Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@justafarmer @w7voa Not as heavy as "constitutional interests". There is no constitutional protection against prosecuting someone who won an election, not even in the vaguest principle. Rather the contrary: equal application of the law is the fundamental basis of the Constitution.

@HeatherDLeonard I know this isn't a helpful response, but I'm surprised that a University could accept you into a Doctoral program and have no contacts for housing assistance. Of all organizations, UHI should be more aware than anyone of this long-standing and ever-worsening problem than anyone.

@tanepiper @Garwboy Remember you're talking about a company where they "hand-cook" with a deep fryer. I imagine all the burn trauma and painkillers isn't helping their judgement.

To everyone who keeps going on about bluesky: I really don't see how a proprietary social media platform controlled by a techbro is the solution to the problem of proprietary social media platforms controlled by techbros.

@individual8 @rahmstorf Er hat niemanden gezwungen, für ihn zu stimmen. Das Problem sind 76 Millionen Idioten.

@bruces Halfway through the first paragraph I briefly wondered if it was a variation of the Sokal Hoax.

"Don't worry, Darlin'
Now baby don't you fret
We're livin' in the future and
none of this has happened yet."

-- Bruce Springsteen

@bruces I rather like the idea presented in Greg Egan's "Distress". That of the Cognitive Big Bang: the universe is created when someone comes up with a fully explanatory Theory Of Everything; from which point it propagates both forward and backward in time.

@human3500 @w7voa Is it? Which ones?

While mastodon isn't remotely as toxic as Twitter, it's a lot bitchier, with a vastly higher proportion of self-appointed policing of others' posts.

@tinkel @Sustainable2050 I think the most common backchannel message right now must be "get me out before Trump burns me"

@fulelo "Conspiracy monger" would be more accurate. "Theorist" implies some kind of thought process.

@meercat0 @davidallengreen They can only make it more plausible.

I don't know if anyone remembers lawn darts. Just found a vintage set online -- not on eBay, they're probably banned there -- and am laughing my head off at this warning, which is rather like saying "not intended for smoking; do not expose to flame" on a pack of cigarettes.

@davidallengreen Presumably Trump is already asking his people to figure out if he can somehow "pardon" it back to Jones.

@kravietz Weirdly, that appears to be cannabis. Which is legal in Nevada.

@TomSwirly @bruces The Butlerian Jihad can't come soon enough.

Oh damn, I did it right there didn't I?

@Bernard @nikatjef @anneapplebaum

Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats have a choice: keep their assets in Russia, a fragile economy and one where Putin can and does use state power to take whatever he wants, imprison or kill whomever he sees fit, and make it legal by decree.

Or they can keep it in the West, which they pretend to despise while choosing to live there, own luxury goods and homes there, send their kids to school there and to strut their wealth there.

The choice is up to them. And sanctions or no sanctions, they'll keep choosing as they do because the rule of law and orderly, democratic institutions are still a far safer bet them, even if there's a risk that the law won't go their way.