My life is a happy one, in part, because of no wife or kids. I wake up on a Saturday in my quiet, clean house and it feels fantastic.

Having enough income from my investments to not have to work and sleeping in every day.

But mostly just being left alone in peace.

Oddly enough, I think this would be an effective thing.

Musk, like all bullies, just doesn’t want any accountability whatsoever. Yes, the amount is trivial given his means, but as we saw in South America, he is perfectly willing to back down when a challenge is meaningful, culturally if not materially.

bolt.com, baby!

I recently took a ‘no tolls’ route south through rural Oklahoma and Texas and saw many of these dead and dying small towns.

Many had a fat county sheriff hanging out to ticket people driving through.

It really is sad to see it. Those people are all now living in suburbs and slowly being driven out of their neighborhoods there by cost of living too.

Yup. Hard to argue it wasn’t murder.

There are older models you can get that work that way. They’re just less convenient in that you have to clean them out yourself. I had one for a long time, but I wanted one that is self-emptying.

Hello friend.

This seems like a good time to inform you that you have the option to communicate in such a way that you don’t make yourself look like an asshole.

Yeah, mine has it. I have to go into the app once a week and manually delete it.

Just wait until the post-tariff trade deals start hitting in a year or two.

America doesn’t have any idea yet the scope of disaster that Donald has created, and the worst part is that he and the other billionaires are insulated from it.

Exactly.

More like clone troopers.

It can be like that for sure. I accidentally called a trans skater ‘she’ three years ago, and they got over it and understood it was a mistake, but one of the refs in the league still won’t talk to me. So petty and stupid how people can be.

It’s true.

I’m lucky to have a lot of friends via the roller derby community, but I’m a white man in a largely liberal and activist community, so my mantra whenever any controversial topic comes up is: “I don’t feel it’s my place to speak on that” or “I don’t know enough to have an opinion on that”. (Which in a lot of cases is probably true.)

Those friends end up being surface-level in a lot of ways because I love the sport and can’t risk accidentally saying something that offends someone and risk losing my access to it, because if you say the wrong thing, malice is always assumed and there’s simply no grace given for error.

Yeah, and even among your people there may be some measure of discomfort.

I really miss how friendships and socializing used to be before social media.

100% it is.

And you don’t have to deal with your awful family feeling entitled to your time and money.

I saw this headline and my thinking is: “Good”.

It’s always felt really, really stupid that part of landing the Olympics is the promise of building new arenas and stadiums, and those arenas and stadiums seem to sit unused afterward. Just a huge waste when so many countries and cities already have facilities for professional sports.

The Marsha P. Johnson method suggests that a brick is more effective at creating change.

Make fascists scared again.

That’s not necessarily true.

And Americans too.