The thing with Gen X and music is that yes we had grunge but we also had rock and funk and hip hop and rap and pop and house and trance and lounge and reggae and soul and Gregorian chants ffs.
we've covered this same loyalty test but for judges at @ballsandstrikes.org for ~a year now (I think this piece by @jaywillis.net in June 2025 was the first)
Trump nominees won't say Trump lost in 2020, they won't say the Capitol was attacked on January 6, nada
ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...
“Oh, picky, picky, picky.” Beatrix Rousseau, Soap Carver
Surgeon Charged After Removing Wrong Organ theonion.com/surgeon-charged-after-re...
A retro dialogue box from Star Trek V saying: I'M PICKING UP A MESSAGE ON THE SUBSPACE BANDS, CAPTAIN... IT SAYS TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Ewok print.
John C. Reilly as a DBZ guy
Admiral Petrillo print.
Data and Spot print.
Hey hey hey, who just had his two-year web hosting plan auto-renew at double the price, overdrawing his account? This guy. store.brandonbird.com
pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...
The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Harry Donenfeld was a mobbed-up sleaze who swindled Siegel & Shuster out of their fair share, and then had his legal goon Jack Liebowitz fire them and blackball them.
Donenfeld hated Supes at first btw. He thought the character was childish and ridiculous. The sales figures soon changed his tune.
It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP.
ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate
Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data
He's not wrong
without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)
I cannot overstate how profoundly influential Space Ghost Coast to Coast was on my being. When I was a sullen teenager, it was Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The X-Files that gave me a window into a weird world into which a weird kid like me would someday fit.
ACAB
Waffles, ackshoeally
That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.
Exactly one year ago today:
EDITORIAL A tax relief bill — at last But the legislation includes two ill-advised policy forays. By The Editorial BoardUpdated September 30, 2023, 4:00 a.m.
Today's Boston Globe editorial: When times were good, the Massachusetts Legislature was generous, rolling out splashy new programs like free community college and universal school meals. Times are no longer good, and the fiscal 2027 budget proposed by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday reflects that reality.
The Boston Globe just 3 years ago lobbied for & cheered passage of a $1B tax cut heavily tilted toward the wealthy
Today it blames "austere times" on "splashy new programs like free community college & universal school meals"
Michigan Survey of Consumers February 2026 Data Booklet Chart 2: Index of consumer sentiment within income terciles, 2015 to 2026. In 2015, the top third, middle third, and bottom third income terciles have index values of 100 (top), 95 to 100 (middle), and 85 (bottom), respectively. They drop to around 70 in 2020, recover to 90 (top) and 80 (middle and bottom) in mid-2021, and then fall to 55 (all) in mid-2022. From 2022 through mid-2024, the top income tercile climbs to a high of 85, the middle to a high of 75, and the bottom to a high of 70. In 2025, they drop to 55, and drift slightly apart (55 to 60) through 2026
Chart 4: Index of consumer sentiment within education groups (three month moving averages). Similar to the precious chart, the index value for respondents with a college degree climbed more rapidly and higher between 2022 and mid-2024, then converged with the “some college” line and fell below the “high school or less” line
Chart 5B: Index of consumer sentiment by political party (three month moving averages), 2015 to 2026. Shows sentiment among democrats dropping from 100 in 2024 to 40 in 2025, while sentiment among Republicans increased from 55 in 2024 to 100 in 2025.
People who are rich and/or college educated and/or democrats had disproportionately higher and faster gains in consumer sentiment after the COVID financial shock. Those collapsed after Trump was elected
data.sca.isr.umich.edu
Bluesky Waffle House
🤝
can't serve customers because
all the servers are smoking
This movie was SO GOOD
Have you noticed that they only call it "Obamacare" when they're talking to a right wing crowd? Because otherwise it just reminds people that things were Relatively Okay for Some People under Obama?
Unrelated.
TRADER ZO'S!
"All I did was use my massive, national platform to repeatedly say these people are subhuman! You can hardly blame ME if a bunch of people felt encouraged to treat that same group of people as subhuman."
Amtrak announces opening of long-distance coach fleet procurement, an order of more than 800 cars with selection announcement expected by the end of 2027
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I hope you're proud of yourself :(
