1916 southerly view of Inceville, named after silent movie mogul Thomas Ince. Its 18K-acres of sets & stages sat at the nexus of today's Sunset & PCH. In an omen of the future, fires often ravaged the studio, selling it to William S. Hart, who renamed it Hartville & also sold it.
A clear case of projection, all things considered
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
Now I'm imagining someone called a heretic in the Renaissance for being that eras equivalent to a gen xer yelling "bro that's hack. You're a sellout for making material for the church. It's derivative! 'OH the last supper.' Real original!" *death sentence*
Baseball card collecting is midwest Pokémon
Two bills moving through the California Senate would ensure patients in immigration custody retain the right to have their families notified of their location and condition. @carolinemenjivar.bsky.social #CALeg
In regards to the Virginia gerrymandering, the scholar David Bateman writes about "democracy-reinforcing hardball" and it's going to be important to be able to tell the difference between systemic reforms that undermine democracy and those that do the opposite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It is also true of @jamellebouie.net point (which is more applicable to the ^ theory) that only dems have agency.
It's assumed that republicans/conservatives are like tsunami waves or hurricanes.
Murc (merc?) Theory again. This is a lot like @jasonkpargin.bsky.social pointing out the other day that media/avg Joe's treat Republican presidents like the norm. But extrapolated to the whole part and conservative views more broadly.
alt text is great, even when images are working
I am closing in on my birthday, and my sister absolutely nailed how I feel about it.
but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.
This is really cool and funny because North Mexico has been struggling with a series of Measles breakouts and it is presumed that they’re largely a result of transmission via USA along with the mennonite colonies which, by no coincidence, travel regularly to the other side of the border.
Maybe I'll be wrong, but I am not confident perma-banning smoking will stop young people from taking up the habit. Especially if you're still importing tobacco for people born before 2008.
This is why Republicans/conservatives in their analysis either have 0 agency or are as natural as waves. And thus you can only react to them.
writing words about politics is a product produced by a D+50 demographic for a D+40 consumer base while trying to appear D+10
After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
My only addition to flying discourse is the only flights I've missed were connections due to tight windows and weather issues.
But it wasn't until the last 4 years that I've lived closer than 1hr to an airport. So I guess I've always wasted time at airports.
I don't mind it. I just read a book.
She is already great
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Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.
If this movie must exist, I am ok with it being made solely by AI.
Jacob Wysocki returned today as one of my favorite characters, Mr. Toots. Listening to this was the best way to start my week.
Indeed. People need to see that this is a broader conservative effort. Case in point what Rs are doing in Michigan. They're cutting funding for not sufficiently being regime stooges.
michiganadvance.com/2026/04/16/h...
Trump is not the only politician who defunds public libraries... I think this is important for everyone to understand.
One might say it's the paranoid style in american politics. I'll see myself out.
