Wowser. The tariffs seem to be ON TOP folks. These rates are getting pretty close to being prohibitive.

The biggest tariff hike in about 80-90 years. Presented in the style of a low budget game show.
Just absolutely insane.

I voted against the horrible MAGA “continuing resolution” — a fake and partisan CR loaded up with executive power for Trump. I hated it. But respected colleagues voted otherwise, and not just to “cave in” versus “stand up.” 🧵

Can’t believe there’s anything new that Sadao Asada didn’t already dig up, but you never know. A lot of this debate is just reinterpretation of the limited sources available (Shusen shiroku etc)

Bowser: I am going to build a castle

also Bowser: which can only be navigated via green pipes I cannot fit in

This is my new favorite headline

Analysis | The vote on tonight’s spending bill could be the first test of Elon Musk’s presidency.

I hereby promise to start drinking heavily if Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense.

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

Living my dark academia dreams 📚🫠

List of claims about the Middle Ages

It's rare for me to have to correct overly *positive* claims about the Middle Ages - usually I have to deal with the old "Dark Ages" myths. This meme gets some things right, overstates others and goes a bit bonkers on a few more. Taking each claim in turn:
1. True. At least, far more common than ...

Companies prepare to hike prices to offset Trump's tariff plans Companies are preparing to increase prices to offset Donald Trump's tariff plans.

Companies prepare to hike prices to offset Trump's tariff plans
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Vaccines are good actually.

They told insurers a bear damaged their car. But it was actually a person in a costume Four LA residents allegedly defrauded multiple insurance companies of over $141,000. A wildlife expert who reviewed footage of the incidents said that the culprit was "clearly a human in a bear suit."

Four LA residents allegedly defrauded multiple insurance companies of over $141,000. A wildlife expert who reviewed footage of the incidents said that the culprit was "clearly a human in a bear suit."

Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/

It's not just that X is now a right wing cesspool populated by MAGA bots (although that doesn't help); the app has been broken since Musk took over. I'm guessing he fired the only engineers that could fix it.