Obsidian Wings

Business

by JanieM

Typepad’s frequent misbehavior, and the recent downtime, have raised the question of whether we should migrate Obsidian Wings to a new platform. This question made me realize that if Typepad went away without notice, there’d be no way for the front-pagers to get in touch with the commenting community. So -- I collected the email addresses of everyone who has commented in the past six weeks or so. I won’t use them for anything other than Obsidian Wings-related business.

Several thoughts follow:

1. If you haven’t commented lately but would like to be notified if we can’t post information here, please comment, if only to wave as you go by, and I’ll collect your email address.

2. If you’d rather I not hold onto your email address, tell me in comments or write to the kitty and I’ll erase it from my list.

3. If you're in the habit of entering a bogus email address in the comment box, or no email address at all, you know who you are. If you’d like to be notified of developments during Typepad disasters, you know what to do.

I'll keep this post pinned for a while for the sake of people who check in irregularly.

An amuse bouche

by liberal japonicus

Since twitter is apparently pain grillé, I felt like I should serve up this morsel.

Maricopa County, AZ Board of Supervisors were called on to resign, nullify the election, use paper ballots & more

Here’s a quick 2:20 video compilation I did of the 1st public meeting post Election Day

This went on for over an hour, so did a quick montage of public comment ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/T4BvYUtivo

— Nicole Grigg (@NicoleSGrigg) November 16, 2022

I think my favorite is at 0:42. We are doomed.

What it means

by liberal japonicus

A thread for everyone to talk about election aftermaths. I realize that in a lot of places we still don't know, such as Georgia (runoff), Alaska (ranked voting) and counting mail-in ballots (Nevada, California, other places), but certainly a lot to mull over.

The thing that I'm wondering about is how much of this loss is predicated on the Supreme Court dumping Roe. If the conservative judges had know how much it was going to backfire, would they have done it?

It also gives me a lot of pleasure that so many pundits got it wrong. Almost as much as thinking how Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are going to lost their shirts. Unfortunately, neither the pundits nor the three stooges are going to see it as I do, as a sort of karmic payback.

Also, a shout-out to Russell, who identified Fetterman a long time ago. I've been trying to find his comment just to see if I or others gave him the 'yeah, right' treatment. If anyone can remember about when it was, post a note in the comments and I'll see if I can find where it came up.

Anyway, have at it!