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Happy belated birthday!
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Fifteen years ago today, Lauren went to the farmer's market to get milk and eggs, and came home with milk, eggs, and a kitten. Happy Gotcha Day to Matchka! Pictured: Then and now
For convenience and safety, a dance floor will be installed over his grave.
The fault very obviously lies with whoever left the remote control ON the table.
Semi-nude amok time!
because they teach all the DIFFICULT ways of creating a coherent aural scene. (There are a bunch of easy ways, for which few rules are necessary.)
David Huron's wonderful "Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art" examines the relationship between the rules of Baroque part-writing and what we currently know about aural cognition. His conclusion is that these old rules remain very useful,
Uncanny, even!
Yeah, how is it that there’s no English equivalent of “schadenfreude”?
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And since society is held together by trust and force, anything that erodes trust benefits authoritarians.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
🚨Border 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 “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
The rise of a fascist leader in Germany led to genocide and a disastrous war that killed millions of Germans, but only 25 years later, Germany had regained its standing as a prosperous industrial power. Could the same thing happen here?
Dougie, you are an bigge boye!
It sounds crazy, but it connects an awful lot of dots.
It sounds crazy, but it connects an awful lot of dots.
The Fed fights back.
And that scarf was knitted by Preston Sturges’s mother!
It's been a warm, not hot, summer here in Victoria, but things have heated up towards the end of August. Time for my annual rewatch of Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
![Title card from the movie: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot [caption: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday] Surf at the beach.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dg4zqpunjzvx7zokdg2hghiy/bafkreif65zx2bvyvdo5zrthceldglzgtmfl6ofxuf5wln62drrc5juc3x4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Unfortunately we're so propagandized that if someone quoted Niemoller accurately and said that first they came for the Communists, a substantial majority would think, "hell YEAH!"
Preach!
Another new crimb?!?
Social media should be safe for trans people. Pass it on
A mere pin? This deserves a tattoo!
I spent 5 years following Atlanta families working multiple jobs but still unable to afford a place to live. Now they fear losing food stamps and Medicaid — but JD Vance has no interest in them. That's the real story: demonizing homeless people is cover for policies pouring gasoline on this crisis.
Hopefully the journalist got to keep the cash!
Okay, I recall one idiot undergrad saying that about Bach, but does anyone not made of straw actually say it? The consensus is that the WTC is one of the monuments of music. A century-and-a-half ago Von BĂĽlow was calling it music's "Old Testament." (Yes, pasted from The Bad Place!)
The most important histograms you'll see this year. @adambonica.bsky.social is doing incredibly important work in revealing the ills of our campaign finance system. Beyond dysfunction, SPAM PACs approach criminality. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
Proud to have contributed two votes a day!
For 14 years, Batko, the neighbor's cat, has tried to be friendly to Matchka. She will have nothing of it, and hisses at him. Usually he's stoic about it, but every now and then he will bat her bunt as she walks past him! (Matchka on the left, Batko on the right)
If you enjoy watching Chatterton filleted out of Thomas Williams, you'll love this from @michaelharriot.bsky.social
All you had to do was listen to her.
I was raised as a dog person. Lucy was my spirit guide into the world of cats. Gone since 2007; I think of her every day.
This experience is likely to be useful in the wake of the midterm elections.
instantrimshot.com
Now you can thank them for their disservice.
A true criminal mastermind has to keep one step ahead of the law!
That’s 568 days in a row, right? Give or take a few minor peccadilloes?
Is it possible that Rubio is unaware of how much he sounds like Neville Chamberlain here?
I gave $10, so even a TINIER percentage of your followers has to get involved!
Done!
This is like Chamberlain meeting Hitler in Munich AFTER the Nazis had occupied the Sudetenland!
It's the 2nd Amendment!
This is like holding the Munich summit AFTER the Nazis had occupied the Sudetenland.
what's happening in Baltimore really gives the game away. a Dem major has drastically cut violent crime with a services-focused approach, even including police too, and none of these people give a shit popular.info/p/the-secret...
The Jackson Four
The military has no place occupying DC or any other American city.
Whenever you say it is, is food time!
I wrote about why we need to look to both American history and international history to fully understand the forces of repression we're up against.
My engineer brother-in-law says we’ve lost a lot of technical papers from the 70s and 80s because they were written on now-vanished computer operating systems.
Well, you have a point.
Interesting data point, but unless you know that Sanders doesn’t believe what he’s saying, the more accurate and less incendiary word is “mistaken.”
Years ago my wife and I submitted some cartoons to the New Yorker and received a rejection so quickly that it must have crossed our cartoons in the mail.
How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education? Let’s look to history Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions Hitler destroyed them How long did they take to recover? They haven’t
Sure, at Communist Martyrs High School!
Still explaining: How do tariffs work, and who pays?
Just shows how prescient New Yorkers are!
I should believe you over the cumulative knowledge of three millennia of human history?!?
Credit where it’s due: Kessler has written *by far* the most eye-opening piece about the decimation of the Washington Post.
The only faint glimmer of a silver lining here is the likelihood that Trump will entrust this money to grifters who make off with it instead of perpetrating the evil he intends.
Two votes a day!
to knee or not to knee
Happy gotcha day to the internet's cutest poet!
When I looked just now, the sections are there but are not accessible from the menu on the right. I had to scroll down on the left side to find them.
I just looked at the link you provide, and those sections are currently there, but are not accessible from the menu on the right side of the screen. I had to scroll down the text on the left side to find them. On my laptop, the menu began to scroll again at Article 9, Section 10.
Wait, my evil lady is two-timing me?!?
But they're fine with an uncontrolled experiment on the planet's atmosphere.
And if they hadn't rigged the 1864 election for Lincoln, the CSA would have survived the Civil War!!!!!!!!
We eat well, and our monthly grocery bill for two is not $800. I'd say of $400/person that whether it's reasonable or on the high side depends upon where one lives and what one's tastes are. None of this, of course, has anything to do with Stancil's perfectly reasonable point.
Yes, inflation is widely divergent among different areas. I just replaced my eight-year-old phone, and paid about the same number of dollars, unadjusted for inflation, as I did then. Meanwhile our house insurance premium is up 150% in the past six years, even though we haven't made a claim.
You are wrong – my wife is utterly indifferent to price, and I'm the one who input everything into Quicken for a dozen years and knew EXACTLY how much we spent on groceries. I agree that $400 is a reasonable one-person monthly grocery bill; but many households contain more than one person.
My wife and I shop together, most recently yesterday.
And I'm assuming that you know that 5% inflation in groceries doesn't mean that your total monthly expenses on everything go up by 5%? Of course inflation is generally correlated. Stancil's basic point is clear: Even 5% inflation, which is high, is not dramatically noticeable month to month.
Yeah, but if you're a household of one, $400 is too much – unless you have expensive tastes or live in a super-expensive-for-food area – and if you're a household of four it's too little. So he chose something very reasonable for a single shopping trip, and easier to conceptualize than, say, $400.
"Seems" is doing some heavy lifting here. Using a typical grocery bill as an example is basically impossible, since households differ so much, so Stancil chose $100 for ease of comprehension.
Where does he suggest that the $100 bill is monthly? He could just as easily mean a single shopping trip. But very obviously he's using $100 because it's easy to comprehend what $.42 is in relation to it.
In 1990 I was ballpark organist for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. On the evening of June 6, all of us in the press box were transfixed by an enormous anvil cloud in line with the outfield. That cloud birthed a tornado that devastated the town of Limon, 60 miles away.
Are you sure? Someday it will be the answer to a wonderful trivia question.
Meanwhile I still don't know what Florida ounces are.
Toilet paper is a known attractive nuisance for cats, and should not count agains behaviores reports. You may be entitled to a cash settlement.
Somebody tell Gonzo about asteroids!
Those Pistons tossed *everyone* around like mannequins!
Well, my recollection is that it was constant news in the 70s. The Nixon wage-price controls were terrible, of course, but the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 also had a huge impact. I heard much less about it in the '80s, but perhaps the media was already in the tank for Reagan.
Looks like a hidden Clee Sit ...
Lucy used to wake us up at 2. a.m. because through the window she saw another cat across the street and wanted us to let her out so she could go attempt to beat it up! (She weighed 8 pounds.)
We had this made for Matchka, who of course will not use it unless she is positive we will not see!
Definitely a three-snack face!
Mostly 70s, not 80s. Paul Volcker put an end to it – along with Carter's reelection chances.
an inexplicable blunder; but the reason is simple: Nobody in the German high command thought there was any possibility of the war lasting until the winter. The plan was to inflict massive casualties near the border, causing the collapse of the Soviet government.
When you think you're naturally superior to your opponent, you're inevitably going to underestimate their capabilities. A good illustration is the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. The failure of the German high command to provide their soldiers with winter uniforms is widely regarded as
But what about the uncommon replies, such as, "what did you name her?"
Method actors!
Oh yeah?!? I'll declare THREE billion jobs added! And all I want in return is a down-payment on a mobile home!
Parsimonious!
