Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

Selling merch based on your failed attempted rightwing coup is peak American capitalism.

Your periodic reminder:

If you don't get a raise every year that's at least as much as the inflation rate, that's a salary cut.

😂 “Not everything is amazing; and when you think about it, very little is”..... "Sleuth confession: 'It makes my hair hurt.' ”

I always look forward to this annual publication. Their explanations never fail to make me smile--and often clap & cheer. If you need random entertainment today, go read. And/or pull up the archives from past years. 😂

#WritingCommunity #TiresomeGrammarPolice
#LSSU

https://www.lssu.edu/traditions/banishedwords/

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

@RonBrownstein@twitter.com For decades, the trajectory of the GOP has been clear, and for decades, I've been reading center-left pundits speculating wistfully about a "turning point" that will restore the center-right GOP of their imaginations.

Just because you've had a nap today doesn't mean you can't have another nap today. There is no actual limit.

Wishing you all a great #NewYearsEve with a lovely #Victorian New Year card showing two children being terrified by a giant insect. #gothic #weird #history #folklore #HappyNewYear

I love closing out the year with this. 😊

On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.

How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️

Happy New Year, ya'll!

Oh the day you got married was the best day of your life? Well obviously you never found an onion ring in your fries

It’s done! 365 days of recording the local temperature and weather in a knitted scarf.

George Washington authorized 13,000 troops to march across the freaking state of Pennsylvania in 1794 to force a handful of pissed off farmers to pay their taxes. He used the power of his office to try to apprehend an enslaved woman, Ona Judge, who freed herself in May 1796. He's not your anti-statist libertarian hero, my friend, despite what your fake quote is trying to say.

OH: "it's a load bearing comment. When you remove that comment the syntax highlighter just goes insane and eventually gives up"

And here is George Santos as George Devolder, @devolder on Twitter, c/o archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201110030604/https://twitter.com/devolder

He describes himself as an "Economist, Regional Director at Harbor City Capital."

I began regularly tweeting in 2019, first just to promote my books. This month I decided to stop tweeting not for any political reason or to make a statement, but because the product had degraded. My feed was filled with a bunch of nonsense that wasn’t fun to wade through. As a consumer (and content creator), I decided to go elsewhere. And that is exactly how it should be: platforms should be free to decide how to moderate, and consumers should be free to decide whether to go elsewhere.

Miss Ukraine's costume for the Miss Universe competition.

This costume had to be sewn by hand due to frequent interruptions to electrical power.

For scale, Congress' appropriation allocates as much in direct lethal aid assistance to #Ukraine for the whole of 2023 as Elon Musk lost in personal wealth on *checks notes* Tuesday.

So Greta Thunberg working with European Council got Romania last year to start prosecuting sex traffickers.
Andrew Tate attacks Greta, she replies, he reveals he’s actually in Romania. He gets arrested. You couldn’t make this up. 🖖😀😀

Read these paragraphs that were published in a 1999 book by journalist David Neiwert, one of our best chroniclers of the far right. This “Patriot” world view he depicts here, in the waning years of the Clinton administration, seemed so bizarre, so implausible, that it was unclear why most Americans should care about it. For a lot of us, the past 8 years or so has involved a lot of catching up and learning about things people like David had been trying to draw our attention to all along.