At my boxing gym, doing what I can to be. Hope that today is better than the last, but it feels false.

A letterpress card in cream with all caps writing: R.E.M. GAVE ME UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR HOW I'D FEEL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

A cartoon from the mid-1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks with a reporter, surrounded by the aftermath and detritus of a riot saying "I plan to have another non-violent march tomorrow."

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

Countdown until I read the headline: SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH WHETHER OR NOT THE 25TH AMENDMENT EVEN APPLIES TO THIS PRESIDENT. KAVANAUGH QUESTIONS WHETHER WORDS EVEN FUCKING MATTER ANYMORE.

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.

Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:

I don’t care. Just clean the dirt and dust off the negatives and give it to me on a 4K BluRay

Picking up my son for the summer, protests here on Marthas Vineyard. Fascism is not a popular look in these here parts.

RED HULK!!! 🤘👹

Asteroid has been declared the frontrunner for 2028 candidates with a 69% approval rating for its project 2032 plan.

There are a lot of things to dunk on with this post. But, if you think using an LLM is the way to deal with a json file (json is a ubiquitous, highly structured format for data storage), you are a bad, inexperienced coder. And, you definitely shouldn't be rewriting the US Treasury codebase.

Yup.
I’ve been referring to this time as a New Dark Age.

DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Poster for HEART EYES with a close up of the Heart Eyes killer, and his leather mask with lit up heart windows for eyes.

Hollywood is not some monoculture dictating what audiences can and cannot watch. Hollywood gives you what you're willing to pay for. So if you want big, fun, gory slasher movies, take a friend or a date out this weekend and see this big, fun, gory (also romantic) slasher movie. It's how we get more.

I got to check it out last night.
Such a good time at the movies🤘👹

The gleeful profiteers from Trump’s police state Palantir's stock soared this week as its CEO cheerfully screamed "we're doin' it" on an investor call—clarifying that "it" includes "on occasion" killing people.

On an earnings call, the CEO of Palantir talked openly about killing “enemies,” then added, “I’m sure you’re enjoying this as much as I am!” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Extraordinarly bad for everyone’s privacy and security. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

FYI all of the viral images government spending that “DOGE HAS UNCOVERED” is actually from www.usaspending.gov a website that Obama signed into law in 2014 that has always been accessible to the public.

TFW your the thing that ages the poorest in your throwback nostalgic film is some of your throwback nostalgic references.

Yeah. I declined to pay the amount being “asked”. I’d go to concerts, but I don’t think I’ll go to another one again with the way they’re priced.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

True then. True now. Thank you, Willem Arondeus.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

Not all of us get to live out our dreams or reach the goals we've worked so hard for, but every day life is going to give you the chance to BE the person you've always dreamed of being - brave, kind, noble, just, empathetic, heroic. That's something neither life nor circumstance can ever deny you.