how old were you when you realized the "jingle" in jingle bells is a verb?

Merry Ruth's Chrismas

You will be visited by three spirits The spirits:

we have this "ABCs of engineering" book and it's really adorable. but my son just asked me if the chicken wire in our basement was a nanotube and... you know, he's onto something.

tired: die hard is a christmas movie wired: die hard is a harry potter movie inspired: the sixth sense is a die hard movie.

I came here to race and skid and crash and make love and drink wine and I'm all out of race and skid and crash and wine.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

WHAT DO WE WANT? BIG SIGNS WITH TRAIN INFO! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? *clicklicklicklick clickclickclickclick clickclicklcickclickclick clickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclick clickclick*

my late 20s // my late 30s

If you've dated >10 people and all of them are of the same race - whether or not they're the same race as you - that's problematic.

whenever the "whats your least-woke opinion" thread goes around again I think I'll be sticking with: golf courses are good. but they should be public, and even better municipally-owned.

whoever came up with the idea to close business the week after christmas didn't have kids. real dads need that free time the week before.

Why do bash “dead-beat” falcon for not hearing their falconer but we never question if the falconer has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

my father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the battleship.

it's really remarkable how bad targeted ads are given how much we've destroyed in order to have them. "Oh you bought a coffee maker... here's thirty five ads for coffee makers!" really? that's the future we're going with?

funny enough, watching a bunch of kids go completely feral in the back yard of a brewery actually made me decide I wanted kids.

my kid really has all the sound effects down. says "yoink" when he grabs things. says "hep!" when he jumps over stuff. way beyond his years.

just overheard a very PNW interaction at the brewery lost and found - bartender fails to find the item, customer looks and immediately finds it. she goes "ohhhh rain pants, I thought you said Ray-Bans"

posing for photos on the epstein island and shaking my head the whole time so the people know I disagree with it.

I'm sorry but no 20 year old who looks like this is from Mayflower stock. be honest with yourself Andrew.

reading the responses to Kate's (very good) essay on this website is really making me worry about the reading comprehension of the average poster.

you lose a bet or something, dude

the face of the older sibling.

@bostontheseus.bsky.social amazing things happening over at google

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

I wrote about Trump’s ballroom and the right’s quest to remake the symbolic order for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

The Portland row-houses are a good example of what major gains in zoning reform produce without building code reform. It’s simultaneously a win for affordable urban housing and an indictment of our ability to produce multifamily housing comparable in quality and features to more urban countries.

I do more before noon than most people do in a whole workday, but then I do less between noon and 3 than most people do when they're asleep. evens out I guess.

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be great if it stopped raining for a minute.

3yo: *sings the peanut sat on a railroad track song* me: "toot toot peanut butter!" 3yo: "..and if it's your favorite peanut and you go onto the track to pick it up you'll get squished into skin butter!" me + wife: 😦😦

my spotify algorithm has hit bottom. all these tracks have <5,000 listens and the artists have ~50 listeners. either that or I've been shunted into an AI-generated electronica siding.

my stance on generative AI is that people seem uniquely excited about its mistakes. we like when it holds a funhouse mirror up to our humanity. if it gets better it will get less interesting to us. because the hallucinations are the interest. nobody goes to the funhouse to see a normal mirror.

I'd be willing to live at 122nd if we did this to the street

“Eventually I will win my argument with the rest of the internet” is the core delusion you must embrace to be a true blogger. Never lose this misplaced faith

"People are naturally bad at interpreting very large numbers and therefore we all have a hard time conceptualizing just how insane wealth inequality has become"

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

If you can believe it, January 1, 2026 marks ten years since the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For Portland Monthly, I wrote about how the ensuing decade was dominated by anxious men and a culture of lawlessness. www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

that Matty believes engaging on the internet is in any way "combatting the dangerousness of the right" is a real tell.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

rare post that gets better with every single word

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

the three year old recently has been saying, on repeat, "in the tick the day the light!" which means nothing but it's, phonetically and rhythmically, so so beautiful. how I love this little weirdo I've been given.

three year old built a pillow fort this morning and invited me to, and I quote, "join me in a world of coziness"

'no way to do this' says only nation where this doesn't happen.

my wife and I have invented a genre we call "soup funk" and have been building a killer soup funk playlist for like two years now and I think it's almost ready for the world

Oh you broke ranks and squandered your politically advantageous position on the government shutdown, and the audacious gambit resulted in the most obvious outcome imaginable? You really are a Democrat.

we need to discuss the possibility that during his stroke fetterman was subjected to some kind of reverse-scrooge event.