i think it’s reasonable to be furious if you live your whole life someplace, get priced out, and shortly hear that some jerkoff is paying ten times what you did to live in your old home. i also think it’s worth remembering that jerkoff did not do that TO you

it's frankly insane what people carpeted over in the 70s.

stop making me think about graham platner. we never made you think about jamie mcleod-skinner

I turned 40 and had a mid life reverse crisis: having another baby, buying a minivan, and remodeling a house with my wife.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

far from the worst thing about the AI hype cycle but the constant use of "compute" as a noun is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I love a nocturnal early morning.

io: my joke is about knocking. knock knock. who's there? iggy: ? io: iggy, who's there? iggy: ... me? io: no (starting to cry a little) no i wanted it to be an owl who is there iggy: ok an owl is there! owl says don't cry! io: (delighted) don't cry who?!

New Mexico is a delight for history nerds. Just a way different timeline than people expect. You can still attend Mass in a church in the Pueblos that’s older than the Plymouth Colony

Heaven’s Gate Members Enjoy 29th Euphoric Year On Highest Plane Of Existence https://theonion.com/heavens-gate-members-enjoy-29th-euphoric-year-on-highest-plane-of-existence/

the airport terminal is the Snow Day of the modern businessperson. obligations evaporate. time doesn't matter. anything could happen.

this is like if we did the entire Apollo program to go to Bermuda.

begging cis people to replace "trans" with any other minority group before speaking to check if it sounds completely batshit

now that my kid is in school we've been going to his school friends' birthday parties and they all live in big ol mcmansions in the hills and I hate to admit I'm starting to see the appeal.

ah fuck the stupid senile pedophile isn’t playing 5th dimensional chess he’s just a stupid senile pedophile driven by the motives of a stupid senile pedophile

men: what's stopping you from being wife? if you want to keep the woman in your life happy, just become wife. trust me.

Their new girlfriend is women

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Pretty clear they’re trying to buy the 1893 World’s Fair off temu

happy Boards of Canada Day to all who celebrate

lmao

Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

working with a homebuilder for our own home after a decade-plus in non-residential design has been a real window into how most of this country views "design" as more of a collection of objects you pick off a shelf and put in your dull box.

The cum flowers were in bloom and the president had non-union guys he wasn't going to pay excavate a pit to hell on the lawn. The first of the cicadas landed on his chin and got stuck in the pancake bronzer. 35 shots rang out. Some dipshit they tricked into thinking he was a hero was already dead.

I've always found it sort of funny that cape air - the airline that flies around cape cod & new england - also operates a bunch of short routes in rural montana. but I just learned a fact that makes this even funnier.

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

ceo of pepsi: "we see a future where pepsi is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

somehow in all my years of cooking I'd never roasted a whole chicken. turned out pretty good for my first try.

found a single morel in the wilderness today.

when my son was born, a coworker-at-the-time told me "parenthood will be the most difficult thing you'll ever enjoy." and each day I'm humbled by how true that's turning out to be.

go easy on trump sure he'll go to his son's next wedding.

After not thinking about it for at least 25 years, I've heard It's Celine Dion's "All Coming Back to Me Now" twice today. what the hell.

a weird thing I've noticed while house hunting is, with some frequency, a house will hit the market as "designed by (old architect) for his family" and without fail that house is way beyond what 95% of architects today could afford.

y'all want some old-ass fruit?

Raffi is the only actual children's music my kid listens to. greatest to ever do it is an understatement.

this is where I post from

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

I'd read a Power-Broker-sized history of the San Luis Valley. that place is so fascinating and weird and somehow so little known to the average American.

food before beer, you're in the clear beer before food, you're fuckin' screwed.

dc is three different cities with overlapping boundaries, each one hiding from the other two.

the county replaced and is demolishing the sorta-historic-but-not-that-great courthouse in my town. and I'm not saying the overlap between the people mad about it on facebook and the people who bitch about high taxes on facebook is 100% but it's close.

this would make a great exclamation

cooking pro-tip: you're wasting time boiling gnocchi. sauté them in brown butter until they get a little skin, then toss in some sauce.

(My unpopular opinion is that the modern groupchat makes it easier than ever to do basic friendship maintenance. Tech isn’t the problem!)

the goal of ellison, bezos, etc is not to run a successful media outlet, their goal is to use these outlets as loss leaders for pushing their politics into mainstream opinion BUT even by that metric they're doing a terrible job.

I have a lot of long drives coming up in the next couple months and I'm not much of a podcast listener so looking to assemble a few playlists. what are some good & somewhat recent (say, past 10 years) albums I may not have listened to yet?

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

birth rate discourse is back so it's time to bring back my favorite pun of the year