how do i make something perfect (6/13/2017)
how do i make something perfect (6/13/2017)
“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”
The official DOJ Twitter account posting the equivalent of a screenshotted Notes app apology from a phone on 30% battery after the acting director got honeypotted on Hinge and confirmed plans of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.
i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)
Exactly right. Every single Democrat should be screaming this.
Mentally @ing every single one of you
Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
Oz engaging in clean hands eugenics
Oh, I have thoughts (and unfortunately for y'all, I am going to share them). www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
DEAR STUDENTS: Yes, I know you want to smoke weed in your rooms. I know you believe that smoking weed doesn't count as smoking and thus doesn't fall under the blanket No Smoking Policy. But, do us a favor, don't try to reenact the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for weed. Leave the fire panels alone.
good and wise people are outnumbered by belligerent idiots and that's all there is to it and you don't need to be online all day just to confirm it. if the USA and the broader world ever reverse this slide into Hell you'll hear about it whether you're refreshing a page or not.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
This is what I mean as echoing with today—what the modern right appears to want more than anything is moral and cultural praise, not just to be left alone but to be assured that their racism and sexism is not evil but Good Actually, and to be freed from any hint of moral condemnation from liberals
How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social
I don't know how many stories we need before somebody steps in and does something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5i...
To add a part 2 Extensive "soft skills" experience including Security training for Employees, Documentation write up for Employees/Customers, figuring logjams for multiple team issues especially through Jira/Agile focused teams. Put short diplomatic white gloves to make management do what ya need
🧵I've been thinking today about all the efforts made, just in my lifetime, to change social conventions around sexual assault—not END it, no one thought we might actually END it, just: how to fucking FRAME it—and how the general consensus is that those efforts largely failed.
I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words. "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me."
“What would you do with the money?” Broke: go to more concerts Woke: buy a concert venue Bespoke: pay a struggling musician $100k a year plus benefits for three years to write a rock opera shitting on my enemies
it’s very telling how many of the people involved with AI research in the 20th century - most of whom seemed to have largely meant well - simply never seem to have thought about our current “ultra-rich sociopaths try to use AI tools to crush everyone else forever” scenario
The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...
to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
Friend told me he doesn't like Superman because "he's such a morning person" and I really can't argue with that
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation." Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
My aunt married a dairy farmer whose family had a small farm for 100+ years and they kept it going until my uncle's retirement at like 70 something. They ALWAYS pasteurized/boiled their milk. Like it wasn't even discussed. This was a generational farmer, not a hobbyist.
Crying
This is a United States senator, on his official government account, publicly saying full white nationalism & great replacement theory is central to the country’s identity & the GOP platform. Also: explicitly opposing Lincoln’s message in Gettysburg Address (reference to “proposition”)
It’s so funny seeing Orphan Black cast photos because it’s such a big ensemble show with tons of story threads that gradually connect and then you realize it was all just Tatiana Maslany and, like, 4 supporting actors
The US has never been a white country is important to say over and over again. It's the country's greatest myth, and the erasure of both the genocide and the forced labor of enslaved people that they brought in almost immediately to do this labor.
Most African Americans have been in the US longer than most white Americans of european descent. And of course there were always Native Americans here and many of the founding texts were influenced by their presence. The US has never been a white country.
Friedrich Drumpf, for instance, arrived in US in 1885 but then went to the Klondike @paulecohen.bsky.social and returned to Bavaria. His draft-dodging (TM Drumpfs) cost him his citizenship there, though, and he returned to 'Murica in 1905
That billionaire who funds the climate crisis denial you've been conditioned to repeat has built himself a bunker to retreat to when the climate crisis becomes intolerable to human life.
This was the *point* of these things being taken up by corporations. If you're just hiring people to "fix" something, you can pay them less than if you're asking them to create it -- even though it requires them to do more work. In particular this was the reason for the WGA strikes around this.
These lunchboxes were both a way to carry lunch and a weapon. You had to be careful with the top clasp though. Kids these days with their soft plastic insulated lunch boxes or their bento boxes are missing out TBH
Curiously, the main organizers of the highly influential MAGA conference where JD Vance debuted his "America is a people" speech last year don't live in the US—they live in West Bank settlements. This year's conference is happening now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
'The Rise of Manga should terrify the US comics Industry' is a sentiment that always feels a bit like going 'The Rise Of China should terrify the US'. Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.
pro wrestler Konosuke Takeshita introduced a classic "neck snap" motion into his repertoire of finishing moves, and I cannot lie to you. I went "BROOOOOOO!" every time he did it. What a fantastic wrestler. We need to retroactively define Alpha as "similar to Konosuke Takeshita"
reminder that as trump looks to expand his terror to other cities, shit is still very much going down in LA
And yet some (Warner has started to turn his own ship around) still think that we can make it to the midterms much less 2028 without a far larger and tougher movement to resist, in Congress and everywhere.
I came for the frog saunas, and stayed for the dick-punch to capitalism:
Fuck
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
Relatedly: www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
We need a government initiative to encourage middle-aged men to have hobbies. If they've nothing else to do than run around town attaching flags at half-mast to lampposts then, really, they need to be taking up stamp collecting, maybe, or model railway building.
It's like watching a younger sibling embrace all the family dysfunction that has ruined you. Baby, you were supposed to escape!
Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.
Just reminded of the Oglaf strip with the crow lawyer. (One of the few safe for work strips, but the rest of the comics are very smutty.)
People love it
This is the part that gets me as well. Sometimes people will say, “Well AI isn’t going to take Director level jobs.” And I ask them who the hell is going to be Director level when all of us who built our skills over a career end those careers.
One of my favourite Graham Greene roles. That dry delivery.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
I'm a little late on this but if anybody in comics, and let's be real, /especially/ somebody who doesn't draw them, says let's embrace AI? they're a traitor and a scab and should never be trusted /ever/ again by the people who actually put the work in to making this genre and industry worth anything
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
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.
THIS. Without serious backup, the only people who can risk ✨speaking truth to power✨ are OTHER people who are rich & powerful. The billionaires are already in charge. There's no way to Simply Cleanse The System Of Money at this point. That takes deep legal reform...which takes winning elections.
Aww man, I was just reading about him recently after seeing him pop up a few times in Northern Exposure. Also, I love his books.
Some of us still remember the refrigerator trucks and mass graves and move accordingly. I do wonder, honestly, if part of the recall "problem" is that POC deaths outnumbered white deaths - that shifted under Biden (not because of Biden).
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
I've been gobsmacked at food prices. We need to talk about them more – about how folks are getting squeezed from every angle with no relief in sight. That's why it's so important to have regular folks with regular experiences in these races.
You know what I think is a a sign something is seriously wrong? No leaks. I can’t imagine White House preventing any leaks unless they’ve tightly restricted those who are around Trump Who’s CiC right now? Can Trump perform his job as well as he could 2 wks ago? Is it worse than Lloyd Austin?
one of the greats. highly recommended Clearcut (apparently Greene's favourite of his own filmography), a gripping and angry political thriller about the conflict between an indigenous community and a logging company.
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Every UK retail corporation, with annual profits in the hundreds of millions, who ask for a charity donation at the till should be required by law to match each and every donation.
"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.
Also I was alive in the '80s and '90s and we did not get as far as we did on LGBTQ issues by putting a pause on the causes??? I've read enough about the Civil Rights movement to know that they didn't either. What a horrific thing to say.
The enemy is the visa regime. It is beyond ridiculous the amount of paperwork required for an American to visit China or a Chinese citizen to visit America, let alone work or study, and this artificial separation imposed by our governments leads to artificial separation among our peoples.
i am once again reminding people to call these things LLMs, which actually describes what they do, and not “AI,” which is an industry-preferred buzzword that confuses everyone and makes such distinctions impossible
Prop 50 is about defending democracy. Republicans already stole seats in Texas without voters having any say. California is doing it differently: we get a one-time shot to fight back, then it reverts to our independent redistricting commission.
Our. System. Is. Broken
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Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
The best part about Vance becoming President is when he realizes it won’t make his father love him at last
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Extremely offended by a spider spinning its web across an abandoned project that I've been planning to work on any day now actually
My wife and I went to Paris last year and on our first day there, we got some labor history. Like how the baguette became common because it obviated the need for workers to carry knives at all times because when Parisians get upset, the guide said, they RIOT. That's what's up.
"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
I love what an outgoing friendly dog Kona is to people and it’s really helped us connect with neighbors, but sometimes I’m tired and just want a walk where we don’t have to interact with anybody 🥲
TODAYBOR DAY IS "LABOR" "DAY" it's not the real one! that's in may! but it's still a good reason to celebrate the workers!
Every time I see someone whine, "BlueSky is failing!" I just hear, "I don't know how to Grow My Brand (TM) without an algorithm." You gotta post good. The people who whine about this stuff post like hand-wringing managers cancelling Pizza Fridays to save company money. Post better, dorks.
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
I spent over a year job hunting mobile game jobs and was continually rejected cause I didn't have one thing or the other, usually animation. When I was finally hired I learned Spine in like a week 💀
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
dear universe, if you are going to kill off multiple Big Bads at once, and by all means go for it, remember basic mixtape structure. don't go too hard all at once. let each track breathe and then keep the energy growing. you get one shot. do it right, and she'll definitely fuck you after prom.
TONIGHT ! come join @krisstraub.com and me for a robust discussion on the resilience of the human soft palate.
Interesting from someone who swept homeless camps because the next verse is : “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” – James 2:15-16
Honestly the way everyone regards Giuliani should be the way everyone regards Trump, but for some reason one of them is borne about in a golden palanquin powered by hate and the other one is Giuliani
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
