It’s fun watching the wolves devour each other, but it’s not a good sign that Laura Loomer can issue lettres de cachet that arbitrarily disappear people. Not only is Twitter now real life, it also has a secret police apparatus at its disposal
Ersatz Cliff
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Sad, bad, and inconsequential to know
Overheard a conversation *ranking* Dolly Parton among the greatest beloved celebrity deaths of all time (“Princess frauDiana played in a *Mickey Mouse* grief league against firemen and plumbers”). Sometimes I reflect with awe on how much Bill Simmons singularly changed everyday life
I'm no food expert, but this feels like a lot of recalls in 4 hours
One of the more telling weasel moves here is the definition of Bosnians "in Srebrenica" to get that number up.
We don’t know how many they’ve killed in Gaza. For years they insisted the death totals close to 100,000 were fake propaganda from the “Hamas-run health ministry,” then suddenly accepted the number as accurate to lock it in. I’d wager it’s several times that, which is why observers/media are barred
Yitzchak Goodman@yitzgood.bsky.social · 23h agoPeople killed by percent in Genocides: Tutsis in Rawanda 70 - 80% Selk'nam 84 – 97% Armenians in Ottoman territory 50% or more Moriori 90 – 95% Herrero 80% Nama 50% European Jews 67% (6 million) Bosnians in Srebrenica: 33% For perspective: Gazans 3.5%
dunking on g gordon liddy so hard he has to go burn himself in a corner somewhere to feel anything again
People are always surprised to learn I played basketball. In fact, I put up 22.3 PPG in the short-lived WGBL (Watergate Basketball League). In fairness, I played against elderly White House plumbers, but I like to think I’d dominate in any era
Had a dream I was watching Bar Rescue. The failing bar was owned and managed by John Cheever, who (when he was not sampling the wares) drove away patrons by regaling them with meditations about midcentury America’s flight to suburbia. I’m starting to detest my subconscious
have you ever looked at a 20,000-line Spring controller in your IDE and wondered where your life went catastrophically wrong
I hate hate HATE Discord. Hate the concept, hate the implementation. If the only way to save the Internet from AI bot traffic is to turn it into an archipelago of tightly controlled and unsearchable gated communities, then we might as well shut it down
If someone could come up with “a new normal” that didn’t suck for once, that’d be great
That’s weird. I looked up “What a Fool Believes” on Wikipedia and found your whole Weltanschauung there…
A depressing thought I had is that some products were “too early” because the technology wasn’t there yet [Newton vs i(Phone|Pad)]. But the Google Glass was too early for a sociological reason: more people had shame about recording (or being perceived to record) others without their consent in 2013
1950: Dunkin’ Donuts 2018: Dunkin’ 2067: Dnk’ 2105: D’ 2202: (Unknown; loss of writing in post-literate New England following the Canada Wars) 2300: Tim Horton’s
Had a dream I was listening to a revivalist preacher sermonize against the sport of power walking (”God gave us two forms of locomotion: walking if you want to go slow, and running if you want to go fast. That’s it! To combine the two is an arrogant presumption”). It was alarmingly plausible
ICE arrested a Maine man twice in 2 years. His 6-year-old daughter now has nightmares about agents coming for the rest of their family too. “(We) were being separated into different jails like the one where Daddy is,” she said. www.pressherald.com?p=7709666&uu...
Scarborough family devastated after ICE detains father for the 2nd time
Jonas Manywa doesn't know if he'll be coming home — or deported to a potentially unsafe country.
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magician teller should take a cue from bank tellers and chain penn to his desk
parasitic isopod donuts sprinkled with chives and drizzled with dijon mustard? I could eat…
Sam Biddle@sambiddle.com · 5d agoThe death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
The latest Kitchen Nightmares (“Boodles”) made no sense to me. I get it‘s TV but I don’t think Gordon was fair to the owner’s son with the bad haircut (screaming at him for not trying harder to “step up” & take over his father’s failed $1.5 mil-in-debt greasy spoon, as if that should be his “dream”)
KNOW THE POP CULTURE RULES Rupert Holmes: ”Here’s a song about cheating on each other, *with* each other.” (“Awww…you’re sweet!”) Kevin Smith: “Here’s a tweet about that same exact thing.” (“Hello…Human Resources?!?!”)
Pasternak ridiculed Soviet communists by saying, “they’re easy to get along with, as long as you love what you hate and hate what you love” (paraphrasing from memory). However: that appears to have become a minimum job requirement for white-collar work in the U.S. Have you *seen* LinkedIn lately?
Going back in time and showing my younger self the Red Scare subreddit as a “Scared Straight!” lesson about how annoying college-age pseuds come across to others