have somebody in the ouroboros actually paying for it, which is why they have to force it on consumers.

The thing about rationing healthcare that is unlike rationing most other things is that the people who need healthcare didn't choose to need healthcare and do not get a choice in how they can economize, or not, on healthcare

I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative

Remember to live your life such that people don't talk about the abject evils you did when you die.

Joke's on you, Dick Cheney has been dead inside for decades.

My recollection is that a Subway sandwich has a range increment of 10', so you take a penalty to your To Hit for each range band beyond that unless you took the Gyroic Throw feat or it's a magic item like the Meatball Sub of Distance.

60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning www.mediaite.com/media/tv/60-...

It turns out that it isn't only non-MAGA people who find MAGA people insufferable

Inaccurate: most mammals still have an exododus, but there's scientific debate amongst biologists over whether it still performs any necessary functions in primates. Even so, if you feel your exododus has ignited (look out for shooting, crippling abdominal pain), please see a doctor immediately.

Because class treason is worse than actual treason.