love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
an entire administration illustrating the pitfalls of binary gender roles and vilifying drag
The entire Democratic strategy debate β "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? β is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
The "Drake meme" with Drake rejecting "working on my professional writing" and delighting in "tweaking my gay upmarket romance novel pitch for 3 hours"
Well, that Reading Week break went by quick.
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
It's so little, too little, but little has got to be better than nothing... chuffed.org/project/1368...
I donβt believe the whole βshut up and voteβ thing is compelling or helpful but it sure as shit is definitely not helpful until a primary happens and thereβs a nominee. Right now those people are just saying βaccept transphobic shithead governors without questionβ
Weβre apparently at the point where anonymous Facebook smack talk that exactly nobody is going to follow through on counts as news.
Alternative view: no they're not
5 years married, disgustingly happy, horrifyingly lucky. π₯°
Just so delighted to get out this much this summer. There must be flowers as well as bread. πΉπ₯
Excerpts of Text Messages Between Mr. Reuveni and a Colleague on March 15, 2025 During and After the Hearing before Judge Boasberg in JGG v. Trump Time: March 15, 2025 5:17-5:25 p.m. ET These messages corroborate, first at 5:17, the statement on p.7 of Mr. Reuveni's June 24, 2025 disclosure that, "Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignore any such court order," and second at 5:24-5:25, the statement on p. 9 that, "Mr. Reuveni reasonably believes Ensign's statement to the court that he did not know whether AEA removals would take place "in the next 24 or 28 hours' was false." Oh shit 5:17 PM That was juts not true Edited to "That was just not true" 5:17 PM 5:17 PM About to enter the find out phase follow fuck around Edited to "About to enter the find out phase following fuck around " 5:24 PM 5:24 PM I can't believe he said he doesn't know He got my email I mean he doesn't know for sure they're aea About what what? He knows they are being removed About the flights The email from aclu 5:24 PM 5:24 PM| 5:24 PM| 5:24 PM| 5:24 PM 5:24 PM| 5:25 PM He knows there are plans for AEA removals within the next 24 hours 5:25 PM Yes he does 5:25 PM 2
hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says βoh shit that was just not trueβ in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court???
Another beautiful weekend in and on top of some mountains. Reminds me of why itβs all worth fighting for.
Back on my BS (blue sky) after a month in Asia. Will never get tired of having Rocky Mountain NP in our backyard
a sign at the Waffle House that says "nightly 11:30pm - 6am to go only"
the republic has fallen
so the Signal clone that Michael Waltz used was made by an Israeli company and some hacker found it trivially easy to own. in fuckin credible www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined βWhy are young people everywhere so unhappy?β
I donβt know man, what could it possibly be?
I think thereβs some college students who would disagree that the president believes we can βsay whatever the f*ck you wantβ
The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago
Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history:
θοΌηΎε§θ¦οΌδΊ‘οΌηΎε§θ¦
βRise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.β
π»: spent hours today trying to move 6k mp3s from my ancient laptop using iTunes (yes, by not upgrading the OS for 4 yrs) to new (to me, 2ndhand) iPhone. Best option for Mac/iOS is Doppler. 1-time payment, $39 to hook up a phone + up to 3 computers. Enshittified subscription-based apps are evil.
β desperately need in Toronto too.
A picture of a package of Marshmallow Peeps, but Photoshopped to say "Pepys." The peeps visible through the packaging are wearing curly old-style wigs. The package explains that it contains "10 diarists." Here's the deal: I only know two things about Samuel Pepys: 1. His name is pronounced like "peeps" 2. He was a famous diarist. That's the only motivation I needed to make this stupid thing as an Easter joke, and I will post it every year on Easter until long after the joke has worn off.
The reason for the season:
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
Haha, that's the mystery of the post, isn't it
I dressed up like this as soon as I'd seen the book cover
this would be encouraging if I weren't so skeptical of the ability of the Institutions That Be to stand firm, make noise, and stare them down.
