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Dear Oracle, will I regret bailing on you to go to NIN?

Other NIN fans asked if they'll see me tonight, in that intimate venue... of TD Garden.
But not a peep from Trent.

Jim guestlisted me, not a peep from other fans, in that stadium known as... the back room of the Burren.

Who is where?

Just spent an hour trying to get through the phone lines to WGBH Culture Show episode about Groundhog Day and was roundly ignored.

Forward it to me at your peril.

No thanks, but can I applaud Carney again?

“Wait, did all of us wear blood donor T-shirts today?”

Last holdout pulls up sweater, revealing a shirt that says “you’re our type”

The history behind the NYC subway station chosen for Mamdani's swearing-in The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year's Eve. Eighty years later, it's a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor's private swearing-in ceremony.

There's an urban fantasy to be written about why Mamdani had a separate smaller ceremony in a decommissioned station.
(By someone like Ben Aaronovitch or Kate Griffin, or even Sarah Monette).

www.npr.org/2025/12/31/n...

Just about to get my schadenfreude on,
and,
wait, maybe I am in this circus...
and
I'm one of the monkeys?!?!?!?!

OMG!

ugh. What a moe.-ron.

On the commuter rail back from Ipswich Illuminations.
After Salem, the train ”inexplicably“ smells like beer farts.

Shocking, right?
*sigh*

Checks entire posting history in this account…

Have I really not posted about my fantasy of joining Yuletide solely to request Medford/Tufts?

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

There are people who should be making atonement and asking for forgiveness today who absolutely will not and never will and who think that this deficit in their humanity is somehow a virtue.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

Swear her in.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Subject: Planning for Potential Lapse in Funding President Trump opposes a government shutdown, and strongly supports the enactment of H.R. 5371, which is a clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government through November 21, and already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands. If Congressional Democrats maintain their current posture and refuse to pass a clean Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded before midnight on September 30, 2025, federal appropriated funding will lapse. A funding lapse will result in certain government activities ceasing due to a lack of appropriated funding. In addition, designated pre-notified employees of this agency would be temporarily furloughed. P.L. 116-1 would apply. The agency has contingency plans in place for executing an orderly shutdown of activities that would be affected by any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats. Further Information about those plans will be distributed should a lapse occur.

BREAKING — Employees at multiple government agencies have received an email from their leadership with text clearly dictated by The White House regarding a potential government shutdown.

So far HHS, Interior, and Social Security have gotten this message, the text of which was shared with me:

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

I am in this post and I don't like it

This only happens to you once

Cuomo could never.

I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.

*chef’s kiss*

Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night

Guess enough folks unsubscribed that the conglomeratI decided to honor the first amendment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Hugo does not live with me. I was invited to his human's "meet my new cat" party, and, other guests demanded I make him a sign.

signs for the somerville cat election, particularly Hugo's Shepard Fairey inspired sign that just says "Meow"

It seems like all the coverage of the cat election carefully didn't show off the awesome sign I designed for Hugo. So, here's a picture of his sign.

We can call Prep school!

If you made this, can you add the cartoon of death with the claw machine?