I'm just imagining the guy in the Pentagon who's trying to figure out how to add a block to deployment paperwork that says "Please [do/do not] let the President of the United States speak at my funeral." without getting ratted out by his entire chain of command.

Five bucks says the college admissions people are going to be very heavily leaning on sorting out AI in applications in the name of scholarship (and then oopsy-daisy accidentally cratering the nonwhite acceptance rates) over the next few years, all while their bosses push AI everywhere else.

The latest iPhone update seems to have turned on a "feature" where, if your phone is upside-down in your pocket when an alarm goes off, grabbing it with a pinch at front and back will stop the alarm. Before you can see what it was and/or decide whether you actually wanted it stopped.

Also, 10yo's word-of-the-extremely-now is "Valid" as a form of agreement, approval, etc.

We got an email about this from GWU that was so cagey about the buyer and the reasoning that I just figured it had to be either Musk or Bezos signing the check.

As I watch footage of explosions in Beirut and dust clouds towering above apartment blocks in Tehran, I keep coming back to something that I witnessed back in the summer of '04, during my first tour in Iraq. But first, let's start with a question: Have you ever heard someone wail? 1/

It is 1991. I read a story about how a Republican President started a war in the Middle East without adequately preparing the military. It is 2003. I read a story about how a Republican President started a war in the Middle East without adequately preparing the military. It is 2026. I read a story

these laws are a political project by which the state attempts to assume the power to decide sex and gender, power it does not have—and power it will express “incorrectly” because that’s power, too

I am increasingly happy that in the first month or so of my Blueskying, whenever I saw someone jump into the replies with "Croff led a brigade against Pleev back on Twitter", I would just block Croff and Pleev and whoever was trying to stir shit.

I’ll go a step farther and say that this should show the WHCA that they need never have their foolish dinner ever again.

Walked by the very worst place to fuck around today.

The fundamental underlying principle of the modern American right is that no one is ever allowed to not love them uncritically, especially the people they hate most.

They’re gonna get so mad when every other country says “No, we simply don’t HAVE another 950,000 troops to kick in.”

Rules are rules.

After we've cleaned up a lot of other stuff, I wouldn't mind if maybe society decided that reseeding playoff brackets is a bad idea. You beat a #1 seed? Congratulations, you get an easier game next time.

Blocking Jill Timesdefender just to keep myself from rising to her bait.

I wrote up my thoughts on the OU/Mel Curth saga into a semi-coherent #highered essay out of an old thread of posts here. Credit goes to @cantb.bsky.social for developing the model of the institutional trap, which is at play here and cost a young woman her job & privacy. miamurphy.com/2026/03/01/b...

Was just asked my take on the war in Iran on the family zoom, and at this point it’s “After WWII, Germany had trials, Italy had gas stations; I’d be okay either way.”

If my typos:quality metric is accurate, this is going to be one of the best meals I have ever eaten

Ever get so mad at something that you can’t even *read*? Like, a book?

"Unlock"? The fuck is "unlock" supposed to mean? There's no legal or Constitutional way for the President to tell states how to run their elections as long as he says the right code words. WE RAN ELECTIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. AMERICANS HAVE VOTED FROM THE SPACE STATION. THIS IS BULLSHIT.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

White collar crime prosecution (including confiscatory penalties for billionaire tax evasion) Medical and in-home care Housing construction and management In- and outpatient drug treatment counseling So many teachers that kids get *confused* when we tell them about 30-pupil class sizes

I think I just missed an elevator reading this poem.

I’m actually astonished at Trump letting someone else get any credit for something.

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Find me a more fearless performer than Tom Lennon as Jim Dangle. Can't be done.

Hey, wanna see the coolest motherfucker alive?

I invite you to read these opinions and tell me it wouldn't've been 9-0 the other way if the objection were that the addressee were a Nazi with a Nazi flag hanging directly above his swastika-adorned mailbox with a sign saying "UNTERMENSCHEN DON'T TOUCH MY MAIL" atop it.

I'm with Victor here, and let me point out that I live in Michigan. If you want to win this swing state, then FIND ANOTHER DEMOCRAT.

I don't even follow the NBA and I remember that this is at least the third full turn of this "Why don't they dress better?" "Why are they so ostentatious about their clothes?" "Why don't they dress better?" wheel specifically about NBA players in my adult lifetime.

We actually had a really good (and much longer than usual) Book Club meeting about this one today. I was the only male-presenting there, but not the only non-fan of romantasy (and, as I noted, I have *cred* in this realm, as a person who bought Laurell K. Hamilton books in mass market paperback).

He's right.

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

Just pictured Nick Saban receiving a stuffie after losing to Clemson 44-16 and literally burst out laughing

Some days you gotta stir up the Nextdoor pot.

So we’re gonna find out that some CW4 once told 2LT Hegseth exactly what was wrong with his OPORD brief.

I was in Germany. We had heard NOTHING about this movie. Nothing. Went to the post theater and saw an Alien-looking poster, sure, why not. holy fuck

/me braces for deluge of Kickstarter messages.

Today is the birthday of writer, producer, and editor Dwayne McDuffie (Feb. 20, 1962-Feb. 21, 2011). #BlackHistoryMonth

10yo later claimed to have heard this song on YouTube, so I guess it’s making the rounds.

Starting to think all we need to do is have Obama say “I wish I’d had the guts to resign and send myself to prison.”

Root. And. Branch.

Roller skating music report: First song of the night was Benson Boone. Golden before any TaySwift.

SCOOOOORE

The hockey players are pounding Go-Go Squeezes like our kids when they were 7.

WOOO USA USA USA

I would have bet my life that the “embiggens/cromulent” bit was Lisa and Marge.

I am not in any way saying that Harry knew anything, but you really gotta wonder how much of an indirect influence "Wow, my dad's younger brother, the previous 'spare', is really fucked up..." was on his whole decision tree.