Geekpondering

Looking forward to seeing him in an orange jumpsuit.

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

I get put on multiple new email lists every election cycle because I gave money through actblue and other bundlers. I know this because I used a unique email for that. And there’s no way to get removed from their lists.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First. “It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.” [theonion.com]

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

All Dems should be saying this, over and over.

Shocked! I’m shocked that a surveillance economy company is recording people without their informed consent.

Minnesota has long been welcoming to various minorities and refugees. His cynical BS trying to divide people against people is yet another piece of awful.

Let the jet lag begin.

Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”

Wondering if their call for slowing down frontier development is cost-related, and not “we could accidentally creat Skynet” related.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: The Jacksons (Victory Tour) Pink Floyd Indigo Girls Fugazi Nirvana U2 Beastie Boys Tool Nine Inch Nails Radiohead

On today’s episode of The Leopard Eating People’s Faces Party….

It’s a point that has been made before: These people are here without authorization only because the administration revoked it. It is as if Trump were somehow to strip citizenship from every Democrat.

Losing Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Yayoi Kusama all in one week is tough.

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

There’s 2 paths forward for our country. Either we elect leaders who make *massive,* structural changes (prosecuting the Epstein Ring, getting money out of politics & Medicare-for-All), or we elect 500 Gavin Newsoms who do nothing, which enables a more dangerous fascist than Trump to win in 2032

Next prompt is to ask Claude to write a script to yank the extra UTF8 bits that get inserted by Claude to watermark text. 😛

not to be confused with quesadilla

Technology has gone from creepy to disgusting.

The "Serenity Prayer" (*Serenity to accept things I can't change/Courage to change the things I can/Wisdom to know the difference*) is usually cited as pop psychology or addiction recovery advice, but I think there's a place for it in policymaking. 1/

Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/

Young player award presented by Aramco. Aramco, one of the main companies ruining the potential future for young people everywhere.

Both teams must have taken Drama classes as an elective.

Can this game go long enough to be past Trumps bedtime so he’s not there for the trophy presentation?

Waiting to see if Fox turns down the volume on the booing when Trump appears after the game.

Let’s make it happen NFL. “Rainbow Connection” would bring the house down.

dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

Oh man. I had the best HYDRATION BREAK pic, and didn't use it.

SuperbOwl halftime shows are extravagant but at least they are consistent. This is just a grab bag of weirdness.

That’s how the Formula 1 Grand Prix trophies are presented now too.

Hah Fox commentator failing at his job identifying celebs in the crowd. I’m sure he’s bracing for some angry publicist calls.

Tom Cruise, standing on that platform, is still under 6’

Does The Weeknd tour under The Weekdy when he performs shows Monday thru Thursday? 🤔

Everyone involved in this needs to go to The Hague.

The problem here is he’ll be at the Finals which means either neither team will win.

McKayla is not amused.

Here’s where Kane flops over and over in the box.

I say this every time someone who was horrible for the world dies, and that’s I don’t wish anyone ill but trying to tone police people into only speaking well of the dead is a way of excusing what they did. I’m sure Lindsey was a charming man but did/excused a lot of evil things while in power.

Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

Wow what a giant flop.

Sorloth REALLY wants to score in this game.

Lest anyone accuse me of bargaining in bad faith here, let me start with this admission: I don't think AI is intelligent; nor do I think that the current (admittedly impressive) statistical techniques will lead to intelligence. 1/

Can’t wait for the new Poltergeist movie.