The Bolsonaro of Chewing.

I just met the happiest man in Seattle, and he works in hot tub repair. It was like meeting the Buddha in Carhartt sweatpants. The rest of us are doing our careers wrong.

I see today's theme is "shining a light under the bed to find this site's unpleasant shut-ins"

At this point, we can only marvel at Goodreads' dedication to having the Worst Recommender Algo in the business.

It sucks that ai image generation has gotten so good that soon no one will believe my Favorite Picture is real.

It is sinful to work for ICE. People who work for ICE are evil.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Some economist is going to get a killer dissertation out of measuring the value-destruction of every dollar paid to ICE agents. Think of all the ICE paychecks going directly to sports gambling (and worse).

A year in, and I've already forgotten what it's like to have a president who doesn't strongly remind me of every asshole I've ever met who got worse after a TBI or going senile.

Using 1password to generate an alphanumeric string for my work email address to keep the B2B SaaS salespeople guessing.

First this, then bring over the good sunscreen.

More expansive: competence is fem-coded now.

[billy beane voice] We're recreating Alan Alda in the aggregate.

At this point, if you use the word "fallacy" I assume you are a dumbass and wrong about whatever it is.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

I want to believe.

remember: one day you will feel this happy for real

On the other side of this, we will owe the rest of the world so much, and they will not owe us grace.

republicans hate america and they spit on the graves of the dead bsky.app/profile/laja...

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

This is why it's okay to put the Sopranos on an iPad for my 6yo niece.

If things go ok, that Carney speech is going to be in history textbooks for 300 years.

this is what i mean about the new liberal internationalism: we, liberals, need to start thinking about what it means to organize liberal-liberal rather than state-state

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

the plague of athens and its consequences

look there's a simple solution: Europe and Canada must engage in sustained influence ops in the United States to promote the Democratic Party

Seattle counts. We're in the simulation halo of Redmond.

In terms of "historical stuff I wish we had real photographs of," seeing what Charles II of Spain really looked like is top of the list.

if people take their phones up with the company reps on speakerphone he grabs them and hangs them up

Two passengers in the front are still fighting with the driver, in the back we’re debating whether calling the police is going to set him off

The Duck On A Bus situation feels like a real developmental milestone for Bluesky.

My nieces and nephews have many uncles, but only one Odd Uncle. It's an incredible responsibility. Who is going to teach these tweens about Prog Rock, if not for me?

They say videogames don't make kids violent, but it's been 30 years and whenever I visit a new city, I still think to myself "I wonder where the Pokemon Gym is."

It's not the unblockable ads in my inbox that will make me leave gmail, or the intrusive Gemini buttons. It's the Australian guy whose email address is one typo away from mine who keeps putting me on suburban Sydney small business mailing lists.

So, like, in addition to everything else, we're definitely going to be able to nail every ICE agent on tax fraud. We'll have a whole dedicated task force at the IRS in 2029.

There are many more Friends Shapes than just the human form.

If a reality TV show aired 20+ years ago, I just assume that everyone from that show is dead. When I learn otherwise, I always find it surprising and, frankly, in rather poor taste. Show's over, Orange County Chopper guy. Get outta here.

I keep crawling back to the Ikea Billy. Embarrassing.

It seems like Greg Bovino doesn't realize that he's doomed to be a small footnote in the chapter of AP US History textbooks titled "America's Failed Attempt at a Fourth Reich." He thinks he's cooking.

This dude would have a wiki page that looks like a Quake 3 leaderboard.

Do weird 13-year-olds still watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Teen-havers, report in.

It's nice that Bluesky is a sports site now. Have fun.

The Four Uncles You Meet In Heaven

The People, Yes

It's fun how Mendelssohn kept revising Symphony 4, but for ~170 years the entire classical musical world has said "yeah, but no" and kept performing the original revision. Anyway, V1 Mendelssohn was cooking.

1. We are living in the Golden Age of high-quality, well-designed paperback editions of Lud-in-the-Mist, which used to be impossible to find. 2. Julio Rodriguez is on a Hall of Fame trajectory, and we get to watch him in a Mariners uniform for another decade. 3. They sell 8lb buckets of tahini now