I want you to know that I have known that Dan went to beast castle from the day he was invited to beast castle. And I have been malding each day since

Chart showing favorability of dems in steady decline since 1994, captioned by @statisticurban on twitter "we must return to the politics of Bill Clinton"

*posts chart showing near-linear decline in Dem popularity since Clinton took over* this proves clinton did a really good job!

Tractors are so useful because they can do like 1000 things. The ~10 of those that involve nonreactive driving in straight lines have been essentially automated for decades. It's the rest that's really hard.

when I right click on highlighted words I still get "add comment" as an option in the context menu.

But imo learning shortcuts is always safer because they can't move them around the gui

control-alt-m

Twitter is really horrible. My entire algorithm there is just posts that will upset me into engaging with them.

Flyer showing I'm hosting a studio for my woodturning in Somerville on May 2 and 3. 18 bay state ave 02144

In case any of you live near somerville lol

Nicki Manaj becoming an insane conservative because people made fun of her online for lying about her cousin's balls in order to be antivax is, i think, the purest distillation of conservatism.

Until trump decides to send in ground troops at which point 95% of Republicans will instantly approve

The "journalist" who wrote this will be looked on by history with the disdain reserved for the writers who supported lynchings and pogroms last century.

It is somewhat darkly funny how Trump has bumbled into destroying fossil fuels as the world's main energy source and empowered China through its renewables manufacturing.

I am not allowed to post what I think about John Roberts.

He did not say that!

Libertarians do not often criticize nation states for failing to feed the poor. They do not often criticize overly harsh prison sentences for property crimes. There is a much better version of the show where nus is a capitalist extorting the federation or whatever. Instead he put it on trial.

The writers chose to have him use a left wing framing for his 'trial' of the federation. That was a choice they made. Nus does not exist, he was invented and his words were made up by writers.

I agree the writers are trying to make an analogy to where we currently are but I think that sucks for a few reasons. None is as important to me as the choice to make the villain of the show use leftist rhetoric, while being villainous and deeply naive.

I love trek where the federation is a (flawed) ideal and the people they interact with are allegories for problems we face today. Academy & Picard made the federation directly an allegory for today, which means either idealizing our current political economy or demonizing the federation.

A lot of people are saying that's not a critique of leftism but I think that's pretty silly. The main way media attacks the left is by making us into villains whose claimed good intentions hide incompetence or malevolence. Trek could (and has!) choose other aesthetics or ideologies for the villain.

intentionally or knowingly starving planets and firing on civilians. The former is true but excused by the federation's poverty (long story there) and the latter is apparently not true. The ultimate effect is to have the villain use leftist language to hide a sinister or at least naive agenda.

in the final episode the show goes out of its way to explain why it was actually just and understandable to charge the mom stealing food for her son with a felony because the show villain who was with her killed a nice federation officer. That villain makes a speech accusing the federation of...

The central arc and tension is that the show starts with the main character & federation charging a woman with felony murder (a charge almost unique to the USA today and notably evil because you can get a harsh sentence for a misdemeanor). It pretends that that was a bad thing to at first, but...

Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are very good an deserve a watch.

Startfleet Academy, new show, has some great characters and good episodes but it's (for me) ruined by a political message that boils down to "The federation is just space USA and space USA is good because they want to be."

That's an extremely generous reading. Choosing to have the big bad "use the aesthetics of anarchism" and close out the series with a full throated defense of charging people with felony murder is, well, a choice

Now we get a defense of felony murder as a concept. Really cool. Star trek reduced to an explanation for why a better world actually isn't possible.

Just completely tragic for star trek, a show written by a socialist, to become pure apologia for capitalism. The villain of an entire series is now a militant anarchist. What a fucking message.

Really pretty maple wood bowl

This is the most beautiful bowl I've ever turned. I honestly can't believe I made this. The picture doesn't really do it justice.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

"Disproportionately young and conspiratorial" man the government is actually just run by pedophiles are we supposed to not be

It is unfortunately true that dem leadership has been unwilling and unable to take advantage of trump's incredible and increasing unpopularity.

Really shows how incompetent or complicit our opposition party is.