Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

LOL — I shared a screenshot of this post on Facebook, and it was instantly deleted.

I haven't played Celeste, so I'm not familiar with the soundtrack, but my kids (I just polled them) agree that it's a banger.

From my own gaming experience, I'd pick Bastion or Surviving Mars.

This just serves to further convince me of their guilt.

Jawbreakers.

The Mill on the Candy Floss.

The French Fries Connection.

As a Greek name, "Sophia" (Σοφία), it has a Greek diminutive form: "Sophaki" (Σοφάκι).

If it's not Vladimir Putin, it's Vladimir Putin.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Honestly, no. He's pretty damn stupid.

Does he actually think this story reflects well on him?

Oh, I'm definitely going to preorder this.

Makes sense.

So Bluesky is the Portland, OR of the internet?

People do what you pay them to do.
You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products.
You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well.
You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth.
And so forth.
Be aware of what you pay people to do

In a thread elsewhere, someone asked "Who is your favourite princess?", and I pointed to Side Quested which has *two* of my favourite princesses.

This is super weird and downright excellent.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Image of a shop selling anime-themed merch for three vintage giant-robot anime. The merch in question: walking canes.

And now I had to dig up this, which really made me feel old (That's Mazinger Z in the middle).

My first anime was "Mazinger Z".

Backpfeifengesicht.

This made me legit laugh out loud. I am looking forward to what comes next.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

"Show me your paso doble!"

Also, check out 戦国小町苦労譚, another "modern person time travels back to Nobunaga's time" manga. I'm quite fond of this one.

The arc of history is long, but it bends towards "loose!"

You will be visited by three spirits

Movie poster, "The Duellists"

The duel that starts it all, with d'Hubert (Carradine) on the left and Feraud (Keitel) on the right.

"The Duellists" (Ridley Scott, 1977) with Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. A story of one man caught up in another man's obsession, as they fight a series of duels through the years of the Napoleonic Wars and after. Keitel is an absolutely brilliant villain as the psychopathic Feraud.

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

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