Today would be a great day for a repeat of the Halloween storm, or to set a record cold temperature.

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

Has anyone heard anything, at all, from Amy Klobuchar about the ICE murder or ICE school invasion yesterday?

The wrong senator from Minnesota is retiring.

If I was Uber, I would be suing the shit out of ICE over this.

The most interesting thing about the supposed widespread fraud in Minnesota is that Trump is inseparable from the child rape documented in the Epstein files.

The more Trump runs his idiot mouth about Venezuelan oil, and the more other heads of state he pardons for similar accusations, and the more former Venezuelan heads of state whose grave he needlessly bombs, the more likely it is that Maduro will be able to win a vindictive prosecution ruling.

Right now would be an excellent time for the entire world to announce a collective embargo on the US.

One of the first things I am going to do in the new year is apply for a job seeker visa in at least one European country. I can't imagine what this country will look like after three more years of...this.

"Republicans are actively making things worse. We will address the effects of Republican policy...but we're not going to actively make things better."

Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. **updated PDF link** PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...

Pretty sure Christmas music (and modern church music in general) was one of the the inner rings' punishments in early drafts of Dante's Inferno. People who can tolerate it are amazing and I envy their strength, while people with Christmas favorites are terrifying.

The eve of the first snowfall of the season is a helluva time to find out that your car's transfer case is broken again.

Watching an old hockey fight between most of the 1983 North Stars and Blackhawks on YouTube tonight makes me miss living in section 8 even less than I already did. Half of those goons, probably, played for Warroad or Roseau back in the day.

See also: January 6th, 2021.

Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care. They’re “too young to vote”. They’re too young to drink. But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals? Be serious please.

Not gonna lie, I think I would rather be one of the prisoners in the Stanford prison experiment than your average empathetic American. At least the prison experiment was able to be stopped.

I'm thinking about the bullshit that the state party pulled with the Minneapolis mayor endorsement, the bullshit the state party has pulled with the feminist caucus, and now the bullshit being pulled by national conservative Democrats, and the best I can come up with is "why bother."

Meanwhile, we've given $40bn to Argentina without a second's hesitation.

I hope Satan told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself when he showed up in hell today.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

This doesn't seem to be getting anywhere close to the attention it demands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

A year ago right now, I was just arriving back from a couple weeks in Oslo, Norway. I cannot wait to get back there on a more permanent basis.

This is all Stephen Miller and his white nationalist project. Congrats, MAGA and tech bros. You just played yourselves. The best and brightest around the world are going to China and Europe now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

The DFL's action today is why left leaning people say both parties are the same.

The funny thing about people from Maple Grove getting all weird and angry about people in Minneapolis wanting to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department is that, with vanishingly few exceptions, Maple Grove is not Minneapolis.

TACO Trump is so incompetent that his "tough on crime" stance in DC and elsewhere is only going to create mass support for defunding and abolishing the police. What a fucking pathetic, small-handed loser.

I have spent more money and time on fittings for my stupid water-cooled PC build than I have on the actual PC at this point. Safe to say that my processor and GPU had better measure fractionally above absolute zero even at full load when this build is actually, finally done.

Someone needs to hear this: The government was created to serve the people; not to operate like a business profiting from us……. It’s meant to work for us, not exploit us. Read that again until it sinks in.

I don’t think this is very fiscally responsible, Madame Centrist

I think I hit the "blow it all up" stage with this Twins roster today. Move everyone that isn't Pablo, Buxton, Zebby, or SWR.

Imagine being a Frey supporter at this point (or at any point, really). Go home, Jacob.

She must have a lot of donors and other political allies on the list.

Trump circling the drain, lots of rain, and daytime temps below boiling was exactly what I needed today.

Amy Klobuchar and Derek Chauvin:

July has been the longest decade of my life so far.

Last week, Grok called for the extermination of the Jewish people and called himself MechaHitler. This week, the Department of Defense announced it was using Grok as an AI partner. In response, not a single Democratic member of Congress or progressive organization has left X.

The Presidents of the United States of America would have been better at this than is the actual President.

After 25 FUCKING YEARS of the Democratic Party blaming the left for every election loss because they say we didn’t support the nominee enthusiastically enough, I better see Chuck Schumer wearing a Zohran t-shirt and smiling real soon

Watching the Twins game tonight, while the three Uncle Ricos (Morneau, Plouffe, and Perkins) keep taking about how they used to hit or throw the ball over those mountains back in the day, like...

The rest of the world would do well to embargo the US at this point.

Looking at the state of global politics and foreign policy makes me wonder. Do we _really_ have to wait another 4bn-ish years for the sun to enter its red giant phase and sterilize the earth?

Elmo blew up another Starship. This time, he didn't even get off the launchpad. www.livescience.com/space/space-...

This feels a little *too* on the nose given the six times bankrupt head of state who couldn't even make money running a casino.

My brain often mixes up John Fetterman and Kevin Federline's names, and I feel like that's more because of the public perception of their respective professional competencies than it is their similar-ish names.