Idiot plot
10.03.2026 17:19
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Idiot plot
This is exactly what bothers me so much about these ridiculous thought experiments. Art is expressed through *media.* You can’t have a work with no creator. Nothing is being mediated. Synthesizing the sensations of reception when there’s no transmission is, pardon me for being reductive, evil
Lmao
Kristi Noem spent 220 million on her self-promotion ad and Hegseth said, "Hold my fruit basket."
newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
We live in one of those suburban subs where there are virtually no predators. In the spring and summer it sounds like a rainforest. We have all the typical songbirds plus some weird ones. I know it's really spring when I hear the "broken swing set" sound bird again.
It is not yet dawn, but the Dawn chorus has begun. I hear a Robin just outside my window, singing his heart out.
There remain good things.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
I would watch a West Wing remake named "Everyone Hates JD."
Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.
you rubes. you complete and utter fools. anyone with a brain can see this is a multidimensional, metaphysical conflict. a conceptual battlefield. we've only barely begun to end the start of this thing.
Whitmer asks for federal investigation into why no tornado watch was issued in deadly Friday storms
michiganadvance.com/briefs/whitm...
From @kdailey.bsky.social
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
When the WSJ photo editor just re-watched “The Seventh Seal”
These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.
he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something
*sigh*
The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.
The correction fails to air the real footage or inform viewers what was different about it. It claims the error was inadvertent and pretends to honor the fallen service members, but at the end of the day Fox still doesn’t show or describe how they came home to spare Trump from its viewers’ scrutiny.
"We're marching through the world" has never ended badly for a country.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be
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Seems troubling.
More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.
Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.
Wildflowers love dead people.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society
Yeah, where my "I did this!" Trump pointy finger gas pump stickers at?
No shit