Me: the US needs a Loonie *monkeys paw curls*

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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If you were to buy a tent from REI in the early 80s, this is what the instructions you got would look like:

“Zesty Jumble” is my favorite flavor of potato chips.

The analogy I'm increasingly turning to to describe LLMs is "word-Roomba." It does a kind of mediocre job most of the time, but it is a job that you no longer have to do or think hard about. And you do have to make sure that it doesn't hit a cat turd and smear it all over the room.

The city of Berkeley needs to completely retire HAWK signals. Motorists do not respect or understand any light that isnt a three light red yellow green. Any place that warrants a hawk should just be a 3 light that changes when the ped arrives. www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/08/19/t...

AI is an e-bike for the mind.

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes

I wish UIViewController had a method you could override that the system would call once your view had finished laying out its subviews. They could call it something like “viewDidLayoutSubviews”. But that name is already used for a method that gets called when the subviews are not actually laid out.

Need an LLM trained on HN comments for when I’m getting too excited about a new idea.

The moral panic of the anglosphere over bus fare evasion and proof-of-payment is quite something. Especially when you think that we do accept another mobility-related widespread PoP system: on-street parking, which is entirely charged via a proof-of-payment + inspector system.

@matthewcallis.bsky.social I’m looking for a buddy to attend the Foreign Family Collective anniversary thing on Saturday. I don’t suppose you’re free/interested? (I have an extra ticket after my friend bailed)

Any oomfs that would be interested in this show on Saturday? Ended up with an extra ticket: seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/od...

Point Roberts Special Autonomous Region, my beloved,

If you're a visual learner: white represents money FEMA is granting to build detention centers. Blue represents too much money to spend saving little girls (and a hundred other people) from drowning

Seriously I think the LOST sound designers got their inspo for the Smoke Monster from these guys.

It's Friday night baby

Stephen, now is not the time to stand in the way of the dream of generations, Fresno Area Rapid Transit

Small-city transit in the US isn’t often what you’d call “super convenient”, but today I was able to get from my haircut downtown to the coffee shop I planned to stop at via a WTA bus that involved walking a total of 2 blocks out of my way, waiting a total of 4 minutes, and spending a total of $1.

when trying on a suit, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG oldhollywoodmusicals

For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*

As I’ve been saying recently, “Do not kill the part of you that commits cringe. Kill the part of you that cringes”

Electrified CalTrain almost makes me feel like I’m living in a proper country.

For PNW folks, this is spiritually on the level of @theonion.com buying Infowars (still mad that didn’t pan out, but anyway, this is SO GOOD) medium.com/@lewiscounty...

Pete Hegseth is pathetic t.co/qPM9uoz6mu

I can’t 100% say it’s not a placebo effect/regression to the mean, but 5g of Creatine when I’m feeling tired/brain foggy seems to be really effective (it is backed up by actual studies).

Short of hand-editing the project.pbxproj file, is there a way to add a bona fide folder reference in modern Xcode versions? It keeps getting added as a “File System Synchronized Root Group”.

Ahh, that explains it: the regime fired the USCBP director for the Blaine Port of Entry because he had a reputation for being cooperative on shared concerns

The front setback for new housing should be zero, not 20 feet. We have a housing crisis and our city council is arguing over whether we should require new housing to have enormous front lawns dividing housing from sidewalks. Be serious.

Folks hate the idea of windowless bedrooms, but an east-facing window at 49° latitude in May/June/July is a bug, not a feature. I just bought a couple of sheets of black foam and cut them to pop into the window frames, and after last night I can say it's the best $40 I've spent in a long time.

How is it that in 2025 the Keychain API is so clunky to use from Swift (or even Objective-C)? Is it like AFNetworking before URLSession where everyone just uses a library?

Just realizing that my mom’s use of “ambulate the canines” (instead of W-A-L-K) is not like a normal thing when your mom isn’t an ESL physician.

Last one out of Liberty City, burn it to the ground!

Siri just now “From burial: a warning emoji two minutes left to burial and see what your friends are up to” ⚰️💀☠️

Cannot wait for San Francisco to finally unite around our greatest strength: preventing something from being built.

They're never going to feed the fire on here for the same reason that Oskar Schindler wouldn't have tweeted out SAVED ANOTHER ONE.

I sometimes look at Yelp not so much for reviews and stuff but to remind me what’s around. Where I’m staying is kind of a backwater but I love how it suggests I might pop out to Powell River (2 hour drive plus 90 minute ferry) or Neah Bay (maybe a solid day’s drive) for a snack.

Question of the day: am I getting a sore throat or am I just really that bad at front squats?

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Tax filing should be online, free, and easy. But there’s been an option for years now that’s at least online and free (freefilefillableforms.com). I feel like lots of people don’t know this exists.

@techconnectify.bsky.social something I’ve wondered about: a blender uses more power crushing ice than just spinning empty. But e.g. a lamp uses the same amount of power whether or not it’s illuminating anything useful. So what about a microwave? Does it work like the lamp or like the blender?

Death by a thousand Siri cuts, #782: “OK, I added <reminder> for this afternoon at noon.”