Joseph
@pelops.bsky.social
Mr. Satisfaction. High in the Custerdome
Gruyere/ Parmesan Gougères
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Gruyere/ Parmesan Gougères
Went to see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Warfield tonight. Great show, though there were some weird vibes in the crowd, including: 1) some guy who kept saying "where's Peter?" 2) old couple talking loud next to me who also kept bumping into me probably looking for a third.
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Went to see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Warfield tonight. Great show, though there were some weird vibes in the crowd, including: 1) some guy who kept saying "where's Peter?" 2) old couple talking loud next to me who also kept bumping into me probably looking for a third.
Oh great, another night of null weather in the East Bay 🙄
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Oh great, another night of null weather in the East Bay 🙄
One of my favorite books from the last couple of years.
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...
Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...
www.thedigradio.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
One of my favorite books from the last couple of years.
It's wild that Ezra Klein thinks we should imitate the Republicans if Democrats want to win, while ignoring the fact that the Republicans won after defeat by refusing to imitate the Democrats. He's learning completely the wrong lesson, most likely because he actually prefers many Republican ideas.
October 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's wild that Ezra Klein thinks we should imitate the Republicans if Democrats want to win, while ignoring the fact that the Republicans won after defeat by refusing to imitate the Democrats. He's learning completely the wrong lesson, most likely because he actually prefers many Republican ideas.
user: whY foot hurt cold?
ChatGPT: Great question, you're thinking about this is a really smart way.
ChatGPT: Great question, you're thinking about this is a really smart way.
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
user: whY foot hurt cold?
ChatGPT: Great question, you're thinking about this is a really smart way.
ChatGPT: Great question, you're thinking about this is a really smart way.
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i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
The Minority Report keeps coming up, very much in the zeitgeist.
September 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Minority Report keeps coming up, very much in the zeitgeist.
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal." (Eichmann in Jerusalem).
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal." (Eichmann in Jerusalem).
"It was at this time that a 'moderate wing'... came into existence, consisting of those who were stupid enough to believe that a murderer who could prove he had not killed as many people as he could have killed would have a marvelous alibi..."
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"It was at this time that a 'moderate wing'... came into existence, consisting of those who were stupid enough to believe that a murderer who could prove he had not killed as many people as he could have killed would have a marvelous alibi..."
Took a bike ride out to Yerba Buena Island
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Took a bike ride out to Yerba Buena Island
Reading Melinda Cooper's excellent book Counterrevolution. One interesting point is about how Republicans and Democrats switched places on balancing the budget. Democrats had been the spenders leaving Republicans to try to balance things. This gave democrats an advantage
August 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reading Melinda Cooper's excellent book Counterrevolution. One interesting point is about how Republicans and Democrats switched places on balancing the budget. Democrats had been the spenders leaving Republicans to try to balance things. This gave democrats an advantage
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You're probably going to have to be slightly more specific than this.
SUBWAY GUY DID NOTHING WRONG
AG Bondi says a DOJ employee has been fired after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a wrapped Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer in Washington, D.C.
Following his arrest, the man allegedly told one of the arresting officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” wapo.st/3Uq59TN
Following his arrest, the man allegedly told one of the arresting officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” wapo.st/3Uq59TN
August 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You're probably going to have to be slightly more specific than this.
New ChatGPT doing great, definitely close to sentience and the singularity etc. etc.
August 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New ChatGPT doing great, definitely close to sentience and the singularity etc. etc.
I remember for a while after Biden was elected, liberals arguing that there was no overton window and that things had definitively gotten more progressive over the years. Of course they bracketed abortion, and later Palestine, as outliers.
There's also a growing consensus from Democratic officeholders that the party's reaction to the Trump administration's efforts to cut government programs, fire workers and radically reshape the federal government should not be reflexively undoing it.
The Democratic Party is still trying to figure out its message after 2024's defeat
Facing low approval rates, after last year's electoral losses, the Democratic Party is working to figure out its strategy ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
www.npr.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I remember for a while after Biden was elected, liberals arguing that there was no overton window and that things had definitively gotten more progressive over the years. Of course they bracketed abortion, and later Palestine, as outliers.
