Left to my own devices, it’s fucking prosciutto. I do not do well left to my own devices.

Haley makes Trump’s own-goals look like fucking amateur hour.

This isn’t particularly surprising. In Temple, Texas, data centers are a thing, and people are like “I would like to have cheap electricity and water. Who the fuck are these folks?”

Hot Wheels does love calling the Lege into special session to make liberal policy at the local level illegal at the state level. We aren’t quite done with the bullshit yet.

I would imagine Austin will be far more jubilant than Temple, Texas. I do know that my home will be thrilled.

I am much happier to fly into Austin tomorrow. I was sick of the same fucking people running the state for the entire 11 years I’ve lived there. “Here” returns tomorrow.

This is a sufficient blowout that there’s no need for tick-tocks.

I feel far better flying home tomorrow. To Austin. Where the state government hates us.

Democrats poised to sweep Florida congressional districts redrawn by Republicans

Oops.

It’s a little weird not to have the firehose, I have to admit. The raw wire was nice on election night.

Democrat Annie Andrews flips South Carolina Senate seat held by Republicans since 1998

https://apnews.com/live/midterm-election-2026

This is a good thing to be following.

Republicans underperform as first midterm votes are counted

That’s a popular view, but it’s rarely grounded in reality. My mom told me today that she pays for the NYT and WaPo, and my immediate answer was “why the fuck would you throw money at those people?”

This is why I’m living with people planning a commune.

I put a Biden sticker on my bumper in 2020. It was the first time I was allowed to, as working in a newsroom removes some rights most take for granted. Simple as: “We can’t have people driving past the paper and seeing political opinions on the cars.”

Within the newsroom, we were political as hell, but not all in one direction. Sports and the top editors were solidly Republican camps, but the rabble (you know, the expendable idiots like reporters and copyeditors) tended left of the Overton window.

I’m not sure what modern newsrooms look like, but I have for decades seen how we’re somehow held to an apolitical standard.

The hookers and blow don’t pay for themselves.

I’m in a hotel in South Scottsdale, Ariz. I woke up in Tucson, intending to spread the remainder of my dad’s ashes in the Catalinas, but as these things go, the flooding closed all the parks. So we ended up in Tucson for no reason.

In better news, Mom and I are seeing Elsbeth tomorrow for lunch. She was the person who when I biked around the neighbourhood always had baked goods ready to go and introduced me to Korats. I hope to also see Max, but to mention much more about them risks placing me as a … let’s just say my current commune plans aren’t compatible with the owner of a Rolls Royce and Jaguar dealership.

I don’t intend to ever come back to Arizona again. Eighteen years is enough of a sentence.

Wait … you do gardening?

The admins prefer I keep the actually interesting stuff to FetLife.