mechanic: we found a rat in your engine chewing on hoses me: guess we’ll have to work with him mechanic: ? me: we need to focus on unity
Technically the Speaker of the House doesn't even have to be a member of the House. So if we are taking pitches for a politician to replace Jeffries as Speaker candidate but can't agree on which member of Congress... I dunno... Luigi Mangione? It sets a more constructive tone than Jeffries.
Schiff hasn't bothered posting since election results started coming in last night. Poor guy must be devastated that his party won.
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3d agoIf Anil can get his vote in, so can you! Polls close in California at 8pm.
Ironically, for all the stereotypes about CA being communist moonbeam rainbows land, California was more friendly to Republican bullshit than Texas. Happy about Blue Texas, but real mixed at home.
"Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to get run the fuck out of town for being too friendly with Republicans,..." Fixed that typo for MSNOW.
MS NOW@ms.now · 2d ago"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
The US House delegation from Texas will still be roughly 2:1 R, despite a convincing D majority at the state level. Gerrymandering works!
So crazy to see people win a Senate seat with less total votes than an LA city council seat. We really need to structurally reform the Senate in the fairly near future.
It really would make a lot more sense to just report election results starting from tomorrow rather than tonight as the first few scraps of data roll in. But as a society, we value fast information more than accurate information. Now, more than ever. Looking forward to outrage at LA counting slow.
Andrew Pantazi@apantazi.bsky.social · 3d agoHow to watch tonight: The GOP can look like it's winning the House even when Dems win. I scoured AP data from 4 elections to chart overnight shifts and reporting speeds. At 9pm ET, House results were 4–9 points redder than the final result. Every time. www.axios.com/2026/11/03/2...
Election Day: That sacred time when your inbox goes back to mostly being spam from LinkedIn and Facebook instead of election spam.
Anthropic thinks they should be able to kill 50 people at a time. www.forever-wars.com/no-bailouts-... @attackerman.bsky.social
I've found this channel's work on acoustic geolocation really interesting. You know all those secret microphones in devices sending "anonymized" data to AI companies? Audio contains a ton of data that can find fairly accurate locations from background noise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytY...
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere)
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"will someone break into the house and drag one of us from our kitchen table" is perhaps the ultimate kitchen table issue, one might say
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d agoI hear Dem operatives going on about how kitchen table issues matter. They do. But why the huge and disproportionate surge in black and Latino turnout? Surely it has to do with assaults on civil rights and immigrants. Democracy may not matter much to Dem operatives; it matters to lots of Dem voters.
For what it's worth, OpenAI can only buy so much RAM because there was a robust market with millions of microcomputer buyers to fuel Moore's law the past ~40 years. A single buyer (market monopsony state) would destroy the market forces he depends on. Him dumb in the head.
Cwnidog@cwnidog.eurosky.social · 5d ago
Some conservative politicians seem to have bafflingly terrible political instincts, and I don't really understand how they manage to make it this far with this talent. Who would be supporting her after this? Rs are losing everywhere and won't support a Dem anyway. And she's telling Ds to fuck off.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoWow — a protester yells “Haley Stevens is a traitor!” and Stevens then wraps up her news conference with Mike Rogers in a hurry
It's been nearly as long since the Playstation 2 was released, as it had been since Pong was released when the PS2 was released. And I don't think I can really handle that fact.
"In your opinion, is it likely or unlikely that another civil war will break out in the US within the next five years?" Unlikely: 46% Likely: 29% Unsure: 25% Leger / Oct 25, 2026
If you're a reporter pretending that the Dan Sullivan thing in Alaska is somehow (1) unprecedented, (2) illegal and/or (3) scandalous in any way, I'm never going to waste a moment reading a fucking word you write again. You're revealing that you're a stenographer at best and a con artist at worst.
If you're surprised that you are just now learning Elon Musk's political lawyer is running for Congress, here is part of why. This is a text from a journalist who reports on money in politics at a major national publication. My team has been trying to inform the public since March.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk has come under fire over his lawyer running for Congress in a district where SpaceX and Tesla have based a new project.
If you haven't been following the golf course trees case, fair enough there's a lot going on and it sounds minor, but DOJ has been doing everything in their power to turn chopping down trees into a career ending scandal for themselves.
Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social · last wk.JR is ordering a formal inquiry into whether DOJ/DOI counsel violated ethical obligations including their duty of candor to the court.
I bet Patrick Stewart's next gig will be haunting the set of the TV show "Ghosts." Somehow, I think he'd enjoy that.
"The Picard Maneuver" is named for the time that Picard, in his first command on the Stargazer in events prior to TNG, blew up an orange ultracapitalist with extreme speed. We should all aspire to live up to his standard.
Trek Central@trekcentral.net · last wk.💖 RIP Sir Patrick Stewart - #StarTrek's "Captain Jean-Luc Picard" Dies Age 86 🖖 The British actor, best known as Captain Picard in #TheNextGeneration and Charles Xavier in X-Men, has sadly passed away. 1940 - 2026 💔
The craziest thing about the six billion dollar bank heist that just happened at a Crypto exchange, is that six billion dollars isn't even that big a deal by top tier rich guy standards these days.
This has been a real shit week for these kinds of headlines.
Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · last wk.It shouldn't come as a shock when a man dies at 86, but I'm floored. I somehow never imagined that I would live in a world without Captain Picard in it. Thank you for everything, Sir Patrick. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The idea that America has secret police is outrageous. That BlueSky would support the delusion is deeply fucking stupid.
WIRED@wired.com · last wk.Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.
Even as somebody who is generally aggressively pro-train above other transport options, I don't think you could drag me onto a train in Spain until they implement some pretty major reforms. Stuff like this shouldn't be happening multiple times/year in the 20th century, let alone the 21st.
The Independent@the-independent.com · last wk.BREAKING: At least 39 people have been killed after two high-speed trains collided in Spain. Live updates: trib.al/LUbuuOq
