Triplejake

Time for Caturday reflection

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

Dame looks great, Deni looks great, team will be fun. Maybe good, maybe not, but definitely fun.

Sorry pal it's Caturday

The song that this most reminds me of is "You Light Up My Life," which was inexplicably #1 for weeks in the mid-70s and then disappeared forever immediately afterwards.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

I have 3 of the same shows as Stephen King, so I guess that's pretty good.

I guess college football doesn't have a flagrant foul concept? That facemask on Hoover was dangerous shit. #indiana

RIP Dolly. She could do it all.

Kitty's first shoebox! A big caturday milestone.

Bruschetta is probably my favorite vehicle for enjoying fresh tomatoes this time of year, but a nice grilled cheese and tomato sandwich is not far behind. No wrong way to do it, though.

Not a ton of good news these days, but Elon Musk has lost $300 billion and been embarrassed with his Odyssey nonsense over the last month, so that's fun.

Very comfy except for that stupid pea on the bottom. #caturday

Don't really see this team losing 15 games. Play 82-0: www.82-0.com/share?id=ktp...

There it is -- glad to see Tmac on a winning squad. www.82-0.com/share?id=4Lj...

This one is pretty solid. Shame about the 4 losses. www.82-0.com/share?id=vp5...

Watching the Fire stomp the Fever was as much fun as I've had watching a Portland basketball team in quite some time.

Grim days at one of my old stomping grounds.

#caturday nap time

#caturday nap time again!

Pretty bizarre that there is a bombshell story out there from multiple outlets that the Pentagon threatened the Vatican to support the US or else and the major media has yet to say a word about it.

Big turnout in Portland #nokings

I guess it was important that the firing of Kristy Noem be done in such a way to minimize any excitement or optimism that shitcanning her might otherwise provoke.

Never forgiving a single one of the fucks responsible for this

[Singing to the tune of House of Fun by Madness as I serve dinner] 🎵 Welcome to my bowl of food 🎵

RIP to the singular Catherine O'Hara. youtu.be/z9rj-Pz1vag

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

#caturday lounging

S&P 500 index funds are heavily exposed to the AI bubble. Watch out. # Company Weight 1 Nvidia 7.2% 2 Apple Inc. 6.6% 3 Microsoft 5.8% 4 Amazon 4% 5 Alphabet Inc. (Class A) 3.2% 6 Alphabet Inc. (Class C) 3% 7 Broadcom 3% 8 Meta Platforms 2.7% 9 Tesla, Inc. 2.4%

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

This Indiana game may be a snoozer, but happy to have met Nitro Tuggle

Post-thanksgiving sluggishness

#oregoncoast

Baffled by how someone could write an article about blotting out the sun without a Mr. Burns reference. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

A dignified #caturday

Laptop has found its highest and best use.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Camara and Deni are so fun. Glad they're both locked up for a while.

Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed?

CNN: Large crowds at protests ABC: What to know about the protests NBC: Protests underway Fox: Unrest looms at protests Bari-era CBS: Trump meets with Zelenskyy

I wrote about David Brooks discovering mass movements. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/shift-chan...

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

Everything is shit, but pretty fun to have lived to see Indiana ranked in the top 5 in football

Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...