over and over again I am encouraged by the way this guy reaches out to constituencies who aren’t naturally part of his coalition - not to pander for votes with changing views but to try to find common ground and work together on stuff he believes in he’ll need every bit of that attitude as mayor

Day 3: much less gas/nausea. Should've been awful migraine day but was actually pretty mild, was able to go for long drive to visit a friend. Sugar remarkably stable. Which helps a lot with migraine anxiety loops, etc.

No lie this is so unhinged I thought he was talking to like, Lakota Man, instead of freakin' Derek.

I don’t care if it’s Dan Brown airport garbage or unhinged omegaverse fanfiction on AO3, if it gets you reading it’s doing you more good than harm

Oof. This hits right in my undergraduate degree feels.

We should do Sukkot like we did in the old days. Retrog

Periodic reminder that Zarathustra deconstructs Christianity and then proceeds to deconstruct himself as (perhaps perpetually) before his time. The overgoers are no where to be found, they have traded one master for another.

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin) STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!” Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

This may come as a shock to some people, but social welfare programs and affordable housing plans do not preclude a free market mechanism for the majority of people.

Thucydides eat your heart out: "Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held...

Day 2: still reduced cravings, and also *altered* cravings. Actually craving vegetables, and today is a migraine day so usually it'd be chocolate/pastries/ice cream. Sugar staying even, feel sated after small bowls of food. Some minor gas/bloat but GasX did the trick without the hunger returning.

Gamergate was a tantrum.

Niche content but excited I just learned AJ Dillon is a Jew of Color. I already love JOCs but that he is also an Eagle.... #flyeaglesfly www.jewishboston.com/read/matzah-...

It seems increasingly likely that tomorrow the remaining Israeli hostages will be released from Gaza. This is a really important moment to lean into humanity, folks. Each of these people has been through hell, and I'm worried that there are going to be people scorning their release... (1/)

One thing about this era is how these societal impulses were deeply intertwined and overlapping. Social movements making use of the available cultural resources to create allies and support. With weird religious conservative bedfellows worried about the industrial revolution and Irish papists.

I've always wondered what Pterry thought of the whole Mythbusters series on the reflector. I was always bummed the NASA engineer's one got wrecked in transit.

Day 1 of semaglutide, took it around dinner, and I already am not having my 1am cravings? And nausea is quite mild. Is this witchcraft? I hope so.

This was a reply, but I think its worth its own post. Southpark, Futurama, King of the Hill, Family Guy... even The Simpsons and Seinfeld to an extent... there is something toxic and nihilistic/both-sidesy defeatist and corrosive about so much millenial media. Hell, even the Onion at times. 1/2

Since we're doing tariff discourse, reblog for the evening crowd

New from me: Trump's AI policy is a disaster in the making. To understand why, we need to revisit the work of Albert Hirschman and his disciples across development economics. This was made much easier by the amazing work of @josephpolitano.bsky.social on the US semiconductor industry. 1/2

"What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality—as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time." - Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

I think the point of the government is to make people's lives better and not worse and this actually has a moral dimension that supersedes political expediency. Horrible things will happen under this admin no matter what anyone does, people don't need to be scared about them turning off the stove.

True enough, and a good reminder of moral nuance. Practically, I am still left wondering why authoritarian dipshits seem so much more likely to negotiate with other authoritarian dispshits. Perhaps its a matter of the limited scope and mutual understanding of betrayal.

In other "sad Bob Ross" news: the Bob Ross foundation is auctioning off a bunch of his paintings because of PBS funding cuts. On the one hand, really sad it's needed. On the other, well, I'm glad they are helping.

An alternative theory of Noah's flood...

Juzam Djinn album when?

Wow, way to make me even sadder. Imagine US politics if MLK Jr. had lived.

Yep. I have a cousin who was one of the twins in Mengele's camps. Not sure if she's passed - distant relation I don't keep track of - but she lived at least until Obama.

Another reason the Vatican is pissed. Bonus points probably for angering a lot of Menonites and Quakers who work in relief work.

Yeah, that's fair.

I do not care about whoever was criticizing. But I am reblogging because this is an awesome vest.

I did not have "The Wall Street Journal goes to bat for Obamacare subsidies" on my bingo card, but given how much they hate unnecessary shutdowns, I probably should have.

Nothing quite like helping someone else to get your ADHD ass to do meal prep...

Overall this is solid, especially this updated version. Still has some issues with the "great lakes" region - Buffalo, Cleveland, and Ft. Worth-Shipshewana IN are a much looser grouping than the rest of these. Buffalo through Toledo is probably separate, but N. Indiana groups with Michigan.

This is an exquisite troll. Incredible ambiguity. Peak Irish. Well done. Hell, it'd be funny even if it *was* about American Gavin. Just A+++ bait.

Well, this explains why, when I taught it, I felt comfortable just omitting like all of books IV-V and giving the students a quick summary.

Update: I have read the book about the sentient sourdough culture and it was lovely and hit the spot. Lesson: Book recs from the author are great

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Wait, they’re coming for my goddamn pasta now?!

the screamers are polarizing me into wondering if bsky T&S is doing a better job than I gave them credit for, if this is their operating environment

We definitely don’t talk enough about how much bias and discrimination operates via who gets the benefit of the doubt.

We are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly for we are Jem Hadar/posters.

Im the fine tradition of YA literature, I Shall Wear Midnight is by far the most intense and trauma-filled book in all of Discworld. It hits like a freight train. Its like Night Watch and Carpe Jugulum had a baby, and the baby was the distilled essence of Terry's rage.

Somehow I didn't know about @erinbiba.bsky.social until today. And then I saw she posts about "Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills" which just hits *all* my special interest buttons at various ages. I guess what I'm trying to say is... the Discourse did something right?????

To my naive brain this shouldn't even be that hard to implement. All you need is a script that filters based on follower count, and batches the reports of their posts every X amount of time. Seems like that should be a small extension to basic backend functionality. But maybe I'm missing something.

"We signed up for grift, not consequences!"

This chonker deserves to be in Fat Bear Week.

Look I'm ace-spec and all, so I do get why someone would be exhausted. But this is such clear deflection or midlife crisis energy

How to know you've made it as an author...