It’s not that my taxes are too high. It’s that the hyper-rich don’t pay enough.

I don’t mind taxes! As I’ve said repeatedly, civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan. I’m happy to contribute my bit to keep things running. But when the rich won’t pay their fair share…well that just fuckin’ pisses me off.

“Good” to see European companies getting on the enshittification gravy train. I’d wondered what happened to Evernote. Now I know who caused me to bail so fast when it went to shit.

Titan, Wizard, and Demon by John Varley. The first book starts off with a bog-standard “first human exploration of Saturn’s system” bit, but starts going off the rails immediately. By the end, you’ll meet a 50 foot clone of Marilyn Monroe and think, “eh, I’ll accept that.”

It’s one of sci-fi’s more delightfully unhinged stories.

Oh please oh please oh pleeeeeaaaaaaase.

There isn’t really anything I can add to what’s already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I’m so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.