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We should announce a “Best Novel Written with AI Award” and then all these guys submit their novels and we all get a super efficient block list

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social I keep seeing folks explaining how difficult it is to impeach a Supreme Court justice. Why not simply bring criminal charges? Accepting a bribe is a felony. I'm not sure if you're necessarily be able to get a conviction, but its worth a try and dan if it wouldn't be fun

@seananmcguire.bsky.social @kikidoodle.bsky.social New cat joining my household on Sunday

Wandered out in the pouring rain to vote for an 80 year old for the Senate. That's how much I dislike Seth Moulton.

Found a really good source of fresh tempeh (@bostempeh) so my cooking experiments are expanding into Indonesian. So far, my favorite has been dailycookingquest.com/tempe-tumis-... which seems right up my alley. Going to do a v2.0 with more habanero

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Donald Trump is doing the Marshall Plan the right way by Ezra Klein

I want a remake of "The Breakfast Club" set at a Jedi academy. Ally Sheedy's character is a rookie. Molly Ringwald's is a Sith.

@diane.dianeduane.com My heron is almost done!

So, looking like they are trying to bring back #Firefly! Fillion posted it this AM on Instagram...

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com I'd really like to see Pod Save the World engage more directly with "What Happens when the World decides that the US needs to be treated like a rogue state and constrained?" What does this look like? When do they shift to the Euro as the reserve currency? Nukes?

"America First" was misinterpreted as isolationism.

Experimenting with cioppino for the next dinner party. Happy with the base recipe, however, I am going to tweak it substantially.

This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...

@seananmcguire.bsky.social Is it wrong that my thoughts went immediately to "Animal House"?

ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

On any given day, there's 125+ fatal shootings in the US. 50% of those are suicides. A bunch more are accidents. But that still leaves 25+ homicides. Charlie Kirk was but one of those. Which is, in part, the reaction to Kirk's assassination feels more like performative histrionics than actual grief

@seananmcguire.bsky.social The raven's in Edinburgh are quite friendly (at least they are if you bring along some kibble).

If you think Ezra's blindness to Kirk's violent rhetoric is a problem, then perhaps reconsider the value of Ezra's advice about the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

This is THE tweet of all time

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

@naomiduguid.bsky.social Spinach borani

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social “Powdered Garlic is terrible and we pretend that it isn’t.”

@seananmcguire.bsky.social @kikidoodle.bsky.social You will believe a Maine Coon can dunk!

There it is. How I feel about it put perfectly.

This feels like good news. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social. As we heap well deserved opprobrium on the WaPo's new "opinion" page, let's make share to share some love for the NYT which just decided that "Matter of Opinion" will be all Ross Douthat, all of time. (I do wonder whether the other hosts are refusing to appear with him)

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

@esquiver.bsky.social I'm assuming that you saw this, but just in case

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

Trying to figure out if these are necessary in 1. The US (why?) 2. The EU (why and they are illegal). 3. Other parts of the world (Of dubious utility even before charging concerns). The naked corruption / idiocy is mind blowing.

So, turns out that Biden and Trump are NOT the same with respect to Israel / Palestine.   Though I never figured that the US would be the ones annexing Gaza. Wonder how long before Israel seized the West Bank...

Trying to recall the details of how President Garfield passed away. Cancer, wasn't it?

@thebulwark.bsky.social I was just listening to Tommy Veitor and Tim Miller discussing their regrets about missing out on a generational wealth opportunity when they didn't invest in crypto. Slavery... That made a bunch of fortunes. As did Tobacco. The Sackler's achieved generational wealth.

Antisemitism is also surging again in parts of the world, including here in the US. We must stay vigilant both to protect those vulnerable and marginalized groups, but to also to prevent the slippery slope that could lead to another holocaust. 4/4

An important part of "never again" is not forgetting and seeing recurring reminders of what happens of what happens when we let people create division and dehumanize groups of people. 2/4

What starts with people who are transgender, have disabilities, are immigrants, or in other vulnerable and marginalized groups and will expand over time to more people and with worse outcomes once "othering" people has become normalized. 3/4

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I strongly encourage following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social, as hard as it is to see their recurring reminders of humanity's failure. 1/4

So, yeah... I knew that Trump 2.0 was going to be bad, but I didn't think it was going to be this bad. And if feels like we're really going to invade Greenland

If anything, the Begun Pora seems better after a couple days in the fridge.

Made "Begun Pora" this AM. Charred eggplant and tomatoes, raw red onion, garlic, green chilis, lime juice, green stuff. Quite good

Hey there. Don't suppose that you can guess the frying time / temperature for the eggplant in the following dish. I'm quite sure that this makes all the difference and I'd prefer not to screw it up multiple time). I checked the "Persia" cookbook but didn't see a good match