I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but can't argue the logic.
This year hasn't done many favors to my stock price.

The accounts of Trump and Vance in the meeting with Zelensky today are giving hard Morris Day and Jerome circa Purple Rain vibes.

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Can I get a baseline? And are we taking an average or like, are we talking about "You guys had one job, to do. ONE!" situation?

Had a dream last night where I ran into Weird Al, who said his therapist recommended he watch a movie called "UHF".
"Do you think she realized?" I asked. He just shook his head.

Unexpected Pagliotti.

Someone told me once that the revolution would not be televised....

Some advice on How to Weather the Storm, including “create something lovely for yourself or others”, “moderate your exposure to the bullshit”, “find the people who are already doing the work, and follow their lead”, and “join something”. [kottke.org]

The article was painful to read in its enumeration of horrors, but important. Leonato says "Let me see his eyes/That, when I note another man like him/I may avoid him."
We have to look at this.
We have to warn and support women.
We have to be better men.

because it is time to be done praising art from such a man.
I had to write it down because I'm experiencing loss, of the relationship with fiction I have loved and lauded since I first read it. I had to write it down because I wanted to get it out of my head. So I can be done with the man.

I found myself awake in bed thinking about the Vulture article published yesterday morning. Given my relationship to the subject's fiction, I found myself writing out some thoughts that I felt compelled to commit to a page to get them out of my head, but will likely not share publicly...

Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

Reflecting on Simon Sinek's conversation with Vivek Murthy about community and friends: I love the idea of inviting friends over without any fancy plans or worrying about tidying up our messy lives. Now I just need to actually do it ...

Surgeon General Urges Americans to 'Rethink How We're Living Our Lives' in Closing Letter to the Country (Exclusive) U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy shares his "parting prescription" for the country in a letter shared exclusively with PEOPLE.

Enjoyed the conversation between Vivek Murthy and Simon Sinek on A Bit of Optimism podcast episode. Murthy’s thoughts are echoed in this letter people.com/surgeon-gene...

America's surgeon general calls for cancer warnings on alcoholic beverages U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Friday released a new advisory on alcohol and cancer risk, outlining the direct link between the two.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a new advisory on alcohol and cancer risk, outlining the link between the two

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:

Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.

That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Be kild, rewild.

Not sure I want Professor X broadcasting whatever the mental version of Windowlicker is directly to my brain, though

My 10yo daughter just, unironically, asked me to explain mansplaining.

I think it short circuited my brain a bit. But she did ask...

Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free “What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis At Haymarket, we

Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks that meet this moment in US history, including titles by Rebecca Solnit, Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. [haymarketbooks.org]

Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!

10yo: <finishes my pirate song verse>
me: "Wait, how do you know pirate songs if ye be not a pirate?"
10yo: "I live around cats. Cats know many things."

I don’t believe that everything happens FOR a reason but I do believe that everything happens BECAUSE OF a reason and that reason is baryogenesis, the process by which the imbalance of matter and antimatter was established in the early universe and for which we currently have no accepted explanation

we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.

In riding bikes with my 10yo, I have to remember that her bike is larger than her. Repeat 10x.

The teen likes to occasionally shout while gaming online, and to discourage this we'll sometimes respond.

Last nighy we got "Yo! What!?"
To which I promptly replied: "Tiiiiin roof! Rusted."

The boy was not amused

Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.

"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.” futurism.com/critics-micr...

We are heading into an election year, after all...

Crush the celery revolution!

A gallon of milk whose sell by date reads, "SELL BY OCT 23 1538" - Which would mean it should have been sold sometime around the final decade of the reign of Henry the Eighth.

DO NOT DRINK THE TUDOR MILK

Admittedly I just had a "moment" and was excited that Shirley Jackson was on bluesky...