They think you're stupid.

He and his brother are just P.O.S.s who know the Trump Train is derailing. Eff 'em.

I occasionally "hide" a joke in the alt text. But if I do, it's as a sort of easter egg to delight both low-vision and regular users who click the alt.

a red balloon is being held by a person Alt: A red balloon deflating slowly.

Cocksure? Hegseth?

I started calling myself a "gregarious introvert" years ago.
I can talk yer ear off (and I listen well!), but a) I have to already know you, or have a one- or two-degrees of separation introduction, and b) I need down time after any party, dinner out, etc.

when I reported on threats to mRNA research for @damemagazine.bsky.social something that came up frequently was how scared scientists were of losing funding, precisely bc their mRNA projects were already achieving the previously unthinkable

The 80s snyth-punk band DEVO, wearing bug eye black plastic glasses.

DEVO were time travelers.

I don't know the seriousness of the allegations. But I find it interesting that Sen. Rick Scott's company bilked the taxpayers for billions and there he sits in high office.
If she has these consequences, why didn't he get them?!?

Hyundai Santa Cruz 'car-truck' in baby blue. It's weirdly compelling!

Maybe not my proudest moment, but when I see a Santa Cruz on the road, I want one.

We had a two door Vega station wagon when I was a kid. It was mechanically a total trash car.

If Marine Le Pen is running away from Donald Trump, holy cow. That's seriously toxic.

Donald Trump is losing his mind Trump’s superpower is to make the people around him debase themselves while offering them no loyalty in return.

Arch-Brexiteer Daniel Hannan might be on to something for the first time in his life.

As the WHCA so ridiculously illustrates, no one in the press is allowed to notice that the GOP has already hit the iceberg and is sinking. The band just plays on, and pretending there won't be wreckage and death is the required standard.

Trump just cannot figure out why all his old tricks aren't working any more. But they're not.
And this polling is likely to get even worse! When will the first few GOP House members finally get cold feet?

There's one core belief: Men have control. White men, really.

It all begins with "he will restore the patriarchy."

Notice the framing: Owning the permanent (more or less) physical piece of artistic content is "longing for inconvenience".

But we'll never get a message that our credit card has expired, so our LP collection on the shelf has become molten slag.

Seeing that older Kindle Apps are just being wiped and people's purchases nuked, I think we are all getting objet lessons in hard goods: Books, CDs, LPs etc.

Also ended up: having to use "critics say" as if the law isn't just on its face obvious animus.

My completely off the cuff notion is that they're pissed off and wouldn't give good press? Alternately, that they're way more banged up than we've been led to believe and that's awkward?

Dad also flew on a Pan Am 747-SP. I think I know where my own avgeek interests come from 🤔

Wow!

(Very randomly, seeing that YS-11 info card, my dad flew on Ft. Worth airlines once from Houston on business while I lived in Ft. Worth. Interesting use case for close-in airport/prop flight v. jet to DFW, but the public didn't want it.)

This is the elite disconnect that will clobber Republicans.

So the GOP's obsession with the Dow Jones Index isn't working for normal people? Who could have imagined?

Not original, but I'm with the poster who said if this is anything, let's start with "officer involved shooting".

It's for the thousands of Wall Street traders who all think they're going to be that rich soon.

The rich think pitchforks have somehow been banned. They have not.
We have many more taxes to raise!!

Sam "Internet Troll" Alito worrying about the long-lost legitimacy of SCOTUS would be hilarious, except the Supremes are responsible for a wide swath of America's internal destruction.

These people are in thrall to evil. Money, power & corruption are their "God".