asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It has been a long time since the Bush era atheist days, but weren’t most of the witch trials done by civil authorities? 100
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026There are a lot of factors to consider both ways, and it is really stressful. Contraflow highway routes often restrict exits, and an exit with charging if you need it might be closed. 200-300 miles might get you out of danger, but late evacuees sometimes need to drive 400 miles for hotel. 100
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I think this is right with a slight addendum…I do have anxiety about charging infrastructure requirements for gulf state hurricane evacuations. That is currently my big worry as I contemplate moving from HEV to EV in 2 years. 230
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more. 22361941012
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I am a hobby woodworker, and I agree that this is the way unless you want a new hobby. Billy shelves are the same as the materials cost for me. If you want more stiffness, add an extra plywood back, and to make it look built-in, face-frames look good and can add more rigidity. 020
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026If a friend asked me to make them something that works best and affordably, I would do the ikea shelf built-in hack: build a level platform, ditch the cheap back for a quality sheet good (like wainscoting or 1/4” ply), and then attach a face frame to the front, which will make everything rigid 000
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/04/2026“Yeah so we’re actually invading Pakistan soon! Nobody is supposed to know that, pretty cool, right?” said Patel, spilling his Don Julio as the bottle girl feigned interest in his long, rambling story. theonion.comBottle Girl Nods As Kash Patel Screams State Secrets In EarWASHINGTON—Smiling vacantly while the FBI director rattled off classified information over thumping EDM music, local bottle girl Tanya Page reportedly nodded along early Friday morning as Kash Patel s... 544495677
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 23/04/2026People live in all sorts of living situations. I had a disabled roommate that qualified for SNAP and I was in charge of groceries and cooking, and besides, Costco memberships can be shared by with anyone with the same address. 010
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 21/04/2026My tax situation got just complicated enough that I either had to use TurboTax or spend a few hours on data entry. That said I think it is worth pointing out that you should respond to any tax notification you get in the mail. The IRS has a lot of repayment programs and fee waivers for normal folks. 020
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2026hungary is certainly a model for the american right in the sense that it is a prime example of people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven 212136255
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026There is a classic move in missile range negotiations where a country promises to limit range by simply increasing the intended payload size to fit under some cap. Iran also redirected their solid rocket research to their civilian space program, but the missile tech is fundamentally the same. 010
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I read some history and you just gave me Gallipoli flashbacks. Gallipoli with drones sounds way worse! 000
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I believe you are. You can use deterministic vs non-deterministic as systems terms, and if you draw the border around a system with inputs and outputs, determinism means the same input produces the same output. 140
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialOlivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2026When the edible kicks in just as Knee Play 2 gets going and it could be Franky it could be very fresh and clean it could be it could get some gasoline shortest one so all these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends 1399
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Another framing here to leftists is that you get to pick the people in government you protest against. I would say I would rather protest democrats than republicans, though I am some flavor of liberal rather than a leftist. 020
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I am partial to the Vonnegut quote: “Practice any art…no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” 081
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.nytimes.comOpinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump 2724934889
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Never has been more plain to me now how many political reasons to do a thing or not do anything are post-hoc rationalizations. 000
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored. 852862697
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Hey you ICE bastards let me draw you a map of your future 1343670
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The distinction between identifying as liberal, leftist, or anti-MAGA conservative functionally means literally nothing. It has basically no bearing on someone's commitment to sets of ethical values and their willingness to act on them as it relates to the current domestic situation of America. 1562671
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now. 4692412745
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Resistance Libs Were Right 1074093673
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/01/2026i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate* 89107091956
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/01/2026“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is” How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress 572067446
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Also: you CANNOT fucking pull a gun on someone while filming on your fucking cell phone. If as a LEO your judgment is the situation has reached the point where deadly force may be warranted & you need your gun out, not having your full attention on it is at BEST depraved indifference to human life 542699475
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay. 1372838957
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/01/2026absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary 382412603
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes. 15375927120087
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast. There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content. 221596280
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2025more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment 1334349800
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I have yet to get an answer back when I bring up giving up copyrights. People just shuffle their feet and move on to another subject. I am not familiar with trade secret protections on AI prompts or output, but it’s obvious that there is peer pressure with no risk vs reward calculation. 010
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/12/2025The main (insane) counter argument to this from AI slop folks is that when code is cheap to produce, even if it is bad, just regenerate it again later. 120
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I am 40, and at 20-25 I would have trouble using certain credit cards after flying somewhere because of fraud algorithms. Could usually run the card again after calling or a few times the credit card company called me to ask if I travelled. 010
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public. 40145763270
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 20/12/2025This is much more a mixed bag. The average vehicle has more useful years/miles on the road, side mirrors fail more often than side cameras, backup cameras seem very reliable, but physical buttons for infotainment/climate control are better (and I have them on my 2023 Maverick). 000
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 18/12/2025When mergers and acquisitions are announced, the dollar figure in the headlines is usually the valuation of the company at the new price implied in the exchange. Raising $50m for 10% of the company is a $500m deal. 000
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025All discourse is the same now. 201704280
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I was reading through the OP and some replies and if you don't mind me airing a grievance... there sure are a lot of people out there who seem to have a superiority complex about not watching videos and you do you but I stopped using the word "sportsball" for reasons. 2152818
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025"I, the much-detested sheriff, am going to tell this priest to take down his nativity display because it makes me, the guy kidnapping his parishioners, look bad" is the kind of thinking you usually see in like, 16th century England shortly before something called the War Of The Creche breaks out 217739
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJustin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 08/12/2025NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTrump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records RevealThe Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ... 742545986
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law. 401944410
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/12/2025"An odd thing about the book—one that gives it an aloof, affectless quality—is that Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal." The story here is the sociopathic ethical violations. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One 1068293
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Cast iron is just like that (I think it is because of the grain size when cast vs getting elongated when forged). If you smash a cast iron skillet, it is much more likely to break into pieces rather than bend like aluminum or steel. 010
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 24/11/2025True for Letitia James, but not for Comey. There is a law that extends SoL for bad indictments, but there is a difference between a bad and no indictment, and Halligan’s are technically not an indictment, though that question can be further litigated, the judge in this case cited Alito to say no. 000
asonge.bsky.social @asonge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I think it gets more weird because what record is there that the whole grand jury approved the other two counts? It only makes sense if they did, but one would think there would have to be a record of that. 110
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialTom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Pope Leo absolutely cooking 3742201112
