just said “eat some cheese” out loud to myself like a very normal person and these were the kinds of things that were a lot easier to play off when I had a dog.

today I explained to the dentist that while I am not a natural redhead I do tend to need more novocaine than dentists tend to expect, so they gave me a different, stronger anesthetic and then I needed more of that halfway through 🙃

Recently on @thepressbox.bsky.social, @joelanderson.bsky.social used the phrase “Bluesky creators,” and it keeps popping into my head. I’d never thought of things that way! Y’all are posters, certainly, but something about “creator” always feels visual to me? Anyway, I’ve found it a useful reframe.

Look this doesn’t matter, but if I’ve purchased something from your website and you haven’t sent it to me yet, why are you sending me marketing emails??? We can talk about buying more stuff after I’ve gotten my first stuff.

do we think the unreliable narrators…know?

Enough can’t be said about how “machine-learning” simply reiterates the anti-blackness of tech bros and their ilk. And that includes the violence of disregard: “oh, we didn’t anticipate that as a possible problem.” That’s racist too.

Listen if you work on media products and you’re not asking, “what are we doing to prevent this system from automatically publishing slurs?” at every opportunity, please just…do something else.

🚨 DarkSky creators with new weather app 🚨 acmeweather.com/blog/introdu...

the thing about snow is i am tired of it

I have been influenced by the discourse into rewatching Casablanca for the first time in many years.

I said yesterday that the true measure of a work Slack is how many emoji it has to express frustration with Jira.

This is one of the most touching and heartbreaking things I have ever read.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

this whole thread is a bleak delight, but “moral arc backwards gyre widening what do” took me out

Years ago, I tripped and fell face-first onto the sidewalk. I broke my nose, which is very messy, and was in a ton of pain. Two strangers stopped to check on me and then walked with me to the hospital when I said I didn’t want an ambulance. It wasn’t far, but possibly the longest walk of my life.

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

There’s a reason folks scream along to the “I’m mean because I grew up in New England” line in Homesick

Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

I forgot about the part of grief where you’re sad all the time, but also so frustrated and angry about being sad all the time

this is truly one of my favorite things about living here. more days than not, I can walk outside and see the Milky Way.

ENOUGH www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

really fantastic job opportunity for folks with editorial experience (relatedly, if y’all are ever in the market for a labor reporter, PLEASE lmk @19thnews.org!) 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

Sometimes, when reporters don’t get a response to a request for comment, we’ll bend over backwards to reach someone — even going to their home or sending letters. Quick thread on why we do that.🧵

How long do we think this company can put me on hold now that I’ve told them I want to cancel my service? We’re currently at 20 minutes, but I’m guessing this’ll go on for an hour at least?

Apparently you can just go for a walk outside even when you don’t have a dog? Seems wrong.

I was having a Rough Night on Friday when I saw this post and remembered I had been meaning to watch Josh’s special and it genuinely turned my night around, strongly recommend!

Going from being a person with a dog to a person without a dog really sucks.

this would fix me, i’m sure of it

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Anker dock has hub

see this is what I’m saying. honestly might be listening to it on repeat through the end of the year at this point.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

My sister is looking for tools to help with world building, organizing ideas, and keeping track of story threads for D&D and writing generally. I know nothing about this, but maybe some of y’all will? Do folks have preferences on any of the following: World Anvil, Scabard, Campfire, or Legendkeeper?

friends, I could use some help making a playlist: give me your best songs for getting through hard times? So far I’ve been thinking about songs like O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps and This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, but my brain is stalling out trying to think of more.

Woke up to a sunny day, so I took the dog to the beach. We had to take a little rest in the parking lot, but in the end we both got to see the ocean.

I put a 90s playlist on in the car yesterday and man, “She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly” is a wild chorus to put in a song about your high school girlfriend getting an abortion. Sang it all the time, at the top of my lungs.

wait sorry, somehow I just learned the London Calling album cover was riffing on this Elvis album cover? sharing in case anyone else is in today’s lucky 10,000 on this.

In the span of four days, my dog has gone from not knowing that donut holes exist, to wondering how I could dare to offer her anything other than glazed blueberry.

Abruptly the light has now stopped working at night 🙃

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

recipient and subject line fields should be below the body of the email, why is it not like this???

whole lotta people out here makin choices, I see.

I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.

In what I think is a new development, the light in my mudroom simply will not go on during the daytime? After dark, lights up fine (but only when I flip the switch, not automatically), but will not go on during the daytime, regardless of switch flipping.

everything continues to happen so much, but here is a very good pup getting her saturday skritches

Years ago I was listening to a podcast and the guest said he thought that our grandchildren would be shocked that we slept and ate food, because they would simply take a pill for both. He was happy about this! To not “waste the time,” I guess? Never related to a person less.

once again having the intrusive thought that perhaps I should start a newsletter