Thread. Loving Spouse and I (late Boomer/Gen Jones) have avoided the worst of this by being extremely lucky with education and jobs, but honestly in the US these days I feel like we just have a bigger cushion--we're not immune to downturns the way the *really* wealthy are.

These are the people who don't realize that being the main character in your life's story doesn't come with plot armor.

This is orthogonal enough to the original thread that I didn't want to post it as a reply, but the quoted post reminded me of James MacDonald's brilliant take on the history of Scripture in Making Light: nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...

Reposting just so I can share one quote from the linked article: "As is often the case with Yglesias’ writing, one must unpack its flatness in the manner of Ikea furniture and then painfully construct something useful out of the pieces."

This is a great story, and reminds me of something the late Mike Ford wrote about seeing the same scene in another production.

Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them

I still miss Reveal Codes.

Anyone who'd play poker with Mamdani for cash stakes is definitely the sucker at the table.

Thread. There are apparently people out there teaching organizing like it's fucking Amway, and that attitude breaks folks.

That sounds like some criticisms I've seen of the Wachowskis' _Jupiter Ascending_. And on the one hand yeah, it's self-indulgent, but why is that a bad thing? It was a gorgeous movie.

That's the decoy we pay attention to while the little ship loaded with carcinogens, a chronopathic idiot, and a Class 3 etiologic interference psionic do the real damage.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

That's why we should be really, really picky about Senators and Representatives. How many current and former US Senators are there--maybe a thousand? That's less than one in 100,000 voters, so near-perfection in ethics should be the expectation.

Another example of what Ian Hartshorn wrote about the other day. bsky.app/profile/ianm...

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100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.

The players opening up about this have to play their games in stadiums plastered with the logos of these casinos, and the broadcasts of those games are packed with ads for the same casinos. A colossal betrayal and failure from the league

every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-b... "Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis." Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.

Thread. On the one hand, agreed. House and Senate party "leaders" have a tough job keeping a by-nature fractious, broad coalition together. OTOH, given that what I most fault Schumer for is 1) having priorities that don't match the urgency of the moment, and...

🎶 Eggs, sugar, milk, no flour. Set the oven to medium power. Let it rest for about an hour, 21st century schizoid flan.

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE LET'S CIRCLE BACK AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE SOMEONE WILL SAY TURN THIS IN BY THE END OF THE DAY DESPITE ALL MY RAGE YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF AT THIS STAGE

Don't mind me, I'll be over in the corner turning into a little pile of dust.

My folks and I saw the Edmund Fitzgerald twice (before she went down, obv)--once at the Port of Milwaukee, and again at Sault Ste. Marie. I wouldn't have noticed it, but they both remembered the ship's name and commented on it.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The jury deliberated for SEVEN hours on the sandwich case, and I will bet money six of them were just talking about different good kinds of sandwiches they’ve had and how they’d throw.

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

twelve hungry men

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

"May be red flags." Gee, ya think?

Oh look, it's that Frank Wilhoit quote again. The law must protect all equally and bind all equally, and it's a breath of fresh air to hear it from a politician.

Thread. Now I'm hungry. (Also too, a little bit of galangal when you add the herbs and such brightens the flavor a lot.)

This reminds me of the way that Lord Julius organized his government in the "High Society" story arc in Cerebus, only there it was funny. Here, not so much.

This is brilliant and lovely. I see echoes of it in, of all things, Rudyard Kipling's poem "Natural Theology," though I think Rabbi Waskow put it better. www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_n...

As soon as I saw "archway" I guessed, but second-guessed myself because I didn't think that could possibly be it. Yeah, right.

"Can Donald Trump run for a 3rd term?" No. "What if he..." Still no. "How about..." STFU, No. "Then why are we talking about it!?" Because evil MAGA apparatchiks need you to fear that he will. I explain in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The account pictured is already gone, so nice work by someone.

Without giving CO any credit, because she's drunk a lot of the koolaid, I'm sure that Musk, Altman, and Thiel would love to be transhumanist hybrids.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

This, plus wishing more old cishet white dudes like me would realize that *not everything has to be for you*.

While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Quoting this for the phrase "temu Second Life." *chef's kiss*

So, like, imagine your whole identity, self-esteem, and meaning in life is wrapped up in one mortal man who is nearly 80 years old and looking wobbly. You’re dreading something you can’t even allow yourself to articulate as a recognizable thought because it’s just too unbearable, too terrifying.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

Words to live by.