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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

seems like some of you need to crack open a civics textbook. the constitution clearly says in article 1 "every eight or ten years you'll have a group of fellas who get to do whatever they want without consequence and the rest of the time it's guys who look like hobo paintings shrugging ruefully" duh

sign on the ground in Adelaide for the Bunyip Trail

i know exactly how old you are if you are an american haunted by the word "bunyip"

i think in currentyear if i physically walk up to a physical box office to buy a physical ticket with physical dinars it's a strong indication i don't want to be in your data harvesting funnel and i shouldn't be made to feel like the proverbial fool when i don't want to give you a full name & email

when i was training as a pro wrestler in Hong Kong we were jawing over hot pot after a session and the fellas told me that the word charisma in Cantonese literally translates to "beautiful power"

last night instead of sotu i watched a 70mm print of Lost Highway on a giant screen (astor theatre in melbourne) and it engendered (lol) what i can only assume are similar feelings of confusion, rage, and dread

i hope the opposition party holds up tiny little signs like the coyote does when he falls off a cliff

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

once your stupid brain swaps "year of the horse" for "fear of the dark" in the iron maiden song that's it, you're toast

Making a quick stop at the Aldi because I really need a frozen pizza made in Hungary and a throw pillow in the shape of an obscure cartoon dog

Pan plays a pipe in a late Renaissance painting looking very heyyyyyy

found you tootin away on your lil flute buddy

a fluffy neighborhood cat sticking out his tongue

This neighborhood boy routinely pulls up to the window while I'm at my desk and gives me the ol raspberry. The nerve!

One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

"what's more likely" is a hell of a way to start a sentence because the next part is a lot of fun but the part after that is NO FUN AT ALL

"The Trinity is at once a manifestation of and sublimation of our tripartite essence -- having never been, being, and never will be."

-- a philosopher working at Pep Boys

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Governments Are Using AI To Draft Legislation. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The power of AI to parse public responses or draft legislation is recognized worldwide. But how should lawmakers and leaders use the tech?

How are governments integrating AI into their decision-making and legislative processes? I spoke to those on the front line, including the Estonian prime minister, for my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social techpolicy.press/governments-...

& ICYMI, I'm hiring at SF Digital Services! if you are or know an strong eng leader with amazing communication skills & a civic bent (already pursued or nascent!) please read this thread!!

a nice fluffy orange cat, a feral, whose name is known only to herself, lounges in a san francisco backyard under a bright yellow oxalis flower

the OK would like you to have a nice relaxing day today

welp

19-2 is a scorigami, so that's something to root for i suppose

The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?

What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?

What if I told you that I found them?

A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

the only thing i know about the winter olympics so far is that 1/ our vice president brought a plane full of spaghetti to italy and 2/ one of the ski events is being roiled by a misshapen penis scandal

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

MAGA as burlesque -- in one sense, a parody of a political movement as its only aims are barely articulable reactionary grievances, and in the second sense as an obsession with lurid peekaboo bullshit. Too cowardly to go full fash so we get these tittering little keyhole glimpses of the project.

Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy How should the next Democratic government act on the belief that Trump's second term was lawless and illegitimate?

'all a tyrant's acts are void' is an ancient (& good) principle

i'd apply this to the supreme court - after reform/packing a blanket overturn of every trump era decision

www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

chat is it good when your value store loses 40% of its capacity relative to the global reserve currency in like a month? i don't know econoomy