Scott Orchard
@scottorchard.com
I design and build websites, mostly ecommerce. Available for strategy and implementation of design, development, SEO, accessibility, marketing and performance. Enjoying time with our pugs, Phoebe & The Captain, video games, TV, Movies, Comics and books.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
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The problem, as always, is the guns.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The problem, as always, is the guns.
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restaurants don't want you to know this but technically steak tartare is a gluten free dessert
December 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
restaurants don't want you to know this but technically steak tartare is a gluten free dessert
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Dex is quoting Tim Walz here, and, yeah, what's happening now is a great example of why the half-measures of the ACA didn't work and we need to move to Medicare for All like every other civilized country.
He just said we need to move to universal health care in 2028 when we retake the presidency.
Hokay Tim you surprised me there.
Hokay Tim you surprised me there.
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Dex is quoting Tim Walz here, and, yeah, what's happening now is a great example of why the half-measures of the ACA didn't work and we need to move to Medicare for All like every other civilized country.
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laughing out loud imagining the face of a sign language interpreter trying to keep up with The Weaveᵗᵐ as the trade briefing shifts to his expertise in cyber and ballrooom
DOJ argues Trump being made to use sign language interpreters could hurt his ‘image’
The Justice Department has appealed a November order requiring interpreters at many events
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
laughing out loud imagining the face of a sign language interpreter trying to keep up with The Weaveᵗᵐ as the trade briefing shifts to his expertise in cyber and ballrooom
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We have officially hit the “papers!” phase.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We have officially hit the “papers!” phase.
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Talk to the living while you're alive.
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Talk to the living while you're alive.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.
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there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
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“We’re gonna need a bigger tent.”
“So we’re working together at Cinnabon and I’m calling you the n-word, and”
“We’re gonna need a smaller tent.”
“So we’re working together at Cinnabon and I’m calling you the n-word, and”
“We’re gonna need a smaller tent.”
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“We’re gonna need a bigger tent.”
“So we’re working together at Cinnabon and I’m calling you the n-word, and”
“We’re gonna need a smaller tent.”
“So we’re working together at Cinnabon and I’m calling you the n-word, and”
“We’re gonna need a smaller tent.”
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Four minutes of reading up on this would give Cuban all the answers he seeks. Yes, I would gladly be taxed 8–12% more to spend 30–40% less of my income on medical expenses.
how long before he complains "people are mean and wont engage in serious debate on The Echo Chamber site"
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Four minutes of reading up on this would give Cuban all the answers he seeks. Yes, I would gladly be taxed 8–12% more to spend 30–40% less of my income on medical expenses.
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The internet's pal @kevinmkruse.bsky.social said a thing the other day that got me thinking about the dissembling rhetoric of white flight being ripped out of GOP discourse at about the same rate that an adult reasoning capacity is being stripped from Trump's brain and how shitty reality is for it.
The Sheriff of Sundown City - Truthdig
As the final regulators burn out of the machine, Trump's mental retrogression has no limit but his expiration date.
www.truthdig.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The internet's pal @kevinmkruse.bsky.social said a thing the other day that got me thinking about the dissembling rhetoric of white flight being ripped out of GOP discourse at about the same rate that an adult reasoning capacity is being stripped from Trump's brain and how shitty reality is for it.
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Dave Karpf on The End of Optimization - optimization has ended (e.g. Musk not caring about X's ops, quality), and it's been replaced with enshittification.
Another take: optimize until you have effective control, then switch to policy setting.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
Another take: optimize until you have effective control, then switch to policy setting.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
The end of optimization
Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
davekarpf.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Dave Karpf on The End of Optimization - optimization has ended (e.g. Musk not caring about X's ops, quality), and it's been replaced with enshittification.
Another take: optimize until you have effective control, then switch to policy setting.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
Another take: optimize until you have effective control, then switch to policy setting.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
Random leftover lunch: buffalo wings and gyoza
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Random leftover lunch: buffalo wings and gyoza
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
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"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable." Inequality in the US is obscene. My thoughts:
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The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable." Inequality in the US is obscene. My thoughts:
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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*Halftime, Palantir Meta Contact Lenses Bowl, 2033*
And now, two six year old children will attempt to putt a golf ball into the giant Donald Trump Mouth for a chance to win a polio vaccine
And now, two six year old children will attempt to putt a golf ball into the giant Donald Trump Mouth for a chance to win a polio vaccine
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
*Halftime, Palantir Meta Contact Lenses Bowl, 2033*
And now, two six year old children will attempt to putt a golf ball into the giant Donald Trump Mouth for a chance to win a polio vaccine
And now, two six year old children will attempt to putt a golf ball into the giant Donald Trump Mouth for a chance to win a polio vaccine