Tony Scida

ELECTIONS Democrat Jay Jones wins Virginia AG race, overcoming backlash to his violent texts NBC News projects Jones has defeated the Republican incumbent Jason Miyares. Democrat Jay Jones faced bipartisan condemnation for violent texts he sent in 2022. Mike Kropf / Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP

It’s over, you all can stop pretending you hadn’t heard that joke before

I can’t understand why my vet only sends reminders that my dog needs appointments outside of their business hours. Like, thanks for the Friday night text reminder, I guess? And the Saturday night email. Let’s see how long it takes me to remember to call them when they’re actually open.

And now Canva has made Affinity free (it was already a pretty good deal when it was a suite of paid apps), and it seems like it will integrate with Canva in a way that lets you create a design template or assets and work with them in Canva, which I know has been a point of friction for designers.

Figma’s free version’s limits are mostly around collaboration, which you may not need if you’re doing it all yourself. And the design tools out-class Adobe for web/app/interactive design.

Reaper is a full-featured DAW that does everything Logic does, as far as I can tell. And I’m sure most of what Pro Tools and Ableton do. Audacity is a free audio editor that does all you need for basic audio editing, and is getting a big design overhaul.

For all the enshittification of software and all of that, the free creative apps that exist in 2025 are incredibly high quality.

DaVinci Resolve probably does everything you need for video for free and has paid upgrade options you can get to when you need them.

If you’re a young designer, you should just use whatever your work or school wants you to use. The tools don’t do the design, you do.

If you’re a musician or small business owner or someone else trying to make things to support your other goals, you absolutely should be using free and cheap apps.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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It was a huge deal. I remember some of the marketing tie-ins like the happy meal… toy? Game? www.ebay.com/itm/27730597...

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

This is the kind of thing I think about when memes/quotes go around about “being the people we were on 9/12”

Restaurant near my old job had a great turkey, apple, brie sandwich

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@liss.bsky.social funny story about how Auburn’s colors got to be so close to UVAs… uvamagazine.org/articles/let...

The original passage doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s not like he was giving racist speeches to liberals and hallmark channel speeches to conservatives. He was always talking to conservative outlets. They just weren’t paying attention or didn’t care about the racist and sexist things he said.

How do you do the prints, out of curiosity?

The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter

Mine is going up 20% unless I switch to an even worse plan.

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.

President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

Is his own paper part of his evidence?

Since 2019, the @relay.fm community has raised over $4 million for the life-saving work of St. Jude. When I stepped foot on its campus with my son in 2009, I had no idea where life was taking us, but I'm thankful it's here.

stjude.org/relay

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says

Dozens of highly trained government lawyers have worked tirelessly to ruin this one random man's life for no reason other than Stephen Miller's whim. Kafka has come to America.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

It’s @ranchogordo.bsky.social bean day, mfers!

it's part of our history and tradition when we like it, and it is an unconstitutional usurpation when we don't

What’s it going to take?

I think about this every damn day

That middle paragraph sounds like an LLM response

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