Carter's Dad

One of the best things about being a slow learner is that there are so many opportunities to notice things that you never noticed before. There's a full moon and snow and the night sky is deep blue, not black. Is that widely known?

It seems to me that this "if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle" argument could just as logically be used to hand the certification to Daniel J Sullivan, no? Why assume that the votes for Dan J were really meant for Dan S? Why not the other way around? I should have been a lawyer.

It's a pretty good ad, at least he's paying attention, but I feel sorry for people who can only find apples at the supermarket and don't have access to an orchard or farmstand where they grow the old-timers.

This is sad in many ways, but I think the saddest part is that we are expected to agree that this is a hard problem.

Hegseth’s staffers break the world, Meta blames the machines, SCOTUS makes 2 good decisions, Democrats lead three critical Senate races, golden statue of nude President Trump appears in European Parliament, and more

This sounds right and I haven't seen it said this way before. I was born when Truman was President. my parents loved FDR and I lived through McCarthy and the fall and rise and fall of Nixon and all the afterward and I feel I have a certain ownership of the Democratic Party, and I want it back.

This is a righteous cause, glad that NYC can stick it to Bezos and I would love to see this here in MA, but the guy with the Amazon vest who delivered my package after dark today in what I'm sure was his personal car came from an Amazon depot in NH. This really should be a federal problem.

They’re putting litter boxes in the polling stations!!!!

Things that make me happy:

OK, here's some more context around that AOC think I just reposted. This was an event she held with Troy Jackson in Portland, Maine. Follow the link to @mpuniversity.bsky.social to see more of her and Troy's long-form answers to other key questions like "What are you going to do first?"

She is so good at this kind of clear explanation of the real problem. Combination of this is what she really believes and a very smart staff that makes sure she is prepared to say why.

Many people are saying this. You don't get what you don't ask for. There are some interesting variations on this idea in the comments.

I've said this before: We aren't rioting in the streets like the French because we can't afford to go to the hospital and our cops shoot real bullets.

okay senator lets just help you into the hotdog costume

I'm not going to make any predictions, particularly about the future, but there is stuff to think about here.

Carville should be ashamed of himself. This is an admission that he doesn't care about people getting hurt. "Admission" hell, it's a brag.

Thank you for standing up for them.

You know those feel-good stories about the high-school shop class that builds a motorized wheelchair for someone in town who needs one because their insurance refuses to pay for one? This is that kind of feel-good story. Good for them, something to celebrate, but they should never have had to do it.

I hope this guy goes to the Senate because I want people in the Senate who will talk up this issue. Lots of things about this country need to be fixed, but this is a big one that people can agree on.

Merriam-Webster should not have to deal with people on what's left of Twitter, there is no up side.

The original poster is now blocked for me, probably by some blocker thing I am subscribed to, but in addition to whatever Snopes has there is an eyewitness account on this page: www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-r... - watch the video in the right-hand column.

In today's episode of How the Heck Did This Show Up In My Bluesky Feed,

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

Oh, now here we go. Somebody has an actual plan for that.

I really hope they spent multiple millions of dollars on this blitzkrieg. Just nobody tell them, OK?

The post that this is replying to is blocked for me so I don't have context to tell me whether this is a good-faith question, but there is a long thread of mostly very good answers to the question if someone you know is not sure how important alt-text is.

Im hearing reports that James Talarico was just released from an Animal Hospital. this is devastating for his campaign. Is he a dog or what

Really disappointed to see how many people think this is an opportunity to make a joke about Darwin Awards.

I keep trying to tell people they should read Darwin. He is endlessly curious and it comes through clearly in his writing.

USCCB = Conference of Catholic Bishops, fyi. I've seen lots of people trying to find the right adjectives, I think "grotesque" in one apt one. Barbaric. Inhuman. Depraved.

I know I post a lot of these, I don't expect anyone to give money to every good cause that comes along, the idea is to spread the word so lots of people see it and some fraction of those people chip in each time, it's a team effort.

I just wouldn't go in there.

Still unusual enough for a Dem politician to say "Abolish ICE" loud and clear that it deserves an attaboy here in 2026, but I want to see this as part of the national platform by 2028.

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"