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11.03.2026 19:26
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This is it. The pinnacle of personal computing.
about $50 million going by
Anyway from my point of view as someone who lives miles away: the choice Mainers have to make is between an elderly governor who refused to protect immigrants from the gestapo, a guy who used to have a Nazi tattoo, and a progressive who only posted her platform this week
It's not a fun choice!!!!
“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”
Honestly, though, the best and smartest move would be to buy an identical pair of shoes in your size and wear them like they are the gift pair. This is not hard.
The older I get the more I settle into the grim conviction that fighting for a better world means accepting that between 30% and 40% of your fellow human beings will hate you, will try to stop you every inch of the way, and will resent that better world and work to destroy it even if you succeed
I can't muster any surprise, but my head is hitting my desk nonetheless
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
Lived under both his SF mayoral terms as well. His basis for governance is compassed around feeding his overflowing narcissism (similar to Trump), not underlying core principles. Occasionally some of his policies are good, but only by chance. Can we learn to stop supporting crazed narcissists?
I violently agree with this dek:
“The idea that Democrats are weirdly and extremely obsessed with "identity politics" and pronouns is a right wing propaganda fiction not supported by polling data, and Democratic party leaders should not be perpetuating it.”
Whereas you grew up and live your adult life using taxpayer dollars to peddle bullshit.
I find this so plausible that it genuinely makes my stomach hurt. There are no jokes to make about it.
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
hear me out: let's bring back airships
I just got an email pushing a new book, and ... I'm not going to call out the book itself, cause I don't wanna ruin anyone's day, but ... I am going to subtweet it.
It's yet another book on how the problem with climate change is ... the way we talk about it! "Framing"! "Messaging"!
"Kuwait, Iraq, and the UAE are shutting off wells as storage tanks overflow. Once these wells go dark, they cannot simply be flipped back on, creating a looming supply crater that would create a cascading effect on the global economy." www.cnn.com/2026/03/09/b...
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
Trump can just openly say “I am doing this to bring in a one party state for 50 years” and commentators will hem and haw about the intricacies of carrying off a talking filibuster
I’m very bored with the fact that famous people get to take over ideas they don’t actually understand. It’s really starting to piss me off
Today’s quotes
"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store"
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago
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also, you know what is a great way to get a bunch of people to apply for a job?
you announce a job opening
it's a straightforward as that
every few years society reinvents the "coffee flavored coffee" rant from first principles. in fact the first known incident of coffee-flavored-coffee induced rage dates to 1534 when Ahmad bin Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati persuaded a group of listeners to destroy coffee shops in Cairo selling flat whites
As an Iranian who hates the regime, this is tragic.
As a person who follows news, the US has given Iran EVERY reason to go hardline.
When the reward for good-faith negotiations is bombed schools & hospitals, assassinated leaders, and OIL RAINING FROM THE SKY, the definition of "pragmatic" changes.
that is their future. And they’re right to do so.
45-60 is a terrifying age bracket when it comes to money. You’ve accumulated a boatload of financial responsibility so that a job loss becomes crushing. And our society is so ageist that getting a new, reasonably paying job is incredibly hard.
Our current software crisis—we've had a few—has been ramping up IMO since the post-2007 bailouts. Instead of reforming and regulating finance, the US decided to let the finance industry basically take over, which hasn't been great overall, but for software it's meant that "quality" stopped mattering
While it’s true that not everyone in the 80s was living blissfully in a one income family, it’s also true that the ability to do so has disappeared almost entirely in the working and middle class, and the places you could do so have drastically changed.
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
Only chauvinism keeps English from being labeled a creole.
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