i'm not sure that it's a good thing that microblogging platforms are such exquisite media for presentation of the art of the diss. sometimes you are left breathtaken simply by the virtuosity.

we’ve got your back, dagger in hand.

sometimes the iresome gets tiresome.

have you ever experienced vendor lock-in from a Chinese product? how often from a product not sold by an American firm? is vendor lock-in an an usually American business model? not uniquely. spotify has obviously gone for lock-in via two-sided marketplace network effects. who else?

a bit wild to argue that customers using your product as advertised should be liable for trespasses of which they may be unaware. not sure you want to be the customer, then. ht @anthonymoser.com

good to know our commanding heights are captained by sober non-narcissists.

a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.

from @filipamv.bsky.social okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...

i feel like dementia is aspirational now, given how many famous powerful people now have it.

@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki. (i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)

this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests. in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.

somewhere there is a Cave, mysterious and magical, a Cave of Paradoxes. how, for example, can one outrage a squish? and yet. look around.

people say Trump has really coarsened our politics, but pretty much everyone who interacts with him says “pardon me”.

a silver lining! the left and the “centrists” seem madly in agreement.

dark.

you can’t be the prodemocracy party and then fib to prevent the public from knowing what position your members of Congress actually took in order to shield them from accountability to voters.

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has it come to this?

who hates the democrats more, the people who vote against them or the people who vote for them?