Justin M

Again, the argument isn't "it can't happen here", it's "it will look different in ways we can't predict"

I don't think this was his argument; he explicitly says it's bad. I think the argument is that other places this has happened, like Hungary, are more like each other than the US; therefore the effects could be different in ways that he'd rather wait and see than attempt to predict the specifics of

All three seasons went so hard

Rural purge - Wikipedia

The rural purge was 55 years ago, but it's come back for revenge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_p...

Weird how searching this article for 'constutition[al]' or 'legal[ity]' returns zero results

The next John Carpenter is out there somewhere, today!

(Also these movies are such a blind spot for me; I can't wait to give them a go at some point. I finally checked off The Thing recently, much helped by dating a Film Gal!)

AI is not in my classroom, it’s not in my job, it’s not in my group chat, and I wish it weren’t in my neighborhood. It’s not inevitable, it’s not everywhere, and so many of us don’t want it anywhere. This isn’t a wave you want to surf, DCPL, and it’s not negligent if you don’t embrace/promote it

Let's hope it's not a Kinsley gaffe. The thing is: even if it doesn't come back in the form of checks or something, it's still *our* money in the treasury, whether it's used for schools, roads, paying down debt, reducing taxes, etc.

I wonder how much of it has already (illegally) been spent on things not authorized by the Congress, like the East Wing/Ballroom, the Board of Peace, etc...

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Use the iPhone app?

(So dumb, but Charles Dance rules as a ham, and it’s a great demo for a surround sound system)

Kind of what @joevuk.bsky.social said. I really enjoyed Shin Godzilla, but Minus One I think is considered the best. The American ones are popcorn flicks; I didn’t care for the original (remake) like the critics did. But King of the Monsters is the awful, campy, stupid kaiju fuckfest of my dreams

Right; did all the "white" Super Bowl shows erase the Black ones?

We - the US - are literally, without exaggeration, building concentration camps. Fight this every way you can. Some suggestions are at the end of this article!

I ran into Jeanne Pirro eating at a sidewalk cafe a block from my house a few months ago. I immediately ran home, found a sheet of posterboard, wrote a pretty stupid message on it, and literally marched up and down the sidewalk by myself (called friends, but no one could make it). I'm doing my part!

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

I went on a (first) date years (decades?) ago and towards the end she said "It doesn't feel like you're trying to sleep with me. Did you want to sleep with me?" Apparently she was confused, it wasn't her norm 💅

If they want to use that argument for Ada, surely it applies to Asimov, too?

Right; VP is a separate election

I started dating someone wonderful in September. We share a love of Heated Rivalry, Cynar, and Chartreuse. I have a very small apartment, but wanted to give her some (more) space all her own over here..

Be nicer if there was a switch to turn them on. Why do they think we want these things by default?

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

micro-target zoomer voters with this clip

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

Oil proceeds are going into a private account in Qatar that US Treasury cannot block. The entire arrangement is grotesquely illegal and corrupt. Rubio's answers are dissembling. And we can't seemingly even get intelligent questions for him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan

I know we're all pretty tuned in on bsky, but either a bunch of US senators and reps are seeing these videos and not acting it's like a five-alarm fire, or they live in some entirely different news ecosystem where the most critical things pass them by, and just... wtf.

I killed the last of a bottle of Balvenie 15 (bourbon cask) earlier, and capped the night off with just a splash of a Four Roses Single Barrel!