planning to grab a Guinness before seeing 'Hairspray' on the big screen tomorrow, realizing I'd better change my default jukebox selection.

supposedly, DJT won because he motivated enough voters, who previously hadn't been voters or who hadn't voted for Rs consistently, to vote for him. but also, his "base" are the petite bourgeoisie, medium-sized fish in small ponds.

anyone looking to Beat The Heat and avoid the first excesses of global warming would do well to move to the Dakotas/Minnesota. last night it got to 32⁰F (0⁰C). typical vernal perfidy

I think I only care about the opinions of IT people—with respect to IT issues, that is—if they work in the IT department at a non-tech org (healthcare, university, governmemt, retail corp, etc).

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

just remarkable that this keeps happening with, so far as I can tell, no major national developments in terms of police, courts, or anything else

how about an upbeat weird fiction story? why not strange and life-affirming, celebratory, or joyous? here's a boundary to transgress: try experiencing the irruptive presence of the unimaginable while having a good time.

what is the most poetical piece in chess? naifs say "knights" but in fact it's the d2 and e2 pawns. how many times have they fired the first shot? their royal burdens compelling endless incursions through Gallipoli. the pull of the center, the promise of the 8th rank.

concept pitch: astrology horror. a subtly evocative tapestry of kitchen sink slices-of-life turns elevated horror cosmic horror body horror – a supernatural disaster story.

I wrote a post about this recently. It is a central fact about industrial capitalism that real resources are allocated on the basis of hopes and dreams, rather than as a rational response to prices in existing markets. jwmason.org/slackwire/mo...

"Tide is boosted" that's why it's locked up at CVS, no?

don not today affliction's grim rictus

top 10 viral anti-vaccine prompt injections

leper colonialism

veni, vidi, vici. yada yada yada. jesus wept – memento mori – amor fati. que será será. now this

tails never fails. tails can only be failed

outside of a dog it's too dark to read, at night

RIP to my favorite dive bar beer, a true legend, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. This is a genuine bummer. www.jsonline.com/story/money/...

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Local woman looking forward to 23 days between harsh winter and uncontrollable wildfires

listening to D'Angelo's 'Voodoo', not really loving it, suspecting that it might not be music for listening to through headphones during a lunch break and that this might be music for Getting It On to

we don't have to wait for communism to abolish restaurants, we can do that under socialism or even state capitalism. dream big, comrades. (until then I'll be enjoying my semi-monthly extra hot paneer or vegetables curry)

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walking to work this morning I saw a dead bird (looked headless) and a dead bat on the sidewalk. :( while there is no such thing as a bad omen for me—beloved by the gods, planets, elements, and animals as I am—this portends some really gnarly stuff for the rest of you guys. good luck out there, all

enjoyed seeing 'The General' (1926) on the silver screen with live organ accompaniment tonight. happy centennial!

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

maybe instead of asking why Dems don't play hardball like Repubs, we could ask why Repubs play hardball at all? that is, why don't Repubs let their majorities fade? why aren't they comfortable keeping their personal fiefdoms in a minority party? why are they responsive to their voters at all?

SCOTUS is staging a coup & we should call it that

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

one imagines that at least a few humans have become so frustrated while waiting in traffic, standing in line, or listening to a call tree that they had heart attacks or strokes and died. dying instead of being patient and coping with not having control over the speed of life. I can't relate, so lol

what do rabbits think about hailstorms? do squirrels enjoy dawn's birdsong? how does the cool night air feel on a worm's skin?

I hope we get a new Tim Rogers this year, or even two Tim Rogerses. (triples would be best, of course, but it's out of the question)

the USA should bomb Israel. not only would it be right, it would be hilarious

Isn't the problem with smartphones for our brains simply the always-on immediacy of interactive stimulation, not the specific things that people are doing on them (e.g. social media)? While this means the problem is less (not) tractable, isn't it the truth? And isn't it also not very surprising?

♫ Louisiana, Louisiana They're tryin' to wash us away They're tryin' to wash us away ♫ bsky.app/profile/neil...

is there such a thing as procedural trust/confidence (analogous to procedural memory)? consider an extreme case of someone who knows that 2 + 2 = 4, but finds themselves needing to concatenate and renumerate (2 is "1, 2", so 2 + 2 is "1, 2, 1, 2", which is "1, 2, 3, 4") to trust their knowledge.

even in a sufficiently stable environment over a long enough time period, there's no reason that mutation couldn't lead to extinction. there's Fisherian runaway theory, of course, but for empirical confirmation we'd want to observe bacterial evolution (tens of thousands of generations per year)

if eco-terrorists, nihilists, serial killers, et al. were to shoot ranchers to death with hunting rifles, they would easily get away with it scot-free. murder clearance rates are notoriously low, and when a vic has no personal connection to a perp, it's an unsolved mystery. cold cases abound, yo

do non-Republican white southerners stick out like sore thumbs? do their neighbors look at them like they've got two heads? (North Dakota is no less Rep, but much more white. Here, R vs D is an intra-race fight. Not that there are many Ds, but I'm confining my thoughts (and my self) to the metro.)

so, if the entrepreneurial rich aren't risk averse, and the poor and excluded aren't risk averse, and the middle classes are disappearing… guess I'll be the last guy left not taking risks. ahhh, good ol' familiarity and safe predictability. no excitement or uncertainty in view, just like heaven

confused by the animus some have for hold music

when the dust settles, the House might look worse than the Senate: all red states will have all Republican districts, only blue states will be purple.

One obstacle to working class self-recognition, which is necessary for active and conscious class struggle, beyond the easy lure of fantasy ("Americans self-conceive as temporarily non-rich") is the realistic drudgery of thinking about work.

This is my hole! It was made for me! #invertebrates #amigarafault #naturephotography