@davesegal.bsky.social During the shoegaze royalty set I realized I'd just listened to Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte at work on the same day I ran into you. Cosmic. Hope you're doing well my dude.

the main difference between me in my 30s and in my 20s is that now that when i type out a reply 90% of the time i delete it instead of posting

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

imagine what the Nazis could have done if they had the internet. oh wait you don't have to imagine

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling

a) a single weapons contract or
b) a single Elon Musk contract?

One good thing to do about this is to protest justices’ appearances at law schools. As a lawyer, I think we need to really work on promoting public disrespect for the Supreme Court. I’m completely serious about this. They fucking hate when you make it real and personal. Do more of that.

Amen.

Art of the Deal.

Chapter 1.

Surrender.

-The End-

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

-The Question: How the hell did we get here?
-The Answer: Citizens United.

for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”

Curious if there’s a single elected Democrat with an approval rating anywhere close to Luigi Mangione’s.

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

STEM kids need humanities.