Carville seems to have gotten terminally consultant-brained. I mean, the first thing I look for in a candidate is "are they mad about the same things I am?", and he's definitely mad. IDK, though--his anger comes across as inauthentic.

Two things can be true simultaneously: 1) What The Fig Economy said. People changing their minds to agree with you is a very good thing, and 2) Those people are not somehow automatically entitled to a position of leadership.

I wouldn't complain if he lived long enough to be the "1" on a large number of 12-1 SCOTUS decisions.

idk who needs to hear this: just because you have a cat means everyone wants to see it constantly. like you have to post it every day and fill up our feed. use your common sense folks. post constantly without discretion.

I do like Charles Stross' take on vampires in the Laundry series; basically, their victims die of something like prion disease, as extradimensional parasites take little bites out of their brains, but if the vampires don't feed the parasites will kill them.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

I don't think I want to know what precipitated this, but I'll probably go looking for it anyway -_-.

That was the US strategy with Ukraine, and it's a good one up to a point. We should've given them more.

I didn't twig to it being A I slop, but I was also pretty sure Hunter Biden didn't write it.

I'm convinced that it's the same mindset you see in premillenial dispensationalism--"I am *special*, and I will get to see the eternal victory of tech/God with my own eyes." Like the folks the OP writes about, PMDs ignore the history of their predecessors saying the same thing.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

🎶 They say that there’s a secret plan That Trump will use to beat Iran But you don’t really buy that bullshit, do ya? It goes like this: the bombs, Hormuz, And Hegseth chugs his fill of booze Eventually the whole thing goes ka-bloo, yeah 🎶

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about that, "The Peace of Dives." He wrote it in 1903. Less than ten years later, the onset of WW I proved him wrong.

The sound of meowing 🐾

Pomona, sleeping through Caturday.

Interesting article. One thing that struck me, though, is that the hypothetical 2029 D administration has to think of rebuilding government as similar to the reconstruction of Germany and Japan post-WWII.

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Trans rights are human rights. Period.

This.

Damn! Gas prices are so high I just saw Dolly Parton carpooling with Jolene.

Bird law!

Disturbing if true.

Korra sleeping in a manner suggesting that she doesn't like the light.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

Bard's Tale and Elite.

Re last post, there are more and less appropriate ways it could've gone...thinking about the post I saw yesterday about how Biden should've disappeared Trump instead of relying on the justice system. And I'm going yeah, there's no possible way that would've come back to bite us.🙄🙄🙄

It's a fair cop.

"Return of the Native," Thomas Hardy. When the most interesting character is the setting, you know you're in for a good time. Not.

Yeah. YEAH YEAH YEAH

For some reason this post has more both-sides replies than anything else I've seen in the past few weeks. Can't imagine why 🙄.

Listening to some...person on MSNOW talking about being cordial to the administration folks in attendance, and I was like...no. Those people do not deserve anything other than the cut direct, and if you don't think you can do that you shouldn't be there.

These look amazing, and (as a person with facial hair) if I ate one I'd probably be wearing bits of it for the rest of the day.

I am in this picture, and I guess I'm OK with that.

Thread. Simon was a Good Cat.

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

He had that raw-looking area on his neck a month or two ago, IIRC, that the WH said was from fluorouracil treatment. And that *can*, AIUI, be used to treat certain skin cancers.

Thread.

And it suddenly occurred to me that hirelings were kind-of Gygax putting the armies back in (plus making it easier for a single person to play on the days that you couldn't get all of the band together).

Thread. A perfect description of the relationship between POTUS and the rest of the world.

Oh, *now* he's calling it the Department of Defense again, because asking for $1.5T for War looks bad.

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Pretty likely, but AIUI they only get one reconciliation bill per session. It has to be budget-related, so no SAVE bs, and it might not pass the House. ISTM that the Rs are taking a loss now in exchange for a future win that's not guaranteed.

guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you

This. The quality of JKR's writing is *irrelevant* in a discussion of how much harm she is doing and will continue to do with the money she makes from the new HP series. When you bring up your dislike for the franchise *in that discussion*, you center yourself, not the people who'll be harmed.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Trump doesn't want boots on the ground. That's why he's personally buying a pair of Florsheim shoes for each Marine in the expeditionary force.

Thread.

On the drive to work this morning (western Joliet IL), gas at $4.30/gallon. It sure looks like Iran saw the way Ukraine was inflicting pain on RU via energy production attacks and said yeah, we can do that too.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.