Counterpoint: Fortress Around Your Heart actually *is* a pretty great Sting song. Primarily because it sounds like a Police song. (But agreed: would have been fun to hear the full band play it.)

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.

What a stupid country we live in. arstechnica.com/science/2026/0…

Hey at least you still have 5 years before you start aging "at hyperspeed"

New York Magazine article with highlighted text: "There are certain years in life when aging hits us hard and moves us forward at hyperspeed." Forty-four was the first of those years.

Pretty rude of Facebook tbh to show me this post the day after my 44th birthday.

Wait, Lina Khan is co-chairing Mamdani's transition team? That's just fan-service. www.transition2025.com

I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

Is America respected by the rest of the world yet??? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Would it kill JD and Stephen to be less publicly horny over the reichstagedness of CK’s shooting?

Girlz II Men

Guess I really screwed up by not being a billionaire.

I do like the idea though of Big Trans as a folk hero. A super-masc trans dude who travels from town to town peeing in women’s restrooms (as required by local ordinance) and then beating the shit out of the bigots who confront him.

It’s cruel to send Palestinians desperate for food into a death trap.

And now, Trump wants to give the Netanyahu backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" $30 million. We should not send a single cent.

We must stop the suffering in Gaza and fund real aid organizations.

I know there must be something different about these new South African refugees compared with all the other refugees being deported back to war-torn countries and gang violence. I just can’t quwhite put my finger on what.

I stress to impress

It finally happened: the day you always dread as a parent. I came home and turned on the computer to find that my 12 year old son has been googling “how much do geese cost?”

Torn-off corner of paper painted with a sparkly rainbow and the word “gay”

This scrap of paper appeared in our house a few days ago and none of us know where it came from. Just a sign from the universe I guess.

Don’t see why they wouldn’t. It’s been a very successful strategy for them in the past.

My lake? Mid.

Screenshot of NY Times headline and lede reading: “Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid a Purge at the Pentagon Gen. Charles Brown Jr. and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the naval chief, were among those fired as President Trump moved to root out diversity initiatives in the military.” …with the word “initiatives” crossed out.

There I fixed it

Just sitting here thinking about my FedEx package that has been "out for delivery" for the past 5 days running. No reason. #usps

Huffpost headline: "Mitch McConnell Warns Trump’s Kentucky Voters How This 1 ‘Bad Policy’ Will Hurt Them Directly"

How insane is it that Mitch frickin' McConnell is now what passes for a voice of reason in the Republican party?

Some men will literally tear down an entire 250 year old system of government to avoid going to therapy.

Michael Stipe led me to believe the end of the world as we know it would feel a lot more fine than this.

I miss being able to not think about the government for a couple days in a row sometimes.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day and nothing else.

A Euphoric Tech Industry Is Ready to Celebrate Trump and Itself The elite of Silicon Valley are set to revel in their new clout during a long weekend of inaugural parties as President-elect Donald J. Trump is set to resume power.

These assholes are straight-up STOKED to be part of the oligarchy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Well if you're going full-prepper, Sevy, obviously having a government record of your bunker defeats the whole point.

What's everyone doing to enjoy this final week with a functioning government?

Yes, I think that's the eventual plan. Anyway, always nice to have more options for charging!