Klaas
@klaasible.bsky.social
I was just thinking about the barge the other day! It has been sorely needed. (It's always sorely needed 😞)
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I was just thinking about the barge the other day! It has been sorely needed. (It's always sorely needed 😞)
And while we're at it, impeaching the whole corrupt wing of the Supreme Court and getting a Chief Justice KBJ would be the perfect topper to that accountability cake.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
And while we're at it, impeaching the whole corrupt wing of the Supreme Court and getting a Chief Justice KBJ would be the perfect topper to that accountability cake.
Anything related to the courts usurping legislative power, while really important in theory, would be severely undermined by the fact that legislative power has been in shambles for... decades? It would be hard to find someone who thinks "get the courts out of Congress's way" is at all persuasive.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Anything related to the courts usurping legislative power, while really important in theory, would be severely undermined by the fact that legislative power has been in shambles for... decades? It would be hard to find someone who thinks "get the courts out of Congress's way" is at all persuasive.
I don't know what the slogan is. There are a lot of ways to come at it, and it's hard to know what will resonate. "We need courts that follow the law." seems like maybe something to me, but I'm probably too bought-in to see it from a layperson's perspective.
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I don't know what the slogan is. There are a lot of ways to come at it, and it's hard to know what will resonate. "We need courts that follow the law." seems like maybe something to me, but I'm probably too bought-in to see it from a layperson's perspective.
As @elienyc.bsky.social keeps trying to point out:
1. If you don't have the courts, you have *nothing*. Any attempt to do anything else worthwhile will be strangled in the crib (see: student loan forgiveness, the entire regulatory state)
2. Republicans have been running on the courts for decades.
1. If you don't have the courts, you have *nothing*. Any attempt to do anything else worthwhile will be strangled in the crib (see: student loan forgiveness, the entire regulatory state)
2. Republicans have been running on the courts for decades.
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
As @elienyc.bsky.social keeps trying to point out:
1. If you don't have the courts, you have *nothing*. Any attempt to do anything else worthwhile will be strangled in the crib (see: student loan forgiveness, the entire regulatory state)
2. Republicans have been running on the courts for decades.
1. If you don't have the courts, you have *nothing*. Any attempt to do anything else worthwhile will be strangled in the crib (see: student loan forgiveness, the entire regulatory state)
2. Republicans have been running on the courts for decades.
Special rules like "if you stop before the light is fully red, the person behind you can go ahead and pull into the oncoming lane to blow through it"? That was the second insane incident in my 18-minute drive through NW Philly this morning. I kind of feel like the "shitty" assessment is right.
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Special rules like "if you stop before the light is fully red, the person behind you can go ahead and pull into the oncoming lane to blow through it"? That was the second insane incident in my 18-minute drive through NW Philly this morning. I kind of feel like the "shitty" assessment is right.
Oh man, you beat me by 3 hours!
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Oh man, you beat me by 3 hours!
Two of my favorite sad songs are covers: Patty Griffin singing "Stolen Car" and The Pogues' version of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
youtu.be/myQzPRXZciM
youtu.be/PKURhqmSLmM
youtu.be/myQzPRXZciM
youtu.be/PKURhqmSLmM
Patty Griffin - Stolen Car
YouTube video by CollarboneOfAHare
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Two of my favorite sad songs are covers: Patty Griffin singing "Stolen Car" and The Pogues' version of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
youtu.be/myQzPRXZciM
youtu.be/PKURhqmSLmM
youtu.be/myQzPRXZciM
youtu.be/PKURhqmSLmM
I sometimes find myself arguing for a "the dead have no rights that the living are bound to respect" position. Which I believe, though I will grant that respecting the feelings of the people who remember the dead (which I am for) usually looks pretty similar.
October 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I sometimes find myself arguing for a "the dead have no rights that the living are bound to respect" position. Which I believe, though I will grant that respecting the feelings of the people who remember the dead (which I am for) usually looks pretty similar.
Or incorrectly. Loved for what you mean to somebody else rather than who you are, left always looking for more people to mean something to.
(I'm afraid the news is not good re getting it addressed...)
(I'm afraid the news is not good re getting it addressed...)
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Or incorrectly. Loved for what you mean to somebody else rather than who you are, left always looking for more people to mean something to.
(I'm afraid the news is not good re getting it addressed...)
(I'm afraid the news is not good re getting it addressed...)
Reject modernity, embrace tradition! (plaster walls and COBOL)
October 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Reject modernity, embrace tradition! (plaster walls and COBOL)
Every time someone rich and/or powerful turns out to be a piece of shit (so, often...) I reflect on how grateful I am that I'll never have to find out how my own personality would break down under that kind of pressure. It would be a kindness to protect more people from such a fate.
September 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Every time someone rich and/or powerful turns out to be a piece of shit (so, often...) I reflect on how grateful I am that I'll never have to find out how my own personality would break down under that kind of pressure. It would be a kindness to protect more people from such a fate.
I don't want to "like" this because brain MRI sounds a little concerning, but 100% same. So cozy in there, and I also enjoy the feeling of amazing science happening all around me.
September 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I don't want to "like" this because brain MRI sounds a little concerning, but 100% same. So cozy in there, and I also enjoy the feeling of amazing science happening all around me.
The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.
Especially good because passing on the right is bad and dangerous, always pass on the left. (ok yeah that only works in right-hand-traffic countries)
August 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Especially good because passing on the right is bad and dangerous, always pass on the left. (ok yeah that only works in right-hand-traffic countries)
About to pick it up from the library. We shall see if it moves the needle 😁
July 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
About to pick it up from the library. We shall see if it moves the needle 😁
Epistemic advantage flex
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Epistemic advantage flex
The technological advances that went into making such sophisticated bullshit generators are truly impressive, and yet...
June 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The technological advances that went into making such sophisticated bullshit generators are truly impressive, and yet...
To be clear, I haven't watched it and won't. I'm trying hard to prevent Uncanny Valley Stitch from ever displacing any part of Real Actual Hand-Drawn Stitch in my mind.
June 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
To be clear, I haven't watched it and won't. I'm trying hard to prevent Uncanny Valley Stitch from ever displacing any part of Real Actual Hand-Drawn Stitch in my mind.
TBH I don't know and will hopefully never find out. I've read a few things that suggest it does not, but I get off the train even earlier. The physicality of the characters (especially Lilo and Stitch, but really all of them) is so special, and there's no way it could be recreated in live-action.
June 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TBH I don't know and will hopefully never find out. I've read a few things that suggest it does not, but I get off the train even earlier. The physicality of the characters (especially Lilo and Stitch, but really all of them) is so special, and there's no way it could be recreated in live-action.