Every single senior engineer that I have talked to in the last two weeks has had what I would call "existential melancholy." Our all-company meeting last Monday had the phrases "staring down the barrel of the end of our careers" and "preparing for the threat of rogue AI" spoken in total seriousness.

Read letters written by children held in the Dilley detention center: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObu...

Flying into Chicago at dusk and it is pretty neat to see clouds lit from below.

When I play D&D with the family, this is how the dogs arrange themselves.

I have taken many flights and usually small airports are awesome but occasionally they are hilariously bad. At Grand Rapids right now and my flight is hugely delayed because they only have one grounds crew and the flight at A1 was delayed.

This quote from Adam Serwer's incredible reporting in The Atlantic is one for the ages: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Getting rid of the rotting head of Bovino at the top does nothing to clean out the festering wound on America's civic body of an unaccountable and private army. I never once in my life imagined that the 3rd amendment would have relevance again, but here we are. Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. ICE OUT.

"He shouldn't have brought a gun to a protest," is "she shouldn't have worn that dress," applied to murder.

Reposting this post that will be evergreen until it comes true.

I saw 20 movies in the theater this year, which was about one every other week, and for funsies, here's my tier list of the ones I saw: S-tier (Loved) One Battle After Another Sinners

Our house backs up to a working farm but has about 100 yards of trees between it and the actual grass. Apparently, cows enjoy moseying around woods, which I didn't know because it has never happened in the six months we've lived here, and a whole bunch of them came by today.

I started taking piano lessons again this fall after almost 30 years of not taking them and I have found myself practicing two hours a day sometimes and not even noticing the time go by, which is something that almost never happened in my youth, though I loved playing and took lessons for 14 years.

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Bears Packers one of the all time endings.

Let's make this happen.

Evangelical Christians voting the Mark of the Beast into existence is one of the most darkly comedic ironies I can imagine: www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Here is Desk Dachshund Leo snuggled up on a day so cold that no Tennessean should dare venture outside.

47 trophies for Leo Messi, we're never going to see another player and competitor like him. What a privilege it's been to watch him play.

It's hard for me to imagine how they could have made the World Cup Draw show more boring. It was like they were actively trying to stultify us into a stupor, and the Peace Prize was a laugh out loud farce. And yet, the actual group draw is still one of the most exciting things in the world!

I have received over 50 emails today asking for donations for giving Tuesday. It's overwhelming and I'm basically just unsubscribing from everything because it's completely absurd. I can't imagine I'm the only one doing this, it's basically a tragedy of the commons for charitable orgs.

I haven't been camping in years but a friend invited me to camp at Sandpoint in Alabama and... wow!

thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

I really enjoyed the replies to this post, some classics as well as a bunch of ones I hadn't seen before.

My wife got a small dog bed that fits on my desk so here's desk dachshund Leo.

This is really awful news. Kevin Rideout and his family were some of my dearest friends growing up. We share the same birthday. The situation in Niger has deteriorated so much in just last two years. My thoughts are with his entire extended family. christianchronicle.org/missionarypi...

Bradley County went 80% red last election but we had at least 100-150 people out for No Kings, the first one we've had here. I chatted with a woman who's been in the area since 1975 and she was blown away. The number of people honking and supporting was incredible, and it was peaceful and joyous.

I would love for the next Democratic president to have Sherman as a role model.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

This is good and necessary to say and hear.

Up in Avon, CO and we lucked out on the weekend to come here.

This is one of my favorite spots in the entire park, where you can frame Pikes Peak between Kissing Camels and Gateway Rock.

I've been visiting my brother and seeing friends in my old stomping grounds of Colorado Springs and walking around Garden of the Gods every day as much as I can, because it is absolutely glorious.

Flying out of Nooga and got this picture of Lookout Mountain in the early morning fog. It's hard to appreciate how long and skinny it is from the ground.

The piano I ordered in April that was going to be unordered because of tariffs finally made it here after carefully timing tariff windows to minimize the damage. It's getting delivered on Friday. After all the events of 2025, especially today, I am desperately needing something anxiety reducing.

Walked the dogs this morning past the same location where I was previously assaulted by a spider and spotted this mofo and its web before I walked into it this time.

I was out walking the dogs this morning and walked through a massive spider web that the spider had, for whatever reason, put straight out over the sidewalk and now I am constantly feeling like a spider is crawling on me. Good times.

The fastest way to turn dachshunds into pointers.

Got my first tariff bill from FedEx, great stuff.

Off to my cousin's wedding with my brother, where there will be so many other Fugates to see, some of whom I haven't seen in thirty years.

I have flown into O'Hare many times but I can't recall doing a loop out over Lake Michigan like we did this beautiful clear morning.

Being in eastern time zone sucks for El Traficos. I watched 20 minutes, went to bed, then woke up to see that it was another ridiculous 6 goal game.

Superman was a great summer movie. The actors were clearly having fun, the effects (mostly) didn't take me out of the experience, and it was nice to see a movie make such a strong case for what unites us as humans, even so-called "aliens."

I enjoyed this interview, his observations seem spot on. www.cpr.org/2025/07/12/i...

There are two dachshunds in this picture.

Went to my first Bradley County TN Democrats meetup tonight now that I live here and there were about 40-50 people, which was the most they've had in a long time, maybe even ever. Heard from Shady Martinez from www.viveforadream.org?page_id=25 about ways to support our local immigrants. Good stuff.

Snapped this photo of Leo being ridiculously dapper.

Just experienced an earthquake in Tennessee! WTF. It was an extremely low bass feeling, like someone had their car stereo on driving through the neighborhood, but even lower. Super strange.