Jeff LaMarche @jeff_lamarche@mastodon.social

I kind of fell out of the habit of using Mastodon. Anybody still here? :)

I really wish the media would stop talking about the "Trump Bump" to the economy.

There's been no "bump", there's just been a continuation (and gradual slowing) of the trajectory it had been on for six years.

If we need a name for it, a more honest one would be the "Peak of the Obama Mountain."

Man, I hate this time of year. I was all set to head to bed, it had been dark for hours, it was cold...

It was 6:15 PM...

So, is there a federated alternative to Instagram yet?

Just had a painting of a nude Harvey Weinstein pop up in my Twitter feed on my monitor at work and boy does that make me appreciate Mastodon's content warning mechanism...

I'm so in for Captain Marvel.

My wife this morning: "Trump is an advent calendar of panic".

The filing also puts on record Trump's campaign finance violations for paying off multiple women.

Not a huge amount of completely new information, but Cohen is apparently cooperating with and has provided documents to the New York Attorney General and the NY Dept. of Taxation and Finance in relation to their investigation against Trump, The Trump Foundation, and other family members, as well as another separate investigation the details of which aren't revealed. That means NY has at least 3 potential vectors of attack on Trump in addition to the Special Counsel's investigation.

They do lay it on a little thick at times, but it's understandable. They have a tough job of making Cohen seem sympathetic.

It's a Friday night and I'm happily reading a court filing for entertainment.

Michael Cohen's attorneys appear to be very good.

This document is not good for DJT.

If you want to play along at home:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5348235/Cohen-sentencing-memo.pdf

I'm really sad about the Fallout 76 reviews. If I had to choose a favorite video game franchise, it'd be Fallout, so I fully expected to spend my Thanksgiving week back in the wasteland, but...

I’m no pollster or statistician, but I don’t think this approach is designed to get accurate and honest feedback. https://mastodon.social/media/gN6Dn5LJempE7-7v2Ng

I'm the very definition of biased, but that new iPad Pro is something...

Six weeks and 360 miles of bike commuting down!

Watched Blade Runner 2049 for the... fifth? time.

It still bothers me this movie wasn't more commercially successful. Such a beautifully shot movie.

I really didn't think they should do a sequel. I thought there's no way they could do it well.

I was wrong. After all these watchings, I only have two relatively minor complaints about the film.

"Trade wars are easy".