True Charles

Excuse you, it's clearly on a "Subuwu"

At that stage of being sick where I'm staring at my screen, having apparently googled "MEGAMORSEL", with no memory of having done so.

Sitting in awe and adoration of the beautiful range of human experiences. I went out to get coffee at a cute new cafe and they served it to me in a bowl. Sipping my coffee out of a bowl. Like soup. What a world!

I was just about to say! Total DougDoug jumpscare.

Who’s the most famous alum of your high school?

Even tie between the Attending Physician of Congress and the Supreme Court… or the dude who made Criminal Minds

2 USC §2c requires single-member districts _generally_ — there's a couple narrow exceptions in 2 USC §2a(c).

As I’ve previously mentioned, some big blue states COULD legally do this under existing federal law in 2030… but red states can’t. Todd appears to be calling for Republicans to amend federal election law to allow it.

Worth noting that Todd appears to be advocating for a return to at-large voting, not more extreme gerrymandering.

(As I’ve mentioned, blue states could legally do this under existing federal election law in 2030, while red states can’t. Todd is calling for Republicans to amend federal election law to allow it.)

I’ll note that Todd appears to be advocating for a return to at-large voting, not more extreme gerrymandering.

A lot of respect for Senator Weiner on a lot of issues, but he’s critically misleading the #SOTN2026 crowd on one point — OAKLAND is the best city in California!

“The wise man, when caught [streaking major sporting events], covers not his [bare chest] but his face.”

Balaclava, final answer.

A moment of levity at #SOTN2026 when New Street Research analyst Blair Levin waves off the notion that Congress will do any substantial rewrite of the Telecom Act of 1996 in this election year: "It is hard to do less than what Congress accomplished last year... but they will succeed!"

Anyone who wants to learn more (or get involved with the support-public-transit initiative) can visit Connect Bay Area to learn more:

And that’s the FCC’s “Chief AI Officer” leaving the stage with no substantial comment after being asked about the effect of the Trump administration’s immigration policy on American tech preparedness… 👀 #SOTN2026

A schedule. One line reads “3:00–3:45: Coffee Break”

Glad to see #SOTN2026 supports my late-afternoon coffee habit.

Even taking these as true, I think it’s more than outweighed by:
1) Anti-gerrymandering effect
2) Getting urban Republican & rural Democratic representation (which may help reduce partisan polarization)

Currently reading a law review article you may be interested in:

States are laboratories of democracy. Should Virginia lead the nation by adopting these reforms for the state legislature?

This has opened my eyes to Honduran Flag Drama where (briefly):
* the original Constitution specified a light blue flag
* dark blue was used for ~100 years
* in ~2020 a new government started using the light blue variant
* two weeks ago a new new government put it back to dark blue

(This better image from when I actually just looked through the Honduran accounts on Twitter, lol)

Many western-hemisphere flags waving over a crowd of people. The flag of Honduras is visible near the center.

@beckyhammer.bsky.social may be happy to hear that I rewatched the halftime show's flag scene maybe half a dozen times to confirm that they were waving the flag of Honduras for my fiancée (who does research at & has family on the Honduran island of Roatán).

so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

“Residential zoning is an unconstitutional taking under the fifth amendment.” <== copy & pasting this for every question

… also every single thing I read in my old Homestuck days.

I remember a Star Wars fixit fic I read when I was… probably too young to be reading fic. They revealed that Obi-Wan had been a vampire the whole time maybe 50 chapters in. 😆

Wedding planning, Superbowl party prep, flying cross-country.

Not yet! Currently staring down the barrel of Stormlight Archive before I tackle anything else 😆

Do you have a guilty-pleasure / more schlocky SFF book you keep coming back to? Mine is Space Opera by Valente

A meme of Hans Moleman from "The Simpsons". The frame is captioned "I was saying 'coooo-ouch'".