California - Governor Polling:
🔴 Hilton 20%
🔵 Becerra 15%
🔵 Steyer 15%
🔴 Bianco 14%
🔵 Porter 13%
🔵 Mahan 6%
🔵 Villaraigosa 3%
🔵 Thurmond 2%
🔵 Yee 2%
Gudelunas Strategies / April 18, 2026
(Anti-Steyer Commissioner)
A dish of aspic: a jellied suspension of shredded meat and vegetables, garnished with a single sad sprig of parsley.
What's the worst food from *your* cuisine? None of that "oh, one region over they eat some awful shit." Remove the beam from your own eye.
And I'm calling dibs on aspic, so you can't pick that one. My mom threatened to make it for me the other day.
by de-funding NSF, NIH, DOE etc., we're just opening the gates for more science misinformation driven by paper-farms and journals with low review standards. And the whole process is now powered by LLMs making easy to write publishable dreck
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/20/94/
we all know I have no life, so:
Remember Rex Tillerson? If he were still Secretary of State, would we be having this much trouble with Iran and the other oil-producing states?
Remember Trump I, when a good chunk of the foreign service was cut from State? or last summer, when they fired another 1300 staff? And now Marco Rubio is SoS?
One can honestly say they have no interest in maintaining foreign policy
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unadulterated insanity. if there are any interesting, ethical people left at meta, this will drive them away
I mean... I would have thought this headline was parody, if it hadn't come with a Reuters article. Who in their right mind would want to keep working with this garbage going on?
final final FINAL final final ultimatum (copy).doc
it looks to me like they want to take public office, or at least direct state policy. and presumably from a well-paid advisory position -- why else put in that odd statement about public service compensation?
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those little guys are FANTASTIC! hope they (and you) have a great trip
love is a thousand silent concessions
will she ever see this confession?
if we want the vibecession to end perhaps we should be focused primarily on reducing the grinding existential dread of the future that even many objectively comfortable and highly-paid people seem to be feeling nowadays - and yeah, i do think there are practical things one could do to improve this.
as a citizen, I am *all for* the “protracted litigation” needed to get this thrown out of court
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
a few examples come to mind:
gas replacing coal in 20c Britain
electric lighting
telephones
A black piece of plastic with a circuit board attached to it on one side and a bright gold disc on the other, in the center of the gold disc is an image of a slime mold. This is all against a plywood backdrop
Soft Portals April 17th to May 1 120710 gallery 1207 10th St Berkeley CA Curatorial preview Thursday April 2 5:30-730pm Opening Reception Sunday, April 19th 2-5pm
made some improvements to Endoplanetary Ecologies! it's now a single piece, with channels for the USB cords that power it :)
come see it on Sunday in Berkeley! 2-5pm, I should be there the whole time if u wanna say hi.
the number of heinous events that would dominate anyone else’s presidency if phenomenal. These things just keep piling up
my dad lost his shirt 😫
Congratulations! clearly, the more things change, …
what in hell is a statement like this supposed to signal? I mean, it might be that things are calming down and shipping will be safer and more predictable. or it might be that we still have no clue what happens next?
like, in what kind of finance-brain is this actionable?
“your contribution is important”
sure, but it’s not $100 million important
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
this is just to say
I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline
and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll
forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited
This is slavery.
🧵🧵🧵 Here’s a thought experiment:
Imagine a sitting governor who ascended to power as a feminist hero is running for the U.S. Senate. She has a record of service in the interest of shared prosperity, social liberalism, and the environment. (1)
you speak the truth
the arch looks great!
I want to give it some emotional support arctic cloud cover or something. Seems like the world is falling aport more quickly every day