at some level, i just don’t understand why we aren’t better than we are.

chicken tax expansion? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

there is very little about Stephen Miller’s worldview for which i am grateful, but i have to confess i thank the goddess he is not the kind of progressive who would would have taken his wife’s last name.

(i first encountered a post saying he got banned for image and its alt text, which seemed pretty indefensible to me. it became less indefensible (thanks @segyges.bsky.social) when i learned the image and alt text were a QT. still have mixed views about the ban, but less egregious than i thought.)

(though i stand by a preference to err on the side of permissiveness when one must err, the particular case we are obliquely not discussing i keep finding out about in fragments. i was not aware of the full context when posting earlier, probably am not aware of the full context yet.)

yes, barely. not a very good one.

he is literally Bad.

yes!

uniforms for domestic policing should intentionally be a bit dorky.

massachusetts should just send their national guard off to tulsa without telling anyone and have them deploy in parks and pick up litter.

if i wanted to found a trustworthy news site now, i guess i’d have to call it “rank propaganda”

looking forward to PSAs touting the health benefits of tofu and how eating three servings a day pimps your T level.

( was a subtweet of this stuff xcancel.com/antoniogm/st... )

people think the president doesn’t care, but i think he stays up nights worrying the situation in gaza might become as bad as portland.

Remarkable that so few people participating in a life-or-death tournament to escape permanent precarity make space for expensive, time-consuming outside interests.

maybe the reason why you see fewer American and European young people traveling isn’t their lack of interest or adventurousness, but the fact the West has grown profoundly more unequal, and the tourist industry caters to dollars, not bodies, and dollars are disproportionately in older hands.

i miss.

i just think you're all great and this is a pretty good site and community.

Are there “readers” for archived or zipped websites, distributed as a single file? (That is, without users having to overtly unzip and open the top directory’s index.html or whatever.) For offline convenience or as a kind of samizdat, one might imagine passing around zipped sites rather than links.