“oh no, what if there were a couple of state-run grocery stores in New York City”

Endlessly frustrated that folks were afraid to take Republicans head-on when it comes to the economy… They’re terrible at it! No long-term vision, cannot *produce value*—only borrow or steal it. “Your children will be $15k a year worse off because of this president… for the rest of their lives…”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is legit one of my favorite soul songs

Me, to my friends, over two years ago—and the head of the FCC yesterday It’s depressing how many folks have been content to be treated like—and act like—“mushrooms”, as the saying goes. Hope we snap out of it.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

It may not look like much, but there’s long-term value in turning a hanging shoe organizer into a random shit organizer

Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker. The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

The Atlantic and NYT lost their minds if there was so much as a trigger warning in classes. Now, professors and Deans are being fired for a class that discussed the existence of trans people and those same publications are quiet. It was never about free speech. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Embarrassed (again) about where Missouri’s gone since I left

At least he acknowledges the last 200 days have been a terrible tragedy

Absolutely, the proof is in the pudding—conservative “textual originalism” has always been a dull-witted power play, at odds with sober governing

“About all the bugaboo concerning folks burning the flag… Hell—being an American is all about getting things off your chest and saying your piece—a visual aid can come in mighty handy…” “God bless all you flag-burning patriots, exercising your rights—as Americans”

Taking this further—I read Michener’s Kent State book years ago—it’s no leftist screed, but the post-mortem makes clear that police escalation / actions like kettling are recipes for calamity That police ignore the 50-year-old lessons of Kent State to this day is an indictment of the profession

Exactly my concern

Wish everyone was more honest about the fact that there’s no intelligible rationale behind any modern conservative “policy” It’s just monkeys throwing shit at a wall

I swear my desk was clean this morning

Vandals

“Wholesome” crap to share with the kids pile

Whee, I think I got a perfect block on my first try #guitar

What happens when you put wealthy private actors in charge of everything—America has this kind of pickpocketing of the public’s pockets to look forward to—in spades

I keep bouncing off of all the new Star Treks because of the highly emotional Vulcan characters— I don’t know if I missed some “alternate dimension” rewrite of the species where they only half-try to suppress their emotions but otherwise act like emo mall kids or what

Consumers’ ideal voice for AI is Tenacious D Jack Black— Intense, confident delivery of opinions, but given somehow *without* implying or guaranteeing any technical “correctness” or, like, actual “for real, for real” facts

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

The Supreme Court’s ideological capture and its deliberate uneven application of the law is a crisis of democracy. The court is meant to be above politics—and although it never has been, the kind of politicization we are seeing today is unprecedented.

Using @dropbox.com for ~15 years, but last 24 hours has been a mess. Dropbox Backup completely failed to back up external drive on 1st try—2nd even worse as it claims "complete sync" while missing 80% of the files. Plus, support system itself is erroring/can't find help tickets. Feels like rot.

I always assumed this guy was off his gourd and thought he was making a normal face

I thought Doctor Strangelove was supposed to be some kind of allegory—not a literal depiction of the caliber of freaks and imbeciles that might be fumbling at the reins of power as the fate of the world quakes in the background

they want everyone who doesn’t conform to their beliefs about how someone should live their life to die it’s not subtle

America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

Nbd just kinda telling how all our advice about how to stay safer at protests is about protecting ourselves from cops and not ever not once that I have ever seen about keeping us safe from other protesters Almost like there's only one real threat to protester safety or something

Mood music #NoKings

I don’t see pushed back on enough—what’s the logical endpoint here? Am I going to negotiate my way through armed checkpoints—with ICE thugs demanding my kids’ papers—every time I drive them across town? Why would ANY American choose to turn the US into a “papers, please” police state #NoKings

“I’ve never seen anything that simultaneously really goes after poor people and then really helps rich people." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

Related to my last post—does anyone know a simple glTF/.glb editor (alternative to Gestaltor)?

Is it really true that there’s no way anymore in Blender to export a glTF model with alpha blend mode set to mask? Not being able to do this affects use of alpha cut off to address transparency order issues. If blender isn’t gonna help support and uphold the glTF standard, who is? @blender.org

Having an outside; having an inside

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

I sort of like when the computer work requires some paper and pencil work first