Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

While Twitter is suppressing Substack links, Nick Cohen writes a thorough explanation on why -- the popular over-hasty use of the word notwithstanding -- it's correct to say that Russia is fascist.

https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/seeing-russian-fascism-clearly

Next time someone suggests that Ukraine should trade Crimea for peace, and that "Crimea used to belong to Russia anyway".... point out that Texas is around the same percentage of the US in area as Crimea is of Ukraine, and it "used to belong to Mexico anyway", and ask them if they'd trade it for peace if the US were attacked.

Now that everyone in the world has a degree in immunology from the University of YouTube, perhaps they could get to work on finding a cure for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Nobody ever laughs after having a joke explained to them, but they keep asking anyway.

The Who hoped to die before they got old, but I say live long enough to think that a baseball cap with a folksy zinger embroidered on it will surely make everyone's day as much as it does yours.

My extra-special favorite refinement of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is when people take their ignorance of a thing's existence to be the authority to say it doesn't exist.

Piña Coladas aren't entirely terrible, but name one person who genuinely likes getting caught in the rain?

Currently: wet, wet, wet.

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes

I don't know how many other people are seeing it but I have the doge (i.e. dog meme) icon substituting for a twitter icon right now.

Elon has lost his fucking mind.

OTOH is there any more iconically perfect country rock song than Marshall Tucker Band's "Heard It In A Love Song"? Of course not, I hear you say. What kind of question even is that?

Is it just me or does listening to Blind Faith or Traffic feel like submerging in a stifling enclosed universe? Love me some Stevie Winwood but there's a strange claustrophobic private universe affect to that early stuff.

I really would like to switch from #MacOS to #linux on the desktop but there's still no way have two-finger scrolling without relentless gratuitous zoom-outs and -ins because it thinks your fingertips didn't trace perfectly parallel lines. MacOS NEVER gets confused about this kind of thing.

But did she go out guns blazing?

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/03/29/gov-hobbs-press-secretary-resigns-after-controversial-tweet-following-nashville-mass-shooting/