Kevin Drum: “Biden could be stuffed and mounted on a wall and I’d still vote for him if the only other choice was Trump.” Yes.

AOC and a group of House progressives unveiled articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito. Hell, yeah! Good to see that at least some Democrats have spines. Not like the party leadership.

Also, Clarence Thomas took a free yacht trip to Russia and a helicopter flight to Putin’s hometown, “among a slew of other gifts and loans from businessman Harlan Crow.” This article includes a list of bribes from the impeachment papers. It’s quite a list. Thomas is as corrupt as a Tammany Hall politician; he should have a cash register next to his seat on the Supreme Court.

The fediverse does not exist

What exists now is Mastodon, which is tiny compared with siloed social media, and also a few other platforms, which are tiny compared with Mastodon, and which partially interoperate with each other and Mastodon through ActivityPub. But only partially.

Among these ActivityPub-compatible platforms is Threads, which is already a bajillion times bigger than Mastodon.

Also, hanging off this tiny ActivityPub archipelago is the island of BlueSky, which is I guess not part of the fediverse because it doesn’t use ActivityPub idk why isn’t it connected to Mastodon?

The only people who care about this kind of thing are a few foolish nerds, among whom I include myself.

“Any one can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley

I think tonight will be the night that I introduce Julie to the wonderfulness that is “Severance.”

I watched it without her when she was visiting family in 2022, and I am definitely up for a rewatch. Season 2 drops in January.

“The Cat Creeps,” a 1930 lost film. Only two minutes of footage exist today.

My Mimestream subscription expired a couple of weeks ago, and I thought I’d skip renewing. Gmail is no longer my primary email service because I am no longer self-employed. However, I dislike the Gmail web interface. And while Apple Mail works, it’s not as nice as Mimestream. So I renewed. $50/year isn’t nothing, but I still use Gmail a lot, and Mimestream is worth it.

FDR and NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia

If I could give teenage me one piece of advice it would be this: Dance.

“Double-click” is supposedly a new corporate buzzword? Seriously? I’ve been hearing it for as long as I can remember.

Having successfully sabotaged the Biden campaign, leading Democrats are apparently moving on from attempts to push the President off the ballot. These guys ought to be on the Republican payroll. They have done far more to push Trump closer to the White House than anything anybody in the elephant party has done.

“Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old."

Videoconferencing services need a filter that makes your hair look neat and trim when you badly need a haircut.