Become ungovernable, iguana edition.

Just when I thought the news couldn’t get any better, my partner pointed out that since Shri only served two terms he won’t be eligible for a pension.

This is no joke, as a Detroiter waking up on vacation I just came to Bluesky to find out who had won and the first few headlines had me convinced Stevens had. Meanwhile the DSA candidate for our state rep, Chris Gilmore-Hill, beat an incumbent so I’d love that to make the narrative.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last wk.

30,000,000 dollars

I've seen enough. Michigan is a weird state

They do love this Schrodinger's Left thing where the left is simultaneously too small and insignificant to care about appealing to, but simultaneously powerful enough to single-handedly scapegoat for election losses.

My next book will theorize that William Henry Harrison didn’t die mere weeks into his presidency, he hibernated until the next time a man with “Jefferson” in his name ran for office, then he woke from his torpor state.

dillo (yc)@dillo.media · last wk.

looked up "young James carville" to see what would pop up and

"Why should I major in History?"

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Absinthe on the rocks looks like you’re drinking Ecto Cooler, ask me how I know.

Who named those shots “Lemon Drops” when “Lemonic Possession” was right there?

LORENA WIEBES IS THE FIRST MAILLOT JAUNE OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES !!!!!! #TDFF2026

Pete Davidson should have just said he had to do the Riyadh comedy festival so he could afford to cover up all his Harry Potter tattoos. I decided to throw away any HP books I still had last year only to go and look for them and realize ... I tossed 'em in the trash eons ago and simply forgot.

Girl the reputational damage is coming from inside the house. Your damage is load bearing.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I'll clearly go a long way to make a French bread joke, I don't care how much of a pain it is.

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Babysat for friends today and their kid has Duplo baguettes! Do you think that would be as much of a pain to walk on as Legos?

Babysat for friends today and their kid has Duplo baguettes! Do you think that would be as much of a pain to walk on as Legos?

Tip of the hat to mainstream media, who credulously gave us those "Musk is getting out of politics" headlines last year and those "Musk has regrets" headlines last week, and will give us those "regretful Musk is getting out of politics" headlines next spring.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w ago

NYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.

Very glad that on accident we booked a family trip to P.R. starting August 4th, Michigan primary day so I won’t just be watching returns come in. We’ve early voted and now on Tuesday my biggest concerns will be getting from the San Juan airport to our first hotel and what my first cocktail will be.

Good news England has selected a new national anthem and it’s the Planet of the Bass guy’s English rap

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2w ago

See I told you

Setting aside that this image looks like it’s from a “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” edition for elder millennials, we never had a Volvo but growing up I remember looking at cars like this and thinking “that’s the perfect car, the ne plus ultra of luxury.”

Azure Emerald Empire@azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · last mo.

Do you know Linden Frederick

Michigan school board official Angie Smith says she’s supporting Haley Stevens because she thinks Stevens will represent everyone and “not just one race." "Don’t come out speaking only Arabic, don’t come out with your Arabic music on.” Video from reporter Sam Robinson:

to lose one representative may be misfortune, to lose two seems like carelessness, to lose three what the fuck are you doing

Soulebreaker@soulebreaker.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been almost two months now newrepublic.com/post/212682/...

I keep coming back to this because research is showing that even casual AI users lose skills. We're actively de-skilling the population.

Susan Joudrey@sujo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

it's wild how quickly we went from encouraging people to maintain their mental acuity through crosswords, reading, physical activity, etc. to heavily promoting & accepting genAI use that causes cognitive atrophy.

This is so racist, El-Sayed and Stevens were born in the same Michigan town, Rochester Hills, roughly a year apart. I guess the Wall Street Journal thinks only white people can be Michiganders? What is this “only white peoples are citizens” Dred Scott era logic???

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

What the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Thinking of this as Duolingo has taken to telling me that multiple friends this week like that I’ve “corrected 855 mistakes this year.” Love an app that puts my mistakes on blast, that filthy little winged gossip.

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

My brain at 3:00 a.m.:

Had to sit down and write out a family tree (more like family knot) for John C. Calhoun to try and make sense of this before I request documents about two separate poisoning attempts made against his wife, Floride Colhoun Calhoun.

Maybe it’s a good thing these antlers were on the other side of a fence cause they would have been awkward to hold while jogging the remaining 1.5 miles home. Also saw a deer nearby, because I chose the route that avoids the wild turkeys, Detroit is a sylvan safari this time of year.

jk rowling - gender is a rigid binary! michael j fox in back to the future part ii (1989) - gender is a performance, and i am an ARTIST nathan lane (and gene hackman) in the birdcage (1996) - gender is a prison, and a caged bird longs to be free chris tucker in the fifth element (1997) -

Hot Fifth Element

Alt: ruby rhod strutting down the yellow hallway at the space airport in his blonde pompadour afro and leopard print jumpsuit, shouting about how bruce willis is hot HOT *HAAAWWT* while his queer eye yes men boy band entourage strides along behind him. literally four minutes later he's eating a girl out so unapologetically they have to cut it out of any tv edit that airs before midnight. the fifth element was a gift.

static.klipy.com

This is an excellent approach for all teaching. Expect students to make mistakes to develop. Sometimes ruined by continuous assessment of results.

Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.

I thought Spirit airlines went out of business... Watching the video sound off to try to determine what airline she's on, I *think* American?

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2w ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...