we didn't see him cause he was at burning man, that's his whole personality now
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we didn't see him cause he was at burning man, that's his whole personality now
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I'm trying to decide if vigilance in this case includes blocking the OP I feel like i need some kind of strike system for blocks, cause if i saw that from him again i would block for personal hygiene reasons
he's pretty good at raising money. that, sadly, is mostly how you become leader
bean club is kinda like getting a csa from someone who also has a farmers market stall. you're getting the same things at a similar price, but sometimes it's nice to have them surprise you with a box of stuff you didn't pick
that's rad, i've definitely never gotten one from a csa
they are admittedly pricier than other dried beans but still very reasonable because after all they are dried beans. and in addition to tasting better they cook way faster because they're fresh whoops sorry i did the rancho gordo stan thing, my bad
just for the bean club! (which is delightful, we opened ours today and the 5yo made a little house out of the bags and much merriment ensued) otherwise you can totally just order beans from them without a membership, and they're great
wait more importantly you get avocados in your csa? super jealous
do not make me summon @joshuajfriedman.com to evangelize @ranchogordo.bsky.social at you (he's right, tbc)
tbf that looks plausibly like the inside of a sauna so
omg that is amazing "so dad - can I call you dad, or is that weird? that's weird, isn't it. sorry this is all very new to me. to you too, i guess. anyway, why did you decide to donate sperm?"
although, depressingly, that may have been somewhat underpinned by ethnic homogeneity, and that model may be fraying at the edges now (especially in sweden)
I think the scandis largely do it well. a free market economy but with high taxation and generous provision of social services they also have high social trust and cohesion, but it's hard to know which direction the causation runs (and it's probably a feedback loop)
exactly this
1000%
fucking seriously. people look at me like I'm crazy when I say if we had sidewalks and crosswalks I would let my kid go to the grocery store solo once he's like 6 (with practice and preparation). he's super responsible and it's very close to school, which we walk to every weekday. but goddamn cars
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationās effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children āare in the process of being removed" today.
"whoops"
CW: Stephen Miller
it was very strange but mostly enjoyable so i didn't complain. i thought the powerball analogy was a good one - everyone knew it wasn't real but it was fun to think about
the podcast is maybe better than ever but man the rankings and draft tracker have taken big steps back. they look great but yall have really emphasized tiers, which the site no longer supports, and also starring players you like ahead of time, which the draft tracker no longer supports. not ideal
excuse me what the fuck is that
dude you did, and i appreciated it
darth you are a better mammal than I, I have a strict 6-person limit when I make fries. ever since the... incident (me making a shit ton of fries and not getting to eat more than a few because a bunch of fucken half-drunk jackals devoured them faster than I could make them)
also jfk kinda sucked. rfk seems like he was genuinely inspiring in some ways, but at least 50-50 he'd have sucked too if he'd lived, imo odd that ted may have been the best of them, despite the negligent homicide
this was also my first tell, and it made me realize how attuned I am to his weird off-putting style. don't love it
holy shit that is terrifying. a warning label that includes urgent instructions for the physician treating your resultant injuries is not fucking around
oooh i like this one. i appreciate that it has two totally distinct plausible interpretations (and that they are somewhat contradictory)
i always liked "obvious anagram reince priebus"
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
ooh ooh now do mathnet
yeah at this point i'm pretty far out of my depth without knowing how their search is set up. but searching large data sets gets very messy, and the path under the hood for something like "show the following tab" vs "search the text of every post by someone I follow" may be quite different
I doubt that's true. I don't know their infrastructure well enough to know details, but once you're processing the underlying text you're dealing with a whole different beast
also there are non-hypothetical examples of this right? there (not enough) places where we say "you cannot drive here", including pedestrianized zones where once you could. there is even a level of arbitrariness to the ban (why this stretch of broadway but not that one), but it's not illiberal
having written some search code I'm guessing that's a technical resource problem. those are going to be huge data sets to join, especially since some people follow thousands of accounts I also really want that filter and hopefully they'll do it someday, but it will be expensive
One feature I miss from Twitter - being able to narrow a search to only the feeds of people you follow.
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ā¬ļøš§µ
I could see a few different positions: * this is how things should be * this is how the drafters and signatories would have thought things should be * this is what the constitution says, regardless of the former questions
Citizens United was right, or Citizens United was correctly decided? I feel like that's an important distinction
I had a friend in middle school named LĆ³rien which was short for LothlĆ³rien and was 100% about the elves She was explaining it even then, but I'm guessing the explanation had to shift a bit when Fellowship dropped
this makes more sense than mine
'By clicking "Customize Settings," you will be provided with the illusion of control'
welcome back, strong work on your personal project amusingly I saw you pop up on my Quiet Posters feed and I was like wait that doesn't sound right...
i mean swole there's like dozens of states. he'd have to talk to so many people, and a lot of them don't even live in dc
do you see a way to make use of that division? theoretically I could see the value, but I'm having trouble identifying a use (other than impeaching rfk, but I agree that that's more likely to unify than divide)
that sounds distressingly familiar
šØBorder Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member āyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iām going to make you leave.ā
that phrase sounds straight out of A A Milne
I hate feeling pure rage multiple times a day. it's so corrosive really sorry you no longer have your littles at home to keep you grounded :(
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (š±) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
I'm with you but if she actually heats her house to 90Ā° i am prepared to update my priors somewhat
So I think a lot about the whole āwe/they didnāt vote for THISā thing. Because some people who voted for Trump will say they didnāt vote for whatever Horror is going on, and then the natural response is ābut you fucking did, what are you talking aboutā And I think we may be framing this wrong
Youāve still done harm. Youāve failed in your responsibility as an adult to move through the world with care and intention. You treated something serious without adequate thought and now you have to face the consequences
I'm going to assume *she* was making that up, because I can't process the possibility that it's true
excuse me what?
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
the first one was conceivably forgivable. the second...
also anyone subbed out for a pinch runner
*caite
if you won, I'm trying to decide whether you would post like nothing had happened, or if we'd never hear from you again
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official ācopied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.ā The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
yeah when you've mauled someone they know it immediately. with kathryn someone can continue a thread for a while before they realize they've been dead for six posts
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
"I'm pretty sure I've already given you enough rope for the purpose, but okay I have plenty"
a difference is that sometimes you can see the end of rah's rope coming, whereas kathryn seems to have an inexhaustible supply
if you don't know what's happening it can seem so innocuous at first
New from 404 Media: crime-awareness app Citizen is using AI to generate alerts, and then pushing them without any human involvement. The AI is publishing incorrect info, gory details, personal data. Only fixed after live. Comes as Citizen laid off 13 union workers www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
i always thank google assistant in part for this reason, but even moreso because i have a young kid. I'm modeling that habit for him, even if the actual target is silly
that shit right there š¤š»
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me ā not time or political circumstance ā from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
oh my god she dumped him *3 days* before this panel? they couldn't have sat them with a buffer in between? jfc what a moment to put on cspan
holy shit wtf did i just watch. i think the laughter in the room is what does me in, i can't imagine any reaction other than silent horrified rubbernecking
ngl i was extremely jealous once my brain finished background processing it
my brain wants n&p to be norms and practices but i feel like that's wrong
my brain was too fried from today to immediately appreciate it, but this really is very good
underrated skeet
i gotchu fam go get em chris
Hey everyone, youāve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what? Iām running for California State Assembly! Now, I donāt like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 weāll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
done!
Iāve never been one to sit on the sidelines. Iām running for State Assembly. Letās fight for the future we deserve. š ā”ļø KluweOC.com/Donate #ChrisKluwe #CALeg #OrangeCounty
my stupid theory: he hates that anti-trump protests adopted the flag, and he wants to get a bunch of video of protesters burning american flags
that is indeed a deep cut
I definitely do not
ditto if a troll
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just prep the ingredients and then watch all the shows. it'll be fine
In November 2024, I made a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen.
I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...
omfg
I mean as a person with lungs I do want relief from diesel fuel exhaust systems, but i don't think we mean it the same way
that's okay, I assure you that your uncompensated responses to my idle and I'm sure ignorant musings are being held to a very low bar
thanks!
is stopping to check insurance and registration a seizure in a way that a dwi checkpoint is not? is combination itself a problem? or does dwi have an exigency that justifies an otherwise unlawful seizure?
although "pro-war" is totally a thing, unfortunately
see also unhoused people
Jamison Foser 