Help! The Artificial Man I Created doesn't Like Me!

Ten down, thirty-eight to go.

Happy Birthday to Alan Moore, who will never know of this message.

Is this whole "Trump blew Clinton" thing based on the premise that Bill Clinton is the only Southern white man nicknamed "Bubba"? Because that seems remarkably dumb even for the internet.

People are really underestimating the amount of truly terrible legislation the Republicans would pass without a filibuster.

Trad Catholics are, in fact, traditionally Catholic. Who knew?

I sympathize with most of this, and clearly Jewish Studies at Indiana is a victim of administrative overreach. But if Jewish Studies is going to be an academic discipline taught at secular universities, the Jewish/non-Jewish status of the people teaching it is irrelevant.

This was literally a no bad news election. Weird but good.

The Republicans really need to concentrate on rebuilding their brand with young women.

Amazing how much Mamdani bashing shows up on my For You tab at the other place. It's not like I live in New York, Elon!

On top of everything else with Platner, running him now would kill stone dead any chance the dems had of making hay with the Nazi Republican staffers and electeds story.

9 down, 39 to go.

Credit where credit's due, the Administration handled No Kings in a smart way by not creating martyrs or dramatic images of people getting arrested or beaten up. The artillery thing was a fiasco, and the shitplane an embarassment, but they're coming out of this a lot better than they could have.

In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Another day, another guest post for the Sanguinary Utnapishtim! This one (sherdenpact.neocities.org/GuestPostRel...) by returning author @williameburns.bsky.social who has really got The Vibe here by thinking through: what would Khornite disaster relief look like? And concluding: absolutely absurd.

Finished the Perlstein tetralogy today. Learned a lot. A lot of it was a nostalgia thing for me growing up in the seventies. OTOH, it could have been cut by about a third without losing much.

Calvinophobia is a widespread madness.

Seeing a lot of Dem optimism about taking the House which isn't taking into account the possibility of the Supremes tossing out what remains of the Voting Rights Act in time for more Republican redistricting.

Happy International Lesbian Day to all the lesbians out there, and James Comey!

Oh wow.

Today I had reason to look up the old Norman Spinrad novel Agent of Chaos (1967) and discovered that the main character's name is Boris Johnson.

Wondering how the "no fat soldiers" directive is going to affect Sgt. Snorkel.

Historians of the future: WWIII began when several top American commanders had the same idea about getting out of a meeting with Pete Hegseth.

Getting the feeling from Cruz's statement on the Kimmel affair and a few others that some of the smarter Republicans are starting to figure out that Trump is unpopular.

8 down, 40 to go.

At some point an American President--not this one--is going to have to go to South Korea and totally eat shit.

Getting really tired of the rhetorical position on the left that the opinion you don't like is always "white."

And they say liberals don't know how to appeal to young men.

I think the regime is exaggerating both the popularity of Charlie Kirk and the impact of his death--I haven't had a single meatspace conversation about it.

I keep being tempted to subscribe to the Post again--they're practically giving it away now--and I keep resisting the temptation.

The critical liberal error was to mistake victory in the Cold War as proof of a universal longing for freedom rather than a universal longing for cheap consumer goods.

Regarding the Red Hood affair, no doubt in Hell Charlie Kirk is smiling at the thought of getting one more trans woman fired.

Looks like the Kirk shooting was committed by someone who had a plan to get away afterwards, which seems curiously old-fashioned.

How long before the leather-bound $150 facsimile edition of the Epstein birthday book?

Something happened today which I wasn't sure was possible, which is someone wanting to have a meeting on Microsoft Teams.

Wow, that whole quorum-breaking foofaraw really accomplished absolutely nothing.

Seven down, forty-one to go.

Anti-colonial Left: Winston Churchill was bad, actually. National Conservatives: We agree! Anti-colonial Left: Not like that.

Has anyone done a parallel study of the British and Siamese Revolutions of 1688?

The Brothers Karamazov.

Seeing a lot about how Trump wants to militarize DC, but what people are forgetting is that this has a history that long predates Trump's political career. Republicans have always hated Home Rule and loved screwing with DC.

In the argument over why so many American institutions are complicit with Trump people are overestimating the role of sympathy with Trump's agenda and underestimating simple cowardice.

Story of a worker accused of using an anti-AI slur but let off once they establish that it was just a racial slur.

Go for it.

Interesting the spread of the term "rock star" at a time when literal rock stars are becoming extinct.

Looking at New York Times bestselling paperbacks lists from the 80s and man, Jim Davis ruled that decade. The Reagan era was really the Garfield era.

The only thing I will say about the "what to do about young men" debate is that it seems remarkably free of the input of young men.

Go for it.

Possible dissertation topics in the history of astrology in modern America.