Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.   Some thoughts from my new piece:

Yamamoto is absolutely filthy. Good lord.

Today I learned that someone else built a ballroom and wanted to build an arch while in power. 😳

An unfortunate episode of Chopped.

A friend just picked up RUSH tickets for next October. When I heard how much I owe for one, the WH ballroom sounds downright reasonable. 😳

Good morning Oakland, CA! Out at the Grand Lake market 9-2 slingin that sauce. I’ll be out at San Rafael Civic Center tomorrow 8-1 doing the same. ❤️🔥🌶️

Blue Jays giving the Dodgers the business feels a bit symbolic given current events. Anyway, as a Giants fan, go Jays!

Make a movie food: The Dim Sum of All Fears

Awfully quiet right now from the folks who yelled from the highest belltowers about how tearing down confederate statues was “erasing history”. This is my surprised face: 😐

Sigh. Go Blue Jays. It would be amusing for CAN to win the WS.

Following and sharing the protests from home is protest too, by the way. Spreading the word and reaching as many people as possible with the message and showing everyone how many are standing up for what’s right is just as important.

Good morning Oakland, California! Here at the Grand Lake market slingin that sauce from 9-2. Alas, I’m self-employed, but I stand with the millions of people marching today. None of what’s happening is normal. Cap tip to the historic Grand Lake Theater for their picture perfect marquee. ❤️

So Bluesky has pretty much adopted the Mariners this postseason, right? Right. Ok, good talk. Go M’s.

I love Bluesky block lists - I went to block the .gov accounts that have been springing up, only to discover that one of my block lists added every… single… one. So they’re already blocked. Yay! What a handy time saver!

#RIP Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley. The Spaceman was a solid schtick, and the flaming/smoking Les Paul absolutely legendary.

Note to self: when cutting rangy overhead shoots on the lime tree, sometimes the lime tree wins. I hate citrus thorns so, so much. 😬

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

At least now @minakimes.bsky.social is going to bed happy. Go M’s!

Counterpoint: fuck Nick Clegg right in the earhole.

Listen, this is just how Kershaw celebrates the arrival of autumn. It’s unorthodox, but it’s his tradition.

Girls love it when there is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful.

Or you could just like, ask me. I’ll tell you I’m tired for zero research dollars. I’m just sayin.

Keep seeing posts about sports enjoyers enjoying sports while Rome is burning. Dear reader, if we have nothing to take our minds off of the horrors, we will not be able to function enough to face the continuing horrors. Just let us have this one. I assure you, we haven’t forgotten about anything.

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This person is clearly wise and knowing.

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

Dear A-Hole in Hayward, CA, October 4th is not a holiday, much less an explodey one. Why do you hate my dogs?

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Quote with the best advice you have ever gotten. “It’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”

Wait, isn’t that the line from Galaxy Quest? 😳

People will know who’s welcome on my account by all of my other posts. If I were anti-anyone you’d 💯 know it without a meme.

“Behold! The greatest breakthrough in labor relations since the cat-o'-nine-tails!” — Mr. Burns, Treehouse of Horror II

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

What's your sign?

I think this is the angriest I've seen @hankgreen.bsky.social get. "Lawyers doing lawyer shit." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpS...

Welp, I hope me & Mr. Foul-Mouthed Purple Muppet are very happy together.

Saw my dog on the porch & from his movements thought he was licking his paw. Went over to tell him to stop and y’all, he was not licking his paw. Somehow he’d gotten hold of a squirrel & was gnawing on its head, having himself a little sesos snack. Absolute horror show on my front porch. 🤮

Thinking about this today for no reason whatsoever. It’s all pettiness and revenge. www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

Watching TNF and the disclaimer on this drug commercial literally listed “suicide leading to death” as one of the 137 possible side effects and I don’t think I need to ask my doctor if that’s right for me.

Every time I check the news I feel like I’m having a stroke. I don’t smell toast, but I’ll see news like “600% tariff on toasters” and it’s just like, another Thursday. This insanity isn’t sustainable.

James Comey should be leaking like The Orca at the end of Jaws. 🛥️🦈

Man I wish the rapture had happened so my heathen ass wouldn’t be taking an hour to drive 26 miles.

holy shit it was an inside job. 🙄 apple.news/AfcFQZogYSlu...

Are you telling me a cow built this palace?

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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