“Not the Happy’s Ripple Chips!”
(more…)Quote of the Day
You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
Paramour
Anna Meredith – “Paramour”:
(more…)MAGA 2 will be worse
MAGA 1 was crazy! To secure any meaningful position in Republican politics required pretending that Donald Trump was an ethical person who never sexually assaulted anyone or did anything racist, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, and that the Jan. 6 insurrection was righteous.
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 8:53 AM
MAGA 1 is notably still ongoing — Republicans who don't attest to those things remain subject to cancel culture (losing a primary to someone who does).
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 8:57 AM
(MAGA 2 will be worse)
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Fancy Restaurant Food
(more…)RE that last repost, years ago I tried to explain to someone that what you're paying for in a fancy restaurant is generally not the food itself, which is mostly the same as you'd get anywhere, but the skill of the staff–chefs, watiers, etc. This person was LIVID.
— Ann Leckie (@annleckie.com) August 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
12 August 2022
Bluecoats 50th Anniversary Alumni Corps (12 August 2022):
(more…)MST3K 0312 – Gamera vs. Guiron
Trump & the DOJ
Trump & the DOJ – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
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