I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

BlueSky just verified the White House account. I responded by doing the only appropriate thing:

There is a question about why the phrase "Thank you for your attention to this matter" has become the new fixation. It's almost like he's saying "Hey, lookie over there! Lookie over there at that thing!" in order to distract from something else.
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A shitty little prayer for gloomy thinkers
open.substack.com/pub/thecorne...

So, now that Hatchet Man is heading back to Tesla, what becomes of the ill-advised two week re-write of the SSA system? Is that back on a sane schedule? Asking for a few million friends.

Can anyone explain to me how taking billion$ out of an economy will do anything but turn it to shit? Explain it to me like i'm twelve.

Elect an asshole, expect assholery.

Finally traded in my 18 year-old Accord for a '25 Civic hybrid. Sound system skipped over the CD player (passé, I guess) but has a USB port. I've got it set up in a "jukebox" mode, with a thumb drive of 60's & 70's rock.

You know, we had it pretty good.

I'm pretty sure one of the rules was "Never get involved in a land war in Asia".

I was talking to a friend today about all of the chaos and bullshit that's about to happen in this country. I was telling her how upset and stressed I've been about it. She said, "Sometimes we mistake the weather for the sky."...

Something warm for January snows.
(Cypress Lake, Shaw Nature Reserve, Gray Summit MO)

Remember when this decade was called "The Roaring 20's"? Welcome to "The Stupid 20's".

Sandy Creek covered bridge, Hillsboro MO

May your Christmas be merry.
May your Hanukkah be filled with light.
May your Kwanzaa bring wisdom and joy.
May your Yule be warm and bounteous.
May your Solstice be meaningful.
May your New Year be happy.
As the days grow longer, may they bring you peace and joy.

Blessed Holidays.

Just figuring out how this works on Bluesky. Seems easy enough.
Had a problem finding this trail - last time I wound up driving in circles. I took the upper part of the loop around the rim of the canyon; getting there and the trail loop was about 3.7M.

"Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Widle