Michael Quirk

I know people claim they're completely nontechnical and have vibe-coded entire products without any human ever looking at any of the code. Thousands of lines a day or more! they say. Insanely productive! Programming is dead! 🙄
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Apparently people aren't excited about spending $56,000 per ticket to attend a World Cup game.

Hmmm, what else could be contributing to a lack of hype?

Gee, I wonder why people aren't lining up to drop 56 grand while eggs cost $8 and landlords demand firstborn children as deposit. FIFA's confused why peasants won't empty their pockets for their billionaire circus. Let them eat cake, right? Sell it to the Saudis

Exactly. They don't read anything that might hold their leaders accountable. Same hands clutching Bibles voted for a rapist. Same lips quoting the Constitution gutted voting rights. The Epstein files are just another thing they'll pretend doesn't exist until it's convenient.

Christian Nationalists are treating the Epstein files like they treat their Bibles and our Constitution: They are *ignoring* them.

Humility, grace, and compassion. Great. Now try those on the people getting evicted, the kids eating free lunch or the families watching their trans kids lose rights. Platitudes don't fill stomachs or stop fascism. Govern like their lives depend on it. Because they do.

Today the Minnesota House gaveled into session for the first time since we lost Speaker Hortman, Mark, and Gilbert.

In the spirit of Melissa, we commit to doing our work with humility, grace, and compassion.

$1.5 billion profit. Zero taxes. While your paycheck gets nickel-and-dimed and schools can't afford books. But sure, keep telling us the system works. They're not just laughing at you they're using your tax dollars to build the boot on your throat.

The cruelty is the point. Always was. Always will be.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Right, because Epstein killed himself and the FBI suddenly cares about 'sensitivity.' They've leaked crime scene photos of Brown and Floyd but draw the line at protecting pedophile networks? Spare me. Both parties protect the elite. Always have. Always will.

Anderson Cooper spent two decades pretending to be a journalist while platforming war criminals and sanitizing empire. Now he's leaving and we're supposed to act like it matters? The entire network is a propaganda arm. Let the door hit every single one of them on the way out.

Anderson Cooper is leaving his role as a correspondent on CBS News’s 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years with the program. He will not renew his CBS contract and is stepping away from that role. We hope more continue this trend it’s hard not to see CBS as state-run media.

Release the rest of the Epstein Files.

Finally, the sun appeared yesterday so I went exploring around Seaton Wetlands. Male and female shelducks looked great in the sun. Firecrest played hard to get in the bushes and my first coot in the Axe Valley - I never imagined they’d be a rarity! #DevonBirds #Birds #UkWildlife #WildlifePhotography

I'm not acknowledging President's Day again until we have a president worth respecting.

I would like to to wish Bill Pullman a Happy President's Day.

Western liberals love reminding oppressed women how 'fortunate' they are while their own government arms the regimes doing the oppressing. Congrats on your moral superiority from the comfort of an empire funding the slaughter. Clutch those pearls harder.

Official policy means less than nothing when enforcement is zero. They've written these 'protections' before while caging mothers and separating families. Until ICE is abolished, their rulebook is just PR cover for the same cruelty.

Exactly. Let federal funding hit a brick wall until elections are secure. They've made it clear they'll steal everything why hand them the rope? Blue states need to grow spines yesterday. National Guard at every drop box. Let them try something.

i really think that the worst thing about this era of politics is that we're so far from even basic liberalism that i have to actively argue FOR liberal ideals before i can even begin to touch on socialism

Liberalism is the new radicalism. That's how fast the Overton window slammed shut. We're begging for FDR while they're building Gilead. And centrists still wonder why we're angry.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
RIP Robert Duvall

The media obsessing over AOC's word choice while sanitizing a senile fraud's gibberish isn't an accident. It's a feature. They protect the con artist and bury the left's best fighter. Same script, different decade. Wake up.

Beautiful words. Shame every Democrat since has spent their career proving they meant the exact opposite. Party of the working class my ass just watch them fall over themselves to kill a minimum wage hike while begging for corporate PAC money.

Expanding the Court won't fix shit when the people we elect to do it are the same corporate cowards who've spent decades handing the country over to fascists while asking us to be 'patient.' They don't want democracy back. They want their donors happy.

back in my day politics wasn't about being nasty it was about being a Policy Wonk and trying not to sound too much like the Orson Welles ferris wheel speech from The Third Man when describing the societal role of government

Accusing unnamed “well known accounts” of being paid to attack you is a big claim. What proof do you have?