I am too grumpy to be online. I'll post something 100% true that will get me banned again, and because @moderation.bsky.app doesn't respond to appeals, I'll be banned for longer. So peace out for tonight.
Dad of 3, husband, liberal, no - more liberal than that, geek in many ways, writer, former physics teacher, consultant, maker of puns. He/him/his
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I am too grumpy to be online. I'll post something 100% true that will get me banned again, and because @moderation.bsky.app doesn't respond to appeals, I'll be banned for longer. So peace out for tonight.
"But what if we made everything universally faux-jingoistic, banned questioning of the President, killed people in countries who didn't do anything to us, and curtailed our rights in performative and destructive security theater? All while you're grieving and scared!"
You know what would be nice? If capitalism fucking died.
Scoreboard Watching: Cubs and Padres, Reds and Giants, Yikes Mets www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/09...
Spread calm. Tell the truth. Defend vulnerable people who are under attack. Getting stuck in a reactive mode is exhausting, and exhaustion can make us weak.
What a terrible time to be literate.
Obsessed with the experts going on TV to be like, “they’re gonna want to find this guy as soon as possible.” Ok thanks, Dragnet.
Realizing that it’s been about 6 days since I took my antidepressant: Ohhhhhh, I get it.
Yup.
“How do I convince people to not just replace my job with AI?”
I have a household repair project that I do not want to do (because it's disgusting - think clogged drains), but it's rapidly reaching the point where I can't ignore it anymore. And yet, it's starting to sound more fun than my job.
Illegal vape sales - truly, the most pressing issue facing our country.
We have a good electric mower that’s strong enough and long-lasting enough to do our lawn when we need it. I can use online tools to game with friends who I otherwise wouldn’t see.
I just got a spam email from something called "Trending Now" with the subject line "Haunting Kennedy Assassination Videos You Have To See". Really? Today, that's the spam you send out? Fucking ghouls in this world. And no, I don't have to see haunting assassination photos.
There’s a sentence that’s never been uttered non-ironically.
I do almost all our cooking and I've never owned an apron. Am I history's greatest monster?
They were all just trying to get to better locations within the Capitol for optimal audio quality.
It boggles my mind that there are so many people who seem to be working so hard to make sure the world never becomes good and beautiful and kind (at least for anyone other than themselves).
*Langston Hughes
Ah fuck.
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His patients always look surprised.
I've been working for nearly 36 years. I'd be okay with getting paid and not having any obligations for a good long while. I'd fill the day.
One of the twins told me last night that he was talking to someone at school about his family and the kind of things we do, and they responded with that he has an "Einstein-ass family."
I muted it this morning. Just...done.
Hey! Yes, you. Do you know what commonality runs between political violence and gang related violence and school shootings and domestic violence and suicides and the leading cause of pediatric death in the US? GUNS. ITS THE GUNS.
The news cycle is fast in 12 yo circles.
WRITE!!!
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Given the large Latino population we have in Des Plaines, I've been waiting for them to come here. I talked to my eldest about what he can do if they show up to his high school (record what he sees, document what he can).
I'm hoping my kids don't watch it. I think e might have because he said it's all over YT.
And a joy.
One of the things I struggle with in my current career is that everything's a problem, everything's a crisis. I get that, for a lot of companies, the only time they hire consultants is when everything's a crisis, but, my fellow humans, it's only money (and I don't mean that sarcastically). Chill.
Yes. I was living out that way when it happened, and my then-gf was called in to work the ER because of all the victims they were anticipating. I don't really need to re-experience it. My wife took our kids to the memorial when we were in NYC; I didn't go. They were real then, they're real now.
I'm turning to Steve Goodman to get through the morning. music.amazon.com/albums/B0DZW...
It’s important to cover it as an historical event, but I don’t think reliving it is healthy for anyone.
In my kid’s case, it’s because it makes him very sad.
One of the twins told me he wasn’t looking forward to school today because they swapped science out for social studies last year and had them watch a video about the attacks and he doesn’t want to watch it again. If they do that today, he’s going to ask if he can draw instead.
I will if I can.
@giromide.online
I’m muting his name.
I’m waiting to hear about US dates.
Yeah, I was thinking how nice it was this morning not to be inundated by all that.
They’re awesome.
I’m going to need the world tomorrow to take some steps toward a future that isn’t ruled by fear and violence and ignorance. Please and thank you.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Very nasty work from @moderation.bsky.app. Yikes. Free @ihatenfts.whitecanof.monster.
My kids are not at all happy about another school shooting. They understand that it’s all bad.
Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine
They exploit cartoon characters for political purposes, so of course they will with the murder of one of their own.
In a room by myself Looks like I'm here with the guy that I judge worse than anyone else So I pace, and I pray And I repeat the mantras that might keep me clean for the day And the songs that she sang in the shower all ring in my ears Like ‘Wish You Were Here,” How I wish you were here
That would be awful.
Smart.
Ah fuck
No room with a gun in it is as safe as a room without guns.
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Noooo
In a better world, the right would use today as a call to actually do something about guns being fucking everywhere and the cult of violence in this country. Instead, they will use it as a call for more violence against people they don’t like.
I appreciate that the people I follow are not the sort of people to share things like graphic shooting videos. A sincere thank you.
Me living by the sword: Swords rule Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
We don’t have to live this way.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.
Executive Leadership in the corporate world is the most coddled, least-interesting part of the company. Who cares who's in the C-suite? I care who actually does the work.
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
Typo unintentional but funny.
Can you tell I'm not a TokTok/Instagram person? Eww.
Never autoplay videos on any system. What's wrong with you?
I don't understand why anyone wants to watch video of anyone getting shot for any reason, but that's me.
Mine is always off across all social media. I'd prefer to go to a "no videos of any kind for any reason, you horrible young people" model, but I'm old.
Try Ass Ill Glyss Errrrr Alls
I don't root for violence, ever, because I think there are too many ways for it to go wrong for people who have no defense against it. That being said, there are a lot of people in this country who are being violently harmed who I am more concerned about than Charlie Kirk.
To the women of Texas and medical providers throughout the state: You are welcome here. And your rights are protected here. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/u...
We don't need no education, we don't need no paw patrol
Fox host Brian Kilmeade calls for the execution of mentally ill people who commit crimes: "Involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill them." And you watch: He won't be suspended by Fox. The right wing supports euthanasia as long as they get to decide who gets it.
"At the very least, Bill Clinton allowed himself to be used as a sort of implicit character reference...and, as Davies intimates, a prop: a trophy friend whose presence conveyed to the trafficked girls just how powerful, and how untouchable, Jeffrey Epstein was."
I got that part - I was adding the doodies because they're all shitty people. Comedy is hard.
Doodies making doodles.
Happy Anniversary, you crazy kids!
Anxiety is high in Chicago’s homeless encampments as residents fear the National Guard could clear tents. blockclubchi.co/3IaLrJ9
Hey @moderation.bsky.app - I had a post that was reported and my account was suspended for 24 hours (back now, obviously). I tried to email to appeal and got no response, and the online form that you get at login to appeal kept giving me an error. Not ideal.
I’m looking forward to his One and Done write up in a few years. Not that I didn’t love him as a player, but because he’s not a HOFer. JAWS has him as 47th all time at 1B, which is a hell of an accomplishment.
My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.
Because I was in Bluesky jail yesterday, I didn't get to share the good news from our family - our eldest got into college! Waiting on the other responses, then we'll pit them in a cage match to see who will make it the most affordable, but it's a start!
Well, this explains why so many companies are all-in on trying to get that AI lucre. There’s no money in anything else.
Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com
When I think about the sheer number of people who enabled and profited off Epstein’s crimes, on top of all the people who directly harmed the young women he and his people preyed on, I want to set the world on fire with my mind.
Today is going to be a doozy. I can just tell.
Oh noes!
Well, fuck this fucking shit.
If only they meant actual diversity and not “protecting fascism.”
I’m going to be saying “What the fuck?” a lot today, aren’t I?
I missed this whilst in Bsky jail yesterday. Yield man? What the fuck?
I was precocious. Middle school.
AI isn’t people! It’s software!
Re. "precious bodily fluids," cf. Dr. Strangelove (1964; #skystorians): youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY?....
[blinks in gen-x] WHAT
I can tell you what happened, but I’ll do it on email so it doesn’t happen again.
I am out of BlueSky jail! I spent the last 24 hours banned from my account for what someone thought was a violent statement and was intended to be pointing out the hypocrisy of our our President. Oh well.