David Houghton
@dfhoughton
Linguist, programmer, honest person. All in on DEI. Proud to be woke. Friend and parent of queer folk.
Ken Paxton is a chimera. His vertically split face is half Anton Chigurh, half Carson Wells. His scalp is aiming for Stephen Miller. Below his neck he's Fred Flintstone. He has Bell's palsy not from nerve damage but personality defect. And this sadistic void might get elected senator of Texas.
Huh. Orbán has Trump posture. Perhaps this is a way to recognize Putin wraiths.
My son died this day three years ago. I was working in the next room when he quietly left this world. I was the one who found him. I hesitate to present this here, because as we have come to know, the world is full of monsters. But I love you, Jude. I wish you were here. The world should know.
Look what George Soros got me! He made this sign himself out of an inverted pellet back, automobile touch up paint, exterior latex, and some electrical tape. His lettering isn't too tidy. Sore fingers from writing all those checks, I imagine. #NoKings
How many impeachable offenses does he commit a day? An illustration by Dr. Seuss of the guy counting Trump's offenses:
I really like the non-musical coda. (If you haven't seen the movie, these monks are whacking themselves in the forehead with boards while chanting.)
rainbow over the co-op after the Good Trouble protest in Brattleboro yesterday
Hmm... I just spotted this on her Wikipedia page: "privacy concerns" means, I think, that she didn't want to confess to lying on her voter registration at 16 in order to vote for Reagan. The other lies are embarrassing. This one implicates her in a crime she enjoys pinning on others.
US murder rate per month by region (from Philip Bump) The Confederacy is so good at this law-n-order stuff, it makes sense we're nationalizing their practices.
A protest sign. The right has rallies where everyone is carrying signs from a print shop. The left has homemade, clever signs. The right accuses the left of paying protesters. Every accusation is a confession. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
I'm always seeing stuff like this in Finnish wiktionary. Finnish didn't have a word for rainbow before 1826? You'd think it was a conlang.
NYT ranks Bluesky above Xitter in its sharing options. But where's Truth Social?
An image projected onto Tesla's gigafactory in Berlin: [image copied from Xitter, where I lack an account]
Someone named Robert Slager shared this on Facebook. I hope he doesn't mind my sharing it on Bluesky: