Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

I'm trying to work out when the MAGA crowd became Socialists. Suddenly they're all about redistribution of wealth. Shouldn't they be berating hurricane victims for not buying enough insurance?

The speaker of the house just wrote a letter to Zelenskyy demanding the resignation of his ambassador.

It is in no way appropriate for the speaker to write such a letter. He does not represent the US, that falls to the executive branch He does not even speak for the legislative branch inasmuch as he cannot make representations about its will on any subject it hasn't actually voted on.

I've come to the conclusion that while hummingbirds aren't particularly afraid of anything, they don't like the situation to change while they're at the feeder.

I can be working in the yard on a weekend like this, a hummingbird will fly right up to me, look me over, and then go to the feeder. But if I walk away it will fly away. If I'm not there when it arrives and then walk up, it will fly away.

But as long as nothing changes after it's cased the joint, it's fine with pretty much anything. Including a cat sitting four feet away and not even trying to keep still.

I always thought a Loomer was someone who looms menacingly behind their opponent during a debate.

Okay, that's enough for the week. Off to the park to catch and eat geese. Who's with me?

Courtesy @mattflammable at that other place:

Trump in a morning-after phone call to Fox News: "So many things I said were debunked. Totally debunked. ... Every time I spoke they’d correct me"

Poor guy, being debunked like that. Nobody has ever been so debunked as him. Big men come up to him with tears in their eyes saying, "Sir, nobody has ever been so debunked as you."

"Russian soldiers have nearly stopped concealing their crimes feeling total impunity for their looting in the country's border areas."

https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-soldiers-caught-red-handed-while-looting-belgorod-resident-50449364.html

If one of the 21st century's greatest threats to the Constitution says you're a threat to the Constitution... you're probably a threat to the Constitution.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html

I haven't the slightest idea who's paying me more money than I ever saw before in my entire life, now gather 'round to hear my in-depth analysis of geopolitics.

Stewart Lee in the Guardian, re undead Oasis self-resurrecting at next years Fringe:

"Edinburgh fringe performers’ and audiences’ whole month’s accommodation budget would go in a night, so by my reckoning the first two weeks of the festival just got totally fucked, Oasis singlehandedly murdering what 14 years of the Tories’ war on the arts couldn’t quite kill off. Sorted!"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-reformation-tour-2025-nostalgia-hotels-edinburgh-festival

Or return everything he's looted; not just by the soldiers ad hoc -- that stuff's probably irrecoverable -- but on a wide scale, as a state act. Russia's hollowed out Eastern Ukraine of a huge amount of its cultural and material wealth.

Boeing didn't learn the Sears lesson. Sears should have been what Amazon is now: up to the 90s it had an unstoppable distribution network, priceless brand equity and its own credit card. But they went Gordon Gecko and self-cannibalized, while Jeff Bezos went Jeff Bezos and built what they could have been relatively effortlessly, from scratch.