Walter @walterdeemer.bsky.social shared this on the other site yesterday. Great story.

Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.

Toronto and Toronto-familiar peeps! Any recommendations of things to see/do/eat during a short stay near City Hall in the Queen City?

I’m starting to think Mamdani may actually make headway on reverse enshittification of Bloomberg’s luxury product

It’s like they don’t know what the real world is like anymore and prefer AI’s vision.

I definitely do not want to do this again.

My wife was the recipient of our first verified honk from vampire squid lovers yesterday. Stopped at a long red light, the car behind her was honking & when she looked they were making hearts with their hands and making flappy squiddy gestures. Best thing that happened to either of us all day.

It’s hard to think about any one 2024 race that’d move the needle at the fed level. It turns into vindication or wish fulfillment. No Mike Johnson? Easy to imagine worse. No Ted Cruz? That’s spite, he hasn’t done diddly for a while, has he? Ima make @sarahtaber.bsky.social NC Ag commissioner.

Wow. XAI selling their compute to Anthropic because they can’t use it all on account of Grok having 0 organic demand

Paging @blank.org

I’m at a bar to see one of my favorite Philly bands @gladiephilly.bsky.social but I haven’t eaten all day so I’m at the bar eating a sandwich & GOD DAMN Captain Nemo is doing hand-to-hand combat with a giant squid on the TV. But Noun started their set, time to see the show!

R2-D2 is the hero

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

It sucks that EV adoption (fucking Tesla excluded) has been so poor in the United States. It's awful and it's detrimental to the environment and to the competitiveness of the US automotive industry going forward. The Big 3 is not to blame. Donald Trump is. 15/15

Always fun to go to a to-the-trade store/supplier with a “you want what?” question and find the guy that says, “yeah, I’m bored, let’s do it”

Patch now! Pat….whoops, no patch available. Mitigate now! Mitigate now!

When I was learning to spell I always left the last E off “here”. Now? It’s more usage for affect vs effect

I made $3.35 (federal minimum wage) bagging groceries at this guy’s store. The store did normal grocery biz, plus: florist, pharmacy, home goods, casual sit down restaurant, & sporting goods - it had one of the better selections of downhill & XC skis marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet...

No one should fall for this justification. The White House isn’t going to just rent out the ballroom to third parties. And the WHCA shouldn’t have their party hosted by the very institution they are supposed to be reporting on.

300 person capacity bar/music venue.

the gerrymandering thing arguably shows that just as every right wing accusation is a confession, every scheme of theirs exposes massive vulnerabilities of their own. do it all to them

1/2 the reason Lucent was known as the “flaming assholes”

Rosetta back to MFing 68K & MacOS 7 Either that or bring back Aperture

when our grandkids ask "how could you not see the Republic of Gilead approaching?" we'll have to explain how someone threatened to launch the Republic of Gilead every couple months and it was hard to tell which ones could actually pull it off

Cleaning out some dark corners and hoo boy have I lived here a long time. AUI cables, SCSI CD-ROM drives - some of which require caddies - and way too many keyboards. Broken stuff cannibalizable for some other project. Unopened caulk hardened in the tube. Extra space is a curse.

Hegseth wants us to be excited about the best tactical execution in service to the worst, most incoherent, most seat-of-the-pants strategy. Dude, the emperor has no clothes.

someBODY once told me Luigi Mangione SHOT a CEO in the leg He had to pull the slide and he gave another try And he shot that CEO stone cold dead If you were wondering “hey what’s going on with Luigi?” maybe there will be a trial or two in the fall www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Waygu beef anything. Ick.

A new example usage: JD Vance really fucked the couch in Hungary.

This is great news for Team RBIO, bad news for Team Authoritarian Axis, and GREAT news for Ukraine

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

@pile.bsky.social ? On a Wednesday? Yes please!

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Your true friends will tell you when you’re about to do something stupid or wrong

Yes it’s a flavor of Mamdani puff piece. It’s still great what you can get people to achieve when you set an outrageous deadline and get them to focus on what they can do and not on the obstacles. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/n...

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

I think that’s the most “Military-Industrial Complex” thing I’ve ever heard. It’s almost like the most tangible objective of the whole Iran mission is to generate more orders for more bombs & missiles.

What is it? White Christian nationalist dog whistle, substituting steam whistle for dog whistle? Owning the libs? Toadyism? Porque no los tres? Anyway, none of those are the function of a gov’t agency. Freakin’ sophomoric amateurs. (Also maybe the whitest Jesus I’ve ever seen)

If I didn't make these myself I wouldn't believe them.

In this version, Humpty Dumpty is the rules based international order

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again

Apparently we are down to *15* AWACS and a year or more from any replacements taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

“False memories are common in Alzheimer’s and other dementias”

Red Sox Yankees if they not playing the Red Sox & are behind them in standings Blue Jays Orioles Tigers Reds

#VincentValdez @massmoca.bsky.social

Does anyone care that Apple bought a Brad Pitt movie AND an Oscar nomination as an advertisement for streaming F1 races? I mean sure, you can do wacky things with infinite money but this is bordering on space tourism levels of nonsense.

Why would Iran budge? The US has shown that negotiations don’t matter and at this point any Iranians in leadership can just take their death as a given, so what is the threat of bombing and death to them?