Oh, and I draw the line at racism. That should go without saying.

I am all in favour of blasphemy, but dammit, it should be done with style! And flair! And in a good spirit and with a twinkle in the eye!

Imagine that! Who'd have thought?

Noise and fury, signifying nothing
… as someone wrote a long time ago.

If you missed any, I didn't notice.

Bizarre, but understandable if I twist my mind … just so.
I think I prefer cricket, although (or because?) I have zero understanding of the game.

s/certain/substantial/ (excuse my moment of unix geekery)

I do detect a certain amount of assholery, though. Maybe that is the entire point?

Hmm. Does any of this make any sense to someone who is not American? I certainly can't figure it out. Like, what are these guys supposed to audit?
The whole thing seems almost, but not quite, unlike cricket, which is also a total mystery to me because I am not British.

What makes you think it will ever be?

When you put it that way, I have to agree. And also, ground travel is more enjoyable in many ways. But still accident prone.

I understand the reaction, but even so, I am pretty sure that flying is still safer than driving. Though not as safe as it could be.

Time for another rename of the former Department of Defense?
Department of Special Military Operations?
DOSMO has a nice ring to it.

You're welcome. 😁

Real, or satire? You just can't tell these days.

Bluesky is my first and so far only experience with modern social media. It has been interesting, but takes up too much time and effort. I will not quit, but must scale it back severely.

To be clear, all of them are worth following on their own, many of them have great content, but I have to take care of my own sanity first of all. So if you are one of those I am going to unfollow in the following days, don't take it personally, please. I wish you well.

The Great Unfollowing is about to begin!

I follow too many accounts. The resulting firehose of messages is just too much for me to handle, if I want to have an actual life outside of bluesky! So I am going to start unfollowing a number of accounts.

“Allies forced to fend for themselves”
Honest question: Does the United States have allies anymore?
On paper, yes, but in reality?

This day will live in infamy for a long, long time. But maybe one day it will be celebrated as the beginning of the downfall of the Russian empire.

That should be very interesting, but what, or where, is Thinking Live? I am searching the net to no avail.

Just looking at that makes my neck hurt. 😂

That's a nice case of misdirection. It took me too long to realise that the green and orange squares are irrelevant, since their tops do not align with anything so their being squares is inconsequential.
Remove them from the picture, and the solution practically writes itself.

Sure, kick out all the foreign violent criminals, and there will be more well-paying jobs in violent crime for ordinary Americans!

Oh, the horror! Zines! Zine: Taking MAGA out of magazine.

Four different answers, or four different ways to arrive at the same answer? 😜

If you happen to be a Mac user, consider Aeronaut. It's great! And it has a good interface for writing threads. I admit I don't write a lot of long threads, so I don't know how reliable it is. But it's worth a try. @aeronautapp.com

This saying is commonly used in Norway, probably because in Norwegian, it rhymes:
Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær.

Yes, and depending on what state they're in, they can now charge those women for the crime of miscarrying! Win-win for them! (Okay, maybe not, wouldn't they love it if they could get away with it.)

Oh. I missed it because it got covered by the subscription nag box, and I was just too annoyed to stay on the page.
I miss the old web.
We agree on the solution, though. I think it's unique (up to the obvious symmetry).