Phil Dore

He is so close to getting it

Incredible how folks like Yglesias manage to be so respected while consistently wrong about just about everything. (See also: Ezra Klein, Simon Jenkins.)

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

When I see the name 'Vets for Pets' I think "well, yeh."x

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

A really important thing is that Bolsonaro lost *despite cheating in every way within his power*.

Different countries, different elections. But a year that has seen Orbán, Bolsonaro and Vučić defeated (and the GOP likely routed at the midterms next week) doesn't exactly fit the narrative of a relentless rightwards shift. Good candidates, campaigns, movements can still win.

Maybe being White House press secretary is like jury service. A letter arrives, and you don't really have a choice in the matter, but if you just turn up and do what they want then you won't be kept there for very long.

Reminder that they also did this to Zack Polanski during the Holborn & St. Pancras by-election. Can't help but wonder that was a test run for future elections, such as the one that's just taken place in Brazil

While the election result in #Brazil is obviously good news, we should remember that countless American wannabe-fascists poured $billions into achieving the opposite result and now have nothing to show for it, so it's not just good news, but also objectively hilarious.

Ah, the 52:48 ratio. I remember that. Gotta say I like this one better.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Jair is personally going to cook up a new COVID mutation inside his own body as revenge

(…….was Lula Bluesky’s first head of state….?)

Dance like Bolsonaro's going to die in prison.

Cool, Vucic got booted in Serbia. Now, Brazil, please don't harsh our buzz by letting Bolsonaro Jr in.

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

To half of you, congratulations on your car clock suddenly being correct. To the other half, commiserations on your car clock being wrong for the next six months.

WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE!

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

God knows how many times he's bragged about taking the MoCA test while apparently oblivious to what it is. But I think this clip is notable because he reveals that there's a doctor following him around.

I guess Eurovision Asia is going marvellously, and that's why they're posting an official denial about the event being cancelled.

In one video, a fascist politician was threatening a group of Indigenous people that he would withdraw their funding if they didn't vote for Bolsonaro. One of them replied, so what. We won't vote for you. You don't fund us anyway. Iconic. X

"Shame on me for giving my wallet to the wallet inspector."

Or, as he prefers to call it, ‘his base’.

Add 'piss' to a band name. Piss Staind

A real writer wouldn't blame his editor. Instead he should shake his head, sigh and say "once again, my less attentive readers are missing the larger point I was making" without clarifying in any way.

The Phantom Menarche

Imagine how much easier it would be if Musk's tech wizards invented... brakes

Really important to make sure you quit or retire from your 'talking about stuff' job before you hit this point

So, was Katie Zachariah a faithful or a traitor?

Katie Zacharia can go from not being press secretary back to not being a lawyer.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Oh no, and it had such a bright future ahead.