A Summer Asquith’s Day 🔸🇺🇦

"Bowling alone but for porn addicts" is...one hell of a thought.

Hey good point, it *is* immediately disqualifying if someone culturally associates with the racist losers flag.

Glad we had this talk.

“The South, Dear God, the South” Reflections on how the work I do impacts the person I am.

Am I insane or just Going Through It? You decide! medium.com/p/689732a2e7dc

“The South, Dear God, the South” Reflections on how the work I do impacts the person I am.

Am I insane or just Going Through It? You decide! medium.com/p/689732a2e7dc

3. If no, would I honestly just be saving time if I have to bulk transcribe documents myself?

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Legitimate question for #rlanguage or #python people, and I asked similar on the Other Place:

1. Are there ways to implement OCR on docs written in cursive without having to train a complicated ML model?

2. If the answer is yes, could you point me to instructions?

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The people he hurt will never forget, but the people he's trying to impress will always pick the genuine fascist over the plastic imitator.

And Republicans will make up some transphobic shit to smear on him ANYWAY.

Someone coined the hashtag #StrangeDeathofToryEngland on Twitter today and I just want to say that if anyone’s writing something in Dangerfieldian style, I’m all the way in.

two pink stuffed animals are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open . Alt: two pink muppets with yellow lips and big eyes are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open singing with a weirdo bearded muppet in glasses

If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining

I have been reading entirely too much about the Klan of late. Don’t AMA.

My new favorite Klan stories, beyond them getting their asses beat by the Lumbee:

(1) The 1923 Perth Amboy riot and getting their shit kicked in there.

(2) An interviewer going full Worldstar on David Duke’s past in a PBS interview with him in the 70s.

I think people are wrong to downplay the threat of DOJ being ordered to go after left-wing orgs

Which of you was gonna tell me Feufollet was a banger machine?

Oh, no, I am saying it. If Ezra's whole schtick is going to be "compromise on key issues for our base because Republicans find it icky" but his pet ones, I'm absolutely for rejecting his vote.

Don’t get me wrong, it continues to be very scary that the Trump administration keeps desperately trying to create Reichstag fires and Horst Wessel Power Hours, it’s just also very noticeable that they somehow keep failing to stick the landing.

Waiting for the first true patriot judge who simply says "if the federal government wants to play this game, I will presume it cannot have a case ever" and defaults the government on every case before them.

Re: the Comey business, I think the feds will find that another jurisdiction they cannot secure all but the absolute most heinous, secure, slam dunk, crimes against decency indictments in will be Not Fun.

Been waiting for Autism 2 to drop for years, the drought is over 🙏

Still cannot get over how utterly unnecessary any of this was. Selecting death, disorder, and decline. For nothing.

Two mutuals, I have two mutuals who might occasionally expend mental energy on Change UK!

Congrats to my one mutual who also will occasionally expend mental energy on Change UK.

Thinking about Change UK/The Independent Group 4 Change again and laughing like an idiot.

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

"Actually, I've decided that I *like* having my face eaten by the leopards."

Washington Spirit games provide a field for Trump resistance Women's soccer fans have taken to the stands with banners, flags, and pro-D.C. chants.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social if you haven't seen this, you might find this humorous and heartening. 51st.news/dc-spirit-tr...

If you walk into a vet's office and unironically suggest vaccines for your dog are bad because of dog autism, that should be license enough for them to seize your dog and prevent you from ever owning another one.

Or as I said to my advisor “Thank you, DC grand jury, for proving what we all knew: sandwiches are not a deadly weapon.”

Like bluntly: that Bobby Lee wasn’t hung in Richmond after a show trial in June 1865 is probably the biggest reason we’re here today.

The real hot take about Reconstruction is that it should’ve involved the United States Army doing what it did not do to finish the war: ending the lives of every single Southerner who claimed membership in the Klan or who tried to use the government to strip the rights of the freedmen.

Why your neighbors need you to oppose fascism Through Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut reveals how minds are made up.

We all know there’s a crisis coming that will force all who pay attention to make a choice that could define the rest of their lives.

Will people do it? In most cases, it depends on what they see us doing next.