Heart of a Toaster

@helenzaltzman.bsky.social "contentsequences" was a beautiful moment in the most recent Answer Us Back. Just needed to say this.

@erikloomis.bsky.social Interesting stuff in here about how the protestors are coordinating with hotel staff. Reminded me of an LGM post of yours last week. www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

@altmadison.bsky.social Let Down AND Feel the Pain this morning? Best Vocal Fryday ever!

@altmadison.bsky.social Talk Show Host where?

I refuse to join Bluesky - I don't want to be part of an Eco chamber

"I am once again asking you to zoom out just a smidge"

If you reversed the positions of Harris and Trump, everything from fundraising to early vote numbers to the polling itself, we would basically be writing her campaign obituary rn

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Jump. Into. Stancil. Discourse.

@ass.golf I don't think I've ever identified with anything in QC as much as I did Claire's boat puns today.

How are we, as a country, going to deal with the fact that a substantial percentage of our population supports a raving lunatic not in spite of his overtly fascist rhetoric, but because of it? Especially when most of our institutions won't even acknowledge this fact?

Harris and Walz should sit down for serious interviews (e.g., beat reporters, podcasters with expertise in a policy area) as well as unserious interviews (e.g., Hot Ones, fun Tiktok accounts) but absolutely avoid unserious interviewers who think they are serious (e.g., political reporters).

If I knew when I was a kid that my life would revolve around secret passwords and biometric scanning I would've pictured something much cooler than this.

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Don't forget to do one today!

I like how, if you know what a triathlon is, you may think you can guess what a biathlon or pentathlon is. but oh, buddy. you can not

BREAKING: Welders Who Were Born In November And Love The Giants For Harris zoom call reports 90,000 participants, raises $1.7 million

What really gets me is when these people decry attempting incremental wins as so difficult as to be impossible... but apparently consider ushering in systemic revolution to be trivial, contingent "only" on winning the hearts of a critical mass of the populace?

www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/t... This reaffirms the point I've made several times that the jobs LLMs seem best suited to are the ones we least need.

All conservatives ever wanted was permission to act the same in public as they do behind closed doors.

I really try to not make any assumptions about strangers online. But sometimes the most charitable explanation I can come up with for the leftists I engage with is that they are basically this person.

Me. Absolutely a revolutionary socialist. Biden did the right thing there.

@scalzi.com happy birthday to us

@scalzi.com Really enjoying the Starter Villain audiobook. Wil is such a perfect choice for reading your stuff. Do you ever write with him in mind?

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