well if grammar errors boost the Hobbes brand I guess I just have to say: I could care literally, less

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

wow they really *don't* call him thomas thinkerton williams do they

I hasten to add that I am not trying to dunk on you here, this is a perfectly reasonable reaction, a 100% correct one even. Definitely not a particularly harmful form of sanewashing, given the state of discourse. It's hard to know how to react when everything is so intensely ridiculous and stupid

(credit where it’s due, I am just paraphrasing @notalawyer.bsky.social here)

even asking this question feels a little like sanewashing to me. if a guy asks you for the time, then punches you in the face and steals your watch, and later you find it in a pawn shop, it’s not really incisive analysis to say “gosh, it’s almost like he wasn’t really interested in timekeeping!”

thank you, I was unaware of this, and in an attempt to understand what you were referring to I had the delightful experience of typing "dave portnoy " into google and the second I hit the second space the autocomplete went straight to "dave portnoy tippy toes"

it *was* a good movie and it's a pity they never made a sequel to it

Put another way: the useful properties of decentralisation make AWS possible.

Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.

SQLite doesn't enforce foreign key constraints by default. You have to enable it using PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON; whenever you connect to the DB.

there are no "distractions" there is just Bad Shit happening everywhere and bad people who benefit from decent people being too overwhelmed to keep up

kate I just want you to know, speaking as a mastodon person, we also hate this. we are very rarely right about anything fun

Thanks, kind of you to say so!

BTW, to be visible to that account (which is my main one) and to others on the Fediverse you can follow bsky.app/profile/ap.b... . Otherwise I just get a summary DM linking me to these posts every so often :)

so kind of you to say so! FYI, in order to interact directly with my (and other bridged) mastodon account(s), you can follow the bridgy bot as explained here bsky.app/profile/glyp...

There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.

There needs to be a name for the genre of films by dudes who jumble American politics in a snow globe and think they’re saying something deep by trying to be apolitical while simultaneously using deeply charged politically imagery in an incoherent way. See Civil War, Eddington - arguably Warfare.