meed
@mmeed.bsky.social
Writer, musician, data guy, in ascending order of profitability. Ex-pat Canadian. Apologies for anything I say in advance.
PS: We laugh to keep from crying. Keep that one close.
PS: We laugh to keep from crying. Keep that one close.
ETTD is as real and immutable a principle as gravity.
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ETTD is as real and immutable a principle as gravity.
The only difference between Musk and The sorcerer's apprentice is Mickey had more brains.
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The only difference between Musk and The sorcerer's apprentice is Mickey had more brains.
I love de Bears, despite being an Eagles fan. I just can't help myself.
That said, Christmas definitely came early for them.
The upside for the Packers is their backup QB seems very much for real.
That said, Christmas definitely came early for them.
The upside for the Packers is their backup QB seems very much for real.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I love de Bears, despite being an Eagles fan. I just can't help myself.
That said, Christmas definitely came early for them.
The upside for the Packers is their backup QB seems very much for real.
That said, Christmas definitely came early for them.
The upside for the Packers is their backup QB seems very much for real.
It will then become incumbent upon us to remind our lawmakers if the broken window principle.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It will then become incumbent upon us to remind our lawmakers if the broken window principle.
Are we actually surprised these people are in innumerate as well as illiterate?
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Are we actually surprised these people are in innumerate as well as illiterate?
The beginning of all wisdom is a recognition that the world doesn't care who I follow or not, and is only very occasionally interested in my opinion.
It's liberating really.
It's liberating really.
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The beginning of all wisdom is a recognition that the world doesn't care who I follow or not, and is only very occasionally interested in my opinion.
It's liberating really.
It's liberating really.
Trump's blue sharpie is doing some very heavy lifting here.
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump's blue sharpie is doing some very heavy lifting here.
This is just me, but I never saw Forrest Gump as a moron so much as an innocent wandering through history. I always thought it was telling that the people around him interpreted his innocence as a mental disability.
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is just me, but I never saw Forrest Gump as a moron so much as an innocent wandering through history. I always thought it was telling that the people around him interpreted his innocence as a mental disability.
Their incompetence might just save us all.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Their incompetence might just save us all.
Paraphrasing a line from Gore vidals the best man, it's not that you're a bastard, don't get me wrong there, it's just that you're such a stupid bastard.
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Paraphrasing a line from Gore vidals the best man, it's not that you're a bastard, don't get me wrong there, it's just that you're such a stupid bastard.
It boils down to a simple question for the Democrats: How bad were our candidates that we lost twice to Donald f****** Trump?
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It boils down to a simple question for the Democrats: How bad were our candidates that we lost twice to Donald f****** Trump?
Executive summary: Forrest, trees.
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Executive summary: Forrest, trees.
Not sure that's a source of comfort given nuclear footballs and things, but I take your larger point.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Not sure that's a source of comfort given nuclear footballs and things, but I take your larger point.
I may be a cockeyed optimist but we may be at a point somewhere between things happening gradually then all at once. It could be the great overwhelmer is on the brink of being overwhelmed.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I may be a cockeyed optimist but we may be at a point somewhere between things happening gradually then all at once. It could be the great overwhelmer is on the brink of being overwhelmed.
Start from the position of naked short-term interest, stir in a reptilian sense of survival, and everything MTG does follows logically.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Start from the position of naked short-term interest, stir in a reptilian sense of survival, and everything MTG does follows logically.
It is a good song. I had the pleasure of seeing them at a coffee house in the late sixties in Ottawa Canada. They were every bit as good live.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It is a good song. I had the pleasure of seeing them at a coffee house in the late sixties in Ottawa Canada. They were every bit as good live.
Nah, you are one of the honest few who admit it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Nah, you are one of the honest few who admit it.
Also, as a practical matter, didn't Trump carry the popular vote in the 2024 election? Seems like a magic bullet of very small caliber.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Also, as a practical matter, didn't Trump carry the popular vote in the 2024 election? Seems like a magic bullet of very small caliber.
In short, why not devolve into a parliamentary system like Canada, which someone accurately described is electing a dictatorship every 5 years. A system in which the two most populous provinces, especially their urban areas, dictate how the country is run all the rest of Canada is basically ignored.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In short, why not devolve into a parliamentary system like Canada, which someone accurately described is electing a dictatorship every 5 years. A system in which the two most populous provinces, especially their urban areas, dictate how the country is run all the rest of Canada is basically ignored.