Kevin J. Maroney, he/him

We must be a nation that welcomes refugees, immigrants, sojourners, and fellow travelers or we are nothing.

Happy National Black Cat Day from Emmie.

Wordle 1,956 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, tied the 'bot.

Another case of Wrong 80 Year Old.

Connections Puzzle #1234 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order blue-yellow-green. Didn't really solve purple. This one did have a couple of really disorienting tricks and I admire it for that.

A party of performative morons disinterested in policy.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Cheesecake Factory discourse is the tan suit of beer summits.

FANTASY VERSIONS OF ROMAN ARMOR, WITH HORSES WEARING MODERN TACK, AND GODDAMN STIRRUPS, SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS EARLY. THIS IS LESS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THAN HAVING JULIUS CEASAR USE ABRAMS TANKS.

If I ran things, in-person voting would take place on the weekend, and results would be released with a holiday, and people would be encouraged to have parties. Maybe voters could even match in a parade, tossing patriotic trinkets and candy. Voting ought to be cooler. And everyone should do it.

Wordle 1,955 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bogey, lost to the 'bot by 2. Miserable playing. I should have had it in 5 but my brain refused to see it. Nyfb, vg zbpxrq zr sbe abg thrffvat qjrro ba zl jnl gb trrxl, juvpu srryf yvxr vg'f trggvat crefbany.

for those of you unfamiliar, the most powerful social unit in Cincinnati is your high school class, which outranks friends, family, even lovers

Connections Puzzle #1233 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Solve green-yellow-blue. Not fond of the purple group.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 26th 2026 (Easy), in 03:43 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

This is stunning news. Bauza was *ubiquitous* in American animated film and TV--he has 422 separate IMDB credits, and most of those are for multiple roles on a single show. And with good reason; he was extremely creative and a superb mimic.

Wordle 1,954 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, tied the 'bot.

Connections Puzzle #1232 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order green-rainbow herring-yellow-blue-purple.

People who think embracing GOP hatred of trans people is the only way for Democrats to win in that part of the country should remember that in 2025, John Ewing became the first Black mayor of Omaha NE by running this ad. He beat Republican incumbent Jean Stothert by 12 points.

Thread up and down

"I was a dumbass for X, Y, Z reasons. Material reality made me see the error of my ways" is actually incredibly uplifting stuff, especially from a 25 year old with a blue collar job and a HS diploma. He was a teenager during Trump 1

My first five ttrpgs in the order that I played them: 1. Blue box D&D 2. White box D&D with Greyhawk etc 3. Traveller 4. Tunnels & Trolls 5. Runequest I may have played one session of EPT in there, and Top Secret would have been right after.

fucking liar

Wordle 1,953 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, to my surprise; lost to the 'bot by 1.

Maybe that's him and/or his immediate political successors. Maybe it's some new thing following in his footsteps and expanding on his precedents for what you can get away with. But it's a binary choice. Either you shut this kind of thing down hard and decisively or sooner or later it will work.

SAUCE HORSE can be the British superhero equivalent of Squirrel Girl since @ryannorth.ca never used my idea of Squirrel Cyril

It’s a subject that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and calling them corrupt and evil is easier. But the truth is that Republicans have a rape problem—one that they celebrate.

Connections Puzzle #1231 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Solve order yellow-blue-green-purple.

Resident Evil Code: Pillsbury

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 23rd 2026 (Hard), in less than 22 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com The error was the right logic but applied to the wrong person (if that makes sense). I stalled for a *long* time with 17 done and then it when slam-slam-slam.

Now that Donald Trump has made clear that he thinks that this ad is fair game, actual fair game is using the time up until election day asking every Republican candidate running if they think that this ad is fair game or not. No need to constrain this question to just Republican candidates in Ohio.

#EvergreenTweet

One of the many, many reasons to support the end of fossil fuels is stripping oil barons, worldwide, of their enormous and baleful global influence.

Wordle 1,952 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, beat the 'bot by 1.

Connections Puzzle #1230 🟦🟪🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Solved as shown (didn't solve purple). I saw the rainbow herring but didn't recognize it as a herring.

"You haven't convinced me," who gives a shit, man. Literally who gives a single shit. You don't have to be convinced of reality or decency for the rest of us to recognize reality and value decency. Your failure to be convinced is a point in favor of excluding you and ignoring you, not engaging you.

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

Fascists are cannibals who eat themselves eventually so it’s not surprising they’ll disenfranchise themselves but ultimately they are opposed to voting as a primary rule bsky.app/profile/zeta...

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

Glad to see that even the Crossword Column thought that today's NYTimes crossword was brutal.