Yeah. This is peak 2026.

🧵on Virginia reporting

Will get results quickly but it is not always uniform

Usually rural localities report before urban and suburban ones

Also need Election Day, Mail, and Early Vote before full sense of a locality

Wouldn’t jump to early conclusions on initial results

1/4

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour.

Further narrowing GOP majority

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Faxes?!? 📠 (glad it got through)

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

an ocean of men seated at desks, in groups of three. in a large auditorium.

OTD April 20 1946 the League of Nations ceases to operate, handing over its final responsibilities to the new United Nations.

The league, created in 1920 in the wake of the Great War, had as a primary purpose the goal of preventing another war on a global scale. The outbreak of the

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

This is a fascinating look from the New York Times on how advisors and confidants of Michael Jackson have scrambled after his death to rescue his estate from bankruptcy and save his brand from oblivion. Read this before you go see the biopic Michael, for sure. READ: loom.ly/mjJS9lQ

Man Drinking, by Francis Bacon, 1955

LAFC 0-3 SJ Quakes; Timo Werner with a goal and assist lol

Meet the D.C. devotees of a very niche arcade game Killer Queen is a 10-player arcade game designed to get you off of your phone and playing with strangers. In one D.C. bar, dedicated fans are trying to get new players hooked.

Killer Queen dots independent arcade bars across the country. The 10-player strategy game is “truly social” — designed to get strangers off of their phones and playing together.

D.C. is home to a particularly devoted circle of fans.

The pundit consultants don’t want you to ask this question

I don’t know the data, but my prior is to take the over on this bet—sure feels like folks rolled out here in VA in 2025 compared to 2024, taking into account presidential vs off-off-year election differences

Pointing spiderman

Big day for democrats deciding who sucks

susmariosep!

most stressful neutral stoppage time lol

I grew up poor & only survived by virtue of welfare (health care/food stamps/education). There was no amount of hustling my undocumented parents could do to give me what I needed as a child.

If you're pushing tax cuts without a plan to restore funding to public assistance, you're dead to me.

hope there is an @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social post with Haaland’s hanging torn shirt sleeve

wow attacking fútbol

they’ll try to tell you that one of these teams is the best in the world. that they should win the league. they’ll tell you it’s the red team

Day 17 of the damaging strike admin recklessly forced on faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield. ✊ #AcademicSky

It's the John Birch Society with computers, they want to create a cyberpunk style inverted totalitarianism

Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol

I had to delete a post b/c it would get confused with that poop goal

oh poop 💩

From the 80s to FREEZING?

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for areas west of I-95 from 2 to 10 a.m. Tuesday for temperatures as low as 29 to 32 degrees. In some areas, this freeze is coming up to 10 days later than the typical last freeze.

More info at cwg.live

makes me want to boot up “Aces of the Pacific” on my 486 PC

would it pop up at a local city/county library system? and/or interlibrary loan request later