Exactly. It’s a proven that will only show up at scale, and these little randomized studies will never demonstrate it.

I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.

Barakamon (2014)

After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.

And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ip2T3BS3mgg

I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.

Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:

I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.

Ride or die indeed.

Skeets & toots ahoy!

Revision draft:

“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”

I have a better plan:

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.

https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/

The only poor people at the Super Bowl are the ushers and concession vendors.

At the very end of the article, the author finally explains the specific charge against Comey.

Comey, in his September 2020 testimony, told Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that he stood by prior testimony that he did not, as FBI director, authorize a leak of information to The Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 article that detailed a Justice Department probe of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email use.

Cruz told the Justice Department in a letter three months later that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe admitted knowing about and authorizing the leak.

McCabe insisted that Comey was aware of his decision to authorize the disclosure, while Comey “has denied this claim,” Cruz wrote.

“Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote. “Mr. McCabe says that he told Mr. Comey of the leak and that Mr. Comey approved — effectively authorizing the leak after the fact. Mr. Comey, on the other hand, has said that he neither authorized the leak nor knew of Mr. McCabe’s involvement.”

“One of them is lying under oath — a federal crime,” Cruz wrote.

Righty-o then. So prove it.

Last time Microsoft tried something like this, they got the shit slapped out of them by federal antitrust regulators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

Testing replies and edits…

Text of the executive order:

DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

Executive Orders September 22, 2025

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.

Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(b) This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 22, 2025.

Honestly it doesn’t matter if ABC returns Kimmel and his show to air. The exercise (fascist politicians exerting their influence through the oligarchy to punish critical speech) has served its purpose (to be a chilling effect on anyone with the mind to speak truth to power).

It’s a stern tug on the leash.

This is why independent media is so important, and we need a lot more of it.

Sadly this doesn’t seem to be working (as of Mon Sept 22 2025, 01:11 AM UTC).

Update (Wed Sept 24 2025 17:17 UTC): It works!

It’s a lying game.

Republican politicians and thought leaders pretend they are the victims of unfair persecution (“cancel culture”) and censorship in order to 1) encourage a sense of righteous indignation in their base, and 2) create pretext for them to perpetrate actual unfair persecution and censorship when they’re in power.

“If they can do it, why can’t we?”

Half of the Republican base doesn’t recognize this happening, and the other half doesn’t care because it’s working.

west hollywood indeed

Rich enough to outrun consequences.

A few hours before this article was published Jason Koebler at 404 Media published something remarkably similar:

https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/