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you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing (ht @mikeduncan.bsky.social, for years ago cutting through a rough swath of my writers block with this unsubtle knife)

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DOGE's "savings" is like saying, "I've saved hundreds of dollars by never changing the oil or replacing the brakes in my old car."

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

I don't think there is a single topic where the gap between reality and the median American's opinion is larger than the question of Donald Trump's business acumen

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

Thinking everything is a distraction is classic wishful thinking to avoid doing literally anything. The fascism is the point. All the things they do are serious.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

For obvious reasons, the lesson—the internet wisdom—behind ‘don’t feed the trolls’ is applicable to random comment board participants but not the president of the United States. The president and his White House staff spending time fantasizing about a monarchy is not wise to ignore.

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

Even if this number was true (it’s not), Elon Musk’s strategy seems to be ‘I lost weight by cutting off my legs!’

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Oh hey! Subscribing to Blood in the Machine by @bcmerchant.bsky.social means I have five free one-month subscriptions to it I can share. Let me know if you want one! A quote from his newsletter: "I’m writing for the people Silicon Valley is happening TO—which, increasingly, is all of us."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One problem with the evilness in the news is that it makes you sound crazy if you try describe some of what’s going on… things like Elon Musk posting 14 American flags at 2:14 as code, mentioning it sounds freaking nutty but it’s clearly intentional

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Every story is a maintenance story

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

My offhand math is doing an across the board fire close to all the probie new hires just in the GS/equivalent systems would net probably at least 50K people, maybe closer to 75K, but expand that to the WGs and it's like 150K+

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Strong, resilient systems are not efficient systems, and vice versa.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

From an airline pilot perspective, I’m just going to point out the obvious: firing technicians who maintain the systems we use to navigate and get into position to land is…unwise. When the system works, nobody notices it. When it doesn’t work, everyone notices it. But it takes people the whole time.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments

Went to a fight and a hockey game broke out Go Canada

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Tonight’s Special Election results are posting now and there are two important results so far: Seattle’s Social housing initiative 1A - a citizen created and community rooted initiative to fund social housing with a corporate high-earners payroll tax in Seattle is passing #waelex #seaelex

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This is from the Seattle subreddit and I think we literally might've lived next to this guy in 2006. We got multiple long, unhinged handwritten notes from him (and he was mad we didn't invite him over to socialize).

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.

submitted 13 days ago • 134 comments

Ran to the grocery store today & the checker loved my 6 + 4 + 3 = 2 shirt. A fun baseball conversation was a nice bright spot amid gestures at everything

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Beautiful

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

No ad will top that one

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Birds etc.!

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Every day brings new stupidities you didn't even realize were possible.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

The idea that the use of em dashes exposes a writer's use of AI is the sort of idea that only AI could come up with.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments