Kirk Israel's commonplace and blog. Quotes and links daily since 2001.
2026.05.03
Woke up thinking about SCOTUS and their chicken shit way of pretending A. racism is dead and B. ensuring a partisan gerrymandered fractured landscape forever.

For both sides, depending on locality, parlaying potentially temporary political advantage into quasi-permanent impregnable districting is a path to that party never having to listen to the voters en masse, which is an obvious boon for authoritarianism and a system that only has to pretend that votes count.
2026.05.02

2026.04.30
2026.04.29
trumps face to be on passports. Not even countries with kings put the dudes face on the passport. Insane.
WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It's Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment
all this talk about tokens this and tokens that. they turned my profession into chuck e cheese.
dave @dthompson@toot.cat
2026.04.28
Vacation is a week or two to pretend that you're rich.
Kirk
2026.04.27
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
2026.04.26

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