A presidential candidate who would welcome Nick Fuentes and Kanye West to dinner is a candidate who is completely untethered.

A candidate who has no one around him to tell him no.

He is surrounded by people as crazy as he is. Which means he’s even more dangerous.

That was the most anticlimactic “leak” I’ve ever seen, in terms of both content and delivery. Some people trying to make a hard call, discussing it calmly and professionally. Some flagging of tweets with nonconsensual nudes. Some politicians presenting principled arguments against what was, ultimately, a bad call.

We were promised popcorn…

The first sentence in this paper by Svante Arrhenius from *1896*

“A GREAT deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the #climate”.

This paper was the first to quantify the contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect - over 126 years ago!

Spending an hour on the birdsite makes me feel angry at various people whose existence I was previously unaware of, and generally despairing of humanity.

Spending an hour on Mastodon makes me feel like finishing up and releasing several open source projects, installing Linux and taking up editing Wikipedia as a hobby.