Brady Darnell
@judeguy.bsky.social
My handle is the nicknames of my grandfathers — whom I never met. (You can probably guess what my nickname was.) Living in the desert. Looking for mirages.
Y’all understand that pennies will still exist, right? Still legal tender. They just aren’t being made anymore. It will be decades before we run out of them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Y’all understand that pennies will still exist, right? Still legal tender. They just aren’t being made anymore. It will be decades before we run out of them.
As a man, I don't really feel that it's my place to have an opinion on #abortion. Observations? I have a couple: If men could get pregnant, abortion would be legal. . . and free. Same would be true if men were immediately 50% financially liable for the child from conception to adulthood.
kermit the frog and miss piggy are kissing each other in a muppet show .
ALT: kermit the frog and miss piggy are kissing each other in a muppet show .
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September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
As a man, I don't really feel that it's my place to have an opinion on #abortion. Observations? I have a couple: If men could get pregnant, abortion would be legal. . . and free. Same would be true if men were immediately 50% financially liable for the child from conception to adulthood.
Okay, I've avoided weighing in on this, but, no: I do not consider listening to audiobooks as equivalent to reading. The closest but imperfect analogy I can think of is: listening to audiobooks is to reading as riding a bus is to driving. Same destination. Different participation in getting there.
a woman is reading a book in a living room .
ALT: a woman is reading a book in a living room .
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July 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Okay, I've avoided weighing in on this, but, no: I do not consider listening to audiobooks as equivalent to reading. The closest but imperfect analogy I can think of is: listening to audiobooks is to reading as riding a bus is to driving. Same destination. Different participation in getting there.
Props to BBC World Business Report and their Trump/Elon audio montage today.
June 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Props to BBC World Business Report and their Trump/Elon audio montage today.
And HOW did I know that I preferred Harris’s plan for the country to Trump’s? I paid attention. I looked it up. And now I have to hear all these people saying, “Who knew Trump would do this?” 2/2
a man sitting on a couch with a black shirt on that says fox
ALT: a man sitting on a couch with a black shirt on that says fox
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June 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And HOW did I know that I preferred Harris’s plan for the country to Trump’s? I paid attention. I looked it up. And now I have to hear all these people saying, “Who knew Trump would do this?” 2/2
Grazer’s admission that he voted for Trump on the assertion that Harris didn’t run a very good campaign is what I find so frustrating about politics these days. I don’t need to be enticed into voting. Harris had my vote because I agreed with her platform and disagreed with Trump’s. Simple as. 1/2
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Grazer’s admission that he voted for Trump on the assertion that Harris didn’t run a very good campaign is what I find so frustrating about politics these days. I don’t need to be enticed into voting. Harris had my vote because I agreed with her platform and disagreed with Trump’s. Simple as. 1/2
Today's thought: if you really believe it, it isn't virtue signaling. It's just virtue.
May 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Today's thought: if you really believe it, it isn't virtue signaling. It's just virtue.
In the last part of his rallying cry to the prisoners, he says, "You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us." I believe he was saved by someone heeding his own advice. 2/2
May 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In the last part of his rallying cry to the prisoners, he says, "You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us." I believe he was saved by someone heeding his own advice. 2/2
I've had Andor on the brain a lot lately, and I've been thinking a bit about Kino Loy from Season 1, who we last saw at the prison exit lamenting that he could not swim as he stood high over the lake. But we don't see his fate. It is left ambiguous, but I think that there is a hint. . . 1/2
May 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I've had Andor on the brain a lot lately, and I've been thinking a bit about Kino Loy from Season 1, who we last saw at the prison exit lamenting that he could not swim as he stood high over the lake. But we don't see his fate. It is left ambiguous, but I think that there is a hint. . . 1/2
Being a headline writer has got to be a weird job. I just saw a story that was about damage from “suspected tornadoes.” Are we leaving open the possibility of cartoon Tasmanian Devils?
May 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Being a headline writer has got to be a weird job. I just saw a story that was about damage from “suspected tornadoes.” Are we leaving open the possibility of cartoon Tasmanian Devils?
So why does it matter now that I point out that journalism isn't unbiased? Because the fact that the legit journalists keep clinging to this idea gets exploited by bad actors. It isn't biased to call Trump a grifter and a liar and a thief when he's grifting, lying, and stealing. It's accurate.
May 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So why does it matter now that I point out that journalism isn't unbiased? Because the fact that the legit journalists keep clinging to this idea gets exploited by bad actors. It isn't biased to call Trump a grifter and a liar and a thief when he's grifting, lying, and stealing. It's accurate.
So, today's wall scrawl is this: unbiased isn't a thing. I went to Journalism school for three years, and I changed majors when I came to the realization that my professors were still pushing this idea when it was demonstrably untrue. And this was shortly before Fox "News" came into existence.
May 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So, today's wall scrawl is this: unbiased isn't a thing. I went to Journalism school for three years, and I changed majors when I came to the realization that my professors were still pushing this idea when it was demonstrably untrue. And this was shortly before Fox "News" came into existence.
Okay, here I am again after several weeks. Months? Well, I guess it's better to use this when I've got something to say instead of having to think of something to say every day. I don't want to be an influencer. I just want to write something on the neighborhood wall once in a while.
May 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Okay, here I am again after several weeks. Months? Well, I guess it's better to use this when I've got something to say instead of having to think of something to say every day. I don't want to be an influencer. I just want to write something on the neighborhood wall once in a while.
Less money spent on campaigns, and shorter campaigns (with a mandatory break) will be better for all of us. /End
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Less money spent on campaigns, and shorter campaigns (with a mandatory break) will be better for all of us. /End
Suggestion 4: Conventions are in the last two weeks (or three if we ever get another party) of July, and campaign activity resumes again on August 1st. /5
April 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Suggestion 4: Conventions are in the last two weeks (or three if we ever get another party) of July, and campaign activity resumes again on August 1st. /5
Suggestion 3: Campaigns cannot begin before the first day of the calendar year of the election. Primaries are held starting April 1st, one state per day in random, pre-drawn order until complete. All campaign activity is then paused until the conventions in July. /4
April 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Suggestion 3: Campaigns cannot begin before the first day of the calendar year of the election. Primaries are held starting April 1st, one state per day in random, pre-drawn order until complete. All campaign activity is then paused until the conventions in July. /4
Suggestion 2: PACs can raise money on their own, but they can only mention issues. They can neither endorse nor attack a candidate by name, image, or obvious reference in their campaigns or advertising. /3
April 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Suggestion 2: PACs can raise money on their own, but they can only mention issues. They can neither endorse nor attack a candidate by name, image, or obvious reference in their campaigns or advertising. /3
Suggestion 1: Campaign budgets per party are capped at $1 per citizen from the last census. Not that you can only raise a dollar from every person, just that when you reach $330 million (or whatever) you can raise no more.
April 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Suggestion 1: Campaign budgets per party are capped at $1 per citizen from the last census. Not that you can only raise a dollar from every person, just that when you reach $330 million (or whatever) you can raise no more.
On the subject of mythology, can we stop pretending that we need to spend billions of dollars on every election cycle? I have a few suggestions. . . 1/
April 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
On the subject of mythology, can we stop pretending that we need to spend billions of dollars on every election cycle? I have a few suggestions. . . 1/
Just overheard a woman in CostCo explaining to her child that Easter is about “celebrating the day that Jesus died.” First: no. If you’re going to live by mythology, at least get it right. Second: “celebrating?”
April 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Just overheard a woman in CostCo explaining to her child that Easter is about “celebrating the day that Jesus died.” First: no. If you’re going to live by mythology, at least get it right. Second: “celebrating?”
If you’re interested, Go For Broke is on Tubi right now. A number of actual veterans of the 442nd star in the movie alongside Van Johnson. They were the most-decorated infantry regiment in all of the war. (Not bad for being DEI hires.)
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you’re interested, Go For Broke is on Tubi right now. A number of actual veterans of the 442nd star in the movie alongside Van Johnson. They were the most-decorated infantry regiment in all of the war. (Not bad for being DEI hires.)
I was having a conversation the other day about the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2, and that turned to a discussion of the 442nd (all Japanese-American) division and their impressive record in European during the War. It was dramatized in 1951 in the movie Go For Broke.
February 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was having a conversation the other day about the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2, and that turned to a discussion of the 442nd (all Japanese-American) division and their impressive record in European during the War. It was dramatized in 1951 in the movie Go For Broke.
I know I haven't been posting here much. Honestly, I'm finding it hard to engage with people outside of my circle. And being quippy and convivial feels just . . . wrong, with the state of things here in the U.S. But I don't want to be morose, either, so I'm just, you know, being quiet.
February 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I know I haven't been posting here much. Honestly, I'm finding it hard to engage with people outside of my circle. And being quippy and convivial feels just . . . wrong, with the state of things here in the U.S. But I don't want to be morose, either, so I'm just, you know, being quiet.
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January 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I thought the subreddit "LeopardsAteMyFace" would make me feel better. It does, but not as much as I hoped.
January 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I thought the subreddit "LeopardsAteMyFace" would make me feel better. It does, but not as much as I hoped.