Bronson McLeod

ilikecommas.deviantart.com/art/Shuteye-51… Alright, tightened things up considerably.

@LastBearStandng @JosephPolitano >CPI tends to overstate inflation 🤨 Okay so this guy's foundational premise is wrong, wages are down down down

This is an excellent piece on real wages by @JosephPolitano that brings much needed data and nuance to the discussion. apricitas.io/p/are-real-wag…

@Delicious_Tacos 🥺

I was with a girl, this was maybe 2007. We went to the county shelter in Burbank to get a cat. A young male because my last cat was cool. The cat room there is a long row of tanks with plexiglass in front, air holes. 30 cats but no young guys until the very last cat in the very last row. Black and fluffy with a white star on his chest. Who’s this handsome fellow. He’s one of the bucket cats, the woman said. Two kittens found in a sealed paint bucket. The sister adopted already. This guy was aging out of “cute kitten,” maybe headed for the firing squad. I put my finger on the glass and said: hey, bud. He put his paw on my finger. On the way out the clerk with the paperwork said do you know his name, and I said: Bud. I got a call at work. Someone at the neighbor’s left the gate open; the pit bull got out. Neighbor took him to the vet. They thought he might make it. He didn’t. Nine years it was you and me. Now you’re gone and without you I’m gone too. I can’t move your food bowl. I hear you outside wanting to come in, get brushed, sit next to me on the piano bench while I look at stupid shit on the internet, you groom yourself. That was what we did most nights. You just sitting with me. Just being with each other. We’d go out in the park in the morning. I’d sit and write and you’d rub against my legs and stalk things in the grass. Puff up when a dog was coming but stand your ground. You knew I’d protect you. I’d walk back toward home and you’d wait for me to get twenty feet and then run after me, try to catch my legs. My cars came and went; you knew them all by sound. Come running up the street when I’d come home from work. Run along the high cinder block fence at eye level with me. I’d go in the door and you’d run up the stairs outside. I’d go to the base of the stairs and you’d run down them and run into the door. You loved that game. Cars broke, girls left me. Hard jobs, hard days, and I’d put my face in your fur and you’d purr and it would be OK. When I first got you home I let you out of the box in a dark quiet room. So you wouldn’t be scared. First day or so I’d just sit there and talk to you. When you trusted me enough I put out my hand. I don’t think you’d been petted before. You walked around me in a circle with your tail up, beside yourself with pleasure. Six weeks ago I started brushing you at night to entice you in earlier. You’d act just the same. When you were little and I fed you, petted you, I’d make that ch-ch-ch sound so you’d know it meant good things, and I called you in with that every night. I want to make that sound now. Have you come in. Where are you, I can’t sleep if you’re out. Coyote might get you. I’ll go out in the dark and walk around. Call for as long as it takes for you to come. You’d come running up, follow me inside. Get in bed, knead the blanket with your claws and lay with me in the cold. Bud you can’t be gone. I come home and it’s not home now. Just stuff. Coming up the driveway without you running in the corner of my eye, scared of running you over. You weaving yourself into my legs while I was on the toilet. You crunching Meow Mix next to me while I was in the bath. Rustling the blinds perched in the bedroom window sill, always next to me. You stayed with me. I moved your food bowl and I want to collapse. Leaving the door open waiting for you to come bounding in. You can’t be gone. Don’t be gone. They let me say goodbye but you’d already left. Brain swollen up from being shaken, on a respirator with a clip holding out your tongue. They let me touch you but you weren’t there. They’ll give me your ashes in a clay pot. It will have a nice paw print, the vet said. An expert at watching people cry. But I don’t think she’d seen anything like it. God, I wish it was me. But then how would your life be after. I was the only one you trusted. It was a joke with the girls: the cat hates you. The man across the street came with a card. He said Bud was in my yard for years but never let me pet him. When you got fleas I gave you a bath myself because you’d have hated the groomer. I didn’t want you to be scared. I’m sorry you were hurt and scared when you died, Bud. I moved your food bowl and I want to put it back. Closed the door and now you can’t come in. I’m not ready for you to go. I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you. I love you forever and I can’t let you go, I can’t. You were a sweetheart. You were a tough bastard. You were a lap dog. You were a wild murderous savage; you’d uproot the gophers with their earth mover claws, laugh off the mockingbirds dive bombing you. You gave the dogs hell until they moved in with that killing machine. I think about killing him but he’s just an animal too. You had a good life and a good home. You loved me and I loved you. I’ll let your ashes go in the park. When night comes and the wind blows in over the grass you’ll come home.

@SJosephBurns @WallStreetSilv Milton "The Fed is a Great Idea" Friedman FTFY

@WallStreetSilv “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” - Milton Friedman

The Fed used to make profits and sent those profits to the US Treasury each year. It was usually billions of $$$ per year. Now because of reverse repos and interest paid on reserves to commercial banks, the Fed is paying something like $700 million PER DAY to commercial banks to keep the system from falling apart.

@GadSaad >the first Roman Empire be like 👀👀👀

You are not going to like this tweet so turn away if you are likely to be triggered: I am a very optimistic person; I am a fighter for Western values and liberties; I am a dogged defender of science, reason, and common sense. I must say though that I am unsure that the West can recover from its multifront civilizational suicide. Yes, I've talked about these issues for decades and wrote a book about it but the past few weeks have crystallized the extent to which the problem has become intractable. It will be a long and ultimately bloody demise and the West will be the first society in recorded history to fully self-implode due to its parasitic ideological rapture. It is a gargantuan Greek tragedy that will shape the future of humanity. This is not hyperbole. Your grandchildren will pay a very high price for your "progressive" arrogance rooted in the pursuit of Unicornia that only exists in the recesses of deeply flawed parasitized minds.

@WallStreetSilv Only in America do you have to pay one month deposit, one month advance and the final month's rent just to get the key to an unfurnished, no utilities, no pets apartment. And all that ain't even a month's rent.

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@maidenprincesss I'd make the same joke about white people but u can't post POV videos of mass shootings on Twitter

u guys will fetishize asian cultures until we do actual asian stuff

@GlobalEcoGuy Most hamburgers are climate friendly. If you want to help the world then stop eating chicken.

@Kenny___Rose Might have smth to do with the fact they grew up getting told about their privilege and how certain things were rigged overwhelmingly in their favor, then finding out it ain't. Or maybe BIPOC make up a larger than is first apparent portion of the incel population who knows

@agill99 @ParkerMolloy @neal_katyal "Okay w/ child slavery" isn't very far from "actively defending child slavery" on either the moral or ethical spectrums.

@ParkerMolloy @neal_katyal He's the walking embodiment of "lawyers don't necessarily agree with the positions of their clients" I do NOT mean that in a good way. He has no moral compass to decide what is a righteous position or client. His clients would still get excellent representation w/o Neal

It was an incredibly harrowing 6 mile hike at midnight through heavy and slippery mud, but I got safely out of Burning Man. Never been before and it was fantastic (with brilliant art and fabulous music)…except the ending.

@Bejewele_din_Fr @Todd_Spence Buh-buh-but muh fearmongering

@Todd_Spence You don't need AI to put a tear on someone's face. It is just routine CGI stuff.

@Todd_Spence That was CGI (digital), not AI.

@tribelaw @judgeluttig This you?

This perfect explication by @judgeluttig is my understanding as well. It’s important to keep in mind as litigation around Section 3 disqualification of Donald Trump and others gets underway in the coming days and weeks. Watch this space.

@tis_atlas @cis_female Comedically vast overestimation of time & dev costs

I feel like it’s not obvious to consumers how monumental and expensive regular software is. iOS cost about as much as the Manhattan project (~$20b). Google search cost about as much as the ISS (~$100b).

@RobTerrin @amorfati @cis_female This is the correct answer.

@amorfati @cis_female Companies try to classify as much as they can as R&D to avoid taxes en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_…

@dgsommersmkts @PWMF3 OR the Fed could stop interfering and let the stock market be free (to crash). We could also institute harsher progressive taxation to dissuade spending at higher incomes.

Hi PWMF -- I generally agree with you on your point that rates are not high enough yet to encourage people to stop speculating in markets and just put the money into UST bonds, CDs, etc. I think this is in addition to the point I was making about consumer loans rising, which indicates that people are still ok borrowing (or really need to borrow) rather than save.

The era of immaculate credit is ending. Credit card delinquencies surpassed pre-pandemic levels, and stand at the highest since 2012. More worrying is that the rate of increase accelerated sharply in 2Q23 - the fastest since 2008. If 1994 redux, this needs to level off soon.

@phlndrws @LastBearStandng Inflation rate & Unemployment rate would like to have a word

@LastBearStandng Gotta back that chart out some more years The average since 1990 is closer to 4%. So while the rate of increase is worth watching, the level is still well below average

@AviSchiffmann Productivity being more than tangentially relevant to success is the myth here.

I raw dog the internet. I use Safari. I don't use any plugins. I manually schedule meetings on Google Calendar. I use the gmail client. And yet I've built some of the biggest websites of all time and am running an ambitious AI startup. Productivity SaaS just slows you down.

@PopBase Spousal support for gold diggers is some B.S., huh?

Britney Spears is paying $10,000 a month for Sam Asghari’s new apartment amid their divorce, TMZ reports.

@hongga17 Weak to lightning damage, calling it now

Familiar summoning went wrong

@notcapnamerica @TheRoot Dat ratio tho

@TheRoot So y’all used three tweets with almost no engagement to frame this article and then used my tweet that got almost 100k likes to show there was an “opposing view”? Make it make sense lol

Black People On Social Media Want Sandra Bullock to Return Her Oscar dlvr.it/Stkdfp