Juniper Watchman

"Things That Matter: A Town Hall with Vice President JD Vance" is a real "jumbo shrimp"-ass title

just have to lean into the cliché that when people ask me what they should see right now my answer is "you should really check out this 11-hour Russian documentary"

Throwing a gamecube as hard as I can at my neighbour's kia forte

This is really, really cool. The URL *is* the document. So you can effectively do word processing in your browser... without it leaving your computer. Or... you can send it to others *in the URL*. This is really fantastic.

Good footnote

war made the state and the state made war, etc etc.

The details about how and why the diesel deal and the supposed ceasefire came about are a distraction from the obvious— Trump again squeezes Ukraine to try to help Russia. Just as russia prepares to widen its war in Europe because the campaign in Ukr is stalled, he tries to give them a boost.

BlueSky is literally just a public test bed for the actual product, the underlying protocol. We're posting on the $1.50 Costco hot dog.

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud

my message to crypto companies thinking of spending nine figures on elections again in 2028

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

I don’t know how much clearer it could possibly be that Donald Trump is not planning to leave the White House voluntarily.

New rule: I block any account I find anywhere using the Soviet term “wrecker” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckin...

"Second, we are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of power away from governments to a handful of private corporations and individuals. Their reach now extends across politics, economies, information flows, technological development, and the civic space on which societies depend."

Jon Husted voted to kick 490,00 Ohioans off their health care so he could give tax cuts to his billionaire buddies.

Nick Anderson, The Contrarian

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

If you’re elected to represent the American people, you shouldn’t be able to use information you get on the job to make yourself richer. In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight to ban congressional stock trading. Public office is about public service, not personal gain.

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

Indeed, the seminal papers on the effect of heat on humans. However, he assumed the effect on an adult who was 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 147 pounds. Hardly a representative sample of any population. Age, gender and size are also important covariates.

The more things change, etc, etc.

Sitting in stunned, jealous awe cos my eight year old nephew just earnestly referred to the famine as a "potato outage".

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

I thought this was a skit. Nope! www.imdb.com/title/tt0382...

I would buy this T shirt

Exactly right! Cutting through all the misinformation, the root of many of our problems is crony capitalism on oligarchic steroids. A group of billionaires really is trying to extract maximal wealth and don’t care who gets hurt

Gopher with the pearl earring needlepoint

when the aliens show up we’re going to have to explain what shareholder value is to them in a way that doesnt make us sound like dipshits

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.

need a Rolling Rock immediately

We’re talking here about Col. Josh Gaspard, who parachuted into Bashur during the 2003 invasion as a 2LT, then a year in Afg, then company command in surge-era Iraq. His Columbia degrees aren’t even in the “woke” social sciences, they’re in industrial engineering and engineering management systems.

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

I absolutely hate it when I draw renewed scrutiny

Tony: [eats handful of capicola in racist fugue]

Sure the White Sox mitre is exciting, but Pope Alexander VII had a hat that looked almost exactly like a head of radicchio.

195. A stunning intellectual and political achievement, a fully-formed depiction and imagining of what a truly anarchic society might look like, that has the self-confidence to take it to its logical conclusion, and address its flaws and faults head-on.

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

Dostngosp Spoznuazstrog, a goblin villain lurking about my Dwarf Fortress, has the complete tech bro billionaire life philosophy with all the trimmings.

Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five

I made a List of BlueSky accounts of Democratic nominees in the 38 most competitive US House districts. (Rated Lean or Tossup by Cook) Some aren’t on Sky, and some who are here don’t post, but the feed might still be of interest for you campaign junkies: bsky.app/profile/did:...

If I got bitten young enough, I’m pretty sure I could handle being Spider Man, but I would not have any time for that multiverse bs