R Dean Riddlebarger

My sister is on the autism spectrum. Whenever we talk, she asks me, "how's your nervous system doing?" More people should ask and monitor this. Please and thanks.

I’m happy to write this argument and standard op-ed form for any publication in Michigan.

POLLS NOW OPEN: Early voting in person has officially begun across Michigan! Find your nearest polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote and make your voice heard.

I’m voting tomorrow, in person! What’s your plan? My sample ballot’s marked, so I know exactly how I’m voting, and it should be quick work! This election, you should vote early too, either in person or by using an official, secure drop box. Don’t wait until Election Day. #VoteEarlyDay

When JD Vance says Abdul El-Sayed should express "gratitude" for what America has given him, Vance is really saying he's lower on the American hierarchy than "heritage Americans" are. I asked El-Sayed to respond to this point. Here's his answer: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Largely pulling off of BlueSky until/unless they fix my wife’s suspension from the weirdly undefined phishing thing yesterday. She did all the “appeal” stuff as directed and crickets from @safety.bsky.app .

Tillis is cordially invited to come to my place and discuss this. Should be fine since he’s got no balls nor intelligence.

It's not a topical comic in that I suspect I'll be posting it every few years for a long time. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/woops PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

🍬🍭🍫

MAGA wanted Donald Trump to rename our buildings, tear down our historic sites, and place his name and image on our country simply because they hate everything about America with a vitriolic passion. And we must deal with them as who they are: enemies of the remaining States which are United.

1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic

Hand dropped our absentee ballots at the City Clerk’s office today. Office Manager checked them in immediately so no chance of USPS trickery. Then got the bonus of a perfect day to tour the historic 1897 building and climb the clock tower. (Bay City, MI - totally cool!) Straight D ballots…

Only thing that comes to mind. Sorry for a couple of former coworkers who still live there: m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7k4...

Simple. Just say No and let the idiots who thought (apparently without good Legal vetting) this was a good question earn their clearly inappropriate salaries sorting it out.

Yep. Back when I studied this in 80s OPRE/OPMT grad school classes, it was not a hard thing to see from the models. But then, I actually studied while ‘Doc’ Oz et. al. were snurfing buckets of coke and whatnot.

👇👇👇👇

Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.

Time for the DNC to get serious about various Senate races.

I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"

Bilking FL Con Artist at least gets one part right. I am really worried about nukes right now. Sadly, the ones that concern me are controlled by a demented megalomaniac who occupies 1600 Penn in DC.

Some good news for once - dear invert nerds, my student in Invert Ecology last Fall has now published her term paper - a field guide to the #Crabs of #Georgia! Her own watercolor work for each plate :) @jopabinia.bsky.social figshare.com/articles/pre...

Spent a good chunk of the 90s/early 00s 95+% off beef. Fell back a bit from then to now but still 85+% off. Going to 100% none will not be an issue. (Though there’s a custom place a few minutes away that may see my coin and higher per pound prices if they prove it’s locally sourced.

If you’d like a signed copy of the final Sandman Slim novel, IN THE DEVIL WIND, (or my others books) you can order it from the link below. If you’d like signed copies of any of my other books, scroll down the page or email samantha@riverstonebooks.com shop.riverstonebookstore.com/book/9780063...

Very good piece. Fits with my decision last year to hang up the spurs after 40 years playing Telco games. Now finding new homes for accumulated vintage things while enjoying friends and a small cabin-in-the-woods not too far from the main place.

Better thing to do IMO is use Apple or Google for the car GPS stuff, but drop Safari/Chrome for browsing. Maps are the loss leader so A/G spend coin on that service. Minimize the browser usage and their ad revenue plummets.

Good News is barring something weird I’m gonna outlive this POS by a fair bit. Bad News is a lot of my remaining time is gonna be helping clean up the mess he will leave.

Michigan, pay attention. 🔥 Jocelyn Benson is the Democratic nominee for governor. 🗳️ Before November, know the woman, know the record, know the sources. ✅ #VivaHerAlliance vivaher-candidate-connection.netlify.app/candidates/j...

It’s funny right now in GMaps cuz depending on where you zoom and how much it shows Ontario or America depending on which country’s dataset it’s using…

The Reaper keeps getting the wrong 80 year olds…

This isn’t the Middle Ages, we should be able to Trust Our Food….. “Grow your own food" is a dumbass response to food recalls. I can't grow a year's supply of salad, but I can pay taxes to a govt that regulate food producers and keeps food safe.

So I recently was introduced to Ben Thompson's "Aggregation Theory" of the Internet, and have been somewhere between horrified and edified. I thought I'd share. As I understand it, here's the idea: People thought ending the marginal cost of sharing stuff would disintermediate the world.

So 1. Hrs right. There is nothing magic about $40 trillion. It’s just a number. 2. He’s delusional. He’s paying >5.2% to borrow at 30 years. GDP grew 1.5% in Q2. His math isn’t mathing.

Police HATE IT when we know our rights.

Saturday morning cartoons…

NEW: The DOJ hit a significant milestone — its 20th loss out of 20 in its sweeping legal effort to access state voter rolls after a judge dismissed its case against Colorado. The court ruled the department did not provide a sufficient justification for needing the rolls, as required by federal law.

Sweet thread from the Professor. So glad that after growing up in OH I left at the conclusion of grad school and never looked back. (The signs and portents were building all the way back in ‘84…)

Yep. I’m not fully aboard w/DSA stuff, but the tent has room and a lot of them have great ground games that the more centrist crowd could learn from…

Last year only 16% of US adults read a book. 57% placed a sports bet. You have no f***ing excuse for not getting rich in America over the next ten years. These people literally cannot think straight. You should be running circles around them.

Kai is not in any way incorrect despite the fact my only aviation cred is fifteen minutes playing with a coworker’s Piper back in ‘86 while he stood ready to unscrew anything I did wrong…😂 (Which thankfully I did not.)

I look at this pic and see the American Dream in action. My POTUS channels his inner Adolf and 30% of my fellow citizens will bite on it. Sigh.

65.001 now. Looks around. Yep, still sucks since 2016. Damn.