Scott Koon
@capinsurrep.bsky.social
This graffito really captures something of the spirit of our age.
July 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This graffito really captures something of the spirit of our age.
The folks who run Trader Joe's won't put one in Durham, so we have to make the long drive to the one in Chapel Hill.
Which is now closed until further notice due to water damage from the flooding. Thanks, Trump.
Which is now closed until further notice due to water damage from the flooding. Thanks, Trump.
July 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The folks who run Trader Joe's won't put one in Durham, so we have to make the long drive to the one in Chapel Hill.
Which is now closed until further notice due to water damage from the flooding. Thanks, Trump.
Which is now closed until further notice due to water damage from the flooding. Thanks, Trump.
The river by the bridge at West Point on the Eno on Roxboro Road.
The water's supposed to be 20 feet lower.
The water's supposed to be 20 feet lower.
July 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The river by the bridge at West Point on the Eno on Roxboro Road.
The water's supposed to be 20 feet lower.
The water's supposed to be 20 feet lower.
Yesterday it was 1.65 feet, and it's 23.35 feet at the moment.
July 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yesterday it was 1.65 feet, and it's 23.35 feet at the moment.
Flooding here in Durham. Here, the Eno River is normally 3 feet deep, but this morning it overflowed its banks and was 20' above the normal level, just a couple of feet under the bridges.
July 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Flooding here in Durham. Here, the Eno River is normally 3 feet deep, but this morning it overflowed its banks and was 20' above the normal level, just a couple of feet under the bridges.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
--Dennis
--Dennis
June 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
--Dennis
--Dennis
This is real and at your grocery store. The innovation of late capitalism, creating new products nobody asked for--even if you wanted a beer/food themed chip, who in their right mind would choose Miller Light as the brand to feature? And not one, but three flavors?
May 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is real and at your grocery store. The innovation of late capitalism, creating new products nobody asked for--even if you wanted a beer/food themed chip, who in their right mind would choose Miller Light as the brand to feature? And not one, but three flavors?
The show included a character named Michael Woodman, played by John Sylvester White, who had been Kotter's social studies teacher and who became the grumpy principal of the school.
If you get old enough, it finally hits home that Woodman is just an older version of Kotter.
If you get old enough, it finally hits home that Woodman is just an older version of Kotter.
May 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The show included a character named Michael Woodman, played by John Sylvester White, who had been Kotter's social studies teacher and who became the grumpy principal of the school.
If you get old enough, it finally hits home that Woodman is just an older version of Kotter.
If you get old enough, it finally hits home that Woodman is just an older version of Kotter.
Everyone of a certain age remembers Welcome Back Kotter, a show starring and created by Gabe Kaplan, in which a former remedial student returns to his old high school to teach the same kinds of students he would have had in his remedial classes. He was teaching the Sweathogs, and he used to be one.
May 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Everyone of a certain age remembers Welcome Back Kotter, a show starring and created by Gabe Kaplan, in which a former remedial student returns to his old high school to teach the same kinds of students he would have had in his remedial classes. He was teaching the Sweathogs, and he used to be one.
This is supposed to be an easy question, but someone chose "a" and I'm struggling to figure out whether it shows they are careless and inattentive or more thoughtful than I was when I wrote it.
May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is supposed to be an easy question, but someone chose "a" and I'm struggling to figure out whether it shows they are careless and inattentive or more thoughtful than I was when I wrote it.
They're pretending it's a research aid or a source of lifestyle advice, like Playboy was about the articles.
Except Playboy actually did hire some good writers. This is more like that one grad student who writes essays for undergrads, except more brazen and enshittified.
Except Playboy actually did hire some good writers. This is more like that one grad student who writes essays for undergrads, except more brazen and enshittified.
May 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They're pretending it's a research aid or a source of lifestyle advice, like Playboy was about the articles.
Except Playboy actually did hire some good writers. This is more like that one grad student who writes essays for undergrads, except more brazen and enshittified.
Except Playboy actually did hire some good writers. This is more like that one grad student who writes essays for undergrads, except more brazen and enshittified.
If you had had $100k in a Dow index fund 30 days ago, you lost $7,000.
Not too late to get out, we are nowhere close to the bottom.
Not too late to get out, we are nowhere close to the bottom.
March 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you had had $100k in a Dow index fund 30 days ago, you lost $7,000.
Not too late to get out, we are nowhere close to the bottom.
Not too late to get out, we are nowhere close to the bottom.
NASDAQ has done even worse.
And we haven't seen the full impact of Trump's absurd economic agenda. For all we know, he's aggressively short on America.
And we haven't seen the full impact of Trump's absurd economic agenda. For all we know, he's aggressively short on America.
March 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
NASDAQ has done even worse.
And we haven't seen the full impact of Trump's absurd economic agenda. For all we know, he's aggressively short on America.
And we haven't seen the full impact of Trump's absurd economic agenda. For all we know, he's aggressively short on America.
Same story with the S&P 500 for folks who like a broader index.
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Same story with the S&P 500 for folks who like a broader index.
Dow is down nearly 5% over the last month.
If you have savings invested in the stock market, it's not too late to take your savings out and put it somewhere safe until after Trump causes a global economic collapse.
If you have savings invested in the stock market, it's not too late to take your savings out and put it somewhere safe until after Trump causes a global economic collapse.
March 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Dow is down nearly 5% over the last month.
If you have savings invested in the stock market, it's not too late to take your savings out and put it somewhere safe until after Trump causes a global economic collapse.
If you have savings invested in the stock market, it's not too late to take your savings out and put it somewhere safe until after Trump causes a global economic collapse.
Dow down nearly 2% today.
It's not too late to get out of equities so you at least don't have to worry about a 50% hit to your savings.
It's not too late to get out of equities so you at least don't have to worry about a 50% hit to your savings.
March 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Dow down nearly 2% today.
It's not too late to get out of equities so you at least don't have to worry about a 50% hit to your savings.
It's not too late to get out of equities so you at least don't have to worry about a 50% hit to your savings.
There's definitely stuff Trump and Musk want to steal, much of it in central Ukraine.
Here's the map from Al Jazeera.
Here's the map from Al Jazeera.
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
There's definitely stuff Trump and Musk want to steal, much of it in central Ukraine.
Here's the map from Al Jazeera.
Here's the map from Al Jazeera.
Nearly 3% there, too.
The meta message here is that if Bush could cause a global economic collapse, Trump's going to cause one even more bigly. I'm getting great recession vibes. We got out in February of 2007, and I wish I had told others to do the same at that time.
The meta message here is that if Bush could cause a global economic collapse, Trump's going to cause one even more bigly. I'm getting great recession vibes. We got out in February of 2007, and I wish I had told others to do the same at that time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nearly 3% there, too.
The meta message here is that if Bush could cause a global economic collapse, Trump's going to cause one even more bigly. I'm getting great recession vibes. We got out in February of 2007, and I wish I had told others to do the same at that time.
The meta message here is that if Bush could cause a global economic collapse, Trump's going to cause one even more bigly. I'm getting great recession vibes. We got out in February of 2007, and I wish I had told others to do the same at that time.
Dow is officially down more than 3% in this, the shortest month of the year.
It's not too late to get out of equities. If you have long-term investments, it's time to minimize your risk.
It's not too late to get out of equities. If you have long-term investments, it's time to minimize your risk.
February 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dow is officially down more than 3% in this, the shortest month of the year.
It's not too late to get out of equities. If you have long-term investments, it's time to minimize your risk.
It's not too late to get out of equities. If you have long-term investments, it's time to minimize your risk.
Dow down nearly 3% over the course of the last month.
It's not too late to take your savings out of equities. By this next October, there's a good chance that you will wish you had.
It's not too late to take your savings out of equities. By this next October, there's a good chance that you will wish you had.
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Dow down nearly 3% over the course of the last month.
It's not too late to take your savings out of equities. By this next October, there's a good chance that you will wish you had.
It's not too late to take your savings out of equities. By this next October, there's a good chance that you will wish you had.
If you want to better understand what is happening now, it's useful to borrow Neumann's formulation of the fascist state as an inherently chaotic "non-state."
February 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you want to better understand what is happening now, it's useful to borrow Neumann's formulation of the fascist state as an inherently chaotic "non-state."
This is where we are at. Sometimes the correct historical analogue is with Weimar era Germany.
But this reminds me more of the South under white supremacy. Except for the names and a few other changes, it's the same story.
But this reminds me more of the South under white supremacy. Except for the names and a few other changes, it's the same story.
February 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is where we are at. Sometimes the correct historical analogue is with Weimar era Germany.
But this reminds me more of the South under white supremacy. Except for the names and a few other changes, it's the same story.
But this reminds me more of the South under white supremacy. Except for the names and a few other changes, it's the same story.
Wall Street folks who knew this was on the way probably made a lot of money off it.
Everyone else needs to head for the lifeboats.
Everyone else needs to head for the lifeboats.
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Wall Street folks who knew this was on the way probably made a lot of money off it.
Everyone else needs to head for the lifeboats.
Everyone else needs to head for the lifeboats.
Let's say you have a little money stashed away and it's done well, but Trump comes along at it looks like equities are a bad idea.
Where are you going to put it so that you don't see the kind of 40%-50% decline many experienced in 2008?
Where are you going to put it so that you don't see the kind of 40%-50% decline many experienced in 2008?
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Let's say you have a little money stashed away and it's done well, but Trump comes along at it looks like equities are a bad idea.
Where are you going to put it so that you don't see the kind of 40%-50% decline many experienced in 2008?
Where are you going to put it so that you don't see the kind of 40%-50% decline many experienced in 2008?
Happy New Year!
Meanwhile, back on X, Musk has changed his name to Kekius Maximus. Didn't realize until just now, but he has a habit of just replying "kek" to things.
Making his shareholders happy, no doubt.
Meanwhile, back on X, Musk has changed his name to Kekius Maximus. Didn't realize until just now, but he has a habit of just replying "kek" to things.
Making his shareholders happy, no doubt.
January 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy New Year!
Meanwhile, back on X, Musk has changed his name to Kekius Maximus. Didn't realize until just now, but he has a habit of just replying "kek" to things.
Making his shareholders happy, no doubt.
Meanwhile, back on X, Musk has changed his name to Kekius Maximus. Didn't realize until just now, but he has a habit of just replying "kek" to things.
Making his shareholders happy, no doubt.