This happened. I had a Bilateral Orthotopic Lung Transplantation (BOLT). The donor lungs were a little too big for my chest cavity. I spent three days on a vent and ECMO while we waited for everything to fit. I had my best friend and closest family standing vigil over me for three days in ICU. ❤️‍🩹

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

After two dry runs, I am headed to the hospital to prep for surgery. Holy shit this may be happening now.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

Great timeline we've gotten ourselves into:

goose meme: what opinions

Even if all of this wasn't true, the government makes mistakes, and even one person wrongly executed is too many. The state shouldn't kill people, full stop.

Skills that don't pay off: prompt engineering.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

We all get that it's fifty atrocities a day with Trump, but this insurrectionist-reparations slush fund is beyond the pale, even for this gang of fascist crooks.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

If you’re mid-career and didn’t spend your 20s barely scraping by with shitty campaign gigs, these jobs are simply not available to you nor are more junior roles even if you’re perfectly capable of being a team player. Even on the progressive side, the talent pipeline is pretty busted.

you cannot support his work in any way anymore

If you are sharing fake shit then you are part of the fake shit problem. Nobody cares about your reasons.

"The United States runs on slavery. It did when I was born, it does today, it will when I die. We simply don't have replacements for all the uses of slaves." - Chris Wright, if he were born in the 19th century, probably.

This is correct but there's another dimension to power generation that rarely gets brought up in this context: not all power is equal.

it’s just taken for granted now that the president is an ~80 year old man who stays up all night inhaling rage-bait propaganda and ranting about it, in ways that affect policy and human lives in enormously negative ways, and describing it as pathetic or a cause for concern is rare

Oh man, how many family vacations did the oil and gas industry miss? How many reunions? Did they miss visiting loved ones in the hospital? Did they have to skip meals to pay for gas to get to work? Boy, I bet there are some sad stories there.

If you thought SEIA was useless before ...

Megan thankfully supplying me with regular photo updates on Sunny while I'm here in Durham.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Free Mother's Day hugs! Apply within.

Proportional representation. Makes third parties viable, makes gerrymandering impossible. It'll cure what ails ya.

If you're working 100 hours a week, how do you have time to use more than one home?

damn

I am expecting a call later today telling me I'm officially listed for a double-lung transplant at Duke. Once that happens, I have to be prepared to go in for surgery at any time, day or night. I think it won't really be real to me until that happens.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

The same folks who fought integration in the '60s, dragged their feet in the '70s and ’80s, and spent the intervening decades fomenting racial strife for their own electoral gains became the first people to insist—w/out irony or self-awareness, let alone repentance or shame—that racism is behind us.

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I am tired to my bones. I am working very hard, but it's paid off. They are listing me for transplant this week.

Dear @washingtonpost.com: this kind of garbage is a perfect example of why you lost subscribers like me.

I guess it wouldn’t be an attempt to return to Jim Crow without some abuse of state authority against uppity negroes.

I see no lies here

I already dealt with this.

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

I met Timothy Zahn at a nerd con in Florida a few years back. Told him he must be feeling pretty vindicated about the direction of Star Wars these days. No comment but gave me a little smirk.

I hate to have to post this on May 4th, but I'm afraid my skepticism about the Mando film was warranted.

star wars? in this economy?

What is your fandom, they ask me

Alan Moore in the Observer Q&A today

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Whatever policy problem you think you’re working on, whoops it’s actually a democracy problem.

Also, this racist is not some random Republican: he is a professor of Con Law and faculty director at Georgetown and a key proponent of originalist legal theory. www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/rand...

I kinda forgot about this guy. Sent 3 bombs to CNN and eight years later CNN anchors were dressing up in tuxes and gowns to go celebrate the president that encouraged the bombings.

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

This is a new low in the use of the shadow docket. The Court blocked a lower court ruling on the so called "interim docket" (as conservatives call it). Then, quietly issued a final judgement without allowing us to even brief the merits appeal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

name a video game you've beaten 6 times or more

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.