Uncomfortably Numb

The trick here is to follow more people than the number of your followers. I’m trying to keep up. Thanks if I piqued your interests.

POLITICO: ".. The documents show representatives from Google, OpenAI, Meta, Amazon Web Services and Nvidia were 'confirmed' to meet with Abbott’s team, joined by Texas’ head electricity regulator .. to discuss building out the state’s power grid." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

just building on this thread shitting on RFK, the mosfet, the literal foundation upon which all modern electronics (particularly computers) is built, was invented by an egyptian guy named mohamed atalla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed...

“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Just wait until those AI agents set up undetectable back door channels, unless they’ve already done so. boingboing.net/2026/10/26/f...

Rich woman screams from her closet about the made-up scary things that keep her there.

I hope he tries (and fails) at the cowboy schtick.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Some of my best experiences in “gifted” environments were when we read to or made presentations to the grades below us. We had team teaching and split grade classrooms, 1968 and thereabouts.

“Want a baloon? Everything floats down here.” boingboing.net/2026/10/26/s...

Ensign Chekov was my favorite character from the original ST. An exuberant, overachieving junior officer who you’d want to tag along with on shore leave.

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

The more we learn about this bug, the better off we all are. “Lack of ancestral imprinting” and our ability to detect that blows me away.

This is Fox’s October Surprise? Ha. Ha. Ha.

And Republican election cheating has only begun.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

I laugh at instructions requiring two people for installation, when only one clever person is required. New garage door opener installed and I don’t have to share the beer.

Lula Goes HARD

If you live in California and have never personally experienced El Niño, get ready. It may miss you, maybe not. Kind of like hurricanes.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Some front yards in Cupertino have solid signage from one lot line to the other. Neighbors compete next door to each other. It’s like a little boys’ pissing contest. And some signs will still be around in six months, usually the losers.

Maybe this will change Europeans’ minds about air conditioning? 50k dead from the summer heat. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/g...

If you were waiting for your sign to donate to an insurgent campaign for Congress in Missouri...this is your sign. I'm current polling 5 points ahead of 14 yr incumbent Ann Wagner in a seat held by the GOP for 34 years. I need you now. We can take this across the finish line and change Missouri.

I’m sick and tired of anyone making apologies to drivers who contact their vehicles with bicyclists or pedestrians. It’s literally your job as a driver to NOT HIT THINGS.

“Never underestimate the stupidity of an electorate.” - United States of America

A *fun* follow. Like old Twitter. @goodtrailcams.bsky.social

We have an amended complaing in the East Potomac Gold Club case, and the allegations are pretty gross. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My advice to workers everywhere: Don’t trust your coworkers. Document your work by saving it with date stamps. I’ve come across unethical coworkers in my job, but nowadays they have better tools to steal work and disguise it as their own. If you know Git, use that for your immutable history.

Credit for what? That was our money, and the government simply had to do its damn job. Zero credit earned.

DOGE slashed the IRS's audit staff, & Trump's determination that illegal immigration was the greatest law enforcement priority further diminished the trained people available to chase tax fraud. The result, of course, was predictable: no one left to chase tax cheats. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Rejected by 3 to 1, so again, we wasted valuable time on a small minority of fringe lunatics.

I remember when country music sounded like country music instead of homogenized pop.

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I need you to know the crime of which this baby's mother had been accused: shoplifting. The cops later said the car was coming straight at them, "almost striking one"; pls recall how often law enforcement claims this & are then revealed to be liars. But this was shit from jump. And a baby's dead.

Warren Zevon would have appreciated this juxtaposition.

@danboriscreates.bsky.social

I’m old, with tons of equity and Prop 13. My education and public infrastructure was paid for by the taxes on my grandparents and parents. I won’t abandon future generations for my comfort, and I should be paying more taxes. I hate Prop 13. Mr. Warner and people like him can fuck off and die.

For weeks now, the two sides in Trump’s war are forming alliances in the region. This will make things worse.

I prefer a different metaphor that involves ball sacks. Don’t let go!

NEW: Guess who's back? Between the @katiephang.bsky.social Epstein Files Transparency Act lawsuit and my Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit, we have Blanche cornered on the Epstein Files. Join us LIVE at Noon PT / 3 PM ET TODAY! www.muellershewrote.com/p/between-ka...

Here's the most famous reference of the quote of John F. Kennedy's to which Abdul El-Sayed is referring (12:49 time mark) "For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic party's candidate for president, who happens also, to be a catholic."

Meta could've just let people forget there was a No Kings Day today. They just couldn't help themselves. Combined with what happened to Lula last week, Meta's claims of erroneous suspensions of antifascist accounts strains credulity www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This is all part of Trump’s fetish with masculinity because he’s failed at it his entire life. All his wives owned him, after all.

That blurred map on Trump's desk appears to be East Potomac Park — the golf course where the trees are being cut. Katie Zacharia may have just handed the federal judge evidence of exactly where the order came from.

We’ve fucked up the natural world of sound so bad, we have to teach birds their mating calls by recreating sounds from sheet music of their ancestors’ calls. www.futilitycloset.com/2026/10/16/s...

Duh, moving slow and long sun baths. That shit kills humans ya know.