@susanbrindle.bsky.social
Why stop there? Bumblebird. Bumbletree. Bumblebear. Bumblehund.
More bugs should have "bumble" variants
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Why stop there? Bumblebird. Bumbletree. Bumblebear. Bumblehund.
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I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
December 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
H.P. Lovecraft was terrified of Shibboleths but he didn't invent them. They're real and in the bible.
December 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
H.P. Lovecraft was terrified of Shibboleths but he didn't invent them. They're real and in the bible.
I've never purchased a solo board game because something about the experience feels inherently wrong. The table empty without comrades. A "journalling game" where I'm expected to tell half the story myself? Hmph! Anyway here's my Baldur's Gate 3 OC backstory....
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I've never purchased a solo board game because something about the experience feels inherently wrong. The table empty without comrades. A "journalling game" where I'm expected to tell half the story myself? Hmph! Anyway here's my Baldur's Gate 3 OC backstory....
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it's like one of those 'heartwarming: toddler raises lunch money' stories but actually good this time, this is what electing Democrats should get you
Arizona cancels medical debt for almost half-a-million residents
www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...
www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...
Arizona cancels medical debt for almost half-a-million residents
Gov. Katie Hobbs' office says it's partnered with a nonprofit to erase $642 million in medical debt owed by almost half-a-million Arizonans.
www.knau.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
it's like one of those 'heartwarming: toddler raises lunch money' stories but actually good this time, this is what electing Democrats should get you
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I was just talking to friends about how Hitchhiker's is a universe defined by obliviousness and apathy. Consumer goods and political processes alike suck, not because because the people in charge are evil (though they are) but mostly just bad at their jobs. Elon read it and BECAME a torment nexus.
I JUST THINK IT'S FUNNY THAT THEY BOTH DON'T GROK GROK AND YET
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was just talking to friends about how Hitchhiker's is a universe defined by obliviousness and apathy. Consumer goods and political processes alike suck, not because because the people in charge are evil (though they are) but mostly just bad at their jobs. Elon read it and BECAME a torment nexus.
Simply halfass your job and say its because AI. Now you're producing the same volume and quality while building SOME skills.
I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Simply halfass your job and say its because AI. Now you're producing the same volume and quality while building SOME skills.
Did you know that Ursula K Le Guin had a lot of her best ideas while chatting with one of her trans friends? Just goes to show you have to crack a few eggs to get an Omelas
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Did you know that Ursula K Le Guin had a lot of her best ideas while chatting with one of her trans friends? Just goes to show you have to crack a few eggs to get an Omelas
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
Yeah I'd happily live in an apartment if it were soundproofed. Hell, I'd appreciate if my standalone had thicker walls.
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yeah I'd happily live in an apartment if it were soundproofed. Hell, I'd appreciate if my standalone had thicker walls.
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Also, along with institutional reform, the platform must be “We are resetting everything to January 20, 2025 by repealing every illegal Trump EO on Day 1, & many senior Trump government & DOGE criminals are going to jail for the rest of their lives.”
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Also, along with institutional reform, the platform must be “We are resetting everything to January 20, 2025 by repealing every illegal Trump EO on Day 1, & many senior Trump government & DOGE criminals are going to jail for the rest of their lives.”
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Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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We regret to inform you that Ron Paul is entirely correct here.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We regret to inform you that Ron Paul is entirely correct here.
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Uh, I accept those congratulations. Forcing a university to act to discipline a professor who evidently harassed colleague and possibly students - under the advice of a notorious sexual predator, even! - is Good, Actually.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Uh, I accept those congratulations. Forcing a university to act to discipline a professor who evidently harassed colleague and possibly students - under the advice of a notorious sexual predator, even! - is Good, Actually.
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“What if Chicago is uninhabited because it was hit with bioweapons (more than once I believe)”
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“What if Chicago is uninhabited because it was hit with bioweapons (more than once I believe)”
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As @gelliottmorris.com notes, the welcomePAC report on Dems shows that the least popular parts of the Dem agenda are things not on the Dem agenda, while the least popular parts of the GOP agenda are things Trump has done this year. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
As @gelliottmorris.com notes, the welcomePAC report on Dems shows that the least popular parts of the Dem agenda are things not on the Dem agenda, while the least popular parts of the GOP agenda are things Trump has done this year. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.
Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.
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I really relate to this because I'm also still mad at a major awful OSR figure from a decade ago less because they were awful and more because I can't get over how bad the argument was
September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really relate to this because I'm also still mad at a major awful OSR figure from a decade ago less because they were awful and more because I can't get over how bad the argument was
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Some of you guys need to learn to like things without having to make them communist. “Pickup basketball in my neighborhood after work provides a space free of the extractive logic of capital” no it doesn’t.
July 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Some of you guys need to learn to like things without having to make them communist. “Pickup basketball in my neighborhood after work provides a space free of the extractive logic of capital” no it doesn’t.
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An excellent summary of key points that you would think would already be more widely understood than they in fact are.
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who didn't really surprise anyone—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Elon Musk (pre-fallout)—but the more troubling trend has been watching younger entrepreneurs and VCs listen to their podcasts, read their posts and books, and slowly nod along to the idea that democracy is holding back innovation.
www.techdirt.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
An excellent summary of key points that you would think would already be more widely understood than they in fact are.
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may 4th is such a special day to see the nation and really the world come together to share their love for a classic piece of pop culture, the 5-4 podcast
May 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
may 4th is such a special day to see the nation and really the world come together to share their love for a classic piece of pop culture, the 5-4 podcast