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"If they want eternal war, well and good: we accept the Issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place." William Tecumseh Sherman

The crowd for @marcmaron.bsky.social doesn't look anything like the crowd coming in for Tommy at Playhouse Square tonight, those people are well put together. I guess I'm at the rock show.

At an Octoberfest and sticking out for clapping on the off beat, need to code switch.

Man, Dr. Amy Acton D(OH) has a lot of phones. I block a couple a day.

for all but the most specialized uses, LLMs feel like they are going to commoditize at light speed.

After starting to listen to @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast late last year, I'm please to announce I'm up to date on the main episodes. Which is not the same thing as caught up. There's so much more material. Thanks @andrewhickey.500songs.com !!

saw this sign driving through TN the other week. Highly visible from the highway

this is always my favorite part of these interactions

This ‘plan’ for data centers is written by someone who thinks Ohio voters are idiots. 

I've been a close reader of Krugman for over 25 years and to be fair I don't see any evolution in his thinking, he just believes there may be a political opening that hasn't existed in the past

Very proud moment. Listening to the History of Rock and Roll in 500 songs and on song 178, I finally knew where Hickey was going to go as soon as I heard the name Ian Matthews. I thought Michael Nesmith and I thought Seven Bridges Road and I thought Eagles. And I rooted for it to happen. it did!

“Grateful” is a terrible word, a pale and thin word, a word that doesn’t begin to say what I feel. I am who I am because Glen Hansard has sung in my ears. I love him. I hope that he is resting wherever he hoped to rest. I will miss him forever.

Jack Johnson is the only musician I can think of whose audience seems to get younger over time

“I’m a lawyer, and I know better than to pronounce that a crime has been committed ... But I do know the elements of fraud, and there is evidence of all those elements here.”

this is completely my vibe. Happy 4th! Long live the Revolution!

Summer of Ludd, lol, love it

The Summer of Ludd is a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community. The rules? Be present, and absolutely no phones, recording, or photos allowed.

The authoritarians want it very badly and this urge has to be resisted.

any Michael McDonald playlist will eventually turn into a radio playing white guys singing Marvin Gaye songs

Trump is a counter-revolutionary. It's not his or Maga's day. Own this 4th. Celebrate it. Cookout with friends. Do what Tom says. Shit, read the Declaration. Be inspired.

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

getting rid of the social security cap on wages is sensible and needed. Expected from Elizabeth Warren. Good on you Bernie Moreno (R-OH). www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

The Trump FBI conducted a massive raid targeting a voter registration group in NE Ohio. The FBI used hundreds of agents, in an election year, even going to people’s homes. Voting is a constitutional right – so we need answers. I’m demanding details from the FBI.

Iconic feminist graffitti (UK), 1979, photographed by Jill Posener, British photographer and activist #womensart

from '68 but there's an energy that is so fresh open.spotify.com/track/1uu94r...

@talkingpointsmemo.com

the breakdown of miles driven in that chart is around 85% personal, 15% commercial. It very literally says people continued to drive more miles through April, well into the higher gas prices. Everyone is complaining about the cost but it isn't impacting behavior at all. Not yet. It has in the past.

Way to go Ohio

this wouldn't help with the blowback but I've been on the planet for 7 of the decades on that chart and economically I wouldn't want to go back to any of them.

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Tony Levin turns 80 today! I saw him and the other Stickmen a few weeks ago and thinking back it occurred to me that I've seen him more often than any other performer. Happy birthday Tony!! #LetsThrakAgain www.stickmenband.com

Seen this game in Jamelle's feed a couple times and stayed away until yesterday because as I feared it is instantly addictive

Josh Marshall's "all power is unitary" in action talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/all-p...

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house

the stained glass coming out of the UK is really something

not apropos at all but I can't keep it in anymore, fan of the show, don't think of her as a villain.

there was a period when Chef John (foodwishes.com) was doing just slightly elevated classic mid-century foods. They have the benefit of not being out of a can or delivered in a frozen tray, which is a lot of what makes them elevated. These are terrific sloppy joes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzUq...

Not sure I've recovered from the incinerator in 3

ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ben Vereen

New, and I think important piece. Brainstorming policy ideas to address kitchen table issues is an important undertaking. But it is NOT the same thing as a Project 2025 analog, but for the pro-democracy movement to save the country. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...

What Exactly Should a Project 2029 Be? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

groundhog day but with nukes

giving Qobuz a try. Not importing anything because I want a fresh persona. Hopefully it won't figure out I'm a 60 something white guy and gently but insistently suggest I'd be more comfortable listening to Bob Seger

Our research says lower-wage workers' pay went further before the pandemic. When accounting for rising prices, paychecks grew more from 2015–2019 than they did during or after the pandemic. This Research [in] Brief breaks the data down: https://clefed.org/4ur2UQm

". . . no man can ever feel his identity aright unless his eyes be closed" - Herman Melville "You better free your mind instead" - John Lennon "Have you stopped listening to your own inner voice by watching all that disaster TV" - Francis Dunnery

again, nothing new here

"Given the Trump White House gutted most of the US’s experienced diplomatic service, and killed many of Iran’s top officials, it seems like the talks have been negotiated like a game of telephone, with middlemen telling those involved what they’d like to hear, instead of what was actually said."