Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The willow is too close to the house.

This fight is for everything.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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  11. 11.

    Martin

    @HumboldtBlue: Finland and Sweden should send their condolences and regrets they can’t help more, but not being part of a defensive coalition is tying up a lot of money for border defense.

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    Alison Rose

    I blinked like twenty times after reading this:

    As we approach the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — and the ferocious Ukrainian response backed by a U.S.-led Western coalition — the following question urgently needs answering: How is it that on Feb. 23, 2022, virtually no one in America was arguing that it was in our core national interest to enter into an indirect war with Russia to stop it from overrunning Ukraine, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map in 10 tries? And yet now, nearly a year later, polls show solid (though slightly shrinking) American majorities for backing Ukraine with arms and aid, even though this risks a direct conflict with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

    Well, gee. Perhaps because the full-scale invasion hadn’t started yet on February 23, 2022? I’m no NYT op-ed columnist with a mustache, but I’m pretty sure that might have something to do with it.

  18. 18.

    Ken

    @Alison Rose: So it’s someone else’s fault that a year ago, none of the political analysts considered the possibility that the US might support Ukraine?

    It reminds me of when a company “fails to meet analysts’ expectations” and their stock drops. This is never reported as a problem with the analysts’ forecasting.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    This weekend I did the dance of Changing Internet Providers.

    As some of you know, I had been on T-Mobile’s wireless home internet for a year or so, when connectivity went straight to hell.  Three weeks later, after innumerable attempts to fix it (which I described here last week), T-Mobile threw up their hands and said maybe their service wasn’t right for me.

    So I switched over to Verizon Home Internet, which is also a wireless service and  also depends on connecting to cell towers.  So far it’s working just fine… but then, my T-Mobile also worked just fine for quite a long time, until it… didn’t.

    I have no idea what the problem was.  Maybe T-Mobile was pulling good old towers and putting in lousy new ones, in its rush to upgrade everything to 5G?  Whothehellknows.

    Now I have to decide whether to change my phone service as well.  (My phones aren’t with T-Mobile, strictly speaking, but with MetroPCS, which T-Mobile acquired some time back.). Verizon is offering some amazing deals, so I might just switch.  Have to make sure my current phones are unlocked is all.

  31. 31.

    The Up and Up

    Comrade Cole I noticed your Tweet about cutting tiny pills in half. How is that going? I have some 2 mg pills, tiny also, but that’s likely going to switch next month.

  33. 33.

    Rokka

    The Grammys were a bloated blimped up mess. Noah was annoying. There wasn’t much music in the first hour. That Harry song was copied from the verse of “Take On Me” The Tank and The Bangas album “Red Balloon” lost for “Best Progressive R&B Album”
    At least I know the father of one of the winners. His Facebook comment: “I hope they give all that food to the homeless people living right down the street from the blocked off Grammy Block”

  34. 34.

    RaflW

    I’m happy for Lizzo. I thought Jill Biden looked amazing. Seeing Bonnie Raitt in real time going “WTF, I won song of the year?” was delightufl. Harry winning pop song was fine, but Record of the Year? No. The Grammys have a longstanding problem, and it isn’t fixed.

    Now, off to bed!

  37. 37.

    JaySinWA

    @CaseyL:I have Ziply fiber up here north of Seattle. I don’t really have many problems with them but I have looked at T-Mobile wireless internet as a possible stop gap.

    I tried finding your earlier posts, with no luck, I would be interested in your Verizon/T-mobile experience as well, I think Verizon has coverage here now too.

  38. 38.

    Chris T.

    @dmsilev:

    They don’t fly very well. Being made of lead and all.

    Not lead, LED. They’re Light Emitting Diodes. Although Sound Emitting Diodes might be better for such purposes.

    (I’ve seen those. But they only emit one sound, a sort of crackle. After that, they emit the magic smoke that makes them work. Once the magic smoke has escaped, they’re Dead Emitting Diodes.)

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Alison Rose: Oh good grief!  What idiot wrote that paragraph?  What a maroon!

    ETA – JaySinWA answered my question.  I’m not surprised.  Friedman is a horse’s ass.

  40. 40.

    Rokka

    So I’m an idiot? Did I get get something wrong? “As It Was” is a blatant copy of the verse of “Take On Me” with the same key, tempo, drum machine beat and a slightly altered chord progression. I knew it the first time I heard it. There are mashups on YouTube. There are no “other beats” or parts.

  45. 45.

    PaulB

    @JaySinWA: I have Ziply fiber up here north of Seattle. I don’t really have many problems with them but I have looked at T-Mobile wireless internet as a possible stop gap.

    I live northeast of Seattle (Granite Falls area) and upgraded from Xfinity to Ziply a couple of weeks ago. So far, it’s been great.

    I have T-Mobile as my cell phone provider. At least where I live, the service gets, at best, 2 bars and it is not completely reliable. I’ve got a great deal with T-Mobile and I’m reasonably happy with them, overall, but if I had to use them for all of my connectivity, I think it would not work out well.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @Chris T.: Back in the Old Days tantalum capacitors were used on digital circuitry for Vcc supply smoothing and line noise suppression. They earned the cognomen of “Shrapnel-Emitting Capacitors” since their failure mode was NOT to gently and slowly let the Magic Smoke out if something went wrong (or if you looked at them funny). Like our Good Host they did not age gracefully either. Electronics engineers don’t specify tantaulm caps any more in their designs.

  51. 51.

    Chris T.

    @Robert Sneddon: I used to build with them (tantalum smoothing capacitors). Never had one explode on me, but that explains why I don’t see them on boards these days…

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