Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées

Ross can’t tell if death squads in the streets & illegal wars overseas are worse than pronouns & universal healthcare.

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Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

maybe the former weekend morning talk show host and the wrestlemania ceo and the podcasters running everything will be able to pull off regime change in one of the most politically complicated areas of the world

well hold on now maybe the military invasion in the middle east being run by narcissistic sociopaths with substance abuse issues will go smoothly and we’ll all end up looking stupid

Faculty Under Attack: How the public syllabus policy is seen as the latest weapon against academia Faculty across the UNC System are expressing increased concerns that their safety is at risk following the new UNC System policy that all class syllabi be posted in an online database.

“This institution doesn’t mind if you’re picked off one by one.” Professors at UNC schools say the new public syllabus policy will make them targets. #ncpol #nced #unc

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Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

“I care about this and want to know more about it” is a great reason to study something in college. So is “Huh, that sounds interesting.”

Like I said, it’s not everybody’s thing, but being able to pursue your curiosity without a tangible other goal in mind is a good thing, I think.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

The restoring trust in media conference featuring Minister Cornelius Fudge, the Executive Editor of the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter, Percy Weasley, and a special appearance by the dark lord himself.

Replace “hats” with “winter coats” and you get something like 90% of the worthwhile narrative content in the first installment of my memoirs:

“Milo Baynes: The Early Years - Birth to High School”

Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats trom non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug. These machines sort of do the same thing, but even without knowing how the second one works 1 am extremely confident in saying it doesn't work the same way as the first one.

A.I Isn’t People www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

The New York Rangers expect me, a woman, to come back and watch the rest of the season after I watched the people who run the organization and two of its players laugh at female athletes. I think I’m good on hockey for the rest of the season. It’s been, like, really ruined.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

In this year's state legislature, a bipartisan measure - House Bill 369, The Parking Lot Reform & Modernization Act - would eliminate government-mandated parking minimums statewide.

This is a good idea, and North Carolina should do it.
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a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone and says diane 11:30 am february 24th Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone and says diane 11:30 am february 24th

Happy TWIN PEAKS DAY to those who celebrate.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

I really thought we’d agreed that these were among the words we didn’t want to inspire scientists to say…

I mean, we went and put the warnings in all the movies and novels and comic books and stuff, didn’t we?

They Haven't Even Started Spending Yet The terrifying math of money in politics.

"Rich people and corporations have not even begun to spend what they are capable of spending in order to buy political influence. If you think that we have too much money in politics now, well, it can get much, much worse."

An unfinished book rack made of sapele sits atop a woodworking bench… mocking its maker with various imperfections.

An unfinished book rack made of sapele sits atop a woodworking bench. It should be made of quarter-sawn white oak… but have seen the process of that stuff lately?

woot woot

First fit-up of the Stickley No. 74-style “Book Rack” I’ve been working on for far too long.

I’ve been shaping each of the 8 tenons individually & this is the first time I’ve put it all together.

Now to make the little mortises in each tenon for the pegs which will hold it together.

Everything is fine.

David Brooks: America Needs a Mass Movement -- Now

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl.

If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece.

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Perhaps you dislike The Beatles…

…as both examples — TFF’s ‘Seeds of Love’ and XTC’s Oranges & Lemons — are the most openly, explicitly, and deeply Beatles-influenced products in the catalog of each band.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

Average White Band’s classic “Pick Up the Pieces” hits #1 today in 1975.

“.. The name of the band started out as an ‘in’ saying among us,” said bassist Alan Gorrie. “You know, we’d be listening to a track and say ‘not bad for an average white band.’ I guess it just stuck ..”

Old enough to have thought Puerto Vallarta was a fictional place invented by “The Love Boat”.