Ersatz Cliff

Steak for the steak god!

A sign for GHORN STEAKHOUSE

GHORN

Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

Project for a New American Century of Humiliation

(Gavin rossdale voice)
Postman... How did we get so lost?
Postman....

Postman used to be such a great, easy-to-use tool…now I get anxiety attacks just looking at it. A bloated cloud SaaS monstrosity

American Hustle (2013). On paper, a good movie with solid performances, but I found it meandering + dull + heavy-handed (“look at how greed corrupts honest family men”). Also: most political thrillers. A very hard film genre to pull off without goofy departures from believability

the worst thing about being a failed academic isn’t failing; it’s that the anxiety you feel about not spending every available second working (”your work is never done” was the mantra I heard from many professors) is so hard to unlearn

Arthur Harris was actually called “Bomber Harris” long before WWII. He earned the moniker from his infamously bad standup set at the Lincolnshire Chuckle Hut in 1923. Said performance was the genesis of a long-running bad joke (“why don’t they fashion the entire Sopwith Camel out of the black box?”)

Overclocking the McDonalds touchscreen kiosk, so I can play Battlefield 6 at 120 fps.

Baby smiling with dimples

10 months old today. Already old enough to have favorite things (penguins + dinosaurs) and least favorite things (ducks, somehow)

agreed. I think the difference is that now there’s much less to sell out *from*, since it’s today so hard to have zero money, live in a tiny studio apt, and devote oneself wholly to making art/music. The idea of a counterculture sounds alien, self-indulgent, & frivolous to young people, which is sad

brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

The guy is obviously an unrepentant piece of 💩, but I think he survives this and wins both the primary and general

americans getting gas from bad paella are feeling that spain at the pump

There is a huge, pent-up demand in the West for leaders who act like human beings (and treat others as such) instead of fearful, cynical McKinsey script-followers who have a consumerist, instrumental orientation towards the world. This is why Ms. Rachel (a YouTuber) resonated with people so much

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: “US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute”

I’m sick of the “savvy” orientation that opposing war must always be framed in terms of US costs + gas prices + the US creed of “me me me.” We’re incinerating children! For our own sakes, we have to grow up and learn how to have a conscience. Even “successful” American wars set horrible precedents

YouTube video: The Price Is Right | 10/15/1987 (Bob’s first day with Gray Hair)

One Day that Shook the World

forgot that I had ”Tech Evangelist - Allied Mastercomputer” listed as one of my LinkedIn roles

"They don't know what they're up against."

What they're up against:

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

The political culture of the U.S. has shifted so much in the last 11 years that Republicans are now doing *reverse* Marine Todds (unashamedly brutalizing combat vet marines who speak up)

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Scrooge McDuck is an example of nominative determinism, as he did in fact grow up to be a Scottish Duck

This is just straight up racist.

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.

MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.

Me to Paul Newman’s family at the funeral: may his memory be a dressing