The California Assembly has killed the CalCare single-payer healthcare plan (AB 1900), despite CA Dems’s veto-proof supermajority in both houses & the majority of CA voters supporting it.
My fellow Californians, consider each rep & gov candidate’s CalCare stance when you cast your vote!
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
would be useful to see how many people consider themselves independent now who considered themselves republican a year ago, too.
my suspicion is that there is a larger amount of independents now because they are ashamed of being seen as republican.
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
It is, frankly, pretty revolting to me to watch so-called California progressives running fearfully into the arms of another billionaire on another ego-trip campaign. If this state lets another wholly unqualified rich dude buy his way into office, they will deserve everything they get. 1/
As screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, "I worship at the altar of intention and obstacle."
“After weeks of consideration we have decided to go with another candidate who is better suited to our needs at this time. It was noted during your interviews, you told both our recruiter and the hiring manager that "they wasted your time because they were late" and "you took time off from work just to hear a low ball offer and that we should have posted the salary range in the job description" We told you that we do this so people won't apply just for the money. After which you replied "what money?" Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely,”
*cough laughs*
ICE is still kidnapping people in Minneapolis.
A black and white illustration showing the character Molly Millions from the works of William Gibson.
Pinterest threw this up and I love it so much; wicked cool depiction of Molly Millions. The related images section tells me that this was an illustration for an album or an audiobook or a combination of both, not quite sure.
Please slide into the comments if you happen to know who the artist is.
it’s really sad and confusing to watch the fandom attempt to make The Pitt into something more complicated than what it is and what it, in fact, needs to be: a simple way for Noah Wyle to deliver to me secret messages containing the instructions for my missions
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
I can only see 10 posts at a time every hour or so, so I think the website is in good working condition and designed well. Also the word “forbidden” is foreboding in a way that’s inspiring. It adds an air of mystery to using the site that I’ve come to appreciate. Fetching posts is out of fashion.
gunn has said no batman or WW in Man of Tomorrow and he's been pretty consistent about it... but I'll take Adria Arjona in DCU in any way, any role. she's a fantastic actor
and then there's said twink elf.
'yeah, you SHOULD put down Marazhai for the good of the imperium. but if you don't there are completely separate dom/sub romance routes to follow'
both will involve him carving his way through your ship and depopulating entire levels
fucking love rogue trader for this. your most vanilla romance option says, 'just one question: why do all the serfs still have vocal cords?' and the 'good' romance ending is where she becomes a bloated fish
their whole thing is 'everything should be illegal unless I do it' -- the hypocrisy is kind of the point. the more we understand that, the better
Omg, Bluesky, stop showing me pet death posts from people I do not follow. I do want to know if someone I know loses a pet, but not every time any person on the entire internet does.
"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking
"WARNING: Faint hearted and closed-minded beware!"
Now that's how you announce a concert, as a threat.
On this date in 1986, I met with Games Workshop about their plans to develop a Warhammer roleplaying game.
Over the next four years I developed and codified the Warhammer fantasy IP and co-created the acclaimed Enemy Within Campaign.
I'm available to consult on your game IP. Drop me a DM!
we are his narcissistic supply, it's on purpose
heh, @mjlindberg.bsky.social
Fuck this. I've had multiple relatives die to pancreatic cancer, and this technology was on the road to a possible cure.
As a real person who has spent a lot of time fundraising for my actual neighbors the scams and bots on here make it worse for everyone who is trying to do real work. If you are a leftist who believes in direct mutual aid you should be against this even if you believe the people involved are real
So, Terror Attacks in Europe by “alleged pro-Iranian group”?
TLDR: it’s Russia
OH HELL YEAH
