Puzzling Along

it's true, i did

Epstein nostalgia. Now there's a flex.

View from Los Gatos hillside across San Jose to the silhouette of Mt. Hamilton. Sky is overcast with many textures and layers.

Broody sort of day today.
View from Heintz open space, looking toward Mt. Hamilton.

magnificent

i'm afraid this is a bit off. The island is Great Britain, the word Britain is generally used as a casual word for the UK.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

(The redirects in Wikipedia, for example, follow this. Great Britain is the island, Britain the kingdom.)

What's with the Moonbase Alpha uniform?

"What's the point of standards" could be the maga motto.

Who is the "we" in this?

Your words are worthless.

some democrats have been fighting
you've been embarrassing
you have failed as leader
have the self respect to resign

the antichrist did it ?

and you're sticking with this story

there should be a laugh button

I get the sense that a lot of people all round the world are fascinated by this.

Skeeting from iPhone I’m holding down h to get a choice for ħ and there it is

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

"Office of Information Security Incident Response" aka Mike in the server room.

What would Hemingway make of all this?

a big chaotic bush in a front yard has been given enormous yellow googly eyes and a broad grinning stripe of white teeth for halloween it looks a bit like the giant head of Animal the muppet drummer

from the neighborhood

Rickets

teamsters and gangsters go back a long way

"Hungry children are an excellent bargaining chip."

Preferentially closing union stores also weakens unions. Looking at Starbucks, of course.

I'd like to know the simple mechanics of how emergencies are declared. Maybe some pre-Trump examples.

Because the "national media and politicians" on X (it isn't Twitter, it isn't like Twitter) is such a constructive audience.

"deliberately starve children"

the tray is there for snacks and coats and shoes and belts and everything from your pockets and...

security got a bit spicy after 9/11, we were almost stripping down

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Trump's coalition is basically all the people who think violence is a good idea. Helps account for some of this pointless crap and how it keeps cranking.

Corporate management knows that with a wildly bubbly market, and a federal government in a coma, they can act without scrutinity right now. They're grabbing the moment.