Today I want to talk about my favorite dummymanders. In a dummymander, the geniuses behind the map have cut margins too close, and create vulnerabilities for themselves. tl;dr: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Here are four states that took it too far - and where you can make a difference.

Thank you for having me last night, Kacey Musgraves !

How humiliating for the United States. Trump is showing the world what weakness looks like.

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

Ruin a book by adding a word. Labour's Redwall

"My opponent wants to pass laws to hurt a handful of high school student while appointing stranger to look up your daughter's skirt in the name of protecting them--that's weird and wrong and disgusting and I'll fight like hell to stop them" come on something like that but more articulate.

If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.

That's what it's like in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. They have a walled-off box the size of the Parthenon with recovered masonry and decorations displayed in the equivalent positions, and some are just illustrations because they're in the British Museum (and some other institutions tbf).

"It looks delicious," she said, "but one question, what actually is 'homemade ghee'?" its butter i clarified

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

People who don't rely on help from the state to exist (or know anyone who does) always assume that those who *really* need it can get it. That it's available and accessible for hypothetical "genuine cases". It never seems to occur to them that such a threshold of legitimate need does not exist.

For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn (our baby's feet are weirdly massive. We have to buy it adult-sized shoes. They keep growing and it's costing us a fortune. Please help us and our enormous-footed child).

Deutscher Journalismus hat es leider vergessen: Die Skandalwahl war Sachsen Anhalt. Nicht Berlin.

Russia is at war with us. It doesn’t matter whether we think we’re at at war with them. What matters is what they think and do. In war, it takes only one to tango.

Today in "whoops, linguists were a tiny bit kidding about the whole novel sentences thing, sometimes a phrase actually has coincidentally been said already"

Nach Party ID gewichten ist auch immens umstritten und auch methodologisch durchaus fragwürdig.