also “gruff, but not actually a dick” turns out to be an appealing combination!

one big surprise after all this is how much everybody loves Curtis Sliwa now.

“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”

“really it was all about the American public wanting to show support for the Cheney family, and a tribute to the former Vice President”

“what mattered most of all was the Democratic Party’s messaging.”

y'all look like The Beatles somehow! (lovely!)

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“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...

esq.social/@mikewas/115...

people are like, leadership never put together a pipeline. but here online i see a fair number of young gerontocrats! they don’t seem shy.

you thought Havana Syndrome was bad, just wait for the vibes machine they bring on Mamdani. don’t believe the vibes. never believe the vibes.

business.time.com/2007/07/10/c...

a lot of yellowcake fentanyl comes out of Venezuela.

Romania has China-produced, Dacia-branded EVs (Dacia was Romania’s flagship auto manufacturer, bought by Renault). I also so Korean EVs I’ve not really encountered anywhere else (SsangYong). www.motor1.com/news/774747/...

"The problem with AI coding isn't technical debt. It's comprehension debt." ~Paul Sangle-Ferriere www.cubic.dev/blog/the-rea...

thread, as they say.

many years ago @wlknsn.xyz tweeted simply that we were a better country before 9/11. we were. it's as simple as that.

what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/... ( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )

i’m old enough to remember proposals for a “green new deal” whose core idea was that broad-based prosperity could be wedded to, rather than traded off against, emissions reductions.

onions contain lacrimogens. they are literally chemical weapons.