The Lion, the Grinch, and the Wardrobe
Mother, Jugs & Grinch
Saving Private Grinch
December 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Lion, the Grinch, and the Wardrobe
The bigger this failure becomes, the more likely we are heading into a future where a certain someone takes credit for making the clocks run on time
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The bigger this failure becomes, the more likely we are heading into a future where a certain someone takes credit for making the clocks run on time
Weapons of Mass Destruction [Rx only]
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Weapons of Mass Destruction [Rx only]
It doesn't *have* to stop.... just, every time you take, say, a craft or cooking class at your local library or community center, show up to the last session in progressively more ostentatious robes and hats integrating indicia of your prior accomplishments
(also, congratulations!)
(also, congratulations!)
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It doesn't *have* to stop.... just, every time you take, say, a craft or cooking class at your local library or community center, show up to the last session in progressively more ostentatious robes and hats integrating indicia of your prior accomplishments
(also, congratulations!)
(also, congratulations!)
In chemistry, you can at least do some math about it, but entropy's always gonna getcha no matter what scale you're working at
One of the most frustrating things about both parenting and politics is that it takes at least ten times longer to clean up a mess than to make the mess in the first place.
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In chemistry, you can at least do some math about it, but entropy's always gonna getcha no matter what scale you're working at
Watched It's a Wonderful Life with the wife last night, and one thing that was interesting is that even in the monopolized degenerate capitalist hellscape of Pottersville, there's still a Public Library.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Watched It's a Wonderful Life with the wife last night, and one thing that was interesting is that even in the monopolized degenerate capitalist hellscape of Pottersville, there's still a Public Library.
Gotta be so very extremely clear with his constituents that the Constitution made him do it, he couldn't avoid it, he had a flat tire, no money for a cab, his tux didn't come back from the cleaners, someone stole his car, there was an earthquake, a terrible flood, LOCUSTS!
"As governor, it is my sworn duty to ensure that the laws of the state of Mississippi are faithfully executed without passion or prejudice, and by commuting Mr. Taylor’s sentence to time served, I am fulfilling my Constitutional duty," said Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves.
Gov. Reeves Grants Clemency to Black Man Who Was Illegally Sentenced to 15 Years
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves granted clemency to Marcus Taylor, a Black man whom a judge illegally sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.
buff.ly
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gotta be so very extremely clear with his constituents that the Constitution made him do it, he couldn't avoid it, he had a flat tire, no money for a cab, his tux didn't come back from the cleaners, someone stole his car, there was an earthquake, a terrible flood, LOCUSTS!
Mick's so demonic he has apparently possessed Keith
Lucky us, WSJ is on the case
Lucky us, WSJ is on the case
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Mick's so demonic he has apparently possessed Keith
Lucky us, WSJ is on the case
Lucky us, WSJ is on the case
This is how I describe my dog's relationship with the threshold of the kitchen door during dinner preparations
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is how I describe my dog's relationship with the threshold of the kitchen door during dinner preparations
The easiest wrestling match to win is one where everybody in the building teams up and doesn't let the opponent even enter the arena
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The easiest wrestling match to win is one where everybody in the building teams up and doesn't let the opponent even enter the arena
I don't think that's the largest domino that's toppled, but yes.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don't think that's the largest domino that's toppled, but yes.
It's second-to-last day of classes, so of course I am dutifully opening the scheduling email from 3 days before classes began to make sure I'm showing up at the correct time, as I have done nearly every day this semester
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's second-to-last day of classes, so of course I am dutifully opening the scheduling email from 3 days before classes began to make sure I'm showing up at the correct time, as I have done nearly every day this semester
Mono courier, all caps
anything more is vanity
anything more is vanity
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Mono courier, all caps
anything more is vanity
anything more is vanity
When the president does it, that means it's [a faithful execution of the law]
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When the president does it, that means it's [a faithful execution of the law]
Somehow getting your knees broken but also getting a free ride to the hospital was good enough to sign up for round two
This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Somehow getting your knees broken but also getting a free ride to the hospital was good enough to sign up for round two
Hey, other states: if Texas can do it, you can too.
Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It
Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hey, other states: if Texas can do it, you can too.
Children are neither retirement accounts, nor indentured servants to a family business, nor prepaid end-of-life care, nor blood or organ farms, nor cultists to propagate your beliefs, and if you bring them into this world thinking they will be, you're doing a bad thing
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Children are neither retirement accounts, nor indentured servants to a family business, nor prepaid end-of-life care, nor blood or organ farms, nor cultists to propagate your beliefs, and if you bring them into this world thinking they will be, you're doing a bad thing
I really can't wait for all this AI garbage to blow up because I'd really like to be able to afford some PC components again some day
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I really can't wait for all this AI garbage to blow up because I'd really like to be able to afford some PC components again some day
Maybe a controversial choice, but I think it ranks up there with the best of 'em
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Maybe a controversial choice, but I think it ranks up there with the best of 'em
Something something absurdities, something something atrocities, y'know
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Something something absurdities, something something atrocities, y'know
Waiting for the Barack HUSSEEEEEIIIIIINNNN Obama perp-walk
Really bad that my first gut reaction was “I don’t trust this FBI on this.”
BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Waiting for the Barack HUSSEEEEEIIIIIINNNN Obama perp-walk
Every single character in VEEP is more competent and possessed of higher moral fibre than anyone in Trump's cabinet or immediate family
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Every single character in VEEP is more competent and possessed of higher moral fibre than anyone in Trump's cabinet or immediate family
THERE IS NO CEILING, ONLY STRONG FLOOR
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
THERE IS NO CEILING, ONLY STRONG FLOOR
Reposted by James Linzel
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I've always had a weird little fantasy about neighborhood-level thermal stores, to collect everybody's heat waste via AC and redirect it back into all the medium-heat home activities like drying clothes or making water hot, but a whole city's even better I suppose.
Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I've always had a weird little fantasy about neighborhood-level thermal stores, to collect everybody's heat waste via AC and redirect it back into all the medium-heat home activities like drying clothes or making water hot, but a whole city's even better I suppose.