1/ I guess i'm going to loosely blog the CA governor's debate?
First Q: whether or not to cut gas tax.
Steyer: blames war, windfall oil company tax instead
Porter: wants to "move away from it" posits as green measure
Mahan: attacks others, "reform tax"
Becerra: no, need for infrastructure
Every chud that burped up “Muslims will use Sharia Law in America to throw you [slurs] off roofs” line up to kiss my ass and pay me $20
Purity Politics vs Power: How One Democrat’s Stand Risks Strengthening MAGA
A Virginia Democrat rejects counter-gerrymandering on principle—but this stance may hand power to GOP manipulation. Strategy, not purity, decides political outcomes.
Georgia's women's tennis team is the new Waldo and whatnot.
True story.
a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red
A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.
Left: How people think Mississippi votes
Right: How Mississippi actually votes
It's all just overtly blatant.
With their grifting there are NO COINCIDENCES.
I can’t take the piss out.
It’s in their national beer.
REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups?
BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that
The irony of this, of course, is that Woodward has spent every year since as the consummate insider White House reporter that everyone uses to settle scores and press advantages.
In Renaissance Italy, a noble marriage ended due to non-consummation in a 3-year saga involving the pope. I learned about this on a podcast today, & went to Wikipedia to find out more.
The wife’s article has details about her private parts.
The man’s? His 1st marriage “was childless & they divorced”
it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
you can no longer read this. I've removed all the "public nudity" (sex words) and submitted it for review.
So, as per Patreon, keep in mind: describing sex counts as public indecency. Yes, really.
I hope I live to see the death of puritanism. This is hell.
I can’t help but notice that Ela, a trans woman, is getting this and I post the sexual dick measuring precursor to three way gang bang while aliens watch and provide color commentary, and I haven’t even gotten a warning
In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Is there not one, goddam normal motherfucker in this entire Administration?
The wraparound cover of A FUNCTION OF FIREPOWER, complete with art, back cover copy, and all that stuff.
I fnished the front and back covers, and Sandra ran a test print.
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
I kind of think this is an important point to reiterate. It's never "rockets vs science." And sometimes (like with the Artemis II mission), there is science that can piggy-back on missions where enabling human spaceflight is the primary goal. The proposed science cuts are just about cutting science.
Hello, if I wanted to do a short survey of oncologists...questions like "What are your patients most likely to misunderstand" and "What do you think are the most exciting innovations in treatment right now" is there...a listserv somewhere? How would I reach you!!
I tried to give assessment of my concerns in this video, but it's long so I understand that not everyone is going to watch it...but a lot of people did! And it also contains, I think, a fairly strong interview with Cal Newport who is pretty anti-hype.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLb...
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adjusted for inflation (both in terms of the price of a gallon of gas and general inflation) the federal gas tax is lower today than when it was introduced. our roads and bridges are crumbling and that's how we pay for that stuff!
this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats
In a nutshell, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
CAUTION > STEEP STEPS > UNEVEN SURFACES > DIM LIGHTING > ANCIENT STONE OBSTACLES ON THE FLOOR
My kind of warning.
225 Days. That's how long it took the Code of Conduct to dismiss the case I made and the case against me.
In the ruling on my petition, they claim I refused to cooperate by not making a full recording or transcript of the meeting available. They then quote from the transcript portions I sent.
Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment.
Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.
President Trump’s war of choice in Iran is generating a devastating food and health crisis, made far worse by his administration’s gutting of the global humanitarian system. www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-war-of-ch...
