So anyway. The sexting scandal was a boost to Platner's fundraising.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/06/03/politics/elections/graham-platner-fundraising-surge/

Burned out owner of a fully depreciated Ph.D. in computer science. Born in the US, still there, not proud of it. January 20, 2025 was our catastrophe.
Because my instance is infosec.exchange:
Bad Security Metrics Part 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2018.011301733, Part 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2018.021921653
Mostly sunny with a chance of cyber (presentation) https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11165.72166
Posts that do not receive a number of faves or boosts go to the ash heap of history in 1 week.
So anyway. The sexting scandal was a boost to Platner's fundraising.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/06/03/politics/elections/graham-platner-fundraising-surge/
Have you seen the price of paint
A shrunkflation sized less than a quart of the cheap paint costs more than a gallon of the good paint did
JFC if you get the wrong color you are gonna just use it anyway. Nobody can afford this.
@autistics
There used to be a forum about #Autism called "Wrongplanet". It's been offline for several months now. It had a huge number of interesting threads, all the way back to about 2012.
One of the best threads was a "Megathread", where each #ActuallyAutistic forum member contributed the best boiled-down advice they could muster, for the other Autistic people - **how to understand Neurotypicals**.
It took me days to read it. There was a ton of good advice, which hit me like a ton of bricks. I saved my favorite posts, and made a .pdf out of it; *straight-up copying and pasting* - even leaving grammar errors intact. I made a nice .pdf out of it, formatting it for a phone screen. It's all I have left of that forum to remember it by.
**If you are easily provoked, and are triggered easily by words which you don't think are politically correct, don't read it!!**
If you'd like to read the .pdf, here it is:
"The Autism Social Rule Book":
https://toque.im/docs/Understanding_Neurotypicals-for_the_Autistic.pdf
It's the alien visitors / demons religious syncretism again 👽👹
Come on you cowards, put bigfoot in the game

The Catholic archbishop of Washington has removed a well-known priest who said UFO sightings were the work of demons. The archdiocese says the priest is an exorcist and they will be cutting ties with the Washington-based nonprofit he heads, the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal. The archbishop says the priest's public statements linking UFOs to a demonic presence and the center’s recent use of social media "gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”
In Maryland's 6th district, all the oxygen is being taken up by the vicious Dem-on-Dem pissing contest between two rich white people, the incumbent Delaney and the previous incumbent Trone. Each has spent millions of dollars buying up all the ad time to accuse the other of being DINO. So you might ask, is there anybody else running in the Democratic primary?
Yes, actually. Glad you asked.
George Gluck
https://www.facebook.com/GluckForCongress/
https://sites.google.com/view/georgegluck/
Raised: $5. Spent: $0. Cash on hand: $5. 🫡
Alexis Goldstein
https://www.electalexis.org/
Raised 41 k$
Ethan Wechtaluk
https://www.ethanformd.com/
https://ethanwechtaluk.com/
Raised 10 k$
[The remaining candidates have no financial data reported to the FEC]
Daniel Krakower
https://www.danformaryland.com/ (lol)
https://www.shulmanrogers.com/attorneys/daniel-s-krakower/
Kiambo White
https://kiambowhite.com/
Altimont Wilks
https://www.facebook.com/altimont.wilks.7/
After the primary, will there be anyone on the ballot besides the Republican and the Democrat?
Yes, actually. Glad you asked.
Moshe Landman (Green)
https://www.moshelandman.us/about-moshe
Source for financial data:
https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/MD/06/2026/
covering 2025-01-01 to 2026-03-31
House approves symbolic war powers resolution so they can claim to have tried to halt military action against Iran during the midterms
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-powers-vote-house-9aaadea35f9523c818802286a6553536

The House for the first time has approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran. Wednesday's action defied President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long war. House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent an outcome that would show the mounting opposition to the war. But displeasure has only grown as the conflict drags on. The roll call Wednesday was 215-208, but next steps are uncertain. Trump would likely reject any measure from Congress to limit his authority.