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was @joescott.bsky.social trolling us? 🎶 despite all my rage, i am still just a rat in a cage 🎶 - Smashing Pumpkins
what you thought was an amenity is bad design and an auto-centric aggression (9:14)
kick all the poor people off your voter rolls and we’ll drop our attack on your democracy (having dealt a mortal blow)
It’s a day ending in “y”, and Stephen “Stahlhelm” Miller is still a fascist.
When Trump says "WINNINGGG", i just assume he's talking about China.
physically failing egoist tries to take the country down with him
Musk and Thiel looking to own JD before he matriculates to the Oval d’Oro.
Maine is an Animal
i have veinous insufficiency in my federal leadership
The snowflake right loses their minds on a chain store glow-up. Trump, who’s steered by the Mindless Masses piles on. Chain store decides bangs weren’t a good idea.
We fcuked ourselves. This is just one example how. Well, Trump fcuked us, but we allowed an insurrectionist to return to power. Or maybe The Great Orange just wanted to kick our 51st sibling out of the nest and make it fly?
crime? war crime? crime against humanity?
What if Elon were born 100 years earlier in Germany?
in the extremely rare chance it tries to bite you, it cannot break the skin
“OpenAI finally unleashed ChatGPT 5.0 on the world. In one word, it was underwhelming. In two words it was under, and whelming.” -Sabine Hossenfelder on has A.I. scaling hit a wall 🔥
in an alternate universe Played #TheLordoftheRingsFateoftheFellowship on 2025-08-29 with 3 players #bgstats
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"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
Russian sanctions, demands due to invasion, and direct losses due to war are drastically effecting all of the Russian economy. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... @sciguyspace.bsky.social /Ars
“…Senate’s…advise and consent…is meant as a check against…candidates whose only merit… described in The Federalist Papers, is “of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.”
🛎️ ding ding ding
paraphrase of @jonlovett.bsky.social on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com… "America is in its Denial phase and can't admit is has a problem. Once we collectively admit we have a problem, we can start dealing with it." if you're a geologically sheltered from current events, the "it" here is Donald Trump
🎶 There is this old woman She lives down the road You can often find her kneelin' inside of her hole And I often ask her "Are you lookin' for the mother lode?" Huh? No? "No, my child, this is not my desire" And then she said… 🎶
some woman is in the doctor’s office waiting room watching her phone with volume on medium loud, i don’t want to hear your puerile talk show
Billionaires more worried about their money than their country. 🎁 🔗
Young women know Trump is the problem. Ergo their loneliness (other than residual covid damage).
bananas AND dinosaurs how anachronistic 🦖 🍌 :-)
Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.
to paraphrase many, and exact quote at least one: “No bill, motherfuckers.”
if this houston astros spokesperson from 1990 is to be believed, Orbit might canonically be nonbinary
grand juries are seated with locals when all the locals are pissed about federal occupation, it’s gonna make it harder to charge a non-zero list of federal crimes assault on a federal officer at the top of that list
yep, 👇 Mayor Whitmire’s anti-bike vendetta will result in injury and death. He doesn’t care. (about Houstonians)
i bayou-side bike commute 3 days a week, even the army-corps-of-engineers-concrete-lined waterways always have a mix of heron, egret, cormorant, turtles, and muscovy ducks that DGAF
pushed out by younger immigrants?
is felony federal jay walking in our Trumpian future?
Microsoft (Teams) doesn’t respect Mac standard text selection UX. It’s so annoying!
he can do anything
The First Sense: Eating Raoul (1982) - left a bitter taste in my mouth
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde? Anywaye, Gen AI...
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dew point 74° means i hit some cold pockets on the bayou-side bike ride this morning
how hard is it to write ”the cause of death has not been released …”‽
MAHA told me subway sandwiches were made of yoga mats. “Let’s charge this guy with assault via Nerf™️ sandwich. It won’t make us look like fools at all.”
You have a personal right to invoke the Fifth Amendment. You do not have a personal right to be Director of the FBI. If you can’t speak openly, you shouldn’t be there.
it humors me that young balding men blame their bare pate for their lacking sex lives and not their personalities
SpaceX plans a whole program, Elon parachutes in and blathers for 20+ minutes.
uhhg, a talking Elon is an annoying Elon
We had the strongest economic recovery from covid of any industrialized nation and then Donald Trump came into office.
“no one is safe until everyone is safe.”
Whitmire needs to go. Who’s going to challenge him after one term? Mayor John Whitmire introduces new LGBTQ Advisory Board after removing all members of the board less than a month ago
in this and in nothing else does Trump worry about innocent people being hurt
Headline: Frustrated, Trump signals pause in his Ukraine peace effort unsurprised
Don't say "Tunguska fireball." Don't say "Dyatlov Pass incident." Don't say "Oak Island treasure." Don't say "Guano Islands Act of 1856." Don't say "Byford Dolphin decompression accident.” When voters hear this, they think you also have insomnia and got to the end of Wikipedia.
i contemporarily saw the first episode of The Simpsons, the first episode of South Park, the first episode of Sesame Street #oldman
🎶 We got ideas to us that's dear Like capitalist, like communist Like lots of things you've heard about And redneckers, they get us pissed And stupid stuff, it makes us shout 🎶 Pixies be woke! 🤟
If there are troops in the streets, you must impeach.
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a standard police officer pointing a taser (lethal weapon) at a bystander in an aggressive stance would involve immediate suspension from duty
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
is that a federal bail out, DJ?
“If you won’t echo my lies, you’re fired.” -D.J. T If the Republican congress won’t exercise their oversight duties, then they need to go! America is going downhill because of Republicans.
what happens when crappy web tech influences all other solutions because it won the user sales pitch, even though it’s crappy under the hood?
The bicycle erasing technology that BMWs have in their side mirrors is amazing. 🚗 🚲
“For detailed guidance, you can refer to the official documentation.” Thanks, Copilot. 🙄 RTFM is not what i was expecting from billions of dollars and tons of CO2.
this is what you get in a kakistocracy
Entirely war crime
“he’s trying SO hard to be Trump…” -some desk-sitter on FoxNews no, dear, he’s satirizing Trump, and if you can’t tell the difference…
thrash the cache
I'm on a doctor's web site provided by Athena. It asks "prefered language", doesn't default to English, and lists LOTS of languages, including right under English: English, middle (1100-1500), and English, old (ca. 450-1100) I'm debating which to pick.
when we land late in Houston, also a hub, the crew often ask people without connections to remain seated - a wee help
this is the endpoint of white flight. the social progression was integration -> whites leaving urban centers for suburbs -> defunding of public goods and schools in urban centers -> imposition of “law” and “order” on now largely minority urban centers by largely white suburban voting blocs
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The Trump Administration doesn’t GAF because, say it with me, THEY ARE RACISTS
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i love an unstable atmosphere
"Financing came through a mix of support …and federal Investment Tax Credits made possible by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act…" Trump is now choosing Oil/Coal over Solar. How many localities will be able to go forward with projects like this?
^fleeing imma blame auto”correct” for that one
The rat-money is fleeting the ship. (i want to put a joke in there about electric boats, Trump, and sharks… but it doesn't quite fit)
JD Vance: people i don’t like existing is criminal
treat the legislature like a part-time need and you get part-time quality
TFW you arrive at the Dr office and they say “your appointment was this morning.”
That’s some BS, Wallethub. Guess i won’t read the report you wrote. I’m on a mobile phone. I wonder if apple safari hiding my IP is getting trapped in their tacking-you net.
“I think he wants to make a deal for me.” -Trump on Putin’s psyche. This is a war between invading aggressor Russia and home-defending Ukraine. To Trump it’s about him, and Putin’s heartfelt desire to make him look powerful.
Political cartoon courtesy of @sltrib.com and @bagleycartoons.bsky.social No time like everyday for trump to rile up the base for the 2026 midterms. Senator Mike Lee, like a very good boy, is already tweeting the garbage. #utpol
has it been 20+ years… @sciguyspace.bsky.social your response in this mornings post reminded me of HIWI. houstonitsworthit.com/about/ HEAT is the first affliction on the list
Please share Petition for museum www.change.org/p/defend-the...
COVID vaccines reduce transmission and I wish people would stop slamming them because they don’t stop it entirely. Reducing transmission is good! They don’t just protect the person who gets the vaccine!
but a bit like… abused by the schoolyard bully, so i want to grow up and be him
Ed Martin: idiot, fool, sycophant, hater.
Imagine the outrage on the right if, during the 2024 presidential campaign, Jack Smith had sent Trump a letter urging him to drop out “as an act of good faith.”
“[Ed] Martin also alleged that Rep. Garcia had called Elon Musk “a dick” and that this sounded “to some” like a threat upon Musk.” Ed Martin is a dick… people are saying.
utensil you don’t need: smash burger press
several of my science podcasts (Science Friday, This Week in Virology) have intruded into politics (after 🇺🇸 politics has stampeded into science). for anyone who thinks they’re out of their lane, i question the veracity with which you’ve ever considered their content
Holy shit.
If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies. The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
