I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met. Julius Rosenwald
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
There does not seem to be a bookkeeping course specifically for connoisseurs. I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Shock gloves are “inherently abusive equipment that facilitates torture,” said CVT's Yumna Rizvi in @hurwitz.bsky.social's new article in @motherjones.com as the gloves are given to ICE agents. Yumna says use of these tools “is inherently harmful. It has no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · last wk.“I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that’s looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Fascists are the heroes of their own narrative. We are the vampires (not in a good way). Insert note here about blood libel (anti-semitic)
Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · last wk."Imagine for a second you’re the hero of some supernatural action thriller movie, a Van Helsing fighting off vampires or werewolves. That’s how bought-in fascists see the world. What you’re doing is not just necessary, it’s awesome. You’re the hero for doing it!"
This seems up top to be a bad idea. Shouldn’t Canadian financial transactions be handled by a Canadian company?
Radio Canada International@rci.bsky.social · last wk.A payment processing company responsible for approximately one in three payment transactions across Canada will soon be owned by an American private equity firm. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
Kind of a bad title since northern Alaska only gets 0.65 and the continental us just gets a little nibble of a partial eclipse. Totality is far, far away.
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoIt will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday.
of course the filth would be first in line for perv glasses
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoIn a development no one could have anticipated…
It’s just terrible to drive at night these days. Hope this is a trend
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoTesla to recall over 20,000 US vehicles over excessively bright low-beam headlights reut.rs/4z8xQrg
A brilliant writer and a source of great joy to me for most of my life. Sic transit gloria mundi. Most of my John Crowley collection (26 of 28 books). I sure wish I had the Bantam pb of Little, Big still as I loved that cover.
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2w agoJohn Crowley (1942-2026) locusmag.com/2026/08...
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
This took up a lot of space in my head in the 80s. I loved The (English) Beat but Roland Gift’s voice never clicked with me.
Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 2w agoThere once was a highly successful British group called The Beat, who had two handsome lead singers & a fairly anonymous backing group. They were on a massive US tour when the handsome lead singers revealed to the rest of the group that they were leaving for a lucrative solo gig & the tour was over.
I grew up in this kitchen. Everything was yellow: appliances, table, chairs, wallpaper (stylized sunflowers). Explains much.
Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · 2w agoI just saw a yellow kitchen. Yellow everywhere. It has driven me insane
While you're all focused on The Bad Take I'm going to sneak out an opinion of my own. Most of the dials and switches and lights in an airplane cockpit don't do anything. They're just there to keep the pilots distracted so they don't dwell upon the unnatural horror of flight.
1. You kick Miette like football? 2. 30-50 feral hogs 3. So is Paris any good or not 4. bröther may i have some öats
My Pun Killed Steve Albini@texannolongerinnyc.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets? (Mount Rushmore means 4. Do not be a coward and hedge by saying more than 4. Make a decision. (Less than 4 is fine though))
As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.
HR @ Weyland-Yutani@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w agoWHEN will emily wilson review THIS
I remember encountering “shuffle off this mortal coil” in a Flash comic when I was 9? 10? I knew it had something to do with death (one of Flash’s rogues gallery had died).
Grouchomancer@samthielman.com · 2y agoTo really write a good Marvel Comics title back in the day you had to know your metaphysical poets *and* your Cold War thrillers. “HOW VAINLY MEN THEMSELVES AMAZE!” Part II of the Vibranium Protocol or gtfo
Putting Beethoven on the new €10 note looks like shade for the fact that he only composed 9 symphonies.
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep sp...
Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge
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Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
If the purpose of a system is what it does, then the purpose of America is to funnel money and power to sociopaths.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoThe boy Zuck was delighted and surprised that so many of his fellow students entrusted him with their data but even then, he had no inkling as to *why* they would do so. Privately, he jeered at his users for trusting him, calling them "dumb fucks": www.theregister.com/offbeat/2010... 7/
"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would... ...Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Yeah, so happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day?