There’s got to be an answer but it’s probably not “more guns for everyone.”
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There’s got to be an answer but it’s probably not “more guns for everyone.”
Why is it that gun control opponents will draw every kind of tangled line between the tragedy and what could have caused it, and never the shorter line between blood and guns?
Pips isn’t awful but it’s slow for me—or I’m slow with it. Just started. Sudoku is much more fun. The LinkedIn suite of puzzles are too.
Eh. Didn’t even know about Pips so thanks for that. Tried it. Doesn’t hold a candle to Digits.
@rufus-hickok.bsky.social “Too Late to Call” is turning into a Banquo’s ghost of a song, constantly popping up, then morphing into something like “Goodbye to You” or, most recently, Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” I oughta play it for my guitarist autistic son, who spots similarities in music.
The best Trump can do now is acknowledge that RFK Jr. lied and misled, and fire him.
Exactly the beat I need right now. First thought: “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” is this beat but your call. Probably a thousand songs are a parallel.
Only the young think “boring” is as bad as it gets.
Oh yeah. If the doctor says “you’re wasting my time” you can do a happy dance. Isn’t there a Seinfeld on how you never want to hear your doctor say “hmm, interesting”?
That look on the bear’s face. Like: well, which flavor already?
That’s too sad.
Only if she does nothing but watch. It’s early days. Doing nothing is soul-crushing. She’ll either join him in creating a world their children will hate them for. Or she’ll leave.
Ah. Didn’t think of that!
I think that’s why the rule is being thrown out. You can’t give the finger if you don’t have it. Creative way to quash dissent, actually.
His wife is going to have to make some decisions. She’s living with a person who’s probably 180 degrees from the person she thought she married. That lady has a beautifully written tell-all in her future.
Isn’t that the worst, though: being ignored.
No. Not worth it. What he craves is being the center of attention. A boycott hurts him more than booing. Even better: counterprogramming.
It’s only a worthwhile event if the honorees and attendees are of the same status as in the past…and that’s not going to happen. It’ll be boycotted by anyone worth watching.
@mluckovich.bsky.social I had a clever answer—A, because it appeals to our increasing violent streak plus suggested the question of how animals without opposable thumbs could carry arms. Then you deleted it. Well, you have my opinion, and that’s what counts.
Yum
Okra how? My mom used to make it with tomato sauce and sautéed onion but I think that’s Mediterranean.
lol thanks
Like a crow. Into bright shiny things. The shallow flash is all.
So you live in a Disney movie.
As a nonpracticing lawyer and a sometime writer—commit, moi?—I understand fearing a bad response and I respect the courage to put oneself out there nonetheless. See also: Gretzky’s theorem.
And?
George Costanza. There.
Maybe point out that the current administration is like a 500-year hurricane: devastating but rare. That the overwhelming majority of people who commit fraud and piss off the system don’t succeed. That our president will ultimately fade into ignominy.
Well, dead people don’t get cancer.
Your soul hears the voices of the dead. That’s all.
Get on your local MOT Whatsapp group and offer them for free. Though you might get more takers if you charge a nominal $1 per.
Variation on כָּל הַפּוֹסֵל, בְּמוּמוֹ פּוֹסֵל
I may be missing something but can’t you just give the “pure LLM” submitters Fs and let the word spread that you take no prisoners
Congress: please require proof that the numbers were rigged, or require that she be rehired. You can do this. You must do this.
Typo — says “data ining”; missing an “m”; always proofread
Oh wow, I must be a journalist
You sound clever. Run for office perhaps? Or are you not devious enough?
So you’ve got the analysis. What’s the solution?
So if we the people think our president is a fraudster, can we fire him? Or recall him? A parliamentary system looks better and better.
This is the same dude who thinks that high tariffs on a country are paid by that country.
Precisely.
Sorry, just had a flash of Edith Piaf doing a chicken dance
Maybe you oughta label this thread “sure we have different politics but we’ve all made the same gormless mistakes so can’t we just get along”
Oh please. Who hasn’t melted the plastic container in the oven that you kept cuz you paid a buck for it and now you’re scratching off melted plastic? Ok, that’s weirdly specific, I know.
See, that’s a nice guy. Saying “here’s something everyone gets wrong” instead of “how are you allowed to go out by yourself”
You have no idea. Have fun.
What’s your favorite? Werner von Braun is probably mine.
@birbigs.bsky.social I just listened to “The Good Life” while I was cooking. Just masterful. Poignant and funny.
(2/2) the XYZ and ABC are exactly what both parties intend them to mean. This will always be a win for your kid because by the time you both agree on the terms of the contract, it will be way past her bedtime. But at least there will be no surprises, except of course when you see her report card.
(1/2) You could just draft an easily modified template like “The party of the first part (“Kid”) agrees to XYZ in exchange for which the party of the second part (“Parent”) will allow her to do ABC.” And then you make sure that…
Eh. A pox on both their houses. Not a fan of one who’s so studiously neutral on globalizing the intifada. Not a fan of one who’d bank on people forgetting why he was kicked out of office. Door number 3, please. Anyone?
Haagen-Dazs too high, waaah.
Medusa’s hair had nothing on these people.
Here’s the thing: you can see it’s not a tight wrap. It’s absolutely airtight, likely creating the greenhouse effect you were trying to avoid, but it is not snug. So it’s “loosely wrapped.” Generally, demonstrate now for help next time. Good luck.
Well—if someone else is paying for that car, it’s a different calculation
What I was about to say.
Try posting monkeys making cultural observations.
Murderer with Covid.
Don’t hate me but I don’t think that’s it. He can have empathy one-on-one; he just has a need to project strength to the public, to never look weak. It translates into a fear of ever acknowledging he was wrong, and that fear keeps him from being a normal human being. Plus a lot of other stuff.
Oy. He should have the Truman sign on his desk, with an update: “The buck stops somewhere else.”
Followup: Why do you say it’s evil to think about what went wrong? Are you feeling the blame might fall on you?
bsky.app/profile/mark... So cute. But not cuter than a porg.
Matchy-matchy.
I don’t think anyone who says that actually believes that. Spinners know it’s spin. The trouble is the audience who doesn’t always recognize the lie.
P as in pfeffernusse. Alternatively: When I’m on a call that’s gone too long I’m tempted to spell something out with “s as in sunny” because it sounds like “f as in funny.”
Ah, the future of society keeps looking brighter.
Or maybe a split between those who believe that “globalize the intifada” is a call to murder Jews vs those who are ok with that.
Just that most people, I believe, who see the phrase “Black or African American” would interpret it to mean “Black, but use the term you want to.” I could be wrong.
Just finished this. Great episode. But a missed opportunity to tie in to July 4th: Could the colonies have achieved independence at any other time? Or was the timing just right, the colonies just strong enough to fight an empire, just angered enough, not too bulky and inertia’ed to risk it all.
You’re probably right. He’s got deniability on so many levels.
Thematically, that works with the performance—both, baseball icons.
Like him or hate him, let it be for what he is likely to do now.
The first part of “Mississippi Masala”—by Mamdani’s mom, of course—gives a moving account of when Indians were thrown out of Uganda. This is not a political comment I’m making, just cinematic. And probably why an idiot kid applying to college (we’re all idiots at that age) answered as he did.
Helping the less literate become more literate—with the compounded effect on every aspect of their lives. Not bad.
Does “sophisticated” mean willing to grift his way to whatever end makes him, personally, wealthiest? Then yah, sure.
Wrong Tom. Hiddleston would be perfect. The Dancing Bond.
Ah, someone got this ancient SNL reference!
Where’s Emily Litella when you need her?
Apropos of form only, does he realize that every time he randomly capitalizes words, he not only betrays a bad sense of grammar (and tech; he could just dictate those posts and see them written out properly), but also seems to be using, in some stilted way, a convention of the German language. Odd.
Remember when the president’s actually saying something to the public was a thing of grandeur—regardless of whether you supported him. It was the president. Now: Just another tweet. All caps. Yawn.
“But but but I thought it. Isn’t that reason enough to say it?”
And phrase it any old way, regardless of how rude and hurtful. Significant overlap between that group and the guys who justify themselves by “All I said was” and repeating the remark. Also a fave: “You’re so sensitive.”
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
Ok. (1) I guess my kid who just graduated from/survived Columbia with an English major should look elsewhere, and (2) good to hear you’ll study Alzheimer’s. It’s astonishing that dementia and ALS are among the issues still on medicine’s frontier. Thanks. Congratulations and good luck.
You can just sense how irritated he is that he can’t make the capital letters even bigger. Really, shouldn’t the commander in chief get to use special fonts?
(1) what qualifications would students need? How much of a science background? Sorry if stupid question. (2) how does your research tie into (if at all) Alzheimer’s and the role of insufficient/low-qualiry sleep in the brain’s accomplishing its offline tasks.
[Thwack] Snap out of it!
Listening to Sarah Sherman interview on Good One podcast. Vulgar and funny. Does she realize that the greatest thing she does is give viewers a moment of relief when she shows up on Weekend Update—because we know it’ll work.
Is your job at stake? If not, don’t do it. Just be super calm about announcing that you have a prior engagement. Of course, if they’ll fire you, maybe don’t say no. Aren’t I helpful?
You ever see The Omen? I revise my answer. AI is a toddler, but the toddler is Damien.
Exactly. AI isn’t necessarily evil. It’s a highly articulate toddler. Our mistake is in thinking that its well-formed sentences are in all ways accurate.
Thanks. Probably heresy.
A book I’d read: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
Maybe. But maybe each of us has our own set of lamed-vuv-niks without whom our world—the world each of us cherishes—would cease to be. My own gloss on it anyway.
To quote Clay Davis, sheee-it.
Calling the chair of the Fed names. I know, I know. We’ve seen this so many times. But every time, I think: Did no one teach him that you don’t talk like that?
This: www.cbc.ca/news/world/a....
Dignity is awesome. One aims for that. Sometimes it’s elusive and we send a text (or skeet) that’s less dignified than is optimal. Happens to some people. Obviously not you.
ChatGPT has apparently convinced people to commit suicide—so not a great therapist, unless that’s your goal.
Here’s the thing. It’s the kind of message that should have been private. And it looks like it was indeed a private text, till the recipient broadcast it. We all from time to time send slavering declarations of devotion that are utter cringe if anyone else sees them. It’s kind of sweet.