Finally, while I’m sharing current enthusiasms even though no one asked me to do so, Mank (Gary Oldman) is a great and (#trump) very timely movie currently netflixable. You should watch it. For a couple of hours. In black and white. Without looking at your phone. I double-dare you.
Not an earworm, but notable.
And be careful, this one is hard to shake: music.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXR...
And here’s another, this one thanks to The Mudhouse cville soundtrack: music.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO-...
What’s your #currentearworm? No judgment, no explanation. Here’s one of mine. music.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYE...
What’s your #currentearworm? No judgment, no explanation. Here’s one of mine. music.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYE...
A tomato in the shape of a Death Star because, why not? Billboard reads: May the 4th: 4th annual free tomato plant giveaway First Federal bank
I’m at the Star Wars pun celebration day
I’m at the bank promotion tomato plant giveaway
I’m at the combination …
You should: I bet you’d enjoy it.
To put my enthusiasm in context, my home district is red and voted red by a good margin. I was happy to help (along with my co-workers) to make sure every person that wanted to vote got to do so, every ballot was accounted for, and election observers were educated about the process.
I was an election worker for the first time today, in the Virginia special election. This is a great way to spend a day: highly recommended. Meet many more of your neighbors! Work in the trenches with people from other parties! Give stickers to voters and their kids! Do a great public service!!
This is a war based on lies
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Embrace the End of Empire.
This is great!
What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.
Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.
I am surprised and honoured to be elected as a Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony - the largest learned society for the Humanities in Northern Germany. I join 160 German and 210 international corresponding members in interdisciplinary exchange! 📚
And because everything is a grift, hedge funds and trump relatives already scored, by buying tarriff refund futures at pennies on the dollar, before the SC decision. share.google/1tTY5zGbmeTK...
For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely.
It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.
Just re-upping this from Friday because I thought it was a pretty sick burn. #fairusefriday ❤️🔥
Real open the pod bay door Hal moment.
*goes to link*
Copilot: how can I help?
Me: no I want to go to X
Copilot: sure here is the link.
*clicks*
Copilot: how can I help?
Me: no I want to go to that link and not be redirected here.
Copilot: oh frustrating. Unfortunately I can’t do that.
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Heard some very humane discussion of AI from Baratunde Thurston today on npr’s No Small Endeavor nosmallendeavor.com/the-human-co...
Reads exactly like the Klan flier I once found in my driveway. (If you’d like to examine it, it is in special collections at uva.)
I believe Stefanik’s position is that you have to say “genocide” or else it’s not genocide.
Omg, someone needs to tell DJT there’s a robot bearing a golden record with the recorded voice of Jimmy Carter to the edges of the known universe forever and ever
And the fossil fuel folks, the superset of baddies in the 20th century and still today. Burning yesterday and billing tomorrow: a bad idea.
I would endorse candidates who propose to restrict the use of two-stroke gas engines in residential areas to one day a week. Otherwise, electric.
Is it good or not good when your lawyer says “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”
