No lessons learned

@snarkypotato.bsky.social

This does not include perks and expenses. They're paid plenty. Solving corruption is not a matter of rewarding their avarice. It's a matter of legislation, possibly through democratic referenda. If anything, tie legislative salaries to medium income to incentivize their pay rises.

Yuan Yi Zhu

@yuanyiz.bsky.social

If you don't know the difference between withdrawing an acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ and withdrawal from the ICJ, you probably should not opine on more complicated questions of international law. Just a thought.

AizuYabanjin

@aizuyabanjin.bsky.social

#Short&Quick
10 Shake It - Professional Beach Melodians

After yesterday's digression into the bleaker (but, I like to think, beautiful) side of my brain, normal service is resumed with this vacuous yet joyful bit of fluff from 1966 Ghana.

It's 2:50, so apologies for taking up so much of your time!

Son of Sandor

@sonofsandor.bsky.social

July 7, 1976 NYT With “The Gong Show,” Mr Barris is trying to have his object of ridicule and make a lot of money from it. The results fall between the treacherous TV stools of cupidity and cynicism. But without a clear focus, “The Gong Show” is schizoid in purpose.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/07/archives/tv-two-new-daytime-game-programs-on-nbc.html

Todd Dillard

@toddedillard.bsky.social

I am NOT hangry I am appropriately attenuated to my current circumstances (hungry, angry about it)

Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Humphrey's Executor

@untimelygamer.bsky.social

Goddamn it making jokes about Bloodborne makes me want to play Bloodborne again. Maybe I will actually learn to parry if I play it again.

Álvaro

@ahhbueno.bsky.social

ay, chicos, ¿qué haríamos...? 😮‍💨😌

¿qué haríamos sin esos familiares que sólo saben hablar lanzando puyas y menospreciando y cuando en una única ocasión les contestas algo se victimizan diciendo que no tienes que ser tan irascible, que sólo se estaban preocupando por ti...?

Charlotte

@covergirlbeads.bsky.social

Rustic handmade jewelry gift for the horse lover: 2-sided petroglyph-inspired running horses & suns earrings w/ Czech glass & turquoise magnesite! https://bit.ly/WildHorsesSDD via @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social #sdftt #ShopSmall #HorseEarrings

Stephen Meserve

@smeserve.bsky.social

it is so deeply infuriating to watch individual professors and recalcitrant schools win all their speech and curriculum freedom battles while watching your own institution comply in advance and crumple like a wet paper bag.

Tim @ KPlay Fest Bay Area

@t1mco.bsky.social

Overall really really impressed with Blood on the Tracks. The way Oshimi can so economically represent a lifetime and the monotony of contemporary japanese life too was really masterful. This the kind of meditative and poignant manga shit I love