The FBI rank-and-file are famously chill and easy-going. I’m sure they’re cool with this.

The constant refrain is “you libs *want* Iran to win!”

If we thought Iran were good guys we’d just nod along to your lies and ignore the reality of an Iranian victory.

The whole point is that we think Iranian victory is a big deal and we can’t pretend it’s not happening.

Feel free to feed this and the Attitude-era WWE footage to an LLM to generate guaranteed viral Bluesky video.

Hungary enters the arena and joins Russia and the US in the ring. Takes the mic. Then tears off its MAGA shirt to reveal a NATO shirt underneath! Ukraine charges in from backstage, and together they body slam Russia to the mat, then turn on MAGA, which drops to its knees and cowers…

Remember when Linda McMahon called for education based in “ay-one” and she didn’t resign or get fired and she’s still in the job and just isn’t ever doing a media hit again because nobody cares about education?

That but the entire executive branch. That’s their alternative to the 25th.

Plenty of lefties are waiting for the batshit insane don’t-know-where-I-am episodes of severe Alzheimer’s.
Folks, the best you’re going to get is no more public appearances while Stephen Miller takes control. Even these clowns can hide a vegetative Trump.

I must renew my call to cede Staten Island to New Jersey. It is a travesty that we being those people to Manhattan FOR FREE.

It is. The technical mechanism (using TXT records in the DNS database) is *delightfully* nerdy.

(People using Substack without getting their own domain name, however, is a genuinely egregious mistake.)

Bluesky is a walled garden in practice, but part of the original pitch was that a “federated protocol” means you can actually own your own content here.

Which leads me to the (admittedly 99% symbolic) suggestion: use your own domain name instead of bsky in your handle.

That’s the price for a return ticket. Think of it as $5 to go the New Jersey and $145 to get back out and it makes a lot more sense.

There is a direct connection between “CEO said a thing” replacing actual journalism in tech/business and “Trump said a thing” reporting crowding out any policy analysis.

Multiple bankruptcies; brother drank himself to death; divorces; his sons are embarrassing morons…

The contrast is very much that everyone recognizes every Trump bad thing is self-imposed and we can’t even pretend they’re tragedies or bad luck.

Everyone: There is a terrible curse on Kennedys and they have nothing but bad luck!

Kennedy: Technically I’m not qualified to fly this airplane, but I’m a golden boy and I’m sure there will be no low-probability-but-routine malfunction I don’t have the experience to handle…

Remember when people who didn’t know how to code confidently assured us that everyone needed to learn to code?

Where. Are. Nerds. Gummy. Clusters.

Charlie Kirk would have been appalled by this attempt to indoctrinate students.

I’ve given longer rants in this, but there is a *particular* tendency for mediocre programmers to believe that “just apply a handful of simple rules and extrapolate” obviates all actual expertise. (Experienced engineers realize that this doesn’t even work for software.)

Others have also pointed this out—I stand corrected. But credit for bringing receipts.

That was when she was a teenager.

That's not fair.
His daughter is a little old for his tastes.

But come on: relatable for so many Americans…

My more serious take on this: “Thou shalt not kill”. The most egregious mistranslation in the Bible, which is not a pacifist (or vegetarian) text.

The more correct translation, “Don’t murder” is a tautology: the bad kind of killing is bad.

God helps those who help themselves.

An absolute backbone of Protestant ethics, despite it being attributed in myth to Hercules. And being “The gods”, not “God”.

I know it was a real Bluesky outage because I got a few alerts from my sunrise bots.

More honestly: I was relieved to see alert emails today because it suggests my monitoring infrastructure works at least a little.

I agree this is telling!
That said, a fair number of Americans have never had a pet. So doesn’t *quite* fit the theme I was going for.

We’re all very impressed with your moral superiority. While you work for them.

Blocked, you ignorant sociopath.

He has never waited for a doctor.

Yeah, but then neither have the vast majority of Americans.

Okay—I did not know that. In NYC in particular most folks with money always use a driver.

Again: you are showcasing that you know absolutely nothing about the industry or the executives involved. Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai are not Larry Ellison and Zuck. If you don’t know the difference you know absolutely nothing about people.