Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒

Writer, editor, multimediator, bad cartoonist. The chip in my head is BBQ-flavored. who/whom

[Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond]

@mcelhearn Eat the rich? Nah...WAYYYY too fatty, and full of impurities. And have you ever tried to clean one?!

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@HNTurtledove “Just then, the acid kicked in.”

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@TidBITS No, I have someone else designated to use them for me.😏

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@HNTurtledove “Emergency! Paging Dr. Pimple Popper!!!”

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After 75 years, my mother has canceled her subscription to the L.A. Times. She’s disappointed in the declining quality of its sports coverage.

[Elizabeth Rambo @elrambo]

Novelists and other authors fighting AI: https://t.co/3YChvxUvJy

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I hear people touting air fryers ALL the time and I just don’t get the appeal. Have you ever tried to BREATHE fried air?

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@HNTurtledove “No, I didn’t hear a rattle…”

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Sometimes when I happen upon the acronym “AI” in print, my inner reader voice at first pronounces it as a cry of panic, as in, “AI!! A balrog!!!”

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Today’s Specious Truism:

If working from home were all that great, every baseball player would want to be a catcher.

[TidBITS @TidBITS]

Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification, and 1Password
https://t.co/RLjx90SqZk

[Victor Laszlo @Impolitics]

The Supreme Court is taking the summer off after a series of rulings that repealed the 20th century.

It's the legal equivalent of a mass murderer pausing to reload.

[Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond]

Revised downward to a 3.8 magnitude quake.

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Woke me up: a 4.1 temblor off of Malibu.

https://t.co/bKx7tCauqv

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion

Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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One believes that today’s Supreme Court decision about affirmative action will do as much to promote civil amity in the U.S. as did the Dred Scott decision.

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@jblanton The deal is the site designers not silently prepending the word “good” before the phrase “user experience.”

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I have to say that lately I’ve been enjoying the elephant ancestor site much more than the dinosaur descendant site.

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@HNTurtledove Fig. A: bird-brain.

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Everywhere north of the equator is going to experience continually lessening amounts of daylight every day for the next six months, starting today, because of orbital mechanics and planetary axial tilt.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!