Michael Gerber, bon vivant

“.. We have shattered the halo that has existed around the United States for much of the world across the eight decades since World War II .. closing our doors to the world’s brightest .. by embracing corruption in government ..”

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imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul

I wish this, too.

But the economics became nearly impossible with the rise of ebooks, which cannibalized mmppk sales.

I worked 14 years for a major paperback publisher. You need to sell at least 20,000 copies of each book to make a P&L work at "mass market" price.

Cat paw print in a red brick wall.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

I showed some images from LONGSHOT COMICS in which the characters are literally DOTS. Said you can make comics with just DOTS for characters!

And kid who was literally hiding under a desk got out from under the desk and started to draw.

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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

"Both parties are the same so no reason to vote" works if you just pretend they are the same.

It’s like, “how can I have the absolute least fun being a dude? How can I make sure my gender performance gives me a heart attack at 52?”

Plus so many of them profess to worship Classical models of masculinity which, uh

“Fellas, is being seduced by the much older King of Bythnia gay?”

I had no idea there were so many men positively *seething with anxiety* over what proper (straight) maleness looks like, and how to perform it

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

Bring back knowing when to quit

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I'm blanking on the source -- Harold C. Fleming, maybe? -- but there was a critic of the Kennedy administration's early inaction on civil rights who said their greatest failing was "not realizing you had to be on *somebody's* side in the South"

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

This Saturday, Dick Van Dyke will turn 100 and then, the day after, he'll begin the long journey back to zero, just as he's been doing, backwards and forwards, for centuries now.

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

I rewatched the first episode of World at War. They talked about how Hitler was given power by the people and then slowly chopped away at people’s rights. He also started going after his perceived enemies. He demonized a segment of society and made them disappear. Sound familiar?

*nods enthusiastically in library board VP*

"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. "

Henry Miller

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

The thing to understand about all these network states is:

(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,

(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass

And

(3) that’s because they want slaves.

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.

And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.

It's vice signaling as a way of life.

one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

the year is 2026. the disney-nvidia merger has been approved. erika kirk is the new head of cbs news. bill kristol is extolling the necessity of a vanguard party and permanent revolution