Uncle Runt 🦺

need someone to help me stretch my hips. want to get my feet behind my head.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

its really funny how MacArthur tried super hard to run a shadow campaign for the GOP nom in 1944 (with Vandenburg as his biggest cheerleader/psuedo-manager) only to have it shut down completely because a freshmen rep published a letter from mac that was like "yeah the new deal is dooming america"

Think you could take it?
#thickthursday

"there's no way they actually said biblical right that's editorializing by the pap- holy shit" www.ft.com/content/8236...

a stuffed penguin with the words swiggity swooty gimme dat booty ALT: a stuffed penguin with the words swiggity swooty gimme dat booty

You have no power here

a cartoon llama wearing a green hat with the words " my tummy was making the rumbies that only hands can satisfy " ALT: a cartoon llama wearing a green hat with the words " my tummy was making the rumbies that only hands can satisfy "

I got dad ass starter hands...

a cartoon of a monkey with the words this is getting out of hand ALT: a cartoon of a monkey with the words this is getting out of hand

Ok but what if...

look, markets are not just magic efficient information aggregators, they're actual tools to deliver product. if the supply curve has meaningfully shifted up (i.e. the hormuz closure continues to keep supply off-the-market) then the iron law of prices will eventually kick in.

Dad ass! Dad ass! Dad ass!

45 bps of Fed easing have now been priced out of the 2026 Fed Funds futures rate path, 2y yield (think of this as market price of the policy rate 1y from today) highest since August and +10 bps today

i take a very strong opposition to her position but i believe that the PM at grammarly who approved the plan to fake author reviews of text should be abandoned at sea

Being uncomfortable is not the same as being harmed.

owillis.bsky.social 18 hours ago Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now - but it's because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

This world weary cynicism poses as knowledge but it’s actually just the mirror image evil twin of Murc’s Law. Only Democrats have agency *when they lose*, but when they win it’s only by default and because of Republicans’ agency.

Post Conversation Soda @fredsoda america deindustrialized so extensively, we can’t even manufacture consent anymore 8:14 AM · Mar 12, 2026 · 118.5K Views https://x.com/fredsoda/status/2032067772054663557?s=20

Tighty Whitie Thursday!

Lift heavy so brain makes happy chemicals instead of self sabotage chemicals

Protecting free speech means PROTECTING **ALL** FETISH ART

Yes, even that one you REALLY don't like.

You start making exceptions and fascists won't stop until every queer is in the oven.

You cannot afford to tolerate intolerance.

As a fan of Kdot...

Luther is not a gym song.

Gimma Peekaboo if you gotta put a song from GnX on the gym playlist...

Not Luther

Single bicep flex in front of the mirror in just a towel. Disregard the junk on the lip of the tub.

Frustrating afternoon at work so I shaved my head to feel like I accomplished something. Also I feel like my core looks strong as hell here.

I saw that and thought, "what a brilliant want to raise $10m from Republican donors and funnel it out to friendly 'consultants' who can kick it back to you."

It's not a way to get Ilhan Omar's seat, but it'll pay her more than she was making opposing hundreds of habeas petitions.

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

I hope I'm wrong but I've settled on the idea that unless the next Democratic president is a generational talent with a sharp focus and an iron will we can pack this whole thing up and go home

Enshitification ratchet or realignment is basically the ballgame.

Which can come down to this question: can a critical mass of the electorate (both by churn and persuasion) change its preferences?

Me: gives full presentation on facts and data, does full Q&A and gets complimented. Gets told a promotion I want is in the works and things are looking up.

Also me: as soon as the meeting is done make my way to the bathroom to vomit and have a panic attack.

a fellow autistic explained to me once that public transit is so appealing to us because it's the most democratic of the complicated systems. none of how it works is secret, you can visit it anytime you like and as many times as you want, and if you study it, you can know it. this made me grin big 💙

ok so now what the fuck are the Iranians doing? Don't THEY have a plan for this? What have THEY been doing for the past 45 years?

dusted nuggets sounds like 00s code for weed with angel dust

The fact that the only way to meaningfully lower housing costs requires letting capitalists make a lot of money building expensive new homes kind of breaks a lot of people’s brains.