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Cello case iz gud cat bed.

What do people mistakenly say/print for “brass tacks?”

Welp, I’m stuck… Not sure my body will decompose fast enough for my family to set my skeleton out for Halloween tho.

I'm thinking today looks like a great day to go vote early. I live in Ramsey County so I'll be voting early at the Plato Building.

"Debate" has been corrupted by codifying it into a competitive sport imo; at this point it is rarely a method for good faith actors to hit upon best solutions or refine a shared reality; it's mostly a vector for bad faith actors to keep failed and destructive ideas in perpetual zombie currency.

Picturesque sky/clouds to complement the fall colors on the trees this morning… (phone camera no match for the reality.)

I inherited my Dad’s digital life when he died, and it was infuriating to see how much the avalanche of constant, crosslinked spam mails and texts disabled his ability to use those to communicate with people who mattered to him through those channels.

I have refused to use the term “Somali gangs” despite tremendous pressure. Why? It’s a political narrative, not an accurate descriptor of gun violence, even if it was committed by a Somali youth. Who is driving this narrative? Republicans, the Strib, and police. Brilliant reporting below.

Pileated woodpecker had a few complaints about the feeders not being filled during MEA weekend family excursion…

Tbh, Adam Serwer wrote an essay (& subsequently published a book) whose title explained it quite concisely.

RFK is personally responsible for a measles outbreak killing American kids. Stephen Miller has killed more undocumented people than we will know until his tribunal. Pete Hegseth is nerfing anyone in a skiff within 95 miles of Cuba. They get away with it because they are committed to the performance.

Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.

Slatted stairway iz prime spectating platform.

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Had to do it…

The Mane!

[Pete-Rock-voce] “Not five, not four, not three (just two)”

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

Ayo, rec.music.hip-hop fam… 🥭 😏

Such a banger! youtu.be/bFOrOoGgX6w [A Man Called Adam f. Bah Samba - “¿Que Tal America? (Jisco Dazz Mix)”

A sun-seeker in the sun.

For no particular thought-out reason… “Cocoa butter on a very ashy day, fam/Ray-Bans out on the islands of Cay-man” …is one of my favorite DOOM couplets.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

I know everyone’s dunking on that tweet this morning, but see, here’s the thing: so am I

What a time to be alive www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

All these "AI has hacked x or y" headlines are giving me real "Gun shoots man" vibes.

Simply one of the greatest animated GIFs of all time. Glad to see it On Here.

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Argh

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

i simply cannot imagine the level of delusion and sheer ignorance it takes to believe that the rise of Republican Nazis is some outside imposition and not something that has come from within the American right.

Good God, the “Good God” series of compilations from Numero Group are so insanely good, god. goodgodseries.bandcamp.com

I am going to become the Joker

The technology isn’t the backbone of the economy. The massive amounts of money circulating between a handful of companies and people while weaving through the stock and bond markets is the backbone of the economy.

I have this vaguely-formed memory of some film/tv show/tv episode where there were pod people or clones or aliens masquerading as humans and the visual tell was that they would spew some gooey slop from their mouths. Same feel here.

"OK, so these models need ridiculous amounts of compute" "Sounds expensive" "Yes, we're spending trillions to build data centers" "Cool, cool, what are the plans to make a return there?" "TBD, oh and by the way we're working on making these models more compute efficient" "So, fewer DCs?" "No."

"Hennepin County is ready for a new direction"?! Prior to Mary Moriarty, Mike Freeman held this office for nearly three decades, from 1991–99 and 2007–2023, with Amy Klobuchar (see: Myon Burrell, Marvin Haynes) in between. Moriarty IS the new direction, and we should keep going in that direction.

Really not sure what to make of the houses in the Twin Cities that have *only* an Amy K yard sign up.

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

“Can’t talk—watching my shows.”

I feel this. Never shared a home with cats until I met my wife and her two cats and the base poverty of my life beforehand was revealed to me. 🐈

State Fair bun-buns

stray cat yawned while sitting in a sun beam and the photo is intense

Just like the Germans did with the Berlin Wall. Hand out sledgehammers and let the people express how they feel about Trump’s monuments to himself.

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

Start seeing: Family annihilation. Like those parents who kill all the kids, the spouse, burn the house down and get their parents first if they can before they commit suicide, family annihilators believe that if they suffer an ego wound the whole world must die. Start seeing it.