“Kimberly Burrell, a lifelong Democrat, has tried calling, emailing, and using social media to reach a political action committee that cut an out-of-context interview clip of her and placed it in an ad for former President Donald Trump.”

The context? Gun violence. The Republicans are using her image without consent.

Because that’s the whole Republican view: we don’t need no consent.

#politics

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/kimberly-burrell-donald-trump-ad-restoration-ac-20241010.html

“Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent, wrote on social media platform X that it is “almost certain” Russia has recordings of Trump’s phone calls with with Putin from over the years. Her comment comes after reporting from Bob Woodward’s new book revealed that Trump had phone calls with Putin after leaving office.”

Trump should worry about Putin than prison.

Putin is notorious for getting revenge.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/ex-fbi-agent-on-trump-putin-calls-there-are-tapes.html

Who knew he was this buff… or powerful?

“It may be worth noting that many banks require individual clients to be at least 18 years old, which Barron wasn’t in early 2021. Melania neither named names nor specified the type of account Barron sought to open… anyway, she blames the ‘venom of cancel culture’ for the rejection, which she believes raises ‘serious concerns about civil rights violations.’”

Poor rich people are such victims. Come back when you are shot to death in your home.

https://thedailybeast.com/melania-memoir-blames-cancel-culture-for-barron-trump-bank-snub

Threatening a judge always works 🙄

“If the Court decides to release additional information relating to the Office’s filing, in the Appendix or otherwise, President Trump respectfully requests that the Court stay that determination for a reasonable period of time so that President Trump can evaluate litigation options relating to the decision”

I’m sure they think that’s a slick move.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/187054/donald-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan-release-jack-smith-evidence

Ted Cruz for international violence!

“Who is sticking up for the gunmakers as allies at the Supreme Court? The allies include the National Rifle Association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. But also one Sen. Ted Cruz, who has raked in more than $900,000 in gun money for his political career, and who is up for reelection in November in a tight race with House Democrat Colin Allred.”

Who is protecting gun makers who arm Mexico? Ted Cruz!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-wants-supreme-court-140000897.html

WTAF?

“Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? He’d have eight circles and he couldn’t fill ’em up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don’t know, I don’t know—couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles, they were so beautiful. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact the person that did them—that was the best thing about his—the level of that circle was great.”

#politics

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-baffles-everybody-bizarre-biden-103329048.html

Got my second Shingles shot.

My arm hurts. I will probably feel like shit tomorrow as I rework my HLSL (high level
Shader language) shader for this new project.

Now I’m thinking of writing a transpiler. As if I don’t have enough projects. But it sounds really fun. Like a text version of Unreal’s goofy (but fun) visual shader tool.

Must… resist… must not think of a transpiler…

“You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals.”

See, according to Trump only people like himself, white people, have good genes. Never mind all the white serial killers…

Oh, yeah, and Trump is a criminal and sexual abused a woman. And how many died from COVID due to his inaction?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-was-the-nyt-thinking-by-sanitizing-that-trump-eugenics-claim/ar-AA1s2o2q

https://www.nj.com/education/2024/09/married-nj-school-leaders-making-nearly-600k-actually-live-in-florida.html

How to work for the state and make a shit ton of money. Lie.

“A wife-and-husband team making nearly $600,000 in combined total compensation running a small, publicly funded charter school in Newark do not appear to live full-time in New Jersey and actually reside in Florida, an NJ Advance Media investigation has found. The arrangement is believed to violate the New Jersey First Act, which requires public employees to live in-state, including public school teachers and administrators.”

@cassandra17lina

Outside Austin in a red rural county — we have people ask all the time, “Is that an EV?” (Chevy Blazer). Had someone at Goodwill say, “Man, I want to turn my (some muscle car—sorry I’m not into cars) in for one of those”.

We’ve had it since May and we love it.

@Sr0bi

Actually was the Atlantic. MSNBC was a site people can read it for free.

@ChrisPierson

I know people are going to go “ugh” but I really like my Apple Watch. Plan to get the new one (my old one is long in the tooth and the new one is skinnier). I use it for exercise and it helps me keep on track (I’m trying to beat the odds on my cancer outlook).

No aurora outside of Austin.

Not sure whether to be happy or sad…

🤷🏻‍♀️

“Like, if I gave $100 to the Harris campaign to put the ten-millionth ad on Sunday Night Football, am I really going to move the needle? But if I spend $100 on an adult ad site, I can get my message in front of 15,000 people in Pennsylvania.”

Okay, that’s pretty damn good. Granted, it’s porn, but eyeballs are eyeballs.

#politics of #porn

https://slate.com/life/2024/10/donald-trump-kamala-harris-election-project-2025-ad.html

Was looking at my old project and new and wondering why the shader in the old project was so efficient. My new shader was GARBAGE, AWFUL, TRUMPIAN.

Then I realized that the old shader was written in HLSL (a low level language for the GPU). So, yeah, that’s why.

Tomorrow I update the new project <sigh>.

#development

“In America, driving green remains a blue phenomenon. Many Republicans in Congress have rejected EVs, with one senator calling them “left-wing lunacy” and part of Democrats’ “blind faith in the climate religion.” The GOP rank and file are also anti-EV. In 2022, roughly half of new EVs in America were registered in the deepest-blue counties, according to a recent analysis from UC Berkeley.”

EV’s are cheaper. Which shows you Republicans really don’t understand money.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-ev-culture-wars-aren-t-what-they-seem/ar-AA1rEzg4