Notices by Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social)

@WarnerCrocker On the scale of performance, I'll say this: I think there's some balance to a gentleman of color setting a filibustering record to advocate for democracy, as opposed to a racist stubbornly clinging to a failed worldview.

@WarnerCrocker It's performative nonsense that changes absolutely nothing legislatively. A complete waste of taxpayers' time. But sure. Great theater.

Well, if nothing else, Cory Booker beat Strom Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in Senate history.

With, probably, about as much lasting impact.

Thurmond, despite his best efforts, couldn't stop tje Civil Rights Act from being passed into law - literally two hours after he gave up the dais.

Sadly, Booker's filibuster will probably have about the same lasting effect.

The same stupid dickheads who stuffed kids like me in lockers back in high school are now running the federal government and it shows

we are current clean on OPSEC

@WarnerCrocker hah! I think many of us did. This was the same guy who was not a very nuturing or supportive basketball coach to the boy's team during that season.

These days I am absolutely haunted by a moment that happened to me in seventh grade, back in the 1980s.

Our Western Civilization teacher (a conservative who was still railing against the Soviet menace) had us deep in a module on Stalin's brutal crackdowns when he paused for a long moment and said:

"You know, as long as you're on the side of the fascists, fascism is absolutely the best form of government to live under. The problem is that no one stays on their side for long."

Quirk Kia of Braintree, Massachusetts uses some of the most aggressive car sales marketing I've seen.

They've even spammed SMS messages to me to encourage me to...trade in a car I haven't owned in two years.

I could complain to them, but first of all, I owe them absolutely no dialogue. I'm not their customer, never have been.

So I figure a public warning is more in order. Don't do business with these sleazy fucks.

@WarnerCrocker I've seen some amazing one-shot work, but the way they hold the note to the last frame in this is *devastating*.

"Starship is an embarrassment, not just for SpaceX, but for the US. It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that. It’s pathetic and dangerous, and we can do so much better."

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has-finally-figured-out-why

if I understand the Apple pundit zeitgeist at the moment, Apple
*checks list*
faces an existential crisis over its AI deficit, AI being a technology that has
*squints*
cost tech companies billions of dollars to implement without any real benefit to the consumer.

most days I think on this: yoda is just miss piggy as a drag king

@WarnerCrocker so let's burn down the banks

@WarnerCrocker really makes me wonder what Putin has on Bezos.

This weekend most of the US moved clocks forward and hour, and calendars back 86 years.

@godofbiscuits @RickiTarr @Meowthias

@WarnerCrocker ain't so civil

them: those people yelling at politicians are paid demonstrators

me: where do I send my application, and do you get medical or dental coverage

Today this happened near where I work. It is very important to understand how big this crowd was: Multiple orders of magnitude bigger than candidate Trump's acolytes attracted to the same location, during the campaign. And a lot of the cars that drove by were honking in solidarity with them.

The message I want to get across to both my fellow Americans and to those abroad: Many of us are very fucking angry about what's happening.

https://www.capecodtimes.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/03/04/march-4-against-coup-creep-protest-hyannis-rotary/81376994007/

work: u get 2 personal holidays a year

me: tomorrow is st fuckoff's day, a very holy day to my people