This moment demands fighters, not folders.
10.11.2025 00:48 โ ๐ 3520 ๐ 826 ๐ฌ 49 ๐ 45@othershoe.bsky.social
Media (broadly construed) scholar and historian with far too many open projects. Wrote Television in The Age of Radio. Working on a cultural history of the monopoly that long controlled Texas film exhibition. Don't ever take your car all the way apart
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
10.11.2025 00:48 โ ๐ 3520 ๐ 826 ๐ฌ 49 ๐ 45At this point I wouldn't trust Fetterman to pick up my MTO at Sheetz.
10.11.2025 01:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sames.
09.11.2025 23:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy
09.11.2025 23:08 โ ๐ 3640 ๐ 636 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 11Man, I repeat:
If art is a machine that generates empathy, AI generated art is a machine that generates apathy. It erodes trust and human connection. The entire point of it is to make solidarity impossible, because it becomes unimaginable.
TFW you're making coffee but instead make a pot of hot water because you haven't had your coffee yet.
09.11.2025 13:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Dallas fights back against Gov. Abbott's order to remove rainbow crosswalks, calling for an exemption.
08.11.2025 12:31 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Minority parties obstruct the majority. It's what they do. It's what Republicans did ruthlessly when they were the minority.
Majority parties govern. It's their job to do whatever is necessary to get their opponents back to the table. If they can't, then everything that follows is their fault.
A bunch of chopped onions cooking in a 13 inch pan.
Onions chopped and beginning to sautรฉ.
07.11.2025 23:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Have to go cut up onions for dinner, but not quite ready for a good cry.
07.11.2025 23:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Going to be sad when they move to Vegas.
07.11.2025 21:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What a beauty. Our red maples just dropped 80% of their leaves over the past 36 hours, but they were grand up until.
07.11.2025 20:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That ballroom would make a good trial venue before we tear it down and replace it with a memorial garden or some such.
07.11.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Last night I watched a performance of Mahler's 8th sympohony on Youtube, and I had many critiques though overall it was enjoyable.
Tonight I watched some old clips of WKRP in Cincinatti. No notes.
Give the little cus a break! He just got up from nap time with Dr. Oz.
06.11.2025 23:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Why did my eyes just turn green?
Prosit!
And the US is going to miss out
06.11.2025 17:56 โ ๐ 101 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's
06.11.2025 17:57 โ ๐ 103 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3Thanks, that would be great. Right now it's still vaporware because of some mostly but not entirely under control health stuff, but I'll keep you posted as things progress.
06.11.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I need to get down there sometime soon for some kin- and friend-keeping, not necessarily for TG. I may Amtrak it.
06.11.2025 16:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
Thereโs no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now thereโs no political reason either.
Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. itโs joe-ver.
What, no flights to Cancun?
05.11.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Took the new battery powered chainsaw out for a spin today, Cut up some dead maple branches I'd pruned at the end of the summer. May not make for a whole winter's worth of firewood, but it should come close.
Also, it was too much chainsaw for this job, but I suspected that going in.
Why does it need a sign? Who roaming around the West Wing doesn't know it's the Oval Office?
Yup, that's the only guy I can think of too.
one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor
05.11.2025 15:46 โ ๐ 627 ๐ 129 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 5ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
05.11.2025 12:49 โ ๐ 16415 ๐ 2999 ๐ฌ 258 ๐ 161make them answer for why they care more about checking a childโs underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!
05.11.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 3498 ๐ 451 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 18Mask up, punks!!
05.11.2025 10:54 โ ๐ 97 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
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