thanks! one never knows from which scribbler one is distilling ones frenzy, but i’m afraid i’m too illiterate to have been directly influenced by either. (@poetryforsupper.bsky.social did try to educate me about Wittgenstein a bit recently.)

I am grateful that Israel seems to have chosen a cautious, calibrated response to Iran’s prior salvo. Frankly, it’s not what I expected, and I am very glad to have been proven wrong.

i’m getting pretty tired of Jeff Bezos’ cancel culture.

i tweet on Mastodon too, though. i agree on the rotting husk of the site called twitter one cannot tweet, one can only retch or poop.

both “skeet” and “toot” sound awkward to be, albeit in different ways. we could merge them into “scoot” maybe. or “teet”.

since there’s no longer any website called “twitter”, i think “tweet” should become a site-neutral term for a microblog post on any site, or for posting one. i am tweeting this on BlueSky.

there should be a warm, comfy library on the other side.

“Musk has all the money in the world. He has the ability to be one of the best informed people in the world. And he’s built for himself a snowglobe of confirmation bias” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2024/10/25/l...

Chicken: She started it! Egg: No he did!

“I wouldn’t completely write off a Harris win in the Electoral College even if Mr. Trump narrowly won the popular vote.” ~Nate Cohn www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/u... ht Josh Barro // on the bright side, this would be the event that could rid of us of the electoral college.

maybe the LA Times and the Washington Post are part of a conspiracy to make The New York Times look good.

can we admit that billionaires are a policy failure that must be remedied now?

yes. it's political insiders — concerned about donors and donor-financed opposition campaigns — that tend to be more cautious of increasing taxes in the rich, more cautious than the public, including even the Republican public. taxing the rich more polls very well.

“yes,” said the boy who cried wolf. “but there were guard rails — i mean fences — around the village those times.”

“I’ve noticed a little linguistic tic in some recent public statements – the use of the word ‘ruthless’ as if it was a synonym for ‘diligent’ or ‘competent’.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/ruthless-p... // kind of dark. reminds me of Kamala Harris’ choice of “lethal”.

no. just support FDR style taxation, and maybe an Elizabeth Warren wealth tax to boot.

without comment www.wsj.com/world/russia...

yes. they love to issue paper attached to weak obligations in exchange for purchasing power over real goods and services. but it’s an affront to God if a government does it.

you’ve become a casualty of the war — in a sense, just a bit — if you find your initial reaction to news of soldiers’ deaths on the side that you dislike is unleavened by sadness or grief.

you think this is unintended? the plan is to snort what you’ve become on November 6. they were hoping for some ketamine in the mix.