Well, there’s a plot twist

Not sure how much traction this is going to get but here’s an idea floating around the Golden State.

Hello darkness, my old friend: the Ann Telnaes resignation and the late, formerly great Washington Post

Former Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Tenaes made a bit of a stir over the weekend after her cartoon (see above) got the axe from her editors and she decided she had had enough and quit.

Many have wrote about it, including Tenaes herself, and Rolling Stone did a story on the dangers of going up against billionaire owners with fragile egos.

We have a wealthy class bowing down to an incoming rapey despot and dare call ourselves a democracy.

Damn shame what they are doing – and are about to do – to this place.

Tubi: By Any Means (2008)

One of my favorite things to watch are the Ewan MacGregor/Charley Boorman motorcycle documentaries: Long Way Round, Long Way Down…still mean to watch Long Way Up.

This series follows Boorman with a lighter crew but a way more ambitious plan to get from Ireland to Australia. It is a lot of joy with a fair mix of chaos. Unfortunately it has lost a lot of its online supporting documentation. I am now reading the book as well just in case there is stuff I missed in the show, because it looked like some things should have been touched on more.

Sadly, thus far, maybe it just was. Pity. Still fun to watch though.

Does Trump Jan. 6 Pardon Plan Include the Seditionists?

At minimum, every Republican voter you know has endorsed pardoning insurrectionists. And likely a lot of independents and some democrats too.

It was on the ballot and they were absolutely fine with the plan.

Sure, they may say it was about eggs or socialism, but really they are just fine with treason.

Full stop.

Deconstructed: Ferndale Turkeys

I have been lucky – on a couple of occasions – to have the foresight to get a Ferndale turkey for Thanksgiving. It *does* make a difference and hope to do so again.

America has a child marriage epidemic—and it’s even worse than you think

Conservatives LOVE to marry teenagers. Over 300,000 in THIS century so far. Sick. Just absolutely sick.

And you wonder why they let Matt Gaetz get away with his crimes, or why a guy who raped a 13 year old is about to be president again.

President Jimmy Carter Has Died

Since the Twitter diaspora, I have lost track of some voices I followed. Some are on Threads now. Others went to BlueSky, which I genuinely cannot explain why I hate that layout, but whatever.

In any case, I saw this post going around from Qasim Rashid. More to the point, I saw him being genuinely touched that Amy Carter had read his words and responded.

Carter is the first president I remember, and the first live instance of seeing what the Republican party has since embraced wholeheartedly as they trashed his name and policies in an angry power grab.

I am amazed he still believed in this country to his last days. We sure as hell didn’t give him a reason to.

“The. Best. People.”

When Republicans tell you who they really are, believe them.

Speed matters: How Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond

Incremental advances aren’t splashy but they do add on to each other and suddenly you have the high speeds we still whine about but couldn’t do the modern internet without.