Marc Jacobs (he/him)

Their version of Blitzkrieg Bop is also 👍👍👍

Thank you for sharing this band.

I forgot that brand.

It was for sale in a fancy grocery in Palo Alto, CA, when I first moved to the Bay Area.

I read 2 paragraphs and tuned right out.

That was 2 grafs too many, 🤣

The Great Retcon The invention of "heritage Americans"

For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...

Speaking as a Pennsylvania-born person, YES.

Wensleydale is #1 because it features in Wallace & Gromit.

(Only partly joking)

Scotts? With two Ts?
😳

Are torpedoes small arms? Are bombs from dive bombers small arms? Asking for the USN & IJN.

Happy Valentine’s Day

In this post, I will also explain the blue/green confusion in Japanese.

😇

In our household, binkie was a pacifier and blankie was the security blanket.

Although there was a specific pet name for the blankie, for our elder daughter.

MILLER: “I’m about to go full Bernie, and I worked for Jeb Bush. That’s a pitchfork-type anecdote for me.”

@timmiller.bsky.social on Bezos ballooning from $23 Billion to $240 Billion

At last, Tim’s transformation is complete!

Full @thebulwark.com @profgalloway.com ep: youtu.be/Zi07_fWFBVk?...

The ch like chud, or the ch like chemistry?

Hey look it’s survivorship bias in bridge troll form

I would love to watch that. Not some random person inventing their own definitions but a recognized, published expert telling him, “umm, no.”

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

I do not want ICE reformed.
I want it destroyed.

Delenda Est.

Also, the story shows large decline in “Trump behaves ethically” among White Evangelicals 55–>40%.

And lesser decline in support all/most policies 66–>58%.

Interested in a breakdown of “policy support,” to tease out
1. Culture war
2. Abortion
3. Racial animus
Etc
vs “feels about policy.”

Whenever I read this, I think of the department VP at my first job.

Data
What does it mean?
What are you going to do?

Key question for White Evangelicals is the last one.

Because if they say, “I don’t think he’s ethical, but…” that wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

Looks like a chart of radioactive decay. What is the half life of this “asset?”

This *started out* as a math/science observation.

Every time I tell my wife a Tesla/Elon story, she asks, “what exact problem are we trying to solve, again?”

Other than, “it’s a grift,” there is rarely an answer.

We are quite aligned, except she expends less energy on the details.

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

I’m stealing that line.

Things I learned in junior high school, when they taught us about Copernicus, Kepler, the heliocentric universe and epicycles, elliptical vs circular orbits.

Maybe Elon wasn’t paying attention.

(I didn’t learn about Ptolemy dry labbing observations until university stats class, BTW)

Thank you for highlighting.

Oh, you beat me to it. Should have looked before I posted.

Or radium.

Although, yes, Purebred is a bit much, now that you mention it.

Bar Sinister = Bastard in heraldry.

It is a subtle “evade the censors” move.

Underdog makes me think of the cartoon hero.

And if ever there was a politician who fits the Simon Bar Sinister mold, it is Trump. Or maybe Musk.