An Omen of Bunnies

Airport thread

me toooooooooooooooooo (I have taken meds, and am lying down with a cold thing on my face)

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Pretty sure the bright light at my eye exam this afternoon caused the migraine I'm fighting right now, which......sucks

always works for me!

you think about how much less you'll lie cleaning up the messes your cat(s) start making somewhere OTHER than the litter box if you DON'T clean it

One thing I love about living by the river in central London is that yesterday I was able to text home 'sorry going to be late, my boat got stuck behind the HMS Waverley, the UK's oldest working steam ship.'

The whole MGA shtick about mass deportation of illegal immigrants is revealed as a sham: it catches legal residents and even citizens in its dragnet and its real function is to exercise violence against opponents to the regime.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Beyond Our Means Or, Why I Hate the Telephone

New post up at ROSIE $CHAAP IS BROKE. We lived pretty large in my childhood home. There were consequences.

Detail of the fireplace in the Fouquet jewelry store

Ceiling chandelier in the Fouquet jewelry store

Exterior of the Fouquet jewelry store, with stained glass and bas-relief sculpted lady

Interior of the Fouquet jewelry store, with curved wooden counter, mosaic floor and stained glass, plus ornate peacock sculptures

The Musée Carnavalet in Paris contains an entire Art Nouveau jewelry shop, commissioned by jeweler Georges Fouquet in 1901 from Czech maestro of floral twiddliness Alphonse Mucha. It’s a bit like being in an Art Nouveau TARDIS.

Fluffy cat with beautiful eyes in the window of a cat café

Fluffy cat with beautiful eyes in the window of a cat café

Writing a screenplay about spotting an alluring stranger in a Paris café and falling passionately, hopelessly in love. It’s based on a true story but this is the stranger and the place was called Café Miaou.

I feel this in my bones.

CaN't FiGhT tHe FuTuRe

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

But a most excellent and refreshing sleep to you, dear frond! XO

First I will have an excellent club sandwich! And a beeerrr!!

the ADF had a history of doing this but deception to some extent implies the court had a problem with it and the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch wing aren’t being deceived—they’re receiving the deliverables they requested

It’s time—it was time, years and years ago—to stop quoting the police for their account of events, esp those involving them, immediately after said event.

“ICE officers shot a man. ICE provided a comment, but will refrain from reporting it until we have more information and confirmation.”

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Greek-ified this recipe by swapping basil with parsley, parmesan with feta, adding chopped black olives and preserved lemons as well as fresh lemon slices and cooked with pre-seared spiced chicken thighs. Oh. My. God. I'm not drooling, you're drooling.

The collective action that thee nine universities need to take is to unequivocally reject the compact.

Danielle Allen, who is a wonderful and thoughtful person, seems to be imagining possibilities for good faith negotiations here that plainly do not exist. The government does not share her goal.

Just phenomenal earwork

want to throw up? yes

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

this is a super useful guide

And yet, still adorable and sweet as heck

I figure Jane & Lucy are likely to go closely enough together sometime in the next five years not to stress over it (Jane does get different WET food already, so...the new cat the Cat Distribution system delivered to us is barely 2, though: we'll see how THAT goes, if/when she's eventually sole cat

From August. Still heartwarming in October.