I wish I lived someplace where I could use one as an in-town car, but between the every-present, ever-growing giant trucks, and everything else, I don't think that would work out.
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I wish I lived someplace where I could use one as an in-town car, but between the every-present, ever-growing giant trucks, and everything else, I don't think that would work out.
Good point. I don't know -- it would depend entirely on the security camera app, and also whether this was recorded from it, or from a screen-recording app on the same computer.
Dan Patch was not just a horse, but the most famous athlete in the world in 1906. He was never defeated in open competition and his harness record stood for 30 years. Oh and there was also a railway line named after him. And a movie. And a boat. And a bowling alley. And more things I can't remember
You mean zooming in to that part of the screen while working with the recorded footage? That's what I thought as well. I don't know if it's real or not, but it was definitely edited for clarity.
What unity means is that you stop telling people to sit down and wait their turn, when it’s never their turn, and when they are the ones who need it the most. It certainly doesn’t mean “everyone agrees.” It will never mean that.
If non-marginalized people were capable of fixing the issue on their own, we wouldn’t have problems. The ONLY thing that has ever worked to secure rights is being loud and obnoxious and right until eventually people agree with you.
I didn’t leave that out. If it had not for LGBTQ+ people being loud and forcing the issue, we would not be where we were. Period. If it were not for Black people putting themselves in harm’s way for their rights, we would not have civil rights.
Agree and we also need to be clear on WHO THEY ARE. The people saying throw trans folks overboard are not offering us a path to unity, they are very literally and concretely trying to divide us
my best friend literally said to me this weekend, out loud, "I'm going to go on choosing to believe it, as a little treat"
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
I want to believe that it's somebody attempting to prank the Internet.
It feels like ragebait, and oh boy is it ever working
I'm impressed it didn't tip; Smart cars are a bit top-heavy.
Also this video reminded me that I'm overdue to go out and figure out how to parallel park in the vehicle that I drive now. Fuck, that is going to suck; it's going to need someplace where a bunch of other cars aren't trying to rush me. Everything goes right out the window when I panic. FUUUCK
OH COME ON! A car that small, with a space that big, you don't even have to parallel park! Just pull in and straighten out!
I let out several different audible “NO”s during this video incredible stuff, you gotta watch the whole thing
There was also a long, boring meeting of the relevant FDA external advisory committee, which was streamed live and is still on YouTube (eg) www.fda.gov/advisory-com...
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
The fact Twix is now selling single bar packs is a recession indicator
He and Newsom should start a club.
That's Pogo, dammit I got he gets a threatening letter from the Kelly estate.
WTAF
Rahm Emanuel with some classic yellow peril.
There is no justification for this. None.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
@rem.bsjky.team I found Frog and Toad! My mom stitched these for the Elder Child. Frog originally had brown pants too but those have gone missing.
The evil brilliance of focusing on trans people in athletic competitions is that inattentive cis people who are not intensely transphobic misread it as just a minor concession, while enthusiastic opponents of trans liberation understand how it advances their cause < thread >
The WH can hide Trump over a long weekend, and will be able to keep the plates spinning a few more days. OR Trump will appear on camera and do one of his hour long rambles. Either way, the speculation will end soon enough. You can't hide a president for long in 2025. Especially not this president.
It's not so much about the aesthetics as about recognizing that (in the US) any time you go outside you might get hit by a car or shot by some jerk with a gun, and then flipping double birds at the grim reaper and going outside anyway.
Halloween demands nothing of us but that we try have a good time in the face of our ever-looming deaths. I'll take that over the Christmas emotional straitjacket any day.
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NOTA BENE: If you have celiac disease or a wheat allergy, let your friends do the wheatpasting part!
The thing I think people don't want to deal with is that it's not Bluesky v Linux, it's Bluesky v Your Mom
It's never been about actual crime, though. It's about a subset of the population absolutely losing their shit because they saw kids playing, homeless people trying to survive, or black people doing anything.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
I just think it's worth reiterating that this content free, vibes-based, know-nothing grievance based approach to election analysis was the thing Nate opposed in creating 538! Like, he has literally become the thing he started his career to oppose. It's amazing.
@50501movement.bsky.social Santa Clarita, CA turned out on this hot Labor Day morning…
if you mentally replace “Bluesky” with “anyone who doesn’t like me”, this whole category of post becomes much clearer
Summer is over.
It also drives the conspiracy theories, because they give the believer the impression that life is controllable, and that there are specific people to blame for when things spiral into frightening chaos.
That's what I get from my MAGA'd relatives: They aren't scared, YOU'RE scared for masking, getting the shot, and avoiding indoor crowds! They aren't being selfish and callous towards the lives and safety of others, YOU'RE just making this out to be an emergency, and IT'S NOT!
This is a completely separate issue from how the media has decided that Republicans are blameless for anything they do, and only Democrats can be considered to have agency.
They get points for at least trying hard to fight the virus, and attempting to fight disinformation, but just like how the vaccine alone is not enough to prevent transmission of the virus, that's not enough to make them blameless. It was their game to lose.
Dems gave up on controlling covid-19. They gave into the astroturfed business paranoia of "what happens if we build a better society where we all look out for each other and *I have to pay my employees for sick leave*?" And for that I will not forgive them. In the end, not upsetting donors > lives.
And then afterward -- this is the part that makes me feel crazy -- all the retrospective analysis & discussion *shit on Democrats*. They've been on the defense ever since, criticized from all quarters for this or that decision. Much of that criticism is fact-free bullshit, but ...
At every single second, they worked their hardest to destroy trust, to foment doubt & anger & resentment, to *prevent* solidarity. And those lies mattered. The vaccine skepticism deliberately spread by the right led to 100s of 1000s of preventable deaths. Again: *they caused mass death*.
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
I thought it was odd that this 2024 article said that tiny Mauritius was the third-largest provider of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian solar. Now I learn that Mauritius actually means "USA", because substantial private US funds are channeled through Mauritius. Singapore too. Tax reasons.
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Maybe in a basement that someone isn't using? Just put him and his equipment down there and lock the door.
Nate Silver should have his own social network. Like, just him. No one else around. Seems positive for everyone.
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
If Trump ever took an interested in it, he'd do like he does for golf: only let people play who agree to call him the winner.
He got lucky once, and everyone decided to overlook the fact that he didn't have one.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
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How do we memorialize monsters? A few years ago, the city of Gwangju had an idea, and Hyun Sook and I made a comic about it for The Nib.
Good god, you saddle a baby with a name like 'King,' there's only 2 ways that goes: either he grows up to be one of the kindest fellas you know, or he's gonna make Satan look like an amateur.
as it turns out, a lot of the "I hate my wife & children" humor is written by people who were not joking
I think one of the worst ones I heard about was Bob Kane and whole mess around Batman not shearing any credit with Bill Finger on creating Batman was bad… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7g...
The Comics Journal featured that strike in 1988 and it was something that had largely fallen down the memory hole at that point. www.tcj.com/tcj-archive/...
At this point I'm just going to assume that every piece of work I have ever enjoyed in my life was created by a monster until I hear otherwise 😑 Most aren't as vile as this guy but I keep learning of skeletons in closets and ugh.
He didn't like The Boondocks, I remember that much.
More reasons to be glad that this is my Dennis the Menace
Yeah, people who were around to see what polio does were happy to have the vaccine.
But he also said that this was his dream job, his life of Riley, and he was upset that these FAMILY MEN were striking for benefits (fair wages and overtime pay, basically; Disney animators back then made less than paper-hangers) that he didn't think he needed. You tell me which sounds more likely
His after-the-fact rationalization (from for bio) was it was because the teamsters' and cartoonists' wives had set up a food station to provide meals for the 24-7 marching strikers, and it reminded him of the soup kitchens from the Depression. Which is both ridiculous and disgusting.
Hank Ketcham was, indeed, a gigantic piece of shit; this thread is a good primer on why. A little detail that wasn’t mentioned in the thread, but seems appropriate for Labor Day: he was vehemently anti-union while working at Disney and gleefully crossed the picket line. Again, trash human.
Hank had mansions on multiple continents. When reporters asked him about the real Dennis, he just said "I only hear from him when he needs money" as though the estrangement was Dennis' fault, or the money had not been made in his name.
A daily tally of how you and your son are failing to meet his standards is in every newspaper you see, and meanwhile your husband is in his studio with those pen-and-ink doppelgangers, and leaves only harsh words and criticism for his actual family. It's just sick.
I don't know if she even had a drinking problem at the start, but she probably developed one after years of being married to a man who was never there --because he was so busy drawing a version of his family that he actually loved, which he showed to millions daily, which all their money came from.
I was leaving other assholery out to keep this thread focused but since it's Labor Day, here's one more...
The part where Hank insists that Alice drank herself to death rankles. He calls her an alcoholic, because she's Irish. He decides everything about her that he hates, it's because she's Irish. She died because benzos were being handed out to miserable wives like candy. She crashed her car.
If you have managed to ascribe 'legitimate concerns' to people who will march with nazis and think we have too many Indians nowadays, but offered no such extension to people seeking a little less genocide, congratulations you are officially a fucking disgrace
wow
I can't get past Peter Thiel naming his company Palantir aka the magical objects in LOTR used by an evil control obsessed entity for weird authoritarian surveillance state reasons It's like an 80s movie villain who runs a company called SwastikaCorp, like its TOO on the nose
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
I mean, the Dennis the Menace that I was familiar with was right up there with Family Circle for boring sanctimony.
I realized that this came out sounding very different than intended. Basically, even after finding out that Ketcham wasn't the extremely vanilla person who he portrayed himself as in his work (later work, technically), it was a bit of a shock to find out that he painted kink-related scenes.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
I don't know, if it turned out that Rudy was abducted by aliens, and they threw him back because they thought he was dead, and THEN he got into a car accident, that would be pretty funny.
I just think it's amazing foreshadowing, that when their little kid makes a gigantic mess, he decides to not help at all, and instead draws cartoons. And then yard later this man cannot understand why his wife leaves him.
And then his dad tells him that his mom drank herself to death, when she died in a car accident.
There's no other way to parse it than that the Democrats have become a pro-war, pro-genocide, white supremacist party engaged directly in undermining lgbtq rights because when you're trying to defend those policies under the aegis of securing those voters, you embraced their agenda.
I hope when he dies Cena runs out and announces it the exact same way he did with Bin Laden
those dorks thought they were cooking with "let's go brandon." much funnier when crowds across america start unified chants of "Die! Die! Die! Die!"
rudy giuliani (seeing the secretary from beetle bailey having a problem with her typewriter): i need to help this woman. whatever the cost
Ketcham did some really WILD paintings and prints in his later years. Like one of a man being led on a dog's leash is one in particular I remember, because even after learning what an absolute piece of SHIT he was, it was still completely unexpected.
Hank did NOT help his wife clean up Dennis's room.
Dennis had been sent to his room at about 3 or 4, and was extremely worked up. He set to meticulously wrecking his room, and at some point soiled himself but just kept going; his mom found the disaster - broken things, graffiti, smeared shit - and ran to Hank "Your son is a MENACE!" He drew a comic.
Did anyone besides Hank ever say Dennis had learning disabilities? Because I was unaware of it if they did. If it really was just him, it casts some doubt on the claim, because his dad was an extremely biased party.
Hank's public response to his son's suffering was "these things happen." There's so much crap that Hank Ketcham did that Behind The Bastards did a two part deep dive that's longer than they spent on some nazis. But suffice to say, bro sucks.
...Well. This thread was... educational. (And yeah, a cartoonist with multiple mansions used to be a thing, in the heyday of newspaper cartooning. It wasn't even unique.)
Remember when in 2020 a Black man won the election for mayor in Alabama, and the previous guy just went "nope" and literally locked him out of town hall? He finally got sworn in last summer, like 4 years after winning the election. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ala...
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it