[ freeze frame, record scratch ]AMERICA [ chuckling ]: Yep, that’s me. I suppose you’re wondering how I got myself in this situation#USPol

Bogie would have beat him within an inch of his lifehttps://jalopnik.com/rudy-giuliani-shows-up-to-vote-in-lauren-bacalls-merced-1851690276#USPol

@timmy The Truth Social crowd is hungry for libs to scream at

"Those tools I wrote 20 years ago didn't really indicate who was slacking at working tickets or whatever. What they actually indicated was that the management at Rackspace, by and large, had no clue what was going on right under their noses."http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/11/03/metrics/

Update: Zoom (on Ubuntu) dropped audio when I started screen sharing, then crashed completely. I am nearing the stage where I just boot into Windows automatically whenever I have to join a Zoom call

("Soul" is a great book, though. Still great forty years after it was written. Read it if you haven't, you can thank me later)

Thankfully I am in absolutely tip-top mental shape today, so I am positioned to handle these requests with cool aplomb like a steely-eyed missile man

"I think the biggest downside to driving the Hummer EV SUV were the looks I got from other people. The disapproving ones I could deal with—it was the thumbs-up reactions that killed me inside each time."https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/11/driving-the-biggest-least-efficient-electric-car-the-hummer-ev-suv/

Vote. If not for yourself, then for them#USPol

If you haven’t read Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” novels, you should. They’re great.https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/09/book-review-wolf-hall/

Obligatoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-YvF5eXwYM

@SnoopJ I'm not sure the good voters of Dixville Notch are representative of anything other than their weird little selves

Trust me, if I am ever on cable news, you will know. The earth will shake. Animals will howl. Sulphuric smoke will pour from great fissures

(Terry McAuliffe went on to be elected governor of Virginia while I lived there, and to my surprise despite being a classic party hack turned out to be a pretty decent governor)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe

It looks like Perplexity AI’s office is on Market Street in San Francisco. I wonder how much it would cost to rent a Scabby the Rat to put up outside ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_rat

@jalefkowit Top secret CIA-trained enormous white whales

@james 100%. The only thing the community theatre weirdos ever harmed was my appreciation for Monty Python

"In terms of size and weight, the Kona Electric really is a refreshing change from EVs that are often approaching three tons. With its rear wing and slightly tweaked front, the N Line is 1.1 inches longer than the other Kona Electrics at 172.6 inches (4,384 mm) long. All Kona Electrics are 71.9 inches (1,826 mm) wide and 62 inches (1,575 mm) tall, with a 104.7-inch (2,659 mm) wheelbase. Curb weight is what counts as featherweight for an EV—3,880 lbs (1,760 kg)."https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/11/sick-of-supersized-evs-the-2025-hyundai-kona-electric-hits-the-spot/

"Grindr Inc. illegally imposed a return-to-office policy last year that forced out half its staff in an attempt to thwart a unionization push, the US labor board alleged in a new complaint."https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-04/grindr-rto-plan-that-caused-80-terminations-was-illegally-imposed-nlrb-alleges?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMDc0MTQ3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzMxMzQ2MjcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTUZQNkZUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQThGQ0Y4NkY1QjY0ODlCODA4ODkwNTFBNjMxRERBRCJ9.jTura-mBfSV_SMOrTsuqbRTdv0XGinUtXoo_9ScQjYo

@CaptainFlab I cut Amazon out of my shopping life.