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Friday, November 7, 2025

Good morning to everyone except Chuck Schumer. Let's have a round of applause for the feckless Democratic party, folks! This week's election was a referendum of Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically, and the result was an absolute bloodbath for the bad guys. You know what that means: it's time for Democrats to move right to appease voters who will never vote for them under any circumstances!

Anyway, it was a good week for America and a good week for democracy. The SCOTUS majority is rethinking their matching "President = King" tattoos, Republicans are in disarray, and some may even be regretting hitching their wagon to a malevolent dotard who can't find the Oval Office without hastily-printed paper signage.

Oops, we missed the October 23 anniversary of Internet Time. Oh well, this is still as good a moment as any to celebrate this radical reinvention of timekeeping, masterminded by Swatch, which divides each day up into 1000 ".beats" (yes, with the leading period). It's such a relief that everyone in the world has adopted Internet Time, so now "we do not have to think about timezones. For example, if a New York web-supporter makes a date for a chat with a cyber friend in Rome, they can simply agree to meet at an '@ time' - because internet time is the same all over the world."

Obviously you already know what Internet Time it is, because the concept took firm hold and is how we all measure time now, but on the off chance that you lost your Internet Time watch and your Internet Time wall clock is out of batteries, you can always check what time it is on this website.

And here's a video beamed in from the alternate reality where Internet Time was a flop:

The Failure of Internet Time

Item 2: a list

Ages 0-18, Ranked:

  1. 7 years old
  2. 6 years old
  3. 4 years old
  4. 0 years old
  5. 18 years old
  6. 16 years old
  7. 10 years old
  8. 2  years old
  9. 1 years old
  10. 15 years old
  11. 11 years old
  12. 13 years old
  13. 8 years old
  14. 17 years old
  15. 9 years old
  16. 3 years old
  17. 14 years old
  18. 5 years old
  19. 12 years old

Item 3: a media recommendation

I really enjoyed the recent episode of "Song Exploder" about the song "Take On Me" by the band A-Ha. You can listen to the episode, watch the absolutely iconic music video, and see some other stuff here on the Song Exploder website or you can just listen to the episode in Overcast.

Item 4: word of the week

Helve

Everyone's always talking about the business end of a hammer and how useful it is for hammering stuff. They never talk about how the helve is also useful, also for hammering stuff.

Item 5: an image

Okay, a little more late-breaking politics. I appreciate the President's pitch-perfect enactment of a real life political cartoon. November 6, 2025, photo by Wolmania Acquaintance / accomplished photographer Andy Harnick, AP.

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you next week.

Published by:

Jacob Wolman

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