gm!

(you said participation trophy, and pointed me to the quoted tweet, so, hat tip 🎩!)

i will accept your straight-A report card if you give it to me. ht @kagrox.bsky.social

just waiting for the argument, “if they don’t burn down portland it shows how racist the left is against white people.”

Gotta get down to it ICE agents are gunning us down.

the masculine energy on X is all men playing dress-up of their favorite dolls via grok.

it’d be nice to have a few days when something impossibly horrible doesn’t happen.

a change of administration would not be sufficient. the united states needs a refounding, something on par with the post-Civil-War amendments (hopefully in the instance more effective than those amendments) signaling that a durable change in the nature of the polity has occurred.

does anybody know the directions back to my timeline?

our writers are not subtle.

This is just nuts.

it’s not mere banditry. it’s a heist!

will Americans enjoy a self image as thieves?

shouldn’t it be a food ziggurat?

mitpress.mit.edu/978026252614...

somehow this is a violation of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social’s intellectual property.

some pundits offer a school-marmy fingerwag that this was all some kind of collective “revealed preference”, fossil fuel + auto cos only humbly helped to meet. it’d be a great service if someone were to document the ways lobbying + marketing by oil + auto cos helped midwife this american nightmare.

Winning is for losers.

they think it’s manly, edgy, telling hard truths. but it’s just plain idiocy. the real world is governed by coordination at scale. overt coercion is costly and inferior to organizing enthusiastic consent.