Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Cleanliness is next to godliness. But only if you have a very crappy dictionary.

Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

And AIR!

(And ducts.)

Essential reading from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social. Not comforting, but it helps me set my compass for survival & resistance.

Item 15 from Rebecca Solnit: "If they try to normalize, let us try to denormalize. Let us hold on to facts, truths, values, norms..."

Fight their lies with truth & values.

He said this?

F@@k him.

And SO WHAT IF THEY DO, anyway?

At the end of her bond hearing—where the driver was released on, essentially, pre-trial probation—the judge said "Try to not drive so fast."

In 2026, in South Florida as in the rest of the U.S., irony is dead.

Woman with no driver's license stopped going 100 mph on Palmetto Expressway, FHP says A woman is facing charges after authorities said she was caught driving without a license and going 100 mph on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade early Monday.

As infamous late South Florida radio talk-show host Neil Rogers used to say, only in the Banana Republic, only in Miami-Dade.

The driver was cited for the same offenses in March; Florida Highway Patrol found the previous citations when searching her car.

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First, I sit corrected.

Second, that last sentence is my favorite line from Hugo Grotius (or someone). Mad props.

Except, the blockade is itself illegal. Aggression—a war crime.

Having been homeless, and having had friends who have been homeless, I can say it is almost entirely an economic issue. Lack of affordable housing, lack of universal basic income. And right now, massive layoffs, industries collapsing. Saying it's a "mental health issue" ignores the actual causes.

Everyone who follows an illegal order commits a crime.

It's all on Donny, as the prime mover, sure.

But all of Hegseth's bigoted personnel moves didn't produce this rot. Our military is made up of careerists, not professionals who follow their oaths.

Trump says U.S. seized Iranian ship trying to bypass blockade of Strait of Hormuz The operation marks the first ship boarding by U.S. forces since the naval blockade took effect April 13, as part of Trump’s effort to exert pressure on Tehran.

Aggression, all aggression, a war crime—part of a war that's criminal in itself.

Donny, threatening war crimes as "negotiation."

Where are our military, following their duty under international and federal law to disobey illegal orders?

Just gobsmacking.

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Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

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I find your thoughts enlightened, traditional, and spot-on!

YouTube, because why say something in 30 seconds when you can stretch it out to three hours

dude is on one today, again, on a Sunday

well there is a precedent

but you won't like it

MAKE IT STOP!
MAKE IT STOP!!
MAKE IT STOP!!!

I’m SOOOO tired of having the stupidest 4th-grader in the world being the guy who appears to be running our ENTIRE fucking government.

PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!

If Trump can’t molest it or eat it, it immediately ceases to exist in his brain.

Looking forward to NYT sanewashing this. I imagine it will go something like bsky.app/profile/numb...

Here $100 for those cancer treatments. If you got change left over get something nice for yourself.

Peer review, please and thank you.

Then we can talk.

Good point—thanks!

Not the first time I've learned about finance from you.

More lefty finance Splinter, please and thank you.

My dog with his front paw bandaged up.

To whoever thought it was fun to smash beer bottles on the path to the beach, fuck you.