EIL

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.

Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

>indefinitely at war with Persia

Yeah that checks out

“How gay will Jacob Tierney’s Alexander the Great series be” idk kinda feels like that one answers itself

It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.

You know what? I would prefer a norms based order to a rules based order but I also think flight attendants should have qualified immunity.

March 8 on the calendar where it is printed: "International Women's Day" and "daylight saving time begins (clocks forward)

Thank you for having International Women's Day on the shortest day of the year

i am entering the war on cabinet officials on the side of the knives

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Sorry boss, I can't work, I'm watching Kristi Noem do a press conference and she doesn't know she's been shitcanned

There's a rational temptation in these moments to ask if what follows will be worse, and to let concern temper happiness.

My two cents and experience from Trump's first term is it's important and good to celebrate victories when you get them. Kristi Noem is truly awful, we should be glad she's out

naming a character markwayne and your editor hits you with “that’s an anti white caricature”

it is kinda wild to me how most Republicans in Congress almost got themselves lynched running their mouths about 2020, and proceeded to forget all about it roughly 3 hours later

I will watch any video about cookery that is on such a scale that the cook is using a full size Cooking Shovel to stir things about.

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

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Felt like I was going insane watching people accept an AI model's explanation for why that same AI model committed a war crime.

The one thing I can tell you as an author and as a jewelry maker is if you see other artists as competition or, worse, stepping stones, you've lost.

A rising tide lifts all boats. It won't be your boat today, maybe, but it might be tomorrow and the energy you put out there will come back to you.

Trying desperately to see ANY bright side -- it's never been a better time to be a decent hetero guy who wants a full partner and knows how to do his own laundry and actively likes women as people.

A lesson I have been very very slowly learning over my adult life is just how many men actually do not like women, and just how many men I encounter and have interacted with (even good interactions!) have not really seen me as fully a person equal to them.

I do think that quote plus “People are loving what’s happening" is evidence that they are completely cut off from the feedback mechanism of public opinion. And the thing about feedback mechanisms is they don't just disappear if you ignore them.

I would really like to live in a world where you can like or dislike someone without it meaning you endorse/hate everything about them and their work and that you're declaring yourself on team For or Against that person.

Not now! I am very busy making a ballot of bugs for the local elementary school. Election day is TOMORROW this is very serious. The children must vote for the best BUG, don't you understand the STAKES here?!

They set out to build Atproto/Atmosphere federation as their actual product, and only created Bluesky as a proof-of-concept app, and now all of their free time is spent managing a bunch of unruly libs on the Twitter clone they never wanted, and they're more mad about it than words can express.

It's really wild how hostile Bluesky's owners and devs are toward their own userbase

the plan

1. everyone's a (vibe) coder now
2. 1000 years of technical debt accrued in a single year
3. solution? vibe debugging -- frontier labs devote all resources to perfecting it
4. $$ profit $$

I’d add:

If you go to school, borrow money to better yourself, struggle, and declare bankruptcy…

… student loan debt survives.

But if you’re a cop given a public trust, violate by beating up someone handcuffed, lose and a lawsuit and can’t pay damages?

Bankruptcy makes them go away.

sorry no I can not turn my camera on for this zoom meeting because I am the reincarnation of narcissus and if i see my own visage I will become consumed with it and stare obsessively at my own face until I die

Me in December: I'm lazy and my brain doesn't work anymore and IDK if I'll ever be able to write again

Me in February: Huh, I can do stuff now

Me in March: [writing feverishly] I guess it was just my seasonal depression before. I'll remember that!

Me in December: I'm lazy and my brain doesn't wor