Always baffles me when a more left leaning candidate wins a primary and the center-left freaks out. What’s the point of a coalition if it isn’t broad enough for both types of candidate? El-Sayed can win the seat.
Mithradates
@mithradatesvi.bsky.social
Teacher / lawyer: health law, contracts, ethics. UChicago Law alum. Interests in cooking, video games, jazz. Skeets are exclusively jokes. Reskeets and likes are strictly by accident.
Remember when conservatives told us we couldn’t subsidize electric cars because it would overburden our electric infrastructure? Data centers want 5x more power than Texas has ever provided at peak demand. Now Abbott is scrambling to do damage control. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium
Where will they get all that power?
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Win: Buying a battery backup to keep the family NAS running during power outages. Fail: Forgetting to install it before the power company mucks up our power again. Win: Little Bit just wants to spend time outside playing with the hose anyway.
I commented on a r/lawyertalk thread regarding Uber’s strategy at their many rape trials, and now I‘m getting constant reply notifications from other lawyers defending badgering the victims of rape over their sexual histories. Lord, just take me now. I can’t.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I’ve noticed that people who got the Covid vaccine look like they’ve aged at least five years.
I’m the kind of man for whom New Underwear Day arrives but once or twice a decade, so you can imaging my excitement.
Little Bit was sad because she wanted to attack Papa, but he was outside and she didn’t want to put shoes on. So I taught her the term “ambush.”
I used to read every Important Book and see every Important film. These days, if I wish to experience grim hopelessness, I will simply interact with reality. The truth is, suffering is not the only profound human experience, and I'm tired of the only art that counts being the sad shit.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d agoThese days I google the end of every single movie before I watch it to see if it’s sad because I just can’t handle that shit anymore. Happy endings only the real world is sad enough.
I have been sent a picture of the reception menu, and to my horror, no pizza, not so much as a calzone.
Mithradates@mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 5d agoThere’s a joke in 30 Rock about Jack briefly dating Pizzarina Sbarro, heiress to the Sbarro fortune. A law school friend of my brother’s is marrying the actual, real life heiress to the Sbarro fortune today. He’s attending, and I’m desperate for pics of Pizzarina Sbarro’s wedding.
There’s a joke in 30 Rock about Jack briefly dating Pizzarina Sbarro, heiress to the Sbarro fortune. A law school friend of my brother’s is marrying the actual, real life heiress to the Sbarro fortune today. He’s attending, and I’m desperate for pics of Pizzarina Sbarro’s wedding.
Staring down a third week of >100 degree weather, and I am so tired y’all. I need a walk outside, but it is too damn hot.
I’m absolutely gutted. OutRun was a masterpiece and a defining album for my late 20s musical tastes. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
French music producer Kavinsky, known for Drive soundtrack hit Nightcall, dies aged 50
French authorities investigate death of musician who performed at Paris Olympics, but say ‘no suspicious elements’ at play
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Washington State just cancelled their July Bar. What a nightmare to people who have committed multiple months to study for it, pay for travel expenses for Yakima and then suffer through this.
Lex Ludens@lexludens.bsky.social · last wk.Apparently WSBA has given up on administering the exam tomorrow, according to the NCBE. www.ncbex.org/news-resourc...
Our worst fight, the only *mean* fight we’ve ever been in, was a heat wave in September when the AC went out. It happened to be county fair week, and this woman 👏 just 👏 kept 👏 cooking 👏 This was resolved with a hastily purchased window unit for the bedroom. But thing were dicey for a sec there.
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡@macaronbaker.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are to the point in summer where making the meal plan for the week is torture, I don’t want to think about anything that creates heat, but also I need to plan and buy food for us to eat.
I can’t wait for the day when “things were different back then” applies to the 90s, because the hell they weren’t. We had “political correctness” and we damned well liked it.
Went to she the proshot of Hadestown last night. I finally get the hype that show had. Perfect staging, perfect casting. Most fun I’ve had watching a musical in about five years.
The $50k/$1m Discourse today is pretty weird for me, because I went back to private practice last year, the windfall was greater than $50k, and so far the only practical effect on my life was that I’ve bought an inadvisable number of fountain pens and stationary in the last two months.
This is the result of an error in the company’s post-interaction customer survey methods. Chatbots Georg, an incel living in his mother’s basement and interacting with 10000 chatbots a day, is a statistical outlier and should not have been included.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed
Good for him, but this does confirm my belief that the dead-eyed, lifeless smile you see in every other photo / video of him is forced as hell. This is the only picture I’ve ever seen of Mr. Beast where he appeared to be genuinely happy.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoMrBeast, a social media star known for his high-stakes competitions, married Thea Booysen on a private island, in an affair that wouldn’t sound out of place in one of his games.
I went to school with Flowers at UChicago. Our year was absolutely stacked with fedsoc douchebros, and Flowers was absolutely the biggest douche of the crowd. Sad to see that is still working out for him.
patrick mcneil (he/him)@patrickryne.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: The Senate just confirmed Trump loyalist Benjamin Flowers to the 6th Circuit, marking the 50th lifetime confirmation of Trump's second term. Flowers' record is appalling and should have been disqualifying, but now — at 39 years old — he'll serve for decades on a powerful appellate court.
Y’all ever think about how Elon Musk is a bizarro world John Henry? Like, literally the opposite in every way he could be. Physically, politically, morally?
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoA black Helen of Troy has him completely wrecked for weeks.
At least this one believes in a future for physical discs.
Ramin Nasibov@nasibov.me · 2w agowait a minute
Ordered a Mac mini today as a much needed replacement to my failing 2018 mini. Estimated delivery in mid September. AI is doing crazy things to these supply chain.
The basement dwellers have been hating on Nolan’s Odyssey ever since the cast list was announced and included black women and trans men. Perhaps nothing has brought me more joy this week than their ongoing meltdown on Reddit as the critics all line up to tell us it’s Nolan’s best ever.
Chris Pratt Celebrates with Confetti
Alt: Chris Pratt Celebrates with Confetti
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I love @macaronbaker.bsky.social with all my heart, but as a non-Texan with primary charge over the contents of the refrigerator she just doesn’t appreciate the importance of always having a jar of salsa on hand.
✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”
Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters
"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.
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