I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

I started to feel extremely uneasy about the place’s geometry between 17 and 19.

For a narcissist, there are only two types of organisation: those concentric to them, which amplify their reach and strength, and those opposed to them, which are to be disparaged and destroyed. There is no third category.

Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump do not see the military as a tool to win wars, but as a way to express cruelty.

Basically Aqua is back. I’ve been using it for several weeks and I’m very comfortable with it. It certainly won’t change anybody’s
life in one direction or the other. Aesthetics of UIs are pretty arbitrary and non-impactful, provided things are clear and defaults are sane. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Greg Egan has entered the chat. @gregegansf.bsky.social

Numbers, long used for the purposes of quantification and measurement, are being debased into nothing more than a means of delivering hyperbole.

You fought the good fight George. You are on the right side of history. Historians of the future will look back kindly at you and the fight isn’t anywhere near over yet. You set your partisan loyalties aside, you disregarded your own personal incentives, and you’re standing up for the rule of law. ✊

This is just inviting ourselves to be kicked in the arse again and saying “thank you sir” for it.

REPORTER: Can you do better than a 15% tariff rate for the EU?

TRUMP: Better meaning lower? No

There’s an Amazon pharmacy right next to the historic castle in the centre of Milan. I can’t make sense of it.

brilliant

Following a rich white man to war because you didn’t like the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the stupidest things ever.

Like everybody else he doesn’t take her seriously. That’s both oddly reassuring and strangely disturbing.

Just shoot a reporter on live TV, what can possibly be wrong with that?

“The regime wants to use military force so bad that you would think Los Angeles was built on a deposit of deep substrate foliated kalkite.”

It’s the Ketamine versus Adderall showdown we’ve all known would come sooner or later.

It’s kind of weird to watch an Administration ignore the first Amendment and half of the electorate flirt with disregarding the 22nd Amendment because the bloke promises not to weaken the second Amendment.

I’d never seen one in Milan until about two months ago, now I’m seeing several a day with numberplate prefixes like GX, GY, and GZ. Tesla have really shot themselves in the foot.

Oops somebody did a fascism. 🫢

Donald II is a bit too on the nose for a country whose founding principle was the rejection of monarchy.

Still it’s really quite amusing to find Wilhelm Canaris and others recurring in all these plots and plans and attempted coups. Talk about hating your boss.