So it turns out that is a falconer's thing specifically. That's how you tame a wild falcon. Would have been interested to learn that when we read that in high school.
Instead I heard it recording a falconer's talk for Audubon much, much later.
Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.
I finally watched all of Downfall for the first time recently. Really illuminates where a death cult can go.
Mentioned it to my sister in law today. I said, you know the Hitler's bunker scene everyone spoofs? I was so positive a person on the internet could not escape them.
She had not seen one.
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
Where are my popularists at?
The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
I think the gerrymandering race to the bottom is genuinely bad and undemocratic and unfortunately what the dems are doing is the least bad of the bad options available.
GOP - *gerrymanders*
DEMS - hey stop that no fair
GOP - *gerrymanders even more*
DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue
SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*
DEMS - *start gerrymandering*
GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭
Weird rules of mainstream media: you can't say he's *lying*, and you can't call a particular thing he says *false*, but you can say that the things he says *contradict one another*. That's the objectivity sweet spot. 🙄
screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"
screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"
IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"
We wouldn't have a 250th birthday to celebrate if Gen. Washington hadn't mandated the smallpox vaccine for the Continental Army ("Should the disorder infect the Army...and rage with its usual Virulence, we should have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy"), but okay sure
I assure you that telling someone "The truth hurts sometimes, but it's time to pull up the big boy and girl pants and start adulting" will make them want to do the polar opposite of whatever it is you're asking them to do. It's a truly insane strategy.
correctly using the conqueror’s nomenclature as his armies burn your town.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but learn to be a decent lead in a few dances.
Spend a couple of years with no other goal in class but getting good at it.
Make someone other than the general public backstop limited liability. Damages aren't limited, why should liability be?
Make the state that registers the corporation backstop the liability.
Make Delaware get a real job.
God fucking damnit
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Sometimes the answer to “how do stupid things keep happening?” Is “people can find intelligent-sounding ways to rationalize anything”
I'd say I'm very agreeable in real life, but the dopamine incentives for poaters definitely undercuts innate agreeableness.
High neuroticism and high openness to experience is definitely me.
Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.
Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.
I think a UBI would be a really good thing, and I don't think relying on the goodwill of billionaires would ever be the way it arrives.
While I love this for Russia, the war becoming nothing but swarms of autonomous Hunter-Killer drones fighting each other and blowing up people and infrastructure behind the lines feels terrifying.
Will we be able to get the records to *prove* it? Probably not. But who knows?
And in any event, the desperate, sloppy coverup likely to ensue if Congress investigates will create lots of opportunities for them to commit 18 USC 1001 and get felony convictions anyway.
Everything we know about Roberts, Alito, and Thomas tells us that they're used to elite impunity themselves and they've gone to the hilt in backing it for others.
They have been *extremely* confident in their safety from consequences. I'm certain Thomas in particular has crossed that line by now.
The 2026 Atlantic storm name list: Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gonzalo Hanna Isaias Josephine Kyle Leah Marco Nana Omar Paulette Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred
the 2026 Atlantic hurricane names have been released, and I need to tell you all right now that if I get swept off this mortal coil by a storm named Kyle I am haunting the halls of the World Meteorological Organization until the end of time
The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.
Starting to think jailing and disbarring is *preferable* to court-packing.
At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.
