sycophancy as a service.
[new draft post] Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/28/constant-real-wages-can-hide-a-lot-of-pain/index.html
if you want to get shit done, rather than a “strong man”, instead of autocracy, have you considered a democratically elected unicameral legislature which directly appoints and can remove the executive?
the fraction of communication we experience — across all media, excluding what is explicitly fiction — that is in one form or another a lie is extraordinary.
since AI is going to solve all the medical miracles now, we can dispense with the exorbitant patent rents, right?
so much of civilization is keeping one’s vexations to oneself.
@light Thank you! You too!
nowadays if you’re naughty he just farts into it because natural gas is cleaner.
@LanceJZ they always find a way to escape, i tell ya…
you can never find scissors. not when you need them. never. so you end up buying another pair. until you move. then they all appear, come out of the woodwork, hundreds of them, snapping at you.
“There is no point in criticizing something if some law of nature means that it must be so. But there is, despite claims otherwise, no law of nature which says we have to be bastards to each other or to the species we share this world with.” @ianwelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/we-dont-have-to-live-in-hell/
love it when a university i attended 20 years ago writes to let me know they've been hacked and they've leaked my social.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org i suppose whatever the good guys in star wars were trying to do.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org that’d be the root of all good too.
we’ve been gaslighted into believing that gaslighting is a thing.
i like to think i could have made a failure of myself no matter what my race or gender — or nationality or religion or sexual preference — had been.
A great piece that explains succinctly why Congressionally defined independent agencies, far from undermining executive accountability, are prerequisite to it. by @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/trump-presidential-power-miller-vought.html
@Phil In policy terms, often people talk in terms of numbers of units, as though building barracks would address our housing issues. It would be better for the homeless than not building barracks! But when we think about how we want to address what is a real crisis in housing for people who simply want to live well, we should think about what kind of neighborhoods should accommodate them, and how to build those, not merely how to augment the number of units.