@redsonja
Writer and editor. Also lawyer. Also, I play poker. And yes, that is my actual dog in the avatar. Her name is Muppet, the name she came with; we couldn't figure out a better one. Opinions my own; usual disclaimers.
That sound you are *not* hearing is Donald Trump rebuking his pal Vladimir Putin for providing Iran with specific locations of American troops to kill them.
Instead, Donald is *easing* sanctions on Russia.
He is despicable.
Iran has hit an oil refinery in Bahrain and forced them to invoke force majeure. x.com/MarketIntl_/...
Any serious Democratic presidential candidate who does not make fighting corruption the pillar of their campaign, & does not pledge to either appoint a special counsel or unleash IGs on every department to investigate corruption and abuse of power, really should sit this one out.
The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.
Ok I read it, so you don’t have to, & it is genuinely pedantic shit with some Burke sprinkled on the top.
Our elaborate coffee orders are an expression of our unrestrained/uncontrolled appetite, which is ruining society.
We’ve been customizing our cars since the 50s, did that ruin the society?
Oh wow bsky.app/profile/otto...
oh please, do fuck straight off. there was no error, and everyone knows it. what Fox ‘deeply regrets’ is getting caught. I love that Fox’s mea culpa was delivered with all the sincerity of a teenager forced to apologize for leaving a flaming bag of dog shit on their neighbor’s porch. hey, that could be Fox’s new slogan: ‘we leave a flaming bag of dog shit on your porch. you decide.’ I’m totally loving it. you can have that for free, Fox News.
after Fox "News" got caught posting archival footage of Dear Leader *not* wearing a disgraceful baseball cap at a solemn ceremony, they posted least-convincing "apology" ever. thank you for your attention to my post in which I mock the shit out of it. please read! link is here: bit.ly/4lfWn7c
I think this is perhaps a likely result but also one that will likely require either a continued military operation at enormous expense or a pretty humiliating public capitulation to letting the Iranian regime survive and either way the public will be *furious* with $90 a barrel oil.
Opinion | Freedom isn’t free. $6 / gallon is a fine price to fill my F-150’s tank.
So crazy Chuck folded on this shit in November
Russia gives targeting intelligence to Iran. American service members die.
Trump lifts oil sanctions on Russia. Russia is better able to finance its war against the USA. More Americans die.
Trump is a Russian asset and traitor to the USA.
Which, on BlueSky, of course, is occasion for spirited debate about the relative evil of Miller/Trump, with references to one's favorite philosopher.
It’s tough competition but I do think Miller is more evil than Trump. Trumpnis ideologically agnostic: He will be just as happy making money with people not suffering as suffering. For Miller, the suffering is the endgame.
[logging in from 2023]
"higher for longer"
Your daily Dorothy Parker
The Trump regime is currently holding more than three times as many detainees as Nazi Germany had six years into the Third Reich, and the stated goal of 15 to 20 million deportations would exceed the entire population that moved through the Soviet Gulag system over more than twenty years.
Rahm Emanuel: democrats need their own blotting out the sun plan, or the republicans will blot out the sun
HERE IT IS:
Here to bring you several moments of joy: the first goslings jumping in the water of baby bird season 2026!
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Being mad somebody brought up politics at Jesse Jackson’s homegoing service is like being mad somebody put butter in the poundcake.
You'll never love anything the way Trump loves screwing farmers.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel
"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
I believe it is still under-priced.
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
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it's almost like the consultants should be focus grouping mamdani instead of their racist aunt
Good point, though I think it's not quite as automatic as when one's mother is Jewish.
To be very clear, and I am in no way commenting on whether this is a good thing or not, but if your mom isn't Jewish, or you didn't convert, then you're not Jewish.
As someone who literally worked in wine, the Merlot shit is also untrue. Merlot ate up less market share than it did previously and overplanting led to depressed prices long before the movie came out. Pinot went up huge, but wine sales overall went up! So no losers
