Wanted to make some of the hot oil used on Nashville Hot Chicken, but discovered I was out of cayenne. Used gochugaru instead, and folks, this may be even better. In fact, I think it is. Not as hot, but wow is the flavor awesome.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social -- I think it is important to acknowledge how well this panel works in isolation.

Going through the "What's New In Tahoe" tips, and get to one that shows how to limit your spotlight search to one app. So I type in "github", scroll over to Thunderbird, select an email, and ... it opens Mail.app. Excellent job, Apple. Perfect experience, no notes.

For the latter half of the 19th century, many US states required someone to travel on foot ahead of automobiles with a red flag or lantern to warn people. I look forward to the day when electric cars don’t have to make that ridiculous noise while, e.g., gas BMWs cruise around 100% silently.

"...or whatever the Greek god of chaos is. I guess that would be Chaos."

It's the personal touches that matter.

a society losing the plot in real time

Because what now?

These really are just the stupidest people. We have other countries announcing actual cancer _cures_ based on mRNA work, and the FDA won't even consider next-gen flu vaccines because they're based on mRNA. www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...

Ugh. Bad news for cloud developers who target AWS. Amazon would do well to pull another ElasticSearch -> OpenSearch thing. blog.localstack.cloud/the-road-ahe...

Apropos of superbowl ads… So, it costs a bit more, but if you’re looking for a doorbell camera that won’t get your brown neighbors beaten by ICE, UniFi has one that records to a hard drive you own in your own house that can’t be accessed by anyone but you.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

It is February 6th and it is 82°F outside. I live north of the tropics. Something is definitely wrong.

Time to dust off this clip

I KNOW IT MIGHT BE NULL HERE YOU USELESS FUCKER THAT'S WHY I'M CHECKING GODDAMMIT I HATE C#

Do not take Mxyzptlk if you are allergic to Mxyzptlk.

this jthm panel lives rent-free in my head and i’m so glad i have a relevant opportunity to post it today haha

Look, I know it’s a very low form of humor, but I literally can’t read any news about this upset without this image popping into my head.

I’m not sure where I miscalculated, but I have accidentally made an incomprehensibly large batch of chicken and dumplings. What am I going to do with two gallons of chicken and dumplings.

As I understand things, the crime syndicates that used to run in-person enterprises like underground casinos had to pivot to purely electronic scams (e.g., pig butchering) during COVID lockdown, and have found them significantly more profitable, so they never went back.

Seeing an uptick in new, fascist-aligned accounts on here, and some of you dolts are interacting with them enough to get them on the Discover feed. Bad poster. No donut. Block, block, block, and move on. Do not interact. Deprive them of the enraged reactions they crave, and they’ll go away.

Seeing an uptick in new, fascist-aligned accounts on here, and some of you dolts are interacting with them enough to get them on the Discover feed. Bad poster. No donut. Block, block, block, and move on. Do not interact. Deprive them of the enraged reactions they crave, and they’ll go away.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

NRA this week finally waking up and realizing that leopards have face blindness.

As a libertarian, I think it’s important that Americans understand that if they just do what the government says, they won’t get shot.

I’m usually skeptical of the impact of individual action (vs collective action), but it seems to me that enough of this kind of thing might make a real impact.

Dude is gonna lose his entire mind if he ever stumbles across a pot-luck dinner.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

UX designers -- don't do this, and don't allow the underlying data structure to force you to do this. You can escape characters, and I fucking guarantee you that people are far more expert about what their actual goddamn name is than you are.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social -- Accidentally clicked on "Random" today and it brought me one of your futurism predictions. I think you have the events right but the timeframe a little off. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-0...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

For some reason, NYT decided to send me a push notification for this article today, which is just a huge leopard-themed shot/chaser moment.

This is reason for hope, TBH

I hate to find myself agreeing with NYT’s opinion column, because they’re usually *bad* opinions, but there are really good observations in here that read squarely on the upcoming primary. Gift link.

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

It is one minute past midnight, making right now the moment of today’s high temperature.

1/ If I could wave a wand and select the next Texas Senator, it would be Crockett, hands down. No question, no hesitation. But there are no wands in elections, and I can't see her connecting with swing voters in a way that matters. We've got to think just a scant ONE MOVE ahead past the primary.

Just got a three-page double-sided glossy pamphlet in the mail from WBD effectively making the same points I do plus pointing out that pursuing the Paramount offer would trigger nearly $5B of penalties, which would immediately devalue the WBD shares by about 6%

An older English couple on this scenic Swiss train were talking about Trump being at Davos in standard sneering tones but later in the journey they were also talking about the cruise they’re taking to Florida and Louisiana so not joining the dots is sadly common

Even the Wall Street "Right of Fox News" Journal is reporting on it as a headline. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

it's really ridiculous. Honestly, BestBus is the way now. Comfortable (way less cramped than Greyhound) and no stops

THERE WAS A FULL-FLEDGED CHECKOV’S GUN IN ACT ONE

a lot happening here but this does seem like a specifically unhelpful question to ask a bus passenger on a bus with a rogue driver

absolute whiplash going from "red states FAFO" to "other countries should only hate a specified percentage of us and i'm personally not in that percentage"

Dallas has pissed off the weather gods. Wait for the exciting final chapter.

Look, I know it’s mid January, but it’s just about grilling weather out here, so here we are.

Sir, we are getting complaints from the other diners. You are welcome to stay here but you absolutely need to stop doing that to your tonic and gin.