Cat what looks like a duck

"It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality." - Brian Eno #quote

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Wow, if there's any truth to this, we should probably open up all the government's files on child trafficking and pedophile rings and their powerful protectors

Todays song is Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues by Skip James. First recorded in 1931, here performed in 1967. James voice alone can break your heart. From the generation of classic Delta Blues players (b.1902), his ethereal voice gave his work a unique, uncannily modern sound. youtu.be/DoBxzb-8oPc?...

If Dolly's passing leaves a final lesson for these times, I think it's that you can and should live your life in a way that makes people sad when you leave the world.

I filled my Prius Prime Hybrid with gasoline for the first time this year. It cost me $5.859 per gallon. Thats... freaking expensive.

Long line of planes heading to Oshkosh, but for some reason most in the line are breaking away to the north away from the airport. www.flightradar24.com/44.04,-88.70...

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

Celebrating the anniversary of our nation’s independence from a monarchy while Trump is in office feels kinda like getting a Facebook notification for a birthday of a friend who’s dead.

I'm a bit creeped out that the stabilizing diagonal rods did not show up at the Kennedy Center in time to place them when erecting each layer. Rock and Roll roadies would never take that stupidity. And they would have had this whole thing up in 90 minutes.

The workers building the scaffolds at the Kennedy Center are going to be so pissed when they discover they could have just removed the lettering by pulling the 3M Command strips.

The number of Supreme Court Justices was set to 9 in 1869. Given population growth, that would be just over 79 Justices today. The thought of raising the raising the number to 13 or 21 seems... conservative.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

What's the difference between a vegan and a computer programmer? One is disgusted by a rack of lamb and the other is disgusted by a lack of RAM.

Can't stop singing this to the theme of the Muppet Show

And perhaps don't use a wikipedia photo that shows the date as 2004 when bush was president

There are a surprising number of people in politics + media who don't understand that nuclear launch authority rests solely with POTUS. Trump doesn't need clearance from Congress or the courts. Even preemptively. All that stands between him and nuclear war are military refusing to follow his orders.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Well, another complaint on Nextdoor. This time they are miffed about the party Apple threw for their 50th Anniversary. They live close enough to the "Spaceship" that they were forced to listen to Paul McCartney do a set of songs. Their house is likely $100,000+ more valuable due to Apple. Dang.

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

I just took a vacation that travelled from New Orleans to Atlanta. We visited and stayed in small towns in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. In all those miles, all those days, I did not see a single MAGA red hat. Not one.

The San Jose native who helped build ships as a Rosie the Riveter during World War II celebrated her 102nd birthday Sunday. nbcbay.com/VMJBPIQ

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Imagine working for years, and you finally get a window office, and a felon with 34 felonies covers that window with a banner.

Almost 6 inches in the last week.

Yeah, I designed this. www.ebay.com/itm/14713946...

I pulled everything from this list from other sources but I’ve organized the alleged victims by the relationship Trump had with them. A jury of Trump’s peers found that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll. open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

Bad Bunny's halftime show was added to YouTube with subtitles, in Spanish. I hope someone does an English subtitle version, I know it can't be a perfect translation, (no translation ever is) but I'd love to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

Some years ago we saw a skating show with Olympic athletes, and I can tell you that they are moving SO DAMN FAST compared to the swiveling camera views you see on TV.

FAA has the SuperBowl sky covered.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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That's exactly WHY it should be left on.

Crikey, Green Bay!

They have a genius choosing music for the 2026 New York City Inauguration Ceremony. Playing The Talking Heads "This Must Be The Place" was just perfect!

Oh. Fuck.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Such a fine Christmas song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NH-...