Max Headroom @Joel@qoto.org

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A first post from me and it’s a minimalist take on fishing boats moored up on the beach in Dorset. 🙏

#Dorset
#photography
#beach
#Earthcapture
#photooftheday
#martindolanphotography

#Science #Humor
#Funny
#Cars

Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

I would pay to do this job! :confused_dog:

Decided to clear a tab from my phone's Firefox while I ate dinner, the one I chose was Unknown Number, which a friend told me about a few days ago.

Holy shit it hits hard.

https://genderdysphoria.fyi/tweets/12943B76C8

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮

Did anyone see this Hallelujah paragraph in the New York Times today? Here's the part we celebrate. (Context is the current melt down of the Republican party...)

"That ideology of destruction defies characterization by traditional political labels like moderate or conservative."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/us/politics/republican-party-leadership.html

Did you hear that? The Times politics desk is now admitting that "conservative" is not a good name for the MAGA forces overtaking the GOP.

And it only took 12 years!

#journalism #uspolitics

I miss the grown ups.

When the Republican extremists (redundant?) have full control over the House agenda, once they actually permit a speaker to be named, one of their top priorities is to cause the United States to default on its debt. That will trigger a global economic catastrophe.

It will be essential if and when they do this, for Big Journalism to make totally clear -- with no quoting "both sides" bullshit -- what has happened.

What worries me is that I'm not sure journalists will rise to the occasion.

So let me get this straight

Republicans think it’s too cumbersome to walk through metal detectors to enter Congress

But these same Republicans demand that our little kids walk through metal detectors just to attend elementary school

Do I have this right? 🤦🏻‍♀️

As tragic and stupid as watching Twitter self immolate is, it is nice to see Mastodon light up with new voices. Also nice seeing more and more posts pop up here that aren’t also cross posted to Twitter. It’s dead, Jim. Let it be.

Few things bring me the zen calm of organizing my music library. Just scan, tag, sort. World without end, amen.

It says everything about the Republican Party that Santos isn’t the most embarrassing thing happening to them today.

Matt Gaetz says #KevinMcCarthy should not be allowed to occupy this #HouseSpeaker’s office, because he finished second in three consecutive votes. #Gaetz becomes the first #MAGA Republican to suggest that finishing second means you have lost an election.