It breaks my heart when my kid is sick.

“The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.” nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opinion

a parasitic worm that infects the brain, drives its host to take over his nation’s public health service, then drops larvae into the raw milk the population is now forced to imbibe.

the twitter files was pretty lame, but i am looking forward to the x files.

“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-do ht @costrike

the only qualification is the favor of the king.

as long as there still is a Department of Education, shouldn't it be a creationist?

plutocrats are only wealthy because we collectively enforce the existence of their wealth. they should think about that more. so should we.

@light there may have been a hint of sarcasm in that remark.

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“Il Douche” is kind of an amazing nickname, from @charvaka

second time as farce, but it isn’t funny. hivemind.plus/@charvaka/113482

a talent of the worst people is to shitpost until even angels look like the worst people.

Eastern European income-tax rates tend to be "flat", but layered onto high, capped, payroll taxes that render them very regressive. Kind of an artifact of governments set up at the peak of neoliberalism / post-Cold-War triumphalism.

@chrisp offers a deep dive, comparing Ukraine's to US Federal taxes. chrispeel.net/2024/11/10/ukrai

Very useful, concise tips on working with , by @hibachrach ht @gvwilson @mhoye challahscript.com/what_i_wish_

Democrats mocked how at the Republican Convention, past President George W Bush didn't show. But maybe Presidents Clinton and Obama and even Biden ought not to have been invited to the Democratic convention.

Change means change, man. (It sure doesn't mean giving Rahm Emmanuel a new role.)

Institutional continuity is no virtue when it's institutions you feel have screwed you.

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“And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.” theonion.com/heres-why-i-decid ht @andrewducker

my gee-i’m-clever word coinage of the day: “sclerocracy”.

pretty self-explanatory i think. in conversation with / inspired by @kentwillard and @phillmv

@kentwillard @phillmv (it’s worth pointing out that other rivals — notably plutocrat pissing match Blue Origin — haven’t had the same success, despite not being part of the ossified sclerocracy.)

@admitsWrongIfProven ha!

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@ntnsndr @Hyolobrika on face, that seems like a reasonable hypothesis! maybe in the open source world, we grew too comfortable with “benevolent dictator for life”. and obviously, surveillant commercial platforms.

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