Those close to me know I'm liberal, progressive, and believe in using our collective resources for the betterment of society, but then they ask me:

"So why don't you call yourself a big-D Democrat anymore?"

Well, @pluralistic sums up why pretty darn well:

"...we've had generations of neoliberal austerity sadists, autocrats and corrupt dolts who've helped billionaires stripmine our civilization and set the world on fire"

Elected Dems have abandoned The People.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/#theories-of-change

Been a holiday season treat as a Kagi user the past month. First, it was Orion Browser 1.0 getting released.

Now, it's the utter joy of having a new friend, Kagibara, join me in my web searches every day ☺️

#kagi

Hold up... I was using the Orion browser by @kagihq while watching a YouTube video, nothing crazy.

Then I clicked to open a new tab and Orion automatically moved the playing video into a Picture-In-Picture and continued playing where I could see it while the blank window was ready to use ... what?! That is too cool.

#Kagi #Orion

I was listening to a song and following along reading the lyrics when I came upon words in another language:

"Mornië utúlië"

Unsure what that meant, I went to translate it on #kagi using their Translate tool which auto-detected it as Sindarin, "Darkness has come" -- wait what? Elvish?

What a treat it is to find #lotr Elvish language supported by @kagihq Translate tool. Unfortunately Google wasn't as helpful with its translation and they don't support Sindarin.