Theresa MF

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

Now it makes sense!

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

“He’s only serving the political movement and business interests that benefit from a morally compromised, morally compromising political left.
His lack of compass in this moment means that he’s being played by a system that benefits from his confusion and his willingness to spread that confusion.”

That was a turnover.

Omg. Monsters everywhere.

if comedy is illegal at least Bill Maher is safe

We bought a couple for the kitchen and got the flat woven option for that reason. The texture is … odd? I don’t know if I’d get them again but it was nice to just wash them when thecat puked on them overnight.

Your local library is full of media that the president hates but can't use his regulatory power to get rid of.

I just find everything feels a bit better when I watch this.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Big same.

Me, too. I’ve tried to figure out why it’s so resonant.

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.

Anyway, here’s my cats.

This happened to me a few years ago. It feels like betrayal.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

It’s definitely a way to make insomnia feel productive without getting out from under the cat(s) at 4am.

Rejecting nihilism at this precise moment is incredibly hard AND one of the things most worth doing.

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

Nothing gold can stay, one hopes.

Tom Clancy’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Rémy fell asleep watching tv.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

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California stepped up, they are only part-time legislators (i. e. have other jobs that actually support their families from which they may not be able to take unlimited absence), and the only way to push this session out was to stay out of state until sometime in December.