Perpetually Perplexed

Communicating this stuff doesn't seem hard to do, but Ossoff is one of very few Democrats who's doing it. Just calmly, clearly explaining that the other guy is a terrible human. Run him into the boards, Jon.

Sen. Ossoff: "Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen, just like Mike Collins, who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war. How is this war a success, Mike?"

Coach Croesus of Cumberland: if I hire ringers to destroy Heisman's baseball team, how will it work out? Oracle at Delphi: a historic loss that will be remembered through the ages.

The Seattle Undertale: The Detrrmination Symphony World Tour Concert was a great time! But holy cow, y'all really love merch booths.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

Expectations

Yes of course I remember the Odyssey

Just read the first sentence of Chapter 48 of @wiswell.bsky.social's excellent "The Dragon Has Some Complaints" and I am so mad.

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

The problem with listening to @99pi.org is that you are immediately filled with the need to bring up Billy Possum or Thaddeus Lowe or whatever, and your spouse will only kindly allow this so many times, so you will force your cool fact into conversations that do not need your cool fact.

Dang, Micah with the Gift of Prophecy over here.

Happy Sesquibicentennial!

I love how Catholics get excited about schism in the same way I get excited about rare astronomical events or weird critters at the beach. It's not "how dare they!" but "ooo, heretics, we learned about those in school! Kids, quick, come see this heretic!"

I want to say the fancy $100 wine collection is the best schism merch, but honestly the Protestant Reformation had some pretty great woodcuts and beer steins and commemorative coins and stuff. Today's schism merch came out the day of and not like a century later, though, which is nice.

@lawandchaospod.bsky.social Y'all, I love you, but I do not love that you are running Kalshi ads now.

Knicks, I'm sorry I doubted you.

Me: You know what's a fate worse than death? Clotho: Please, keep talking. Lachesis: Yeah, tell us who's a Fate worse than death?

My phone has a "most called" list on the dialer, and my #1 most called is the grocery store's curbside pickup "I'm here" number, and I'm having a minor crisis about male loneliness about it, but I'm pretty sure it's just that I mostly use text messages.

I've been dabbling with tiny video games since I was a kid, but I've never actually finished one. Until today! I signed up for game jam, found a mechanic that was kind of fun, and then actually actually sat down and finished it! It's little, but it's done! parbroil.itch.io/ships-passing

Learning is hard, and mentoring is hard, and this is a great framework for thinking about how you or other people learn.

Authors, you've had 133 years to advance the art. Why have none of y'all come up with a better villain name than Moriarty in that time?

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

As an aficionado of snarky Blue Sky law-skeeters taking apart poor legal behavior, I certify this thread as Grade A snark concerning Grade A poor legal behavior.

Once or twice a day, every day, a floppy ear d hound goes by in a little car, head out the window, yelping up a storm. This is a big event in our household, as we race to spot him like a middle aged ice cream truck jingle.

This tweet from the White House Correspondence Dinner is art. She may not have meant it that way, but it is art just the same.

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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Hey, I have an 11 year old who loves Undertale-style chiptune stuff and wants to try making their own digital music, but I don't know anything about DAWs and making electronic music. Is there a class or some easyish software or something I can point him to to whet his teeth? #daw #gameaudio

It's "replace AI with Cocaine in a quote" day here on Bluesky!

The Boston Public Library unwisely made a wager with the Seattle Public Library over the results of Super Bowl LX. Now, thanks to the Seahawks’ win over the New England Patriots, Boston readers are getting a dose of Seattle culture.

I will also join. I am the original Starwalker. #PAX

Well, the power's out in North Seattle. Apparently a "vault system" in Northgate caught fire. I wonder what those are. From the name and the problem, I assume it's important, protected electrical stuff?

This new Superman movie is, by far, the best Superman movie. It is Superman at its most comic bookest. It fully embraces all of the stupid comic book stuff that superhero movies have shied away from for being too silly, and it is so much better for it. A+, exactly what I wanted to watch.

Argh, Quantum Fiber's DNS is down, and I could fix that by using manual DNS, but it seems I can't change a Deco's DNS settings while it's not on the Internet!

@quantumfiber.bsky.social Hey are y'all offline? My internet isn't working and your outage status page isn't working either.

Some dark-eyed juncos built a nest in the little wreath on my front door! It's great, except that now we have to go in and out of the house through the back door.

Sovereignty defeating Journalism is a little too on the nose.

I feel bad for all the folks with three or fewer friends reading through Bluesky tonight.

Bad AAPL

#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO.

One of Jackie and Shadow's eggs appears to be pipping, and I didn't realize how much I needed that to work out.

I should've figured out that Elon Musk was a Nazi when everybody started comparing him to Henry Ford.

CNN doesn't always write the best articles, but this bit is pretty great.