Knobuddie
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Ok, #MathSky, let me rephrase this:
If an adult asked you: Why does 28+36=64, and not some other number, what would you say?
If an adult asked you: Why does 28+36=64, and not some other number, what would you say?
Hey #MathSky,
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ok, #MathSky, let me rephrase this:
If an adult asked you: Why does 28+36=64, and not some other number, what would you say?
If an adult asked you: Why does 28+36=64, and not some other number, what would you say?
Hey #MathSky,
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hey #MathSky,
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
Asking as the parent of a very curious 6yo who will only watch NumberBlocks.
What's the best response to this question:
"What's 28 +36?"
"64"
"Why?"
I just respond "because math," but I'd like to throw an actual theoretical or philosophical answer at him.
Realized I was muttering “feckless motherfuckers” to myself repeatedly, so better rein that in before school lets out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Realized I was muttering “feckless motherfuckers” to myself repeatedly, so better rein that in before school lets out.
Ugh, I had a long running thread on the hellsite taking real images from the Trump Administration and turning them into black and white stills from the film "Dotard."
This would have been chef's kiss. One of the few times I miss old Twitter.
This would have been chef's kiss. One of the few times I miss old Twitter.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ugh, I had a long running thread on the hellsite taking real images from the Trump Administration and turning them into black and white stills from the film "Dotard."
This would have been chef's kiss. One of the few times I miss old Twitter.
This would have been chef's kiss. One of the few times I miss old Twitter.
Data set of one, but my city councilman lost his seat. Totally normal guy, good party backer, did his job--but he was 75. Lost to an under 40 candidate. No money, barely any campaigning.
I think the electorate is done with septuagenarians, competent or not.
I think the electorate is done with septuagenarians, competent or not.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Data set of one, but my city councilman lost his seat. Totally normal guy, good party backer, did his job--but he was 75. Lost to an under 40 candidate. No money, barely any campaigning.
I think the electorate is done with septuagenarians, competent or not.
I think the electorate is done with septuagenarians, competent or not.
So far this year, it was important enough to nuke the filibuster to discourage EVs, to pass rich people's tax cuts, to approve Trump's goons...but not important enough to feed people.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Republicans poke holes in the filibuster despite vowing to protect it
Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So far this year, it was important enough to nuke the filibuster to discourage EVs, to pass rich people's tax cuts, to approve Trump's goons...but not important enough to feed people.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Oh, shit. Did it again. I’m cooked.
October 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh, shit. Did it again. I’m cooked.
“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense.” - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
This passage nearly broke me.
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense.” - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
...I'm apparently online enough that when oral arguments mention Ch. 670, I internally went "six seeeeven...ty."
No one in my real life would get that except my seventh grade niece.
This is bad. I deal with §670 at least a couple times a year. I'm going to do this out loud to a boomer.
No one in my real life would get that except my seventh grade niece.
This is bad. I deal with §670 at least a couple times a year. I'm going to do this out loud to a boomer.
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
...I'm apparently online enough that when oral arguments mention Ch. 670, I internally went "six seeeeven...ty."
No one in my real life would get that except my seventh grade niece.
This is bad. I deal with §670 at least a couple times a year. I'm going to do this out loud to a boomer.
No one in my real life would get that except my seventh grade niece.
This is bad. I deal with §670 at least a couple times a year. I'm going to do this out loud to a boomer.
Watching a bunch of Gen Z creators find out why Millennials are the way they are as a shit job market slowly radicalizes them.
Yeah, you’re just a number to a corporate entity. Even your mentor is t your friend. Corporate jobs are fascism in microcosms.
Yeah, you’re just a number to a corporate entity. Even your mentor is t your friend. Corporate jobs are fascism in microcosms.
September 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Watching a bunch of Gen Z creators find out why Millennials are the way they are as a shit job market slowly radicalizes them.
Yeah, you’re just a number to a corporate entity. Even your mentor is t your friend. Corporate jobs are fascism in microcosms.
Yeah, you’re just a number to a corporate entity. Even your mentor is t your friend. Corporate jobs are fascism in microcosms.
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Readers: "Great data & analysis on the win"
"An article worth reading"
"Any article that includes spreadsheets is my kind of article!"
(of precinct-level results from Iowa Senate district 1 in 2022, 2024, and this week's special)
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/30/t...
"An article worth reading"
"Any article that includes spreadsheets is my kind of article!"
(of precinct-level results from Iowa Senate district 1 in 2022, 2024, and this week's special)
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/30/t...
Ten lessons Democrats can learn from Catelin Drey's big win
How did a Democrat win by 10 points in a district that voted for Trump by 11? Laura Belin on what Catelin Drey and her team did right.
www.bleedingheartland.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Readers: "Great data & analysis on the win"
"An article worth reading"
"Any article that includes spreadsheets is my kind of article!"
(of precinct-level results from Iowa Senate district 1 in 2022, 2024, and this week's special)
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/30/t...
"An article worth reading"
"Any article that includes spreadsheets is my kind of article!"
(of precinct-level results from Iowa Senate district 1 in 2022, 2024, and this week's special)
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/30/t...
This reminds me of the Austin Powers joke about how weird, weak, and impotent it was that Random Task throws a shoe. This wasn't even a shoe.
And yet, they felt the need to bring a SWAT team to a sandwich slap-fight.
And yet, they felt the need to bring a SWAT team to a sandwich slap-fight.
This represents Displays of Power As Weakness. An over-armed strike force sent to arrest a paralegal who threw a sandwich. Pathetic and deeply insecure.
The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This reminds me of the Austin Powers joke about how weird, weak, and impotent it was that Random Task throws a shoe. This wasn't even a shoe.
And yet, they felt the need to bring a SWAT team to a sandwich slap-fight.
And yet, they felt the need to bring a SWAT team to a sandwich slap-fight.
DoorDash and Grubhub fund the Republican Attorneys General Association to expand abortion bans, end civil rights, and perpetuate the death of democracy in America. Delete these apps.
August 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
DoorDash and Grubhub fund the Republican Attorneys General Association to expand abortion bans, end civil rights, and perpetuate the death of democracy in America. Delete these apps.
Oh, he’s giving Alaska back, great.
At least the Senate will be easier to win back.
At least the Senate will be easier to win back.
August 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oh, he’s giving Alaska back, great.
At least the Senate will be easier to win back.
At least the Senate will be easier to win back.
The memory care unit at the White House really falling down on the job. DOGE cuts must have really affected security staffing.
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The memory care unit at the White House really falling down on the job. DOGE cuts must have really affected security staffing.
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If you don't have a WSJ subscription, here's a non-paywalled link to the story everyone's talking about:
archive.is/b5Yk3
archive.is/b5Yk3
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you don't have a WSJ subscription, here's a non-paywalled link to the story everyone's talking about:
archive.is/b5Yk3
archive.is/b5Yk3
Just saw someone post, “No one on the other side of this, but seriously, fuck cancer” and I invite you to watch the Iowa Senate floor debates of the Pesticide Immunity Bill. Some people are very much on the other side of “fuck cancer.”
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just saw someone post, “No one on the other side of this, but seriously, fuck cancer” and I invite you to watch the Iowa Senate floor debates of the Pesticide Immunity Bill. Some people are very much on the other side of “fuck cancer.”
Gonna need more than that for this feed right now
AAHH
June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Gonna need more than that for this feed right now
Speaking as someone who can still remember 2017.
Not to mention 2003, 2001, or basically all of the ‘80s.
Not to mention 2003, 2001, or basically all of the ‘80s.
June 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Speaking as someone who can still remember 2017.
Not to mention 2003, 2001, or basically all of the ‘80s.
Not to mention 2003, 2001, or basically all of the ‘80s.
WITGDF thought this would encourage anyone to even open the text, let alone chip in $5 or sign their petition or whatever the goal of this was
May 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
WITGDF thought this would encourage anyone to even open the text, let alone chip in $5 or sign their petition or whatever the goal of this was
To put in slightly different context, 1.5% of the population of Lucas county just got laid off.
www.kcci.com/article/hyve...
www.kcci.com/article/hyve...
April 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
To put in slightly different context, 1.5% of the population of Lucas county just got laid off.
www.kcci.com/article/hyve...
www.kcci.com/article/hyve...
We said during the trans erasure act debate this would harm cis women and men, too. This is where they're "we protect women and girls" worldview gets us.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
6'4 cis woman says Walmart fired her after customer 'accused' her of being trans
A cisgender woman who says she was fired from Walmart after a customer “accused” her of being trans says the situation is “heartbreaking”.
www.thepinknews.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We said during the trans erasure act debate this would harm cis women and men, too. This is where they're "we protect women and girls" worldview gets us.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
Several pages of this are just the same presentation. He feels the need to pad a 165 page CV with weekly FedSoc presentations of the same material. He puts every blurb of his books in his CV.
Insecurity just radiates off these guys.
Insecurity just radiates off these guys.
this is what we mean when we talk about right wing affirmative action. if you walk into any normal job with a 165 page resume you don’t get an interview, and further you’re a cocktail party laughingstock for a generation
Here's something fun I found out today, Josh Blackman's CV is 165 pages long and has a table of contents docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Several pages of this are just the same presentation. He feels the need to pad a 165 page CV with weekly FedSoc presentations of the same material. He puts every blurb of his books in his CV.
Insecurity just radiates off these guys.
Insecurity just radiates off these guys.
My YouTube algorithm has gone odd. I basically can’t get it to play protest songs, and it’s throwing no-stakes music videos and commentary on repeat.
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My YouTube algorithm has gone odd. I basically can’t get it to play protest songs, and it’s throwing no-stakes music videos and commentary on repeat.
The Iowa AG is acting like an indigent defense attorney for a couple of billionaires to make sure Iowa farmers don’t receive the millions of dollars the federal government owes them.
Farm and Freedom Division: keeping farmers free from getting paid.
www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/Do...
Farm and Freedom Division: keeping farmers free from getting paid.
www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/Do...
www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov
February 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Iowa AG is acting like an indigent defense attorney for a couple of billionaires to make sure Iowa farmers don’t receive the millions of dollars the federal government owes them.
Farm and Freedom Division: keeping farmers free from getting paid.
www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/Do...
Farm and Freedom Division: keeping farmers free from getting paid.
www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/Do...