David Houghton
@dfhoughton.bsky.social
Linguist, programmer, honest person.
All in on DEI. Proud to be woke. Friend and parent of queer folk.
All in on DEI. Proud to be woke. Friend and parent of queer folk.
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Look what George Soros got me! He made this sign himself out of an inverted pellet back, automobile touch up paint, exterior latex, and some electrical tape. His lettering isn't too tidy. Sore fingers from writing all those checks, I imagine.
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Look what George Soros got me! He made this sign himself out of an inverted pellet back, automobile touch up paint, exterior latex, and some electrical tape. His lettering isn't too tidy. Sore fingers from writing all those checks, I imagine.
#NoKings
#NoKings
How many impeachable offenses does he commit a day?
An illustration by Dr. Seuss of the guy counting Trump's offenses:
An illustration by Dr. Seuss of the guy counting Trump's offenses:
September 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
How many impeachable offenses does he commit a day?
An illustration by Dr. Seuss of the guy counting Trump's offenses:
An illustration by Dr. Seuss of the guy counting Trump's offenses:
I really like the non-musical coda. (If you haven't seen the movie, these monks are whacking themselves in the forehead with boards while chanting.)
July 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I really like the non-musical coda. (If you haven't seen the movie, these monks are whacking themselves in the forehead with boards while chanting.)
Trump's been messing with horcruxes.
July 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Trump's been messing with horcruxes.
rainbow over the co-op after the Good Trouble protest in Brattleboro yesterday
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
rainbow over the co-op after the Good Trouble protest in Brattleboro yesterday
Hmm... I just spotted this on her Wikipedia page:
"privacy concerns" means, I think, that she didn't want to confess to lying on her voter registration at 16 in order to vote for Reagan. The other lies are embarrassing. This one implicates her in a crime she enjoys pinning on others.
"privacy concerns" means, I think, that she didn't want to confess to lying on her voter registration at 16 in order to vote for Reagan. The other lies are embarrassing. This one implicates her in a crime she enjoys pinning on others.
July 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hmm... I just spotted this on her Wikipedia page:
"privacy concerns" means, I think, that she didn't want to confess to lying on her voter registration at 16 in order to vote for Reagan. The other lies are embarrassing. This one implicates her in a crime she enjoys pinning on others.
"privacy concerns" means, I think, that she didn't want to confess to lying on her voter registration at 16 in order to vote for Reagan. The other lies are embarrassing. This one implicates her in a crime she enjoys pinning on others.
Correction: if you adjust for population things change somewhat.
July 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Correction: if you adjust for population things change somewhat.
US murder rate per month by region (from Philip Bump)
The Confederacy is so good at this law-n-order stuff, it makes sense we're nationalizing their practices.
The Confederacy is so good at this law-n-order stuff, it makes sense we're nationalizing their practices.
July 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
US murder rate per month by region (from Philip Bump)
The Confederacy is so good at this law-n-order stuff, it makes sense we're nationalizing their practices.
The Confederacy is so good at this law-n-order stuff, it makes sense we're nationalizing their practices.
A protest sign.
The right has rallies where everyone is carrying signs from a print shop. The left has homemade, clever signs. The right accuses the left of paying protesters.
Every accusation is a confession.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The right has rallies where everyone is carrying signs from a print shop. The left has homemade, clever signs. The right accuses the left of paying protesters.
Every accusation is a confession.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A protest sign.
The right has rallies where everyone is carrying signs from a print shop. The left has homemade, clever signs. The right accuses the left of paying protesters.
Every accusation is a confession.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The right has rallies where everyone is carrying signs from a print shop. The left has homemade, clever signs. The right accuses the left of paying protesters.
Every accusation is a confession.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Linda McMahon, secretary of "education":
April 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Linda McMahon, secretary of "education":
I'm always seeing stuff like this in Finnish wiktionary. Finnish didn't have a word for rainbow before 1826? You'd think it was a conlang.
April 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I'm always seeing stuff like this in Finnish wiktionary. Finnish didn't have a word for rainbow before 1826? You'd think it was a conlang.
NYT ranks Bluesky above Xitter in its sharing options. But where's Truth Social?
April 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NYT ranks Bluesky above Xitter in its sharing options. But where's Truth Social?
An image projected onto Tesla's gigafactory in Berlin:
[image copied from Xitter, where I lack an account]
[image copied from Xitter, where I lack an account]
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
An image projected onto Tesla's gigafactory in Berlin:
[image copied from Xitter, where I lack an account]
[image copied from Xitter, where I lack an account]
Someone named Robert Slager shared this on Facebook. I hope he doesn't mind my sharing it on Bluesky:
![Calvin says to Hobbes, "DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people. It [sic] was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbeuoboplypnqy3f2iorujvs/bafkreiafrdish6coz4k4lcoqolgowazorj4oagimzpkr7m5y45ta2l24ce@jpeg)
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Someone named Robert Slager shared this on Facebook. I hope he doesn't mind my sharing it on Bluesky: