Wait. Turning in your ballot early reduces the amount of text spam and junk mail? How did I not know this?

been struggling with how to articulate this for a while now, but it's a big part of what's going on now. i don't want to marinate in my own resentments, and certainly not in theirs. i don't want to work through someone else's daddy or mommy issues. it stinks!

AND MAYBE A BIT OF A NAP LATER I'm starting to wonder if the ridiculously over-wrought fascism is secretly helping them because it's so hard to take seriously. I still think we should laugh heartily at these weenies.

Soviet-style political officers in units when?

Alarming and depressing thought that’s all too plausible. Miller, Vance, and others are absolutely not above something like this.

Headlines from a dystopian tale.

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

They’ve radicalized the people who know how to find all the hidden Mickeys. Amazing.

Some days it's about the small wins. I shudder to think about how much more damage they'd be doing in multiple areas if they were even remotely competent.

If the rich guys are getting this cranky and throwing punches in public, you know some noisy shit is going on behind the scenes.

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

This is because paying for vaccines is much cheaper than paying for treating lots of people with COVID, but anything that makes RFKJr and his coterie of quacks sad is good news.

Coffee is hugely more expensive under Trump’s crazy policies but hey, good news: the price of cocaine is down because so much of it is pouring across the border while drug agents are sent to Home Depot parking lots to round up undocumented construction workers.

Under Jeff's rules, probably something like: Garlic Rice (long grain, arborio, and Calrose) Reggiano Parmesan Chicken Stock/Broth Thyme I also always have an array of chile powders and vinegars, but couldn't single out a single one of either.

They feel safe to murder anyone they want without recourse to the law, and violently suppress any speech or protest they don’t like. The legacy press has been co-opted into the project or thoroughly cowed into silence, and the leaders of the opposition party are old and lost at sea. Shit.

It’s funny that “a flood of AI generated crap and bots makes the internet unusable” now seems like an optimistic scenario

I am saying this with love but some of you all need to figure out a thing to do when you are anxious that isn't posting

He and Pritzker hit the right notes today. Newsom yet again disqualified himself with his horrid response.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

I sympathize some with folks cheering for Nepal right now, but my son is currently learning about the Reign of Terror in school, and it's been a good prompt to talk about how revolutions almost never work out the way revolutionaries want, and you usually get a Napoleon, Stalin, or Pol Pot in the end

Mmmm. Lobster.

Railroad Daddy in a priceless ad:

An elderly man threatening everything that has ever made him feel nervous. A party appeasing him to cash in once he kicks. The other party trying to open everyone's eyes and being punished for it. We're in King Lear, if it had been written by monkeys on meth.

"how can you get more accurate answers" from an LLM? that's like asking "how can you get more love from a prostitute." that's just not the service provided. — Thomas' words of wisdom

Doctor I trust more than RFKJr www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/u...

Smells like…victory

Cowabunga. Dude.

Hmm. Global top 1% means top ~82 million people, so I'm guessing I'm a one-percenter on a number of California specialties: BBQ tri-tip, pinquito beans, al pastor burritos, and probably a couple things 99% of people have never tried like abalone, ramps, or chanterelles.

What is going on with New York politics where they're producing insanely talented young politicians like Zohran and AOC, and their leadership is still so, so bad?

This. While it can be fun to speculate, anyone attempting medical diagnosis through photos and video clips is being stupid or evil and should be shunned.

Tossup between Steve Earle in The Wire and Aretha Franklin in The Blues Brothers

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

Depressing but good point. Trump corrupting government data sources is a huge giveaway to the big Wall Street institutions who have the resources to build their own data models that will now be much more accurate than anything publicly available.

Cat People Problems.

Watching from California, this may be the coolest, most wholesome thing I’ve seen in a political campaign in forever. And a great counter to all the “NYC is a violent hellhole where you’ll be murdered on the subway” fear mongering

File this in the “their incompetence reduces the damage they’ll be able to do” category.

Presidents are supposed to be like your underwear. If you’re thinking about them at all over the course of a normal day, they’re either fabulous or something has gone terribly wrong.

Experimental philosophy

People who don't think there's been any good books, music, or other art made since they were in high school make me sad.

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me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

With every atom of my being I hate rfk and all who have enabled his war on the public health. may he know hard days, and may those who have enabled him share in his suffering

This principle applies to any organization of decent size. In a large mature organization any technical problem that looks easy is almost certainly a giant trap for the unwary.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

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