Josh, the Salem Gadfly

I get this - Amazon has their uses, but buy your dead tree books from great local bookstores, not Amazon. I like my Kindle, it’s handy. I like real books more and buy as many as I can from WGB. And other indie stores.

I’d been excited for Threads, and then the stupid people found it.

The logical place for someone with actual principles to wind up.

There’s room for you here. Not all Democrats believe the same things, but we believe in America and we believe in the Constitution.

I’m fond of R.E.M. but they had some crappy songs and took themselves way too seriously for a long time.

Oh no. The worst thing about my city, and it’s made it to Illinois politics all the way from Salem Massachusetts. The horror is real.

We demand The Hives come to the East Coast and Boston in particular.

In!

In what universe is Watters the arbiter of masculinity?

Also, two truths. Milkshakes (or as we call them here in New England, "frappes") are delicious, and if you have to tell people you're manly, you're not.

We had a post from @gruber.foo today about the lawsuit over Apple Intelligence. I'm guessing the lawsuit is because of the Siri delay. Yes, Apple screwed up but they also very clearly said that AI was something in beta that would be rolling out over time. And it is, in fact, rolling out over time.

It’s a damn good hat.

Well, enjoy the brief respite from COVID-driven supply chain disruption inflation and prepare for the tariff-driven economic crash that’ll cost a lot of people (especially the blue collar workers who thought Democrats didn’t care about them) their jobs.

It’s better than Twitter, but that’s a low bar.

I don’t know, I wasn’t one of them. But today I saw the change, found him in my list and dropped him in a single click.

Could have been glitches in the transition.

It happened that way last time.

That’s an excellent choice.

Hate, blame, and disarray are also far easier to sell than process, gradualism, and inclusion. The last President who really asked Americans to look inward and help build the country was Carter and he was wiped out running for reelection.

Not surprised that Trump has no respect the territorial integrity of Denmark — he had no respect the territorial integrity of E. Jean Carroll either.

#crossfitproblems

My kid, hearing me coughing when I got home from the gym: “Dad, are you sick?”

Me: “No, I’m fine. This is just Fran cough. It happens.”

He still doesn’t believe me, and thinks I have plague. Even though the cough is gone now.

The best Gumbel.

That’s the content we’re here for.

Depends on your definition of “good.”

I think I’d rather drink Malört.

Thank you for doing this - you’re like the celebrity guide to Bluesky!

In other words, pronouns and identification are not that big a deal unless you want a culture war.

The world may be falling apart, but at least I had Bonchon for lunch with my kid today.

In most US states there is one total trans person playing one sport. This is not a realistic or workable solution. There are not enough trans athletes in most states to field a starting 11 on one soccer team.

There’s so much less toxicity here so far, I so hope it lasts!

Ironically it’s pretty much the safest combat sport.