probably just paul

It's annoying how easy to use @home-assistant.io is. I've spent years building custom configuration tools, async orchestration platforms, and update automation, and then HA just, like, does it with zero effort. Fully amazing tool, can't believe I haven't been using it longer.

there is a very broad contingent of affluent folks across the center right who are DESPERATE to pretend that good faith progressive reform isn't THE solution to authoritarianism because they're scared of trans people and taxes, and we should continue to tell those folks to go fuck themselves

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

A moment of genuine positivity tonight. Nothing short of total victory for progressive platforms across the country.

It's a good reminder that while Trump's party might be comically evil, they're also deeply unpopular.

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably

Wishing your enemies only the best in private life is very classy

"If you won't play my game my way, then I'll take my ball and go home!" but as, like, political philosophy

The ultimate fantasy of these absolute weirdos is being able to bully people into taking them seriously

I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference ...

Everyone, tonight might be the last night for quite awhile that we get any mileage out of this @theonion.com headline. We should enjoy it while it lasts. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

If you have a local election tomorrow (CT, that's you too), remember to vote if you haven't already!

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

My favorite is when there's a left turn lane where the stop line is further back from the other lanes but Mr. Oblivious lines himself up with the people going straight and then doesn't trip the sensor so he doesn't get an arrow.

Noticing things is a superpower and I encourage more people to use it.

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Ok, I might need to become a baseball fan

What happened to the days when I had an IP address and you had an IP address and that was all I needed to know about computers

Could you share what pro-rep means? Tried googling but couldn't find it (or at least a plausible meaning in context).

I can't think of a single other time that an ostensible engineering productivity tool has needed to be forced into adoption like this so widely across the industry. It's like if everybody were mandating Git or Kubernetes uptake as part of performance reviews.

The DEA said they arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against such groups.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August.

A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

I find myself in the position of owning three suits. I don't know how I became this

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

i made a helpful reference

One of my favorite videos of yours. I've loved Toronto since I was a kid, but it gave me a new appreciation for Chicago too!

"Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice"

a couple of years ago, whenever i'd say that joe biden should be doing this or that, i would get responses from his supporters explaining that the president can't just do whatever he wants. he has to follow all these rules and norms and laws and such, apparently

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

Also, as a product, this is an absolutely awful idea. Didn't want to leave that implicit

This is both an utterly unsurprising and inevitable product of our economic+financial systems, and also the single most awful product I've ever seen in my life.