Diane Curtis

What's up? Endless Screaming AAAHHHHHHHHHHH

What's always up, really?

In all respects, Trump follows the mafia capo playbook. It’s all he ever wanted to be and do, it’s all he’s ever known.

But Prof. Musgrave says it better and with far more nuance.

A few years ago, I started regularly doing the math in my head: $.05 x 12 gallons = $.60, SO not worth driving any farther.

But the gas station closest to me, in semi-rural w mass, is usually *$.50/gallon* more than the ones on the main commercial artery. I never stop there. I don’t know who does!

If you grew up in Berkeley in the 1970s, Country Joe was one of those names you saw on the Keystone marquee all the time, with Jerry Garcia and Greg Kihn and Earthquake and the Rubinoos, just the backdrop of my childhood. I was too young to ever actually go to Keystone, as far as I can recall.

Seriously, though, what would someone intent on destroying the US be doing differently?

Remember those "Thanks Joe!" stickers on the gas pumps a couple years back?

Good times.

They just didn’t realize how many menu options are currently unavailable.

Reallocate Martin's $$ to the women's team.

Why can't today be the day?

You've got (solar) flare!

What if we invested the daylight instead of merely saving it? Mightn't we see a better return?

Screenshot: Two moms and a kid from Lightyear

All those poor kids scarred into therapy by Lightyear

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

If you place it in the golem tradition, then it goes back centuries and includes the connotation of aspiring to god-like creative powers.

We should reckon with the idea that Americans are so fucking dumb that we booted out the party that saved the country after Covid and created the best economic recovery in the world in favor of a con man who said he would use racism and magic to make everything cheaper and jobs plentiful.

My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.

Always grateful for my Rep @repmcgovern.bsky.social

Talarico gives Buttigieg vibes, and I don't mean that in a good way.

The party of "states' rights"

"What are we even doing here?" is the "Dude" of the 2020s. Appropriate in almost every situation, with a shifting meaning depending on intonation. Sure, it's longer than that old standby, but on the upside, it also injects eternal themes of being and purpose and uncertainty into every convo. WAWEDH.

Fantastic photo - do you have a credit for it?

I couldn’t see the eclipse to the west but I did get a nice view of the sunrise! Great photo!

Which members of the administration actually believe the Christian nationalist schtick and which are just happy to use it strategically/cynically and does it actually matter?

So much winning

How shall integrity face oppression?

That's the question the W.E.B. Dubois Library lobby spoke into my consciousness this morning as I grabbed some coffee from the Procrastination Station.

We live in contradiction. Always.

It's the chocolate chip cookie of manhole covers

Everything old is new again!

Soylent Chex is …

One of our allies just shot nearly $300 million worth of fighter planes out of the sky and my local school district is trying to manage a $500,000 increase in health insurance premiums for its employees so it doesn’t have to lay off any teachers.

Make it make any kind of moral sense.

I learned from “In the Blink of an Eye” that bound paper user manuals and Crocs will survive centuries into the future and that is just a very bleak meh-topia.