Mutton of the Sea

the judge ruled in grrm's favor after seeing chatgpt generate seven paragraphs about how delicious a smoked ham looked

trying to predict what 2026 will look like

Sunrise behind Mount Tahoma over Puget Sound

Sunrise

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Close-up of Border Patrol uniforms with a headline about immigration agencies accessing Washington license plate data. Text reads "Border Patrol should not have access to the location data of every Washingtonians who drives try a license plate reading camera."

Federal immigration agencies are exploiting Washington’s lack of restrictions on license plate reading cameras to find out where and when we drive our cars, as a recent report from the UW Center for Human Rights shows🧵

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
By Friedrich Nietzsche

Doesn’t that usually mean there’s a lot of money involved?

Repeat after me, MAGA sports fans: You don’t. Get to have college sports. Without functional colleges.

Just had the idea for a reality TV show called “Are You Dumb Enough to Date an English Major?” And it’s basically just people finding stuff their exes have written and confronting them and demanding to know if it was written about them.

No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

Pink-orange sunrise behind Mount Tahoma and over Puget Sound.

Always nice to start your Thursday with a banger sunrise.

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

We figured this out last year but no, we don't pass through the trail of ghosts we leave behind because our orbit around the sun is only stable relatively and the whole solar system is on its own trajectory through space, so we leave a corkscrew trail of souls behind us, howling in the void

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

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I was surprised to learn that Penn State identifies as “she,” ‘cause if ever a college came across as being a dude… 🤔

Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Team up with Rust, and together you can be… the Chrst Bros! Shooting hoops, fighting crime, and trying to get your roommates’ hot friends to show up to Campus Crusade for Christ on Wednesday nights. 😉

Got reassigned a new dental staff after my old dentist retired. Trying to remain open-minded, but that definitely got harder after they handed me a laminated flyer that starts with the phrase “Ozone is super oxygen!”

"Stay signed in?" Outlook in Browser asks me, seductively.

"Yes." I reply.

We both know it's a lie, but perhaps one day it will be true. The dream remains.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

A brightly lit fishing boat under a cloudy night sky on Puget Sound.

Night fishing

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

How to make NPR and your local station your preferred news source on Google The NPR Network is your trusted source for reliable, accessible and fact-checked information. And now you can make sure we show up in your Google results.

The NPR Network is your trusted source for reliable, accessible and fact-checked information. And now you can make sure we show up in your Google results.

Here’s hoping this bumps the AI slop from the top of my feed!