Here's a wake-up call:"You're irrelevant, you unelectable unemployed hobo pundit hate-machine wacko". Here's another wake-up call: "Don't use so much retouching on your photos. We know how you look".

The Trump Haircare Gauge was in the rough yesterday. It looks a lot like the roof of a Wildberries warehouse at the moment of impact.

and I'm a sucker for literary gimmicks "Inherent Jest" (footnotes), "4321 (parallel lives), "Time's Arrow" (reverse chronology) so I was very taken by Daniel Kraus' "Angel Down", and the narrative is propulsive and the gimmick works to speed it along and it's grim and gross and somehow uplifting,

AI is getting better , but... If you look at the person on the far left, in the background, there is someone standing behind her who shifts in her direction and suddenly becomes part of the background.

For a landlocked country, Nigeria sure gets some big ships into the port city of Lagos.

The Trump Haircare Gauge is in mixed territory today. Is that a structured 'do or an abstract one with its mix of planar surfaces? Product here, product there, and then fuzziness. Confusing, especially those ear fenders. Swoopy but goopy.

And as tough Mexican cop, Miguel Vargas...Charlton Heston. "Touch of Evil" (1958)

The Trump Haircare Gauge doesn't have a marking for "sloppy as shit" but that's the reading today. Follicular mayhem. Strands going this way and that. And in the pic on the left he looks like a big old orange Tufted Deer in the headlights.

If you see this in your feed or anything else from @h0pelesslytara.bsky.social, block it. It's pure AI slop. It says as much in the profile. Feel free to share this image as a warning--there's no copyright.

WSJ video interview with the two non-professionals who recruited Platner where the reporter asks them if they had vetted him. They said yes. Then the interviewer asks if the tattoo showed up in the vetting? The guy says no. The Reddit posts? Long pause...not all of them. The Clusterfuck Kids.

The Trump Haircare Gauge is getting into the danger zone again. He's got a shelf going on in the front, a lot of pink flesh showing on the sides, and a stylish delicate transparent swoop over the ear, as he holds his tiny bloated hand up so you can compare it to the size of his neck wattle.

The Trump Haircare Gauge is now hovering between the Ed Grimley and the "There's Something About Mary" warning zones. At least his hair is erect.

interesting factoid. Of the top ten states by total GDP, 9 have more than 11M residents. Number 9 on the list has only 8M. The state of WA. Almost 3% of the national GDP, $895B, comes from WA. If it were a sovereign nation its GDP would place it at 29, and by GDP per capita it would be 8, above CA.

So here's how lazy and incompetent this regime is. The promos for the fair actually looked kind of cool with open pavilions glowing and massive crowds. You could almost ignore the Washington monument being moved and the ferris wheel for ants. Instead they came up with "FEMA-chic" disaster housing.

The Trump Haircare Gauge is pegging the needle again. His fastback mullet here is over-the-limit weird and messy. Hurricane hair. Someone's going to have to take the comb from Grampa before he hurts himself.

I have questions: AIrbags? No crash testing? Size? It's very wide and long. Is all of it minimal use space? How will this compete in the less than 1% of car sales for 2 seaters? Light and low works in some counries, but truck-nut America? It's distinctive but aren't Hot Wheels Limited Editions too?

"Flashlight" by Susan Choi is a tragic take on a family's incredible misfortune that starts in postwar Japan and carries through to today. Like a scene illuminated by flashlight, we don't see all that happens. Great leaps of time and events take place on a big canvas littered with small heartbreaks.

The Trump Haircare Gauge is in the red today. It's sloppy and flat, kind of like his G7 speech. Also his hand is bruised on the inside in the second photo. Maybe not an IV after all?

Not only is UFC Freedom 250 a terrible way to celebrate losing a war, but it also makes it look like the Iranians bombed the shit out of DC.

Interesting juxtaposition.

The Denza Z from BYD seems to capture the look of mid-engine cars pretty well and it's available in EV and PHEV variants. 1000 HP so it's no Fiero.

When the Purosangue came out it had an aggression and edginess that made it a very Ferrari crossover. This looks like they took that car and melted all the mean away. The platypus beak front end just looks wrong. Wrong for a Kia, much less a Ferrari. And the black blot on the side--WTAF, Maranello?

Many times. I used to live in Ballard, right next to Fremont but, like everywhere else, 5 minutes behind.

Okay, just so we're clear. Which one is this, first or third?

Here's a little something for JD, too.

Does anyone in the MSM take the time to point out that all of these things cannot all be true?

New level of batshit crazy incoming tonight. Expect to pay more at the pump tomorrow. And remember, "Trump don't care".

What triggered the investigation wasn't "driving into standing water" but a Waymo being swept into a creek by some obviously not standing water.

Lately, seems like everything's behind a paywall. Here's one that should never be--NBC or any other broadcast network. And yet... NBC's product, reputation, and reach depend on the PUBLIC airwaves, a series of monopolies granted by the US government. They shouldn't charge for what we already own.