Two friends have shuffled off of this mortal coil in the last week. That helped inspire me to set digital pen to electronic paper and write "The inevitable hobby of collecting ghosts".

pattib1.substack.com/p/the-inevit...

This illustration from the NY Times perfectly illustrates the Billionaire Bailout Billshit. It cuts programs that help poor and working-class people so that wealthy people get huge tax cuts.

I am sad. Palo Alto disabled the crosswalk buttons on University. I don't get to experience the hack firsthand.

Millions of people attended peaceful protests today but Fox News had over a hundred stories that they considered more important. Their article describes "thousands" of protesters... I guess they don't grok numbers very well.

Image: Zoomed out Fox homepage showing how deeply Fox buried this story.

In testimony on the What is Woman Act in Wyoming, Britt Boril called Sen. Tim French Madam Chairman. French just passed SB007 saying that you cannot be compelled to use someone's preferred pronouns. Snowflake French hilariously pushed back.

#MaliciousComplianceFTW

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZD...

Want to hear some delightful NPR reporting? Listen to this story. I admire @stphnfwlr.com and @steveinskeep.bsky.social for brilliantly conveying the spirit of "WTF is going on?!" with humor while faithfully reporting the news. This made my day.

www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...

"My name is Leon, I am the president, it's my Cuckoo Coupe Coup"

...a coup brought to us by a cuckoo who launched his coupe into space.

When a typo becomes a meme...

It's a good thing that I'm bisexual because otherwise I wouldn't have a dating pool left in the US. Trump's recent anti-trans bigotry, err, executive order defines everyone as female.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Mr. Hamill speaks for me on this matter.

We lost a great man today. He was well and truly one of the best that humanity has to offer.

This juxtaposition of headlines from Google News jumped out at me for the ironic contrast.

Είναι όλα ελληνικά για μένα.

Ναι, όλοι είναι κωμικοί.

New very-visible pride tattoo scheduled for April!

I've been listening for years. The Daily Beans rocks! It makes me better informed so that I can more easily undermine BS right-wing idiocy with facts.

Our new national bird?

#leguminati
#podpettax

This. This right here is the difference.