this also explains why it, like most novels of the era, has a simply preposterous cast of characters and one of the most convoluted plots imaginable. they have literally drawn charts explaining the plot of this goddamn thing
interesting idea here
Just remembered that GW Bush declared "America is addicted to oil" in his State of the Union Address in Feb 2006. However, the big new alt energy policies in the mid-2000s led to more crop-based biofuels, which are even worse for the climate.
We have real scalable alternatives in solar & wind now!
Layla Law-Gisiko η½θΎθ reposted Kate Willett @katewillett β’ 11/24/25 I can't believe I petitioned and canvassed to have a real estate lobbyist doing all of Zohran's housing hires Nick Garber @nick_garber β’ 11/24/25 Zohran Mamdani is in Central Park announcing hundreds of appointees to his transition committee. Among those here: @annemariegray, head of YIMBY group @OpenNYForALL
Jack Schlossberg β’ @JBKSchlossberg PUERTO RICO SHOULD BE A STATE. Puerto Rico deserves respect and representation. The State of Puerto Rico I would welcome. I would not welcome statehood for DC. To me, that's different. We need a federal territory for the capitol, it's in Constitution.
today I am issuing my first ever anti-endorsement:
DO NOT VOTE FOR:
-Layla Law Gisiko, a Kate Willett Retweeting anti-Zohran NIMBY who rallied with Republicans against the pro-housing ballot measures
-Jack Schlossberg, an incompetent failson who has never had a real job and opposes DC statehood
No one wanted to make EVs happen in this country, and itβs about to bite us in the ass, hard.
i am tired of talking about DC fast charging. we should have invested in installing cheap, level 2 AC chargers everywhere where people park their cars. Or, hell β focused on the Euro-style reverse AC chargers (where the car plugs into the outlet, not vice versa)
instead we got nothing.
a homeless guy on my block just threw a rock into the post office window for no reason itβs not humane to let clearly unwell people wither away on the street until they become a danger to themselves or others we need a combo of right to shelter and mental health treatment for those who need it === Did you talk to him? Did he say he had no reason? No. More likely this is just an assumption. or worse, complete bullshit made up to generate public distrust of the houseless.
There was a long-running effort to correctly identify mental illness and drug addiction as medical conditions rather than moral failures. But now there's a real bizarre effort among the NPIC and in left-wing spaces to say these are rational people making rational choices. I don't get it!
Problem is you canβt do that without first totally decarbonizing utility - and then massively expanding it
Problem is you canβt do that without first totally decarbonizing utility - and then massively expanding it
βpay to close dirty, pay to subsidize cleanβ is apparently the way forward, because it mostly hides the ball from taxpayers
it's worth thinking about this as a kind of Nazi ideology: a belief that the country's military failures are a result of insufficient brutality rather than poor political decision-making
Incidentally the βGaiman is autisticβ defense these people use is not only very insulting to autistic people, who understand consent, but is β¦ a little implausible given that heβs an incredibly emotionally skilled person! That - and talent - made his career: LBJ level social skills.
And Rachel getting married. He is apparently a world renowned clown and mime?
A YouTube thumbnail depicting a monstrous and dead-eyed Mr. Beast, mouth wide, in front of the strait of Hormuz. SURVIVING HORMUZ CHALLENGE! WHO MAKES IT THROUGH WINS BIG $1,000,000 PRIZE!
appears the ship that was damaged and partly abandoned was struck by a drone *boat*
This is what Iβm learning
Wait what the fuck
also the minotaur suggest that the D&D era took place in what is the equivalent of, like, the 1960s to them, suggesting an astounding rate of technological process. there's a reason my kids have never asked to watch that one again, even they feel their brains rejecting it
I am amused whenever Siri tells me "you got a notification that I can't read" because it suggests that Siri is illiterate
Claudia Sahm has been a longtime and vocal summers hater to the point where i unfollowed on twitter for a bit; turns out shes simply the most vindicated person alive lmao
like if toy story made a huge pivot to be about the genesis of how the toys had secret sentience and life, etc
this is one of those things where you can build a whimsical world, but if you want me to take it the tiniest bit serious, I can't just scratch at the whimsy and have it all fall to pieces like foil wrapping
It's not something I've done a lot of research on, but I think the scholarly consensus is pretty clear that Christ existed and that he was likely unvaccinated.
Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see
just remembering the time the Washington Post leadership hung my friend Felicia, a sexual assault victim, out to dry because she tweeted *a link to a news story* about the rape when he died.
I think this is true but also "we had magic but gave it up because technology was easier" is just a total failure of imagination, which in its own right is a betrayal of the ethos of role playing games
Profound indictment of the moral character of Congress that his colleagues do not spit on the ground wherever he walks.
everyone who moved to london during the industrial revolution to sleep draped over a rope in a poorhouse and shit in the street and get their hands torn off by the satanic mills moved there to get away from agricultural labor
How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy
"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Courtβs 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero β 0.3 percent, to be precise."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
I created a Reddit account to make r/liberalcurrents. They make it annoying not to use the app on mobile so I got it. Immediately their algorithm flooded me with thirst trap content.
The fix? I joined some YIMBY subreddits. Now the algorithm understands that charts about transit are my thirst traps
