Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

I really should read my own blog.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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Final Reminder: NYC Meet-Up, TONIGHT, 7pm at Ballaro

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Commentor Abo Gato and her husband are visiting NYC from Albuquerque, and area resident Diana volunteered Ballaro, in the East Village, as a good place for a meet-up.

Confirmed so far: PurpleGirl, NHOJ, MattR (work permitting), RedDirtGirl, Katie5, Gary Malone, Psifighter (work permitting) and Brooklyn Lurker (after 7:30pm).

Directions to Ballaro at their link. From Diana:

Ballaro’s long and narrow; I’ll be at the back, where there is typically more space. Excellent coffee, excellent wine, excellent prosciutto (the awning identifies it as “Cafe Prosciutteria” which in Italian means a place that sells coffee and prosciutto, but which in American English means a restaurant named Prosciutteria, which, however, has not led them to alter the awning) usually quiet (some nights they have live music; I’ll check) and generally a good place.

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  1. 1.

    MaximusNYC

    I have something else to go to later, but I’ll try to swing by. I’ve managed to miss every other NYC meetup, so it’s about time I got to one.

  5. 5.

    Diana

    yes, they do have wifi, but it’s not always working…we’ll see.

    I have actually scored a balloon — a white one, with paw prints in honor of Steve and his fellow cohorts of Balloon Juice pets. Come and find the balloon, everyone! See you there.

  8. 8.

    Tommy

    @IowaOldLady: Same here. I once had a meet-up with folks I met online A strange bunch of folks and a nice group of folks. A motley group to be sure.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    BTW, just an acknowledgment that today marks the first primary (Texas) of the 2014 elections.

  10. 10.

    ? Martin

    Looks like everyone is colluding with the NSA:

    Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, thanks to an extremely critical vulnerability in a widely used cryptographic code library.

    The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package. Initial estimates included in Internet discussions such as this one indicate that more than 200 different operating systems or applications rely on GnuTLS to implement crucial SSL and TLS operations, but it wouldn’t be surprising if the actual number is much higher. Web applications, e-mail programs, and other code that use the library are vulnerable to exploits that allow attackers monitoring connections to silently decode encrypted traffic passing between end users and servers.

    The bug is the result of commands in a section of the GnuTLS code that verify the authenticity of TLS certificates, which are often known simply as X509 certificates. The coding error, which may have been present in the code since 2005, causes critical verification checks to be terminated, drawing ironic parallels to the extremely critical “goto fail” flaw that for months put users of Apple’s iOS and OS X operating systems at risk of surreptitious eavesdropping attacks. Apple developers have since patched the bug.

    This is the 2nd major security bug to be found in open source code. Probably safe to say the NSA has known about both of these for some time.

  13. 13.

    Patricia Kayden

    Hope y’all New Yorkers have a great time meeting, yapping and chowing down.

  14. 14.

    Tommy

    Hey seems like I can post this here. Maybe the coolest video you will see this month. This year. His name is Danny MacAskill. He does stuff like this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Fa5zAbP9w

    If you have time, well try this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw

    The video of him on his bike is only as good as the music and the visuals.

    Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.

    My family came here from the Isle of Skye back in the 1860s.

  15. 15.

    Tommy

    @BruceFromOhio: Laissez les bons temps rouler.

    I went around saying this all the time today. I actually say it not on days related to Mardis Gras.

    The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez les bon temps rouler, Laissez le bon temps rouler, Laisser les bons temps rouler, and Laisser le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: ​[lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Cajun French phrase which is literally translated from the English expression “Let the good times roll.” This phrase is often mentioned when Mardi Gras is celebrated, on local television, and on radio. It is a common phrase in multiple early French Colonial areas.

  17. 17.

    Tommy

    @NotMax: If I am not mistaken she was a black women. The first to hold the role of a black women in a major sit com.

  18. 18.

    Roxy

    @Tommy: You had me at Edinburgh and Isle of Sky. I saw the first one a couple of years ago. The second one is just as amazing as the first one. Thanks for posting this.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @Tommy

    Yes, she was African-American (the spin-off came from her playing the maid on Maude (which was also a spin-off).

    Not the first on TV though to have a sitcom lead role*. That would be Diahann Carroll in Julia in 1968.

    *A non-stereotypical black in mass media role. The first African-American woman to star in a TV series sitcom was way back in 1950, in Beulah (which had originated on radio). Ethel Waters and then Hattie McDaniel played the role, a servant (“the queen of the kitchen”) in a white household, on TV.

  20. 20.

    Roxy

    @Tommy: Diahann Carroll. She starred in Julia (1968), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

    ETA: Oops. NotMax beat me to it.

  21. 21.

    Tommy

    @Roxy: My family came here from Scotland. Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers. The stories are amazing. I read these stories and stunned.

  22. 22.

    PsiFighter37

    Sorry friends – not going to be able to make it (out of work a bit late, and have some wedding things I need to circle up on this evening). I promise I will be there next time if I can…I feel like the amount of time sunk into wedding planning is only going to increase as the day draws nearer.

  23. 23.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Tommy:

    Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers.

    Let the stories be told
    They can say what they want
    Let the photos be old
    Let them show what they want

    Let them leave you up in the air
    Let them brush your rock and roll hair
    Let the good times roll

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tommy:

    Isle of Skye

    My most favourite place on the planet. Have you ever visited the Ancestral Isle?

  26. 26.

    Belafon

    @? Martin: “The NSA: Thinking evil thoughts so you don’t have to.”

    I’m not the kind of person who spends his days thinking how evil other people can be. I have other things I’d rather be doing.

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