Bill Kristol’s Inner Social Democrat
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topologically, a donut.
I know this thread is about test accommodations but my personal crusade is to make every ambulatory person feel bad about using the disabled stall by waiting patiently directly in front of the stall. Sometimes I pour a little water on the ground under my chair to underline the message.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I know this thread is about test accommodations but my personal crusade is to make every ambulatory person feel bad about using the disabled stall by waiting patiently directly in front of the stall. Sometimes I pour a little water on the ground under my chair to underline the message.
the pistol squat is the nazi salute of instagram masculinity. in this essay I will
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
the pistol squat is the nazi salute of instagram masculinity. in this essay I will
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This machine kills fajitas
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This machine kills fajitas
asking no one to schedule me for anything before 8 am citing reasonable accommodations for my paraplegia
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
asking no one to schedule me for anything before 8 am citing reasonable accommodations for my paraplegia
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
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we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
Siri show me differing expectation of surveillance in the working vs ruling class
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Siri show me differing expectation of surveillance in the working vs ruling class
getting up in the standing frame to starve my brain of enough oxygen to make this month's financial reporting entertaining.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
getting up in the standing frame to starve my brain of enough oxygen to make this month's financial reporting entertaining.
Me: did you do [the literal one thing you went downstairs to do]?
@dacia.bsky.social: … there was a cat
@dacia.bsky.social: … there was a cat
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Me: did you do [the literal one thing you went downstairs to do]?
@dacia.bsky.social: … there was a cat
@dacia.bsky.social: … there was a cat
The Blood of My Victims shall be Measured in Acre-Feet: A Memoir by Richard Bruce Cheney
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Blood of My Victims shall be Measured in Acre-Feet: A Memoir by Richard Bruce Cheney
Mamdani killed Dick Cheney this morning and inshallah this speech will kill Trump tonight.
all of these people making up wild allegations about Mamdani are ignoring his very real accomplishments, like killing Dick Cheney.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Mamdani killed Dick Cheney this morning and inshallah this speech will kill Trump tonight.
all of these people making up wild allegations about Mamdani are ignoring his very real accomplishments, like killing Dick Cheney.
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
all of these people making up wild allegations about Mamdani are ignoring his very real accomplishments, like killing Dick Cheney.
I just tried to get one cat inside. Result: there are two cats outside.
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I just tried to get one cat inside. Result: there are two cats outside.
Many folks will be making the anxious decision next month to choose food over rent. You can live without a home but you can't live without food.
Our cities and states need to pause evictions during this shutdown or we're going to exponentially grow our unhoused population.
Our cities and states need to pause evictions during this shutdown or we're going to exponentially grow our unhoused population.
Did you know?
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Many folks will be making the anxious decision next month to choose food over rent. You can live without a home but you can't live without food.
Our cities and states need to pause evictions during this shutdown or we're going to exponentially grow our unhoused population.
Our cities and states need to pause evictions during this shutdown or we're going to exponentially grow our unhoused population.
So many boomers in this No-Kings-adjacent taproom.
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So many boomers in this No-Kings-adjacent taproom.
Goals @dacia.bsky.social
Sitting near an elderly couple in the airport lounge and the husband made a corny joke (harmless, adorable) and the wife laughed and laughed and said, "Oh you scoundrel!" I am charmed.
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Goals @dacia.bsky.social
wading through the OKR-driven product manager cruft and dark pattern in order to use Google Meet on Safari like www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls_q...
Airplane Clip - Fighting Off Special Interest & Religion
YouTube video by Pigeonification
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October 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
wading through the OKR-driven product manager cruft and dark pattern in order to use Google Meet on Safari like www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls_q...
Dr. Teeth presents TRON: Electric Mayhem
They should put a new TRON soundtrack out every few years so we can all collectively pretend there’s a movie attached to it.
October 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dr. Teeth presents TRON: Electric Mayhem
why do all the Phillies look like they're about to star in a porno called "Fuckin' with my Boots On"
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
why do all the Phillies look like they're about to star in a porno called "Fuckin' with my Boots On"
OopsSec
The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
OopsSec
But if the government shuts down tonight how will trump be able to carpet bomb Portland?
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
But if the government shuts down tonight how will trump be able to carpet bomb Portland?
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
Please tell me it’s named Snuffleupagus
September 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Please tell me it’s named Snuffleupagus
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
The scene where Walter Peck shuts down the containment grid in Ghostbusters (has a better song)
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
September 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The scene where Walter Peck shuts down the containment grid in Ghostbusters (has a better song)