I’m hoping everyone is having a good week, considering [gestures wildly].
Tehran endures ‘worst night of strikes’ amid mixed US messages about more to come
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/tehran-strikes-mixed-us-messages
Georgia votes in high-stakes election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-seat-georgia-primary
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-navy-tells-shipping-industry-hormuz-escorts-not-possible-now-2026-03-10
Have a great day!
…$5.6billion…uh huh
…but…like…”do I *look* bovvered?”
[…that one is kind of a thread, btw]
…uhhh
…is it…just me?
…nah…it’s been people…for time
…on the upside…my replacement coffee mug is (knock on wood) currently due to reach me ahead of schedule…so…I got that soon(ish) to be going for me?
The stock bros are treating this like a blip, but it ain’t a blip. Hard times a’comin.
What Wall Street is getting wrong about Trump’s oil crisis
…for…maybe…context…this should be an archived link to an FT effort that walks you though one “trading floor”‘s path through the single biggest intra-day price movement in dollars for oil in maybe ever
https://archive.ph/XMSac
…& I’m nobody’s expert on any of any of this but when the people with the highest degree of subject knowledge & familiarity say things like “last week was a waking nightmare but ultimately the back from the brink instinct has the hanging fire hanging out over where it thinks everyone gets that this time next week that stops being the sort of reassuring they can be to one another & we have to admit it was much worse than we were hoping to get away with pricing it in as”
…& they say twice that long is when they think it starts to pinch…& they *just now in the last few days* started examining quite how hard it is to clear mines from a channel (or indeed two) that don’t get any bigger but do move about all the time somewhere that’s off-shore of a joint with a bunch of (relatively) cheap drones your point-defense wasn’t designed to account for & you only asked ukraine for a peek at their homework on that, like, last week…while the answer to someone’s question about how many mines you had to lay to close them was “none – you just need people to believe there’s a minefield”
…it’s inconceivable to me but it appears to be true that they thought all this through…about as much as it looks like?
I mean, the other issue is that the price at the pump is not tethered to the price of oil on the market, and consumers absolutely notice that. As soon as it looks like prices are rising, they go up at the pump; there is NEVER a corresponding speed when prices retreat. There are legitimate reasons why there probably should be a delay — after all, we’re likely still pumping gas refined pre-war at this point — but I don’t think consumers give the slightest crap about market prices spiking and retreating when their gas is now 20% more expensive than it was two weeks ago even though the market says it shouldn’t be that way.
My MAGA dental hygienist was asking me this morning why gas prices jumped up, because the gas sitting there in the tanks had already been paid for. Oh, my sweet summer child …
The fact that not one solitary media outlet will call this price fixing/gouging, and in fact go out of their way to ascribe it to supply and demand, tells you everything you need to know.
As silly as Jurassic World Rebirth was, there is a good scene where the paleontologist tells the idiot businessman that “dumb” dinosaurs survived for 167 million years but genius humans are only about 200,000 years in and already have the ability to annihilate ourselves and won’t make it to even 1 million years.
…ok…this is ultimately a suspicious number of embeds to support an arguably weak punchline…but I kinda have to respect the love of the game that has people working this hard to find some grim sorts of light relief…so…I’mma try?
…to skip a whole lead in eventually someone says more or less “oh, now you want help from the army…” about the other internecine shit-talking between branches…to which the response is “when you say land forces you mean littoral”…more or less
…anyway…sometimes scrolling the replies can be rewarding…diamonds in the rough & such?
…also…umm…not to flood the zone or anything…but
…the thread itself is peppered with good quotes even before the replies…but…those are fun, too
“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change”
Trump got hysterical about his election-rigging bill on social media last night. I think he’s realized that his big orange ass is sitting on a house of cards.
Trump’s revised SAVE America Act faces headwinds in the House
A surprisingly level-headed analysis.
Behind the Curtain: America’s big lie
The only ones I know who get their news from Social Media are fucking wingnuts or self made wingnuts and not very perceptive people. They’re also the same people I honestly want nothing to do with.
And the bizarre thing is that the billionaire boys’ club is spending wildly to control sources of information that … nobody reads. It’s like Trump tweets. Nobody reads that shit unless they have to crank out content, which … nobody reads. So all these assholes are telling “America” how great things are which … nobody reads.
But they can see the gas price at the pump and the prices at the grocery store. It’s the Biden Dilemma once more.
…to put it the way that comes with a picture
I certainly agree what you see on social media is not what we see in reality. The problem is that’s belied by the fact that this country re-elected Donald Trump, which is to say that either that majority is either functionally brain-dead or way more evil than we give them credit for. (Honestly, I think it’s both!)
The other thing that I think is way too understated is that social media isn’t the cause; it’s just the very visible leading edge. The difference between Twitter today and Rush Limbaugh in the ’90s is basically just more open Nazism. But a key piece of both is the idea of not trusting your neighbor and being very afraid, and that does filter through to people, even those not online! Nobody batted an eyelash if I walked the streets with my friends when I was a kid, even though the crime rate then was considerably higher than it is now.
Both. It’s definitely both.
The Dem is leading Majory Turducken Gangrene’s old district into the runoff. +37 Trump last time.
Katie Perry vs Katy Perry
Team Katie won because it seems Katy Perry doesn’t have a monopoly on being a Katie or Perry.
Justin Trudeau really needs to have better taste in women.
No shit? If you can’t trust Big Balls & Musk, who can you trust?
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/11/headlines/wapo_former_doge_employee_took_social_security_information_to_new_job
It’s so dumb, the most predictable headline ever that this would happen. We’ll be finding out for years how much they stole!
Hey Iran, you paying attention? Need an address?
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-huddle-for-retreat-at-trump-hotel-in-florida-amid-governing-challenges
This story is crazy but exactly what you expect from these psychopaths!
https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/
We are passing a “millionaire tax” in our state. The oligarchs & outnumbered repubs are pissed. Howard Schultz announced he is moving to Miami because of it & somehow thought people would be sad? Everyone is celebrating! He is one of the most hated rich assholes in our state! They are doing everything they can to stop it & they can’t!
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/10/37000-fake-ai-comments-mysteriously-oppose-washington-states-effort-to-tax-the-rich/
That’s too bad. And he thought he could run for Preznit. Fuck the oligarchs.
It’s not unlike congestion pricing; millionaires and billionaires scream about it so much people think “gee, maybe this will be bad” but once it actually starts everyone other than the 1% think it’s fantastic, actually. (And in Mass., the number of millionaires has risen, not declined, since they started theirs. Turns out living somewhere that doesn’t suck is preferable.)
Billionaires always, always, always say they are leaving and never actually do it. Plus even if they did, it means almost nothing. They’ve already got things rigged so they pay almost no taxes and they can simply shift their wealth to other places. And their personal consumption is inconsequential. It’s the old trickle-down effect — nothing ever trickles because they don’t invest their tax savings in new business and their personal consumption is meaningless. Even if they buy 50 cars and 10 mansions, that doesn’t move the needle.
Shorter version — nobody cares because it doesn’t matter.
Really is no better return on investment than bribing this guy…
…it would have been douglas adams birthday so I’d rather be reminded that there is (or at least was) a real estate firm in the UK called Hotblack Desiato…which is the name of a character from the restaurant at the end of the universe whose ride gets stolen & turns out to be on an autopilot course to swan dive into a supernova to provide the pyrotechnics for a world-breaking-ly loud galactic-stadium rock act he’s the…iirc…manager for…more importantly he is described as “currently spending a year dead, for tax purposes”…so the estate agents calling themselves that always got a grin out of me
…but there’s a live events lot with a name that doesn’t have a funny hitch-hikers’ guide reference…that your thing did bring to mind & I remembered the other one the way you try to get the bad taste out of your mouth?
…mean fiddler
…meant to be wry & clever about the devil down to georgia angle…but…nominative determinism for the anti-win, I guess?