As if Trump's war hadn't already benefited Putin.
Trump says U.S. to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midter https://www.npr.org/2026/10/09/nx-s1-5996912/trump-says-u-s-to-get-diesel-from-russia-relaxing-pressure-on-moscow-to-ease-prices-before-midterms
I just realized that something about the English language is weird.
The past tense of the word "think" is not "thank," that's an entirely different word. It isn't "thunk," which describes a particular sound, and yes, I admit it, it can be the past tense of "think" in the phrase "Who'd have thunk it." But no, the actual past tense form of the word "think" is…wait for it…"thought?" Huh? Where'd that come from?
Meanwhile, "thought" can also mean something someone is thinking, as in "I'm having a thought." It can also mean something one might think, as in "Concerning the thought that 2+2 might not equal four in parallel universes."
#language #English #EnglishIsWeird
Employers worry accommodations will be expensive. The reality: most workplace accommodations for blind employees cost little or nothing. A screen reader license, some flexible document formats, a willingness to describe the whiteboard. The expensive thing is the talent you lose by assuming otherwise. #NDEAM
How to add twenty-eight days to the current date without a calendar: if it's April, June, September or November, take two days off, if it's any other month but February, take three days off. If it's February and not a leap year, take no time off since you already have twenty-eight days, if it's a leap year, take a day. Today is October 9th, and October has thirty-one days. October 9th to November 9th = 31 days − 3 = 28 days = November 6th. This sponsored by me being able to successfully math my way out of a potentially sticky situation with my mum earlier today. I love math, and I love winning arguments with math.
It’s not just a song from Hamilton: immigrants really do get the job done, all •kinds• of jobs. And when you persecute those immigrants, kidnap them, terrorize them, drive them away? Then those jobs •don’t get done•.
The result?
- Food prices up
- Home construction down
- Housing costs up
- Crops rotting in the fields
- Landscaping labor shortages
- Day care labor shortages
- Health care labor shortages
- Job •losses• for •native-born• workers due to economic fallout
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/trump-immigration-cost-social-security
The rise in inflation on everyday goods came entirely from Trump’s tariffs, New York Fed research found.
New analysis shows the tariffs raised consumer prices by 2.9% by February.
Without the tariffs, prices on the goods studied would’ve fallen.
Donald Trump has often cited Andrew Jackson as his favorite president, and as you read through Perley's stories from the Jackson era (1829-1837) you will quickly understand why. Jackson comes across in these pages as extremely Trumpian–driven by ego, pride and resentment. One such story is the tale of Jackson's Head.
When the frigate USS Constitution was under repair at Boston, it was decided that what this ship really needed was a big wooden head of President Jackson fitted on it. The head was duly carved and affixed.
This angered a Cape Cod mariner named Samuel Dewey, who decided to do something about it. In the middle of the night in a raging storm, he rowed a small boat out to the Constitution and sawed Jackson's head off. He then brought it back to Boston, where his prize made him the toast of the town.
He eventually took the head to Washington and presented it to the Secretary of the Navy, daring him to prosecute. The government chose not to. For the rest of his life, Dewey's carte de visite (an early version of what became the business card) showed a picture of a saw with the inscription "I came, I saw, I conquered."
https://archive.org/details/perleysreminisce00poor/page/n195/mode/2up
Trump begs Iran to bomb San Diego for the third time in three days (he actually said it a fourth time but the article is old) https://newrepublic.com/post/216440/donald-trump-pulls-180-telling-iran-bomb-california-three-times
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
Pentagon announces first ever livestreamed execution, the first military execution in sixty years.
Republicans are the party of death and degenreacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o
There are many ways to share Mastodon posts with other people:
- To share a post with your followers, click its "Boost" button (usually 🔄 arrows or 🚀 a rocket, depending on your interface or app)
- To share a post with people outside the Fediverse, click ⋯ on the post and then "copy link" or "copy link to status". Then paste this link wherever you want to share the post (e.g. on a website or on a different social network).
More info and methods at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-share-posts-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
People really should use the word kerfuffle more.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 88
"It ain't over 'til its over."
Source: Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed (DS9 novella)
The U.S. federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise, @19thnews reports.
"Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat."
Picard management tip: Say "Thank you", "Good work", or "Well done".
“Making friends as an adult is impossible.” Difficult, not impossible, and the difficulty is structural. Childhood handed you repeated, unstructured time with the same people. Adulthood does not, so you have to build it: join something that meets weekly, show up, invite people. Most of it will not become deep friendship. Do it anyway. Quantity first, quality after.
t's become impossible to discuss Israel's actions. The discussion immediately gets twisted into something else entirely.
And yet the destruction of Gaza, West Bank, South Lebanon, South Syria, Iran continues.
With a side order of Yemen.
The last update to Copilot on MacOS made the interface much more cluttered. At the same time, I got off the waiting list for Siri AI, and the Siri AI interface is sweet! It's so simple. Now I need to see if Siri AI is any smarter than Copilot.
Something I wish they’d explained better at school is that skills are transferable and often you’re learning how to learn. I see so many adults complain about how useless learning recorder in school music class was. The teachers weren’t into bad covers of hot cross buns, they were trying to teach musicality, sheet music reading, rhythm and handling an instrument that could be applied to other things in future using the cheapest, easiest to play, hardest to break instrument possible. I feel like the inability to see how learning things might be beneficial in indirect ways haunts a lot of people into adulthood to their detriment
Trump is working so hard to convince us that the Democrats will cheat, but this, along with J6 and his statements like the only way he can lose is if the other side cheats, makes me think it's much more likely that he'll be the one cheating.