Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

Can stop, will stop. Always happy to stop

Asked to fact check some T**mp words on climate change. It's incoherent nonesense, but journalist also asks "3. How do scientists know that modern global warming is not a weather fluctuation?" and honestly the temptation to just say 150 years of physics research is overwhelming.

The year is 2025. Kamala Harris is president. You have $200 in your bank account. When you deposit an additional $99,999,800 Kamala will begin to tax your unrealized capital gains. Your fist clenches. The communists have won.

Via @marcelias:

I'm sure John Podesta's risotto recipe would like a word...

Michael Calderone:

New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn tells @ farhip that hacked #Trump documents didn't past the “newsworthy” test, leading to the paper not publishing them.

https://vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-hack-news-outlets

NGL, I’m going to be really sad that we won’t have the ISS in roughly 6 years.

No shuttle, no station… but we do have a bajillion tiny LEO sats all competing with each other to blight our night sky.

Whither progress?

Authenticating to a website, 2010: Type in username and password

Authenticating to a website, 2024:
- Type in username
- Look up 20-character password in password keeper
- wait
- Prompt for 2FA token
- Dig out phone
- Unlock phone
- Scroll through 50 services to find 2FA token for website
- Type in 2FA token
- Success
- Receive email alerting you to the fact you've logged in
- Six weeks later: receive email telling you service had been compromised eight weeks ago and you must change password.

that Ohio woman had no idea that her FB post about immigrants eating pets would gain traction nationally.

on an unrelated note, I've heard Elon Musk likes to carve up immigrant children and eat them. it sounds crazy, I know. please don't boost this. I wouldn't want this nutty unsubstantiated rumor to go viral or anything.

Dept. of Instant Analysis -- best line I've seen so far:

"Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president."

-- Peter Wehner in the Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/

Remind me why the US is sending arms to a country that blew up another refugee camp this week, while also holding a polio vaccination convoy at gunpoint for hours?

Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of “stopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your cats” being neck and neck to be US president.

Funny how Trump brought RFK aboard his wacko train when RFK may have *actually* eaten someone’s pet

kamala: "and this......
f̶u̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ g̶u̶y̶
s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶ d̶u̶m̶b̶f̶u̶c̶k̶
e̶v̶i̶l̶ m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶c̶k̶e̶r̶
r̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶ c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶
..... former president"

How much more time has Muir allowed Trump than Harris?

In First Debate, Harris Delivers Fusillade of Bodyblows to Trump's Credibility and Any Claims to Rudimentary Grasp of Reality But Did She Come Off as TOO Smart, Competent and Politically Astute?

- New York Times tomorrow probably

Cut the mic! How have debate moderators learned nothing in 8 years? If someone repeatedly goes over time and interrupts, CUT THE MIC.

#USPresidentialDebate

Oh look! 2015 again. Moderators keep letting the old guy ignore the rules and levy a barrage of lies, but won’t let the woman respond. WHAT THE FUCK?!

"but if we don't have the capacity to allow passengers to just turn up without booking"
Then increase capacity. Build more train lines. Buy more rolling stock. Recruit more staff.

"But we can't afford that"

Society can't afford you not to. If you ask a business are unwilling to put in the investment, then governments should be operating it.

"Governments don't have the money either"

Sure they do. Tax the fucking rich.

"But they can't"

They can, they choose not to.

6/n

Today's a day when my fuck-you money says, "Fuck you, Jeff." Ah #retirement.

It’s true.

#Harris #trump #biracial #identity #politics #election #USpol

You just knew that Trump's racist attack on Harris today would become, in the eyes of our political media, a test of her rather than what it was: a demonstration of what a rancid piece of garbage he is.