Unfortunately everything absolutely can not not
11.03.2026 00:29
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Unfortunately everything absolutely can not not
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Barker: Ohhhhhh
Barker: now i remember you
Whedon: yes!
Barker: joe whedon!
Whedon:
Barker: ha ha ha
Homelessness is a choice. We could chose to end it.
It's EXTREMELY rare for people to cosplay as one of my characters, in no small part because I do so little description that it's difficult to make a costume. This might change if/when something gets made for TV/Films. In fact the one character that IS cosplayed is K-VRC from Love Death + Robots.
John Brown and his sons famously hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death in Kansas. Using broadswords. Contemporaries credit them with scaring the fuck out of the slavers at the realization that some of the "free men" were also willing to be brutally violent.
Haiti didn't finish paying France back for Toussaint Louverture's massive theft, until 1947.
Elton John was born before Haitians finished paying for his theft. Now that's stealing big!
And yet, all my Haitian friends assure me that Toussaint was a good person?
Toussaint Louverture.
Haitian General Toussaint Louverture was one of the biggest thieves in history! He hit the biggest lick of all time! He stole 10,714 square miles of land, and 500,000 slaves! Seriously!
France forced him and the freed Black Haitians to pay reparations to plantation owners for the "lost property."🤡
Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.
If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.
If you didn't like it? They took you out.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Agreed - just about my favorites in the whole series
there are dozens of contronyms in English. Most of them, like dust (the shelves vs for prints) or trim (with secateurs or with tinsel) turn a noun into two verbs meaning "to add [noun]" and "to take away [noun]"
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Nonplussed is its own antonym. It means both not at all bothered, and a bit put out.
(There’s at least one other word like this, but I can never remember it.)
Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
We’re never going to get anywhere with Phil Neville as coach. (And probably with Paulson as owner.)
Yeah. Although I kind of envision the knife stuck to the spinning triangle brush instead, to maximize destruction
This isn’t running with scissors, it’s taping them to your roomba
Dolly Parton is literally the only good billionaire and proof we don't just actively hate people with money simply for having it.
We hate you because you're all fucking monsters.
>let claude code fuck with production
>no backups
incredible.
Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...
TIL there's a fake ODOT account w a totally legit handle.
Serves ODOT right. If they weren't still wasting time on X and building a presence here, they might have been able to claim it.
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I figured, but sometimes you just have to be sure :)
I don’t think I’ve ever convinced anyone to read it, even though I love it. It might be that I describe it as “Foucault’s Pendulum for classicists”, which maybe puts people off 👀
Like Mere Wife, one of my favorite books that I suck at selling
You’ve probably already read it, but in the odd chance you have not, I expect you’d have a lot of fun with Helen DeWitt’s Last Samurai. A somewhat similar story of raising a very precocious child, and kind of just being along for the ride. (It’s a wonderful book even without the analogue.)
GOOD.
Primary the hell out of all the collaborators.
Jared Polis, Gov of Colorado, just pardoned Tina Peters (a 2020 election conspiracist who broke the law) at the demand of Trump
I’m shocked and sickened
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
I constantly dream of removing more of our highways.
Does *anyone* think we’re worse off without the highway on the downtown riverbank? Obviously not. So why the heck are we keeping the one on the eastern side? Instead of widening it, get rid of it!
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
