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• Post #4325082

  Suddenly a flurry of references to Flann O'Brien on here ? "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" mentions a service to make your books look like you read them & loved them. Do you hear a little bell ringing? O'Brien aka Myles na gCopaleen wrote pages about his imaginary enterprise in +-1950s: your books dog-eared, coffee/wine-stained, smudged, marginalia ("Poor Joyce said the same thing to me once"). As ever, it's damned fu...

• Post #4325081

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116981202049601605 Letting Mr Filth attend WHCA dinner even as a guest in 2015 (heckled by Pres. Obama) has turned out very very badly

• Post #4325080

  Tampering in other countries' elections ? Isn't that the biggest part of what CIA was doing in the 1950s-60s ? This new generation of testosteroni "had work done" poorly-educated GOPers isn't old enough to know that, of course #elections #GOP

• Post #4325079

  What does Netanyahu have in common with Drumpf & Putin ? 1 Widely viewed as war criminal 2 If ever out of power, will shortly be in prison, or [worse] 3 Has nuclear weapons

• Post #4325078

  Sen. Schumer said his job is to fight for funding for Israel (say it again, what country now?) There's a phrase in England: *Yesterday's man* Yes, there are such a lot of them: Sens. Graham & McConnell [if you call those men], Sens. Cruz, Kennedy & Scott [died years ago and looks it] Sens. Collins & Murkowski [with lucid intervals] & the Fat Fuck Himself...

• Post #4325077

  "The Martian Chronicles" - as I remembered it, a lot of Mars stories independent of one framework. But no ... 3 expeditions from Earth were abortive but wiped out Martians (chickenpox) ... then the Earthmen had their way with the place. At 15 I had read that, Slaughterhouse-Five & Cat's Cradle, 'Catch-22', 'Hadrian the Seventh', Twain's 'Letters From the Earth', 'Candide', lots of Dona...

• Post #4325076

  DISTINCTION W/OUT A DIFFERENCE ? 1 The Dept of Obstructing Justice can go right on settling cases with J-6 & other such persons, whether they got away with it or not, special fund or no. 2 Todd Blanche will be right there in his impossible position as Interim AG as long as El Disgusto remains no matter what Tillis/Cornyn or others may do. Likewise Emil Bove, on Court of Appeals, for life, oh puke ! ************ the unPresident, burbling about J-6 domestic terrorists: "treate...

• Post #4325075

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@mike_k/117020075016584915 This is why we can't have nice things #Deporttrump

• Post #2725593

  WE"RE CHANGING THE CLIMATE, YAY SO, a data center so big that ( ) couldn't describe it. for a 'Mr Wonderful' 40,000 acres = 62.5 sq. miles. Can't be right? Not enough concrete in the world? Mind-bending? Data ctrs in Utah, that's what they need [about 14 already!). Oh, but this one can change local temps +5 degrees, wowee, & pollute a vast aquifer! Huge conflicts of interest for officials! Discussed today on "Fast Politics&a...

• Post #2725592

  CALIFORNIANS ! also on "Fast Politics" today: Tom Steyer he makes it sound good, anyway. Molly seemed to be sympathetic

• Post #2725591

  Oh, sufficient unto one day is the evil ...

• Post #2725590

  IGNORANCE & SUPERSTITION ON THE MARCH ! On the National Mall ! Suppose you were among the Founding Fathers - and you had no objection to slavery - Well, you wouldn’t get any disagreement from the bible, would you There’s your biblical government that these people want. I knew a delightful old fellow, perfect gentleman, who spent his vacations arduously hunting for Noah’s Ark remnants —put another way, evidence of a genocide truly like we have never seen, by that jolly old god of hi...

• Post #2725589

  Bad enough that more than once, deluded individuals had perfectly good trees cut down to build a full-size replica of the Ark / saw the chance to run a tourist trap, & all tax-free! You'd think that for the sheer wastefulness, God wouldn't permit it. Honestly, because we were the way God made us - all the other land animals died too, where did all that freshwater go - physics - and finally Noah's daughters molest him, to keep the race going? Even as metaphor (?...

• Post #2725588

  President Pustule wished to clarify what Pres Xi meant about 'declining America' Waiting for clarification on what Stormy Daniels said about 'mushroom' and 'worst 90 seconds of my life", or certain historical remarks from the pitiable JD Vance, the flamboyant Lindsey Graham, the vomitous Ted Cruz ...boy, some people suddenly go strangely quiet, these days Reminder, if you ever signed a Trump NDA ... Not enforceable! [contract in furtherance...

• Post #2725587

  "Mike Johnson Thinks Everyone’s Being Too Darn Mean to the Religious Right" boy, when you've had your own way for 1700 years or so, sense of entitlement creeps in Johnson, now, Hegseth, they might be able to believe this stuff. Peter Thiel? Trump? Vance? [who is committed to papal infallibility] Nah -- they all say they want to go to Heaven, but they never want to go today #GOP #trumpslittleJohnson #RegimeChange

• Post #2725586

  Putin: arrest warrant from ICC Netanyahu: arrest warrant from ICC Trump: soon. Doesn't like the ICC, wants immunity ! "thing that I do best in life" - that is, the Saddam or Versailles decorating style. If that were true & he were even adequate as Pres., how could we be so lucky? Not plausible ! Remember when he wanted to go check the gold in Fort Knox personally? Obviously was giving it some thought [Goldfinger!]. "Who's gonna stop me?&q...

• Post #2725585

  RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116602806000971069 "God hates America" "God has a sense of humor" Two thoughts for today #impeach

• Post #2725584

  Rep. Thomas Massie didn't get, nor Sen. Cornyn at the last minute, Drumpf endorsement. Neither would you have picked to lead their folks into the 21st century, but- Cornyn had that 'central-casting Senator' thing (like Tuberville til he opens his mouth) Paxton? "Libs will hate it, his wife says biblically unbearable, lies & lies, that's a man after my own heart" "A Senator like Herschel Walker* could have been!" *Amb...

• Post #2725583

  RE: https://toad.social/@djg/116604503252120840 & add that: ever voting again will void their pardon

• Post #1703372

  TIL: Checking what the Hubble telescope was looking at, I got on the track of Hell emissions "Formation of Narrow Hell λ4686 Emission in HII Galaxies: Link with X-Ray Emission" one more thing we didn't need in an election year... or, there's your answer if anyone says 'Turn on the news', or, 'What's that smell?' #dystopia

• Post #1703371

  RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116432934336741923 Since he wants to declare progressivism anathema to the Founders' vision -- A good time to rerun this: "I'd be worried about this man's grasp of constitutional law if he were a 2L student" -- professor at Thomas' confirmation hearings. #SCOTUS

• Post #1703370

  "Garden of (250) American Heroes" incl. such deathless figures as Alex Trebek, Kobe Byant, Whitney Houston... stalling out? Budget $40M, site is TBD, architect already hired, 250 sculptors not heard from. Elvis Presley? Did he arrest anyone with his bogus DEA badge? No Robert Mueller? Soldiers/sailors exposed to nuclear tests? Victims of HUAC blacklist? [I could go on] Notice how any amt of $ in millions is just derisory now? Spend it on Trump Memorial, only if he's e...

• Post #1703368

  @emptywheel.bsky.social oh dammit I had forgotten about that already

• Post #1703367

  Trying to work this out: If it's appropriate I use AI for something, it must be very unimportant. If I can't do it without AI, what am I on Earth for anyway? [such a painful business] Surely not to create AI

• Post #1703366

  RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116453845443988046 Now what if you had a particular way of reading that ? "60% of highly paid workers such as lawyers, accountants and software engineers [have assessed themselves not good enough to be in those positions]"

• Post #1703365

  Article in NYT ran thru Drumpf Admin's destruction of everything good, by the numbers. Of course the loss of respect of others & ourselves, ecosystems & lives destroyed, standards vaporized, the cost of obscene criminality & criminal obscenity until a society is shot thru with holes as described by Solzhenitsyn ... are not quantifiable. A lot of what's destroyed won't ever be back #Impeach