As my Ladybird Book for Grown-ups The People Next Door puts it:

really enjoying him showboating with a walker during the perp-walks.

Welcome to late-stage capitalism! Where the market eats itself, shits itself out, and then eats its own self-shit again!

AdBlock is your friend. You can block the container for those videos, and it’ll block them out regardless of the actual video. Do it once per subdomain.

But our tobacco is … “toasted.”

was gonna grumble about how you aren’t linking the original source, but apparently the facebook page where the voting took place got deleted. But at least could you link to an article that isn’t paywalled? Here’s an NPR link:

Ah, that’s probably it. I use Brave (which, btw, is a really good browser), and it blocks cross-site tracking by default. I’m not sure if there’s a way to write in specific exceptions. I’ll look into it.

Also, I note this here, but Kinja seems absolutely fucked for me. I can log in fine on jezebel and i09, but any other site I log in and the window just disappears without logging me in. I can’t comment anywhere but these two sites. :(

Well, she does say she goes from zero to thinking she’s a wizard with two drinks, so I’d accept the claim that she gets like this off of kid-size painkillers.

Oooo, is this the not-bedding-regrets thread! I have one!

Haha! Too bad the Virginia electoral map is gerrymandered to shit and the Democrats, despite winning 60% of the vote last election, still don’t have a majority! That law will never get changed by a Republican majority.

Kinja won’t let me reply to anything. Clicking the link just reloads the page. But only on this and a few other sub-sites. Works fine elsewhere.

I don’t really agree with most of what he says.

The British “voted” for Brexit in the same way the US “voted” for That Asshole: funded by oligarchs and manipulated by Cambridge Analytica. Treating that as respecting the integrity of the democratic process is laughably farcical.

Mortal, quick question: since the only possible Brexit will be a hard one, what do you think the likelihood is that Ireland reunites and Scotland leaves the UK?

It’s definitely a really good long-term strategy to frame the 2020 election as frivolous bullshit where nothing is of any consequence and it’s all just a game.

You guys, the movie is really good, but this critique kinda makes some good points, and now I’m … fraught:

A footnote in Chapter 37 of Edward Gibbon’s superb History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written around the 1780s:

It took me two weeks, but I finally remembered the other weird B/W film about a lighthouse, Guy Maddin’s 2006 arthouse silent film, Brand Upon The Brain!

It strikes me that there is something deeply rotten about a system in which powerful people, confronted by multiple allegations and corroborated by lots of peripheral evidence, decide that the best strategy is to smear their accusers with a bunch of petty social-media drama.