“House of Dynamite” is 100% realistic in the sense that an actual nuclear weapon used in anger would be the stupidest, most unbelievably insane thing that has ever happened and no one would be able to make sense of it in the moment

reflexively donating to non-incumbent US senate candidates; who yall got aside from nazi tat lobsterman

“today’s crossword contains 4 rebus squares-“

“Blazing Saddles” is a pretty old movie so you’d think Chuck Schumer would have seen it

why does this look like an AI-generated racial slur

hurry up before the site crashes completely

countrymen, our plague of rats is over, for behold: i have imported thousands upon thousands of snakes

Megacalifornia could have a population of 80 million and 12 US senators but no, we have to give another trillion dollars to Palo Alto homeowners

we’re doing group buys of mri machines. folks,

the worst possible group of people you could put in charge of your “manifest and enslave god” project is a bunch of atheists

our next episode will be the tacoma narrows bridge disaster does anyone have anything to plug

ive never seen or even heard of anything like this. a few federal judges order the admin to take the gun out of its own mouth for a minute and they immediately panic, demanding to be allowed to put it back in

screaming “this is your last chance to dodge a block” at my roomba as it runs over another cat turd

"I was wondering if maybe you could put directly in the newspaper that I'm mad?"

it is extremely important that we as a society learn to love again the things that are cringe and lame, while still consigning lin manuel miranda to the dustbin of history

Claude Code is by FAR the most dangerous LLM I’ve ever used, in terms of lulling me into complacency with generally high accuracy/competency and then falling on its face

“The pay is an insult, but on the other hand, you can’t smoke pot” is not the winning recruiting message that many wish it was

it must be so fuckin’ rad to work for the times. every day, getting so strafed you have to close one eye just to see your keyboard, slurring about how you work at the “ppaper uv raccord”

please call your senator if you live in Washington to thank them for holding steady on the budget. I just saw that the White House has singled Senators Murray and Cantwell out as “demented freaks” in a GamerGate-style attempt to drive harassment towards them.

so many deadly weapons in this country we just give them away sometimes

seattle sowing: seattle reaping:

come the FUCK on

imagining a bunch of engineers at meta trying to jailbreak claude code because the features they’ve been assigned are too evil to build

I always start all my video calls screaming incoherently at the guy standing in the corner Blair Witch style

“Atlas Shrugged” is nonsense, but one thing Rand actually gets right is that most people have zero understanding of the complexity of the systems they take for granted every day, and when you put those same people in charge of those systems, the results are entirely predictable

NYC Gives Muslim Man City’s Worst Job

i just wish they could all lose again

today i leaned out the window of my cybertruck to give a thumbsdown to a homeless person with a cellphone

Not even being able to muster a half-hearted “I voted for Cuomo, who our donors support 3:1” is insane cowardice

Thought this lady had an impossible wing-arm for a second there

A moderately wealthy dem needs to pitch guys like matty: “I’ll pay your stupid centrist rag $100k/year if you have dinner once a week with a randomly chosen US voter”

I have never even lived in New York and I can’t tell you how excited I am that in a little more than 24hrs, I might never have to think about Andrew Cuomo ever again

i believe that daylight will greet us as liberators

10/31 11/1

over the last 10 months, every single competent and professional employee of the US federal government has considered resigning

The hardest part of moving to Seattle was getting used to an extremely high-stakes daylight savings time. Really unexcited about having the sun set before 5

i guess I’ll just never know if he wins

Oh my god the counter overflowed. Welcome to inning -32,768

“Haven’t you seen all the negative stories about Katie Wilson???” No, I don’t hang out on the parts of the internet where liars get paid to lie

I think the US military is going to be the next group dumbfounded by the realization that being “apolitical” is itself a political position

Barista just told me “I’ve got your two bevvies right here” and I am now firm in my conviction that anyone born after I was should be put down

Don’t be rude babe, you’ve barely touched your gauchepacho

I cannot overstate the degree to which “KVM which reliably supports multiple 5K+ monitors across platforms” is an unsolved technical problem, analogous to landing humans on Mars.

experts point to a brisk secondary market in attic rentals as another leading indicator

It’s really unfortunate that we never cracked the code of “website that’s as frictionless to maintain as a book sitting on a shelf”

Can’t wait to find out the hard way if we’re a “everyone dresses up on Halloween” company 🎃

I’m sick of these liberal do-gooders and their “rules”

This is the kind of disruption that Silicon Valley fears