As long as they think it will benefit them personally.

A more selfish set of voters (MAGA) I’ve never seen.

I would too!

I mean, I don’t know, man. You’ll have to send that to me to check it out.

a cartoon character is sitting in a toilet with a book on the side that says ' doom ' ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a toilet with a book on the side that says ' doom '

I really don’t, not being a Brisbanian, but you have fun with that.

I’ll be watching which way the water in the toilet spins.

Late 60’s wall art.

Sydney is 14 hours ahead of Eastern Time. So I think you had to watch it yesterday…

Excellent choice!

If he calls back, no problem.

a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words come at me bro ALT: a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words come at me bro

Fat Kid Food Co says “hold my smash burger and street noodles”

a man in an orange shirt stands in front of a whiteboard that says " you know i 'm right " ALT: a man in an orange shirt stands in front of a whiteboard that says " you know i 'm right "

It was all downhill after “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying ooh uhh ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying ooh uhh

I’ve never understood the “influencer” thing. Either the arguments for or against stand on their own merits or not. Randos on the internet tell me to think a certain way? Puh-leaze.

The Thanksgiving eps are still part of our annual TDay events, right with the TDay “WKRP”.

Never ride backwards. Or in a helicopter with Herb Tarlek.

Mad About You (seasons 1-4), but mainly because I’m listening to the theme song right now and young Helen Hunt was super cute…

Only once a day? Seems like it’s more every couple of hours.

The extremely wealthy—the 0.0001%—have enough wealth that having it devalued by a factor of 10 or 100 or even 1000 would still leave them extremely well off.

So they may not care.

Then there are the religious nuts who want The Apocalypse…

BTW, while I was learning to drive, I literally had the “ball rolls into the street” event. Fortunately it was maybe 75-100 feet ahead of me so I could stop in time. So I’m well aware of the possibilities.

Total stopping distance under good conditions is about 3 car lengths at 20mph. One car length would require a speed of 9mph. What’s the answer?

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There’s a problem of physics and the functional utility of cars. At 20mph, you travel 29 feet per second; that’s more than the length of most parallel parking car spaces.

So you’re driving down a two lane (or 1.5 where we are) and there are cars parked all along the route. (1/n)

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

The Guardian has been my replacement for NYT for many years, and WaPo since 2024. They seem to have an anti-trans problem, however.

We had a brother-sister pair of Maine Coons; adopted because they were too old and like a day away from The Last Catnap. They were great, huge cats, very friendly, not nearly as aloof as other cats.

Age and COVID-19: What's with all the young kids? Inspired by an online conversation and the hard work of others, I set off to examine age groupings among Australians confirmed as COVID-19 cases from 2020 to April 2026. The findings revealed interest...

Inspired by an online conversation and the hard work of others, I set off to examine age groupings among Australians confirmed as COVID-19 cases from 2020 to April 2026. The findings revealed interesting patterns, especially in the very young.
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@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social how did the Rs get cloture on this?

The U.S. doesn’t have an immigrant problem; it has a White Christian Nationalist problem, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation.

Anya was right, bunnies are evil.

But can the people lose the all-black wardrobe look? Manhattan did that 30 years ago, it's over.

The Rs would call snap elections every time a D were elected, on January 20th at 12:01PM.

To anyone saying “the D party has to give us better candidates”:

No. You need to get out there and get more progressive candidates nominated. You run, get your friends to run. Do the hard work to get nominated and then elected in the general.

It’s politics. No one is going to give you anything.

Also, people keep writing “it’s up to the D party to give us better candidates.”

No, it’s up to you to vote into the D primaries for better candidates. AOC was a bartender. Talarico was a teacher, same as LBJ. Get your friends nominated.

But don’t expect anyone to give you anything.

My first election was Mondale vs Reagan. So I’ve also been watching this a long time. D is the only way to vote in the general election.