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Old school (mid-'80s+) software/techie, data and information designer/architect (bonus points: I'm GenX). More analog than digital. Happy cargo ebike rider. Learning to be a social media inert gas.
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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 143 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 16 hours ago • 94 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 138 comments

Buy. Paper. Books. (and download ownable ebooks onto your own devices) New from me at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Reminds me of Henry M. Stanley's exploitative/robber baron "deals" in the Congo. Labor in perpetuity, etc.

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I just realized that, going forward, Wynton Marsalis' and Stanley Crouch's "Premature Autopsies" is going to get a lot of playtime in my house. youtu.be/D1wxH5r2_gY

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Hive mind: What's the meaning of "I'm not procrastinating I'm doing side quests"? I realize it's a gamer thing, but that's pretty much all I know. Is it simply a distillation of pushback against the criticism re: wasting time online/gaming? Obv, it has some cultural cachet that I'm missing...

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grim

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Today's breakfast was a refrigerator forage project. A simple mezze made from the below. It was brilliant. Greek Yogurt Rose Harissa Tomato Jam Chickpeas Sliced cucumber A few apple slices

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The odd sound you hear is the death rattle of irony.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Uhhh....

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Oh my: I'd forgotten about Dr. Oz & CMS.

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Odd thought: If there is an Emperor's agreement between '47 and Putin where the US won't interfere w/Putin's Eurasia objectives (by backing out of NATO, etc)... Then the US "getting" Greenland and Canada in exchange makes bizarre sense. (If Euro weak, can't support .. so US takes.)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If true, this is bonkers. The US' addiction to the automobile has no bottom.

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In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.

submitted 85 days ago • 27 comments

This is sublime. youtu.be/TgKsG6NZSIo

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My music shuffle has a sense of humor this evening. It just played these back to back: LoveGame, Lady Gaga The End of a Love Affair, Billy Holiday I’ll be laughing for a while.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social says it has the document Zelensky was asked to sign www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 158 comments

It’s weird how we’ve memory holed the fact that Obama entered his first term with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House and McConnell’s response was “We’re going to make Obama a one-term president,” not “there’s little we can do”

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

All the sudden I want to make some Rose Harissa tomato jam. Why? A focaccia sandwich with roasted eggplant/zucchini, mozzarella, arugula, and a dollop of harissa tomato jam sounds rather good. Time to grab a basic tomato jam recipe & tweak a few things.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

RFK, Jr. wants your daughters to die agonizing deaths from cervical cancer. And note: even if your daughters abstain from sex until marriage, and are totally monogamous, their husbands may not be. Vaccination is the ONLY way to protect them.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Dept. of Hiding in Plain Sight: Disbarred Trump consigliere John Eastman's *2006* report for Heritage Foundation laying out a legal attack on birthright citizenship that goes far beyond children of undocumented persons to establish a president/king's power to take citizenship away from... anyone. 1/

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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

submitted 6 days ago • 198 comments

There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments