• LINK: Justice Roberts Statement

    Newsweek:

    “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

    So, you’re saying it’s settled law? That’s reassuring…

    Fuck.

  • LINK: Tim Berners-Lee on Social Media

    Tim Berners-Lee

    One way to do this is to mandate that social network platforms follow new standards. Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realise that it is better — just as they did when leaving restricted online services AOL and Prodigy for the freedom of the web.

    Tim mentions a new standard called Solid, that acts as a wallet. People can build new apps that request access to user data in that wallet, and the user has control of that. I have one question: Do we need this? It’s presuming that some kind of social media is part of the solution. I don’t know if that’s true.

  • PSA: Blood thinners and sharp corners are not a great combination,

    Back to you in the studio, Walter.

  • I find it hilarious that even though I haven’t used my LinkedIn account in years, I still show up on people’s searches. There is literally nothing descriptive in my LinkedIn account. all it guarantees is that I check it like once every couple months, and laugh about it. 

  • “Easy payments, think of it, the payments, you’ve never seen anything like them, whiter wall tires, I call them whiter wall tires, whiter than ever seen before…”

    [image or embed]— Roley (@krisroley.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM

  • PHOTO: One Happy Cat

    My co-worker requires attention.
  • The Verbs: March 2025

    Watching: Death In Paradise, BBC

    With the new season starting to show up on BritBox, I decided to do a rewatch of the whole thing. Yes, it’s a cookie cutter kind of crime procedural, but it’s very British, very fish out of water, and very funny at times. In this day and age, it’s comfort food to keep my mind off of what’s going on in the world. You have to find bits of joy in things somewhere or you’ll go nuts. Here’s one of mine.


    Reading: The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson

    I’ve never watched Fear and Loathing. I did watch The Rum Diary, which got my curiosity up to actually read Hunter. Also, I grew up reading Doonesbury, and Uncle Duke is…well…yeah. Hunter reminds me of that guy who listens very carefully to everyone’s advice, and then does whatever he was going to do in the first place.

    We’re talking about HUNTER. Not ROLEY, HUNTER.


    Jamming: Who Let The Dogs Out, Lambrini Girls

    Heard the song “Company Culture’ on Strombo, and sometimes you just need some thing that kicks your ass. I submit this for your gluteal destruction.



    Podding:  Reclaiming, Monica Lewinski

    Yes, Monica Lewinski. If anyone knows about taking back the narrative of their life, I think she does. She has conversations with people who have dealt with some great difficulties, and how they did it. If you know me, it’s right up my alley.


    Working: My goal for March is to make a video. It is not a TikTok or a reel, but a video. Horizontal storytelling is what we did in the pioneer times.

  • I’ve reached the age where I am not the least bit interested in the dog and pony show for you to make a point. Tell me what you need to tell me, no drama is required. If you can’t do that, then I’m not interested in hearing it.

  • LINK: Gitmo Used As Photo Op? This Is My Shocked Face.

    NBC News:

    The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.

    In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday. 

    A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the U.S., the official said.

    Gitmo has been a photo op for politicians since the 1960s, so that’s nothing new. I wonder what this one cost? Our tax dollars went to a dog and pony show so…what, some people can see all the brown folks in one place?

    It’s ok to waste millions as long as it hurts the people we hate, right guys?