Potempkin Village Idiot

Reflecting on the historical nature of the term (((globalist))). It seems painfully apparent that Globalism and Zionism represent two opposite poles on one of modern Judaism's key ideological (and even ontological) axes.

You know, posting this the day that Pynchon releases a new book could be confusing to some.

If I was going to write a biography of my dog, I think I would call it "Pooping in Shadows and Tall Grass"

On first pass I misread the headline as "Feral Agents", but it's not that much of a misread, really.

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

It's World Teacher Day.

Thanks to all of you who are, were, or will be teachers - you perpetuate civilization.

But special thanks to my favorite teacher, my wife, who is an inspiration to all of us who know her: students, coworkers, and friends alike.

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Comic book panel of a TV film crew videotaping a superhero speedster as he runs away. The cameraman shouts, "That guy is faster than 10 fast men!!"

Screenshot from space quest 2 right after the protagonist is swallowed by a giant mushroom.

This is the opposite of those Russian human wave attacks where they give one gun to 10 guys.

Oh, yea, Lilith. She's lovely. We still keep in touch.

It actually wasn't supposed to be, but when the racist and sexist nerds didn't get pushed out in the 2000s the rest of us left because it wasn't worth fighting for.

First rule of Quaker Fight Club is you don't talk during Quaker Fight Club, unless you feel yourself to be in a presence which commands your reverence.

A picture of a clone trooper with the face of Rhys Darby crudely pasted over it.

Playing Star Wars Clone Trooper Legos with my son, and he loves it when I do my characters with a New Zealand accent. But for some reason I always feel like I sound more like Murray from Flight Of The Conchords (@rhysiedarby.bsky.social)
than like a badass clone of Temura Morrison

My son wants to play spooky board games for Halloween. Any recommendations?

True story: Once when I dropped my son off at day care one of the other kids said "boo!" to me, and I asked if he was trying to scare me, and a five year old girl said, "he's not saying boo to scare you, he's booing your outfit."

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

with us in the middle - full orbits in total silence. By the third one, it felt like he was invoking a shield of protection around me. At the end of his fifth rotation the light changed and we moved forward across the street.

Some change had taken place, but what I cannot tell.

Before bed I take my 9-year-old son and our dog for a walk around our quiet residential urban neighborhood. He usually rides his scooter alongside me.

Last night, as we waited on a street corner for the light to change he began to circle me and the dog. A slow steady counterclockwise spiral,

A woman stands with a cup of coffee while talking to a muscular masked man carrying large hunks of meat. She says, "Government shutdown huh?" "yeah" he replies. "What's with all the meat?" She asks. The muscular masked man uses a cleaver to carve the meat into smaller pieces and wraps those pieces in brown butchers paper. He answers her saying, "Figure I'll sell cuts of this leftover mammoth online to make some cash in the meantime." She sips her cup of coffee skeptically, "Selling Mammoth online sounds... Kind of illegal." He looks levelly at her while stacking packages of Mammoth meat. "Yeah. Maybe the government will stop me."

Thinking about this @coelasquid.bsky.social comic from 2018 but it hits a little different now.

All of his movie contracts stipulate that he cannot be shown losing a fight.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Sometimes I'll see an interesting article on librarians and archivists that I really want to read, and I open it up and it's just some stupid crap about libertarians & anarchists.

I don't really think of myself as "arm candy"

I'm much more of what you might call "arm butter"

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Heading back into DC today. First work day in 6 months. Still can't figure out if it's ominous or a relief. Maybe it's just an ominous relief.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

He's allergic to windows. Which has worked out well for him.