How do you stop a serial killer? defector.com/how-do-you-s...
How do you stop a serial killer? defector.com/how-do-you-s...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like discovery could be fun.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
One less Nazi is always a good thing.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
If I’ve been getting them for years, do I need to sign up again?
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it depends on whether you met the ex through a peer group (and continued interaction is inevitable) or via an app, at a bar, etc. (where each half of the ex-couple has a separate peer group, and continued interaction would have to be deliberately sought out)?
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Bluesky reminds me of Mamdani—the identity of the haters makes a pretty strong endorsement.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Isn’t the vast majority of violent crime STATE crime?
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, a browser that simply didn’t implement notifications would be pretty attractive.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly! There’s no misogynist equivalent to the dream of a “white homeland”—it’s not about separation or perceived “purity” but about wanting/ demanding a particular kind of behavior.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem is that you can not give an award, but you can’t really not have a mayor/ governor/ representative/ etc. unless you establish well in advance who does the job or wields the power in the event of a vacancy.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s the rolls. Sheetz uses really crappy mushy sub rolls. Wawa uses high quality rolls with a bit of a crust. Across a lot of items they may be comparable but a sub from Wawa is an order of magnitude better.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
“The constitutional amendment is unconstitutional” is real high-quality legal analysis.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
@tomscocca.bsky.social drew conclusions that were highly location-dependent. In tropical climes (eg NC) the months he identified as worst are actually the best, and anything between mid-May and mid-September is brutal and intolerable.
Publicly contesting the professional judgments made by doctors is journalism; publicly contesting the professional judgments made by journalists is activism
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Since the options are “stupid” and “evil”, I’d think “stupid” is by far the more charitable conclusion.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Alphabetically, to the Cs. C-o I think.
“Who believes that Donald Trump—fixated on imaginary graves and Photoshopped tattoos—is going to be able to process new and alarming information in the middle of the night, with the fate of the world at stake?”
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. Middle school in Maryland, early 80s.
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 91, SPORTS ANALYTICS DEP'T.: The Worst Score in Baseball Is 5 to 2. Everybody did a bad enough job that somebody else would have needed to do an unusually good job to somehow salvage a victory, and nobody did. www.indignity.net/losing-margin/
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Is @mcmegan.bsky.social talking here about 1986-88? “The most powerful nation in the world and its nuclear arsenal were left in the hands of a man who could not reliably recognize people he’d known for years, maintain his train of thought or speak in coherent sentences.”
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything she said about 2023-24 Biden was even more applicable to 1986-88 Reagan and I don’t see calls for soul-searching there.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
They should have billed them for the bullet.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Many “libertarians” believe that freedom is the inverse of the top marginal tax rate, and that nothing else matters.
Indignity Morning Podcast No. 479: Beneath contempt. This is only about “dueling perspectives” in the same sense that New York City and Al-Qaeda had different ideas about the best use for the World Trade Center. www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The alpha, the version with too many bugs to be called the beta.
You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Durham needs to up its bull statue game @charliereece.com
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
It means: conservative students not getting their feelings hurt plus a lot more registered Republicans on the faculty.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t forget Richard Spencer and Richard Nixon.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The complication here is that many of these are state schools, and GOP-run legislatures can inflict a lot of damage if they’re motivated to do so.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The Mary Kay Cadillacs I’ve seen in recent years have been SUVs.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Cause of death: JD Vance
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/ZiwTmE_C1pU?...
How are you going to restructure Social Security when you can't even figure out how to set up a standard, stable child-support program for the free-range baby farm you run as a hobby?
Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Obviously. Once you catch an infectious disease, you’re no longer healthy!
The bargain vs. the boot: defector.com/the-bargain-...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like the optimal framing might be whether the Trump administration is “too weak” to get El Salvador to return him.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t know that I’d go so far as to illustrate “lovely” with a picture of Hamilton Hall.
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Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I have said many times that the real function of Social Security is insurance against having your elderly parents show up destitute on your doorstep.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The Trump administration is too weak to get him released.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Every policy announced to combat “campus antisemitism” is simply a demand that colleges suppress and punish student expression.
Huh, weird
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
What a weak administration!
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
What was called a lie was “like your insurance, keep your insurance”, and the claim overlooked the population of people with cheap and shitty insurance, who liked the “cheap” and had not yet gotten sick enough to experience the shittiness.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
The author, though, somehow believes that the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights only apply to citizens, which is inconsistent with both the language of the Bill of Rights and legal precedent.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
When you’re Legoland, you can really cheap out on having carousel horses with ornate detail.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Let’s make sure assholes like this get tried in state court for state law violations.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
When we moved in 1978 and were looking around for a swimming pool near our new house, the first place we visited turned out to be whites-only.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
At which point Ginny’s calendar will be suddenly empty.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
“Why are these people who took time out of their lives to go to a town hall with a US Representative so interested in the US government? It is a mystery!”
“This is one reason why conservatives (and fellow travelers like Arnade) hate liberalism so much: free choice disproves their biological essentialism.”
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
“We voted against it after we voted for it.” Memories.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
“Fairness in women’s sports” is just the latest version of “Ethics in gaming journalism”.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno. Have you seen the congressional democrats lately?
This is Uvalde: defector.com/this-is-uvalde
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently they also had some folks living right around here. abc11.com/post/cult-nc...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to carry in my wallet a piece of paper, the size of a standard post-it folded in half, with dozens of phone numbers in teeny-tiny type. (Originally handwritten on an actual post-it; later printed in 5pt type and cut out/folded.)
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
“Bands of juvenile ideologues and agitators, invested with the authority of a senile but absolute tyrant, have been turned loose to smash the load-bearing structures of society, guided by pure spite and ignorance.” defector.com/the-country-...
The country that was here is gone: defector.com/the-country-...
i have always been fascinated by people who throw the charge of "race and gender essentialism" at people whose views are "race is a socially constructed fiction and gender isn't a rigid binary"
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
So it seems the thing Musk and Trump are happy to import from China is the Cultural Revolution.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Spicy sweet chili. Purple bag wins.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
You know why Elon Is ignoring the Defense Department? Because if they tried this stuff at the Pentagon they’d be dead.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, he’s not going to SELL them to the local departments. He’s going to have the federal government buy them at a price he sets, and then “donate” them to police departments, specifically to the ones that best comply with Trump’s wishes.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Donald Trump looks at a map, sees that north is up and south is down, and concludes that if you open a dam in Northern California the water will flow “down” to Southern California.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why I consider my party identification to be as an “anti-Republican”. If the Democrats and Republicans agree on something, it is far more likely that the Democrats are in the wrong than it is that the Republicans are in the right.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
The ESPN app needs a setting for “Never show me UFC promotions or content ever again.”
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
The SF author who most influenced Neil Gaiman turns out to have been L. Ron Hubbard.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah—this gets back to the whole “if you like your plan you can keep it” issue — there’s a sizeable population whose sole criterion is low premiums, either because they’re healthy or because they don’t believe non-crappy coverage exists.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand, I hate the Circle K self checkout stations where you sit all your stuff on a little platform and it uses cameras to identify your items and present your total. I don’t trust it to be right enough for me to pick the stuff up and walk away.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
What I love as a customer are self-service/ touchscreen kiosks for ordering customizable food. From my end, it eliminates concerns about getting it all taken down correctly; from the retailer’s end, it allows presenting all possible options (including up-sells).
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
At least you were talking to a canine rather than to a human child.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, “originalists” by and large care very little about the authors of the post-Civil War amendments and their intentions.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess he’s not on board with the independent state legislature approach, then?
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Not mockingly, but named by people who were interested in providing health care to Black folks.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
For example, in 1976 “Durham Regional Hospital” opened to replace “Watts Hospital” and “Lincoln Hospital”.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, in the South that kind of ended with official desegregation. Down here, “Lincoln” was used to name facilities that were specifically for Black folks.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Given where he came from, I don’t know that it influenced this immigrant so much as it simply appealed to him.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
“The worst possible white person would be a better president than any Black person. So let’s find the worst possible white person and elect him.”
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait until Clarence passes and see what happens to Ginny’s social calendar.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Is this thing on?
The Hamas atrocities revealed the incompetence and falsity of the right-wing program of security through brutality, and now the broad institutional center of Western military and political power is signing off on retaliatory mass murder, and U.S. pundits are really going with How the Left Went Wrong
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
Entombing McCarthy
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social)
So: is there a third-party Bluesky client for iOS, or a setting I’m missing? What I want is to refresh my timeline without jumping all the way to the top and having to scroll down to find where I was.
Dave Scocca (@scocca.bsky.social) reply parent
I was in need of a cheap wallet in a hurry, and the local Super Target had exactly one wallet in the entire store. (And it was absolutely noT what I needed.)
