This clown was elected state-wide to be superintendent of public education….so that he could run around Oklahoma holding meetings about banning books in public libraries. If you’d written a George Orwell rip-off with this plot-line 20 years ago, it would have been dismissed as hyperbolic and absurd.

I totally respect the stay-and-fight position. Godspeed.

If he’d had any insight, he’d have realized Reddit’s structure wasn’t a good vehicle for monetization and gone the way of Wikipedia/Jimmy Wales. He’d be popular and respected now and probably able to extract a decent living from it.

But his insistence that a square peg be pounded into a round hole will end up with him being neither popular nor respected—and he’ll never sniff that moonshot IPO.

I urge Tony Blair to fuck off.

I think at this point they know they’re done for, so they’re going to finish breaking everything they’ve been underfunding for years and then gear up to blame Labour for the fallout.

Like how our 4 year old refers to the tv as the iPad on the wall.

Seems unlikely. He doesn’t even know who Ron DeSantis is.

It’s depressing how cynical that is.

Who says they’re not running exactly the way their ownership wants them to run?

I was referring to Toyota’s strategy being cynical, not the comment.

War letze Woche Dienstag in London, Mittwoch bis Freitag in Edinburgh, Samstag bis Montag in Alicante, gestern Abend einen späten Heimflug der auch noch verspätet startete, bin heute um Mittag aufgewacht, hatte keine Ahnung wo ich war.

Which sounds funny until you hear a British person say Sax-O-phonist

But what comes after McConnell? Won’t Kentucky just go full MAGA?

Unfortunately it’s only Alastair Campbell

Traditionally true, but I think they see the writing on the wall. They are now just breaking as much stuff as they can in the time that they have, so they can try to blame Labour for the fallout. They can break more things with a few extra months.

I remember rather enjoying hating Tipper Gore and all that ludicrous PMRC bullshit. I don’t think we ever took it that seriously… it’s not like they actually managed to ban anything; they just slapped some really effective “buy me!” labels on a few records.

Today’s version feels more insidious. I never felt like Tipper Gore was one step from decompensating and starting a race war. These folks, though—there’s violence just under the surface.