Quickening Enabler
@staledimsum.bsky.social
Stay at home dad, spice guy, records and books.
"Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World"
-Art Bell
"Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World"
-Art Bell
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Epstein emails really flip the meaning of “big beautiful bill”.
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Epstein emails really flip the meaning of “big beautiful bill”.
Why isn't Melt Banana's Agata touring guitarist for the Mountain Goats?
Why isn't Rick Blaine in Saw IV
Why isn’t Hannibal Lecter in Eat Pray Love
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Why isn't Melt Banana's Agata touring guitarist for the Mountain Goats?
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Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.
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This came up in FB Memories today, and,
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This came up in FB Memories today, and,
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Great to see Silkworm back at it
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Great to see Silkworm back at it
Beatty, 51, lives in a tiny house with his wife, child and cat on what passes as a hill in Milwaukee where amongst other detritus strewn on his dining room table is an open copy of Come into the Kitchen Cookbook by Mary and Vincent Price - along with a dogeared copy of High Weirdness by Erik Davis.
Davis, 47, lives in a rented flat near the south side of Milwaukee where pets are not allowed in the lease, and various RCA and computer cables occupy the coffee table - along with a copy of Starlog featuring the robotic stars of the film Heartbeeps on the cover.
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Beatty, 51, lives in a tiny house with his wife, child and cat on what passes as a hill in Milwaukee where amongst other detritus strewn on his dining room table is an open copy of Come into the Kitchen Cookbook by Mary and Vincent Price - along with a dogeared copy of High Weirdness by Erik Davis.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Hey! Shudder to Think is on here!
Pics and review of Shudder To Think and Zwei Null Zwei at Nightclub 101 @shuddertothinkers.bsky.social justonemoreconcert.com/2025/10/25/s...
Shudder To Think rocked intimate show at Nightclub 101 – Oct 25, 2025
90’s alt rockers Shudder To Think played an extremely intimate show at Nightclub 101 in the East Village of NYC toa celebrate the release of a brand new 7-inch called Thirst Walk, their first new m…
justonemoreconcert.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hey! Shudder to Think is on here!
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Sure. Let's shorten our position in the way medicine will be delivered in the future regardless of the dipshits in charge of the US government.
Who's on the board there?
Cats?
Cats of questionable judgement as it seems everyone who has any wealth has emails to Epstein out there somewhere
Who's on the board there?
Cats?
Cats of questionable judgement as it seems everyone who has any wealth has emails to Epstein out there somewhere
Pfizer slashes stake in COVID vaccine partner BioNTech reut.rs/3XqGMXp
Pfizer slashes stake in COVID vaccine partner BioNTech
Pfizer Inc said on Thursday that it sold 54.7% of its stake in German drugmaker BioNTech SE , more than five years after both firms formed an alliance that yielded a vaccine to combat the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
reut.rs
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sure. Let's shorten our position in the way medicine will be delivered in the future regardless of the dipshits in charge of the US government.
Who's on the board there?
Cats?
Cats of questionable judgement as it seems everyone who has any wealth has emails to Epstein out there somewhere
Who's on the board there?
Cats?
Cats of questionable judgement as it seems everyone who has any wealth has emails to Epstein out there somewhere
This is far and away my favorite song of the year. I don't know what that says about the kind of years this has been.
Corinthians featuring Despot, by billy woods
from the album GOLLIWOG
billywoods.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is far and away my favorite song of the year. I don't know what that says about the kind of years this has been.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
We built more highways with the biden money. Our state governments are more concerned that our cars have nice places than ourselves or our kids. No green infrastructure...
VR helmets for the lot of us.
Creepy Mark Zuckerberg beckons us into his smooth disney-eyed world.
VR helmets for the lot of us.
Creepy Mark Zuckerberg beckons us into his smooth disney-eyed world.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We built more highways with the biden money. Our state governments are more concerned that our cars have nice places than ourselves or our kids. No green infrastructure...
VR helmets for the lot of us.
Creepy Mark Zuckerberg beckons us into his smooth disney-eyed world.
VR helmets for the lot of us.
Creepy Mark Zuckerberg beckons us into his smooth disney-eyed world.
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So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
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OXZ -- Touching My Heart [Japanese Post-Punk] (1985)
https://redd.it/byxhbl
https://youtu.be/wNFjqYHxnx8
https://redd.it/byxhbl
https://youtu.be/wNFjqYHxnx8
OXZ -- Touching My Heart [Japanese Post-Punk] (1985)
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
OXZ -- Touching My Heart [Japanese Post-Punk] (1985)
https://redd.it/byxhbl
https://youtu.be/wNFjqYHxnx8
https://redd.it/byxhbl
https://youtu.be/wNFjqYHxnx8
Pray we still have tea. I am constantly amazed how little care and/or how much denial our politicians have about this. Money is a concept. Depriving everyone on the planet of a future for nothing tangible is quite the choice to make.
I hope that i can one day serve food to bill gates. Poop finger.
I hope that i can one day serve food to bill gates. Poop finger.
Enjoy your coffee, chocolate, or wine while you can, but don't take them for granted.
#ClimateSky
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
#ClimateSky
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Chocolate, coffee and wine won’t survive climate change, study predicts
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Pray we still have tea. I am constantly amazed how little care and/or how much denial our politicians have about this. Money is a concept. Depriving everyone on the planet of a future for nothing tangible is quite the choice to make.
I hope that i can one day serve food to bill gates. Poop finger.
I hope that i can one day serve food to bill gates. Poop finger.
What's Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop up to these days?
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
What's Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop up to these days?
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Because, we The People (dullards) cannot possibly figure this out as we stare vacantly at our circuses. And those of us that might figure it out will chuckle and nudge each other and exclaim "smart ol' Chuck really got us with that one" and move on with out jobs at the sausage paper factory.
The thing @schumer.senate.gov appears to be doing where he gets everybody who’s retiring or was just sworn in to a six-year term to vote yes so he and a bunch more moderates can vote “no” to appear more progressive than they are is so insulting lol
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Because, we The People (dullards) cannot possibly figure this out as we stare vacantly at our circuses. And those of us that might figure it out will chuckle and nudge each other and exclaim "smart ol' Chuck really got us with that one" and move on with out jobs at the sausage paper factory.
Thinking of Diane Feinstein using this line on elementary school students who were visiting her and asking her to please do something about climate change.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Thinking of Diane Feinstein using this line on elementary school students who were visiting her and asking her to please do something about climate change.
So let me get this straight...
Democrats just made a whole bunch of federal employees amongst many others suffer for nothing tangible?
And caved right after an election they needed to look good for and before the cuts effect their holiday travel?
Wow.
Democrats just made a whole bunch of federal employees amongst many others suffer for nothing tangible?
And caved right after an election they needed to look good for and before the cuts effect their holiday travel?
Wow.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
So let me get this straight...
Democrats just made a whole bunch of federal employees amongst many others suffer for nothing tangible?
And caved right after an election they needed to look good for and before the cuts effect their holiday travel?
Wow.
Democrats just made a whole bunch of federal employees amongst many others suffer for nothing tangible?
And caved right after an election they needed to look good for and before the cuts effect their holiday travel?
Wow.