just sharpened my kitchen knife and holy shit, why did some middle aged dude with a lifehacks blog not tell me about this years ago

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

The existence of a Chicago pope implies a Boston pope, an Alabama pope, and a Van Halen pope.

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: 19 Weeks

Ice Ice Baby hits different now😕

White clam pizza.

Most regulations exist because somebody tried to or DID get away with something, so we decided to do something about it. So anytime I hear someone say they are against “regulations” or that we just plain have too many “regulations”, I can’t help but wonder what they want to get away with.

There are 29.5 days in a lunar month. There are 29.5 grams in an ounce. Coincidence??

If you keep going on and on about how the attack you planned on a chat service was an unbridled success, is that … virtue Signaling?

I’m still waiting for them to release the Zachary Taylor files. I mean… cherries? Really? You expect me to believe that?

Was Trump serious about anything he said on the campaign trail? “No, I’m not gonna lower the price of eggs. No, I’m not gonna end the war in Ukraine. Yes, I’m gonna follow Project 2025. No, I’m not gonna stop being a dictator after Day 1.”

@schumer.senate.gov Are you paying attention? *This* is how you message!

The answer is always “yes”. Even if there’s none to start with.

Amazing thread. I’d heard about the Lake Bacon and the cocaine hippos, but most of the rest is pretty new to me!

People always mistrust politicians who want the government to do more… when it’s really the ones who want the government to do less that you have to watch out for.

It’s a real shame Sting, Ric Ocasek, and Ray Manzarek never managed to get together for a night of classical music. I was really looking forward to the Police/Car/Doors Handel.

Never heard of this brand before today, but I’m sold. I’ll be getting a bottle at my earliest convenience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_N... (the “History” and “Awards” sections are particularly noteworthy)

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll do this instead of just staying away! Literally vote with your feet!

You don’t solve a trade deficit by killing off exports…

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

This feels like a big deal. Another case of a red state getting hit hard by Trump.

Thought for the day: Republicans are implementing massive change on a scale not seen since FDR (and much faster than his changes). Meanwhile, the Democrats want to go back to the way things used to be. So, by definition, this means the Democrats are now the conservative party.

This tweet from Lindsey Graham is still up on his timeline… and it rings truer now more than ever…

If you’ve stopped masking in public after COVID, you may want to consider doing it again… for the next four years at least.

When Republicans have deported, killed, or confined every illegal alien to a concentration camp, they will find it solves none of the US’s problems. When that day comes, will they finally start actually solving any problems? No, more likely they will start looking for other scape goats.

They have this but it only works on tablets

I still really love Gritty, I love that when he was unveiled, Philadelphia was like, "What the fuck", the world replied, "Yeah, what the fuck" and then Philadelphia said, "Hey, don't you talk that way about our Gritty"

There are those who say this has already happened.

Wired, Rolling Stone, and Teen Vogue are literally the three best sources of legitimate journalism right now.

'A confident Democratic Party would ask, “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.' My column. on.ft.com/3WK5gLe

I am delighted to see at least one media outlet treating our current crisis with the importance and language it deserves. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is a part of tariffs a lot of people don’t really stop to consider… if you put a 25% tariff on popular foreign goods, that just gives a green light for domestic producers to raise their prices by 20%.

Our defining personality trait as a society is just Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Welp, was considering finally deactivating the bird app last night and then thought, "but how will I know if there's another earthquake?!" Pleased to report that this app works just as well, thanks everyone. We can leave the bad place now. #Boston #Camberville #Earthquake @universalhub.com

@universalhub.com Felt the quake in Natick too!

A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her. His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”

in conclusion, we must make elon musk start talking about as many things as possible

Criminal Minds: Stardew Valley. A serial killer is on the loose… is it Sebastian? Abigail? Linus??

Happy 1^3+2^3+3^3+4^3+5^3+6^3+7^3+8^3+9^3, everyone!

12. This is entirely personal & ymmv (of course ymmv applies to everything here), but I avoid fighting at all online. I'll have a discussion from time to time with people who disagree with me if I think it's actually good faith. But most people coming in hot are looking to fight, not actually talk.

Every so often I recall how @mcdonaldsoffical.bsky.social took a song about a serial killer and turned it into an advertising jingle… man, the ‘80s were a wild time.

I had a history teacher who in 1986 told us that the Berlin wall will sadly not fall in our lifetime. I think about this all the time when idiots insist that some circumstances cannot be changed

I’m definitely starting to think Ayn Rand was onto something. I think all the über-rich *should* go on strike and disappear from the world, off to their own little “Gulch”. Oh, it would be so *terrible* and I’m sure the rest of us would all learn a *valuable* lesson if this happened.

can't they just put their execs in glass cases that you have to get an employee to open for you

We need to stop lumping all “AI” stuff together. Algorithmic analysis of large data sets is not the same thing as a plagiarism generator, even if they function similarly! Don’t tell me ChatGPT is great, actually, because scientists are using somewhat similar technology in a completely different way!

Ya gotta feel bad for Grover Cleveland, who will henceforth always be mentioned in the same sentence with Donald Trump.

I’m willing to have a serious conversation with people of any political stripe. But if there’s gloating, or mockery of “libs” in their timeline, that’ll probably be a block instead. Such people aren’t actually interested in serious conversation, so why bother?

me in my echo chamber

Last time majority of S Ct justices were nominated by a Democratic president was 1970. Last time Democratic president nominated a chief justice was 1946 (!!)