They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Noem personally intervened to stop an aircraft from helping to find a guardsman who fell overboard in order to deport a few more immigrants.

If you'd told me a year ago that i wouldn't be coding by hand in six months, i *might* have believed you. Six months earlier, I wouldn't have.

Today, if you told me I'd be coding by hand again in a year or two, I'd find it almost impossible to believe.

I'm not sure what to make of that. #change

SaaS businesses are going to have to get a lot more creative about their moats this year. if they don’t, they won’t have to worry about it next year for entirely different reasons.

is this what bungie’s been working on?

They flashbanged a car full of kids. A car full of fucking kids.

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

I'm still finding the new accounts from all my people from xitter over here... (Yours is a case in point...) My experience is that there's less posting but higher signal to noise at this point.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

it’s almost as if deeply unserious people don’t know how to handle an economy. who would have thought.

ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.

going to be in austin for a few days if anybody wants to meet up!

100%. if i want a linux machine i’ll run it in a vm. i just need my computer to work.

“Children are being told: either abandon your case or watch your parents get arrested.”

It is weird that the fbi director said “Valhalla” let’s not skip over that

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

people are always telling me that we just have to wait for olds to die off & then everything will be fine.

i usually respond with, "the woman who lied about emmett till whistling & got him lynched was 21. the murderers were 24 & 35. there's more to do than wait.”

there will always be hitler youth.

doing alright, just missing the old gang in Austin! hoping to make it back that way soon for another round of the old timers drinking club!

i’m just now realizing that post of yours was in everybody’s announcement… i thought it was just picking something at random from my feed. welcome to notoriety, population you!

somewhere there’s a grad student who has written a dissertation on quantifying optimism in terms of how much of a person’s wardrobe is comprised of clothes they believe they’ll fit into again someday.

Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online

i’ve been keeping my kids’ images offline since way before it was cool.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/t...

Has anybody created a #blockchain for #ai tokens yet? because i have the most memeriffic idea EVAR

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i’m in that stage with bsky where i’m finding all the people i used to be friends with on twitter and it’s fun but with strong fomo vibes, like you’ve all been having a party without me the whole time.