I recently saw my first one in the wild. It was so underwhelming. Just pure sadness on wheels. It took me a few moments to even realize what I was seeing.

Sam Reich likes Brennan Lee Mulligan so much because he talks like his dad (To be clear, I agree wholeheartedly with what's being said)

ads that make you want to punch someone

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer officially recognizes the State of Palestine

There is another way www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ju...

Gonna try becoming one of those people with the little MagSafe card wallet on the back of my phone. It only holds 3 cards, but 99.9% of the time, at most I need is ID, transit card, and maybe a hotel keycard. Thank you tap to pay for becoming ubiquitous.

I got a pair of AirPods Max, and I REALLY like them as headphones, but the "smart case" it comes with seems really crappy It only protects the cups, not the headband — which has mesh that could get ripped! — but does cover up the USB-C port, so you can't charge them while it's in it?

Disney learning the hard way what Target also learned recently: middle class lib women are load-bearing customers for their business model

The only thing I see when someone posts an AI video of Charlie in heaven

*This may be Goofy, but it matters.

Fascism low key thrives on the buy in of the upper middle class to function. This may be goofy, but it matters

I love Apple, but Apple Books gets me no sales. I'm sure there are people out there who use it, just no idea where they are. To be fair, I'm pretty Apple cultist, and I even don't use their books marketplace. The Kobo + Amazon eBooks do far better.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

The Long Walk gud

The thing about Cybertrucks is they’re even uglier in person Your brain can’t just pretend it’s some weird art and has to confront the reality of the abomination

Fucking fucking fuck it's real.

workin on my 2nd book, and I think I'm gonna go with this for the epigraph: “I seem to hear dim whispers, And tremulous replies. The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go” — “Midnight” by James Russell Lowell

get rid of most of the types of guy in your head, they seem real because you haven't had time to see how flattening and false they are. simultaneously, recognize the limits of your own capacity for nuance, and where things truly must be abstracted away usable truth lives between these two ideas

I'm so hyped for the re-release of FFT in a couple of weeks. Seriously one of (maybe THE) best game of all time. Shakespearean story (and I say that with the full weight of the word) about class struggle and magic and strange stones with an absolutely perfect battle system.

Started reading this today. It's no masterpiece, but it's given me a lot of extra Tifa backstory and context (and I assume the second half will be the same with Aerith.)

This is the kind of dilemma you get by not teaching your kids to torrent

Rode the train into the city for a lovely day with Mandy, going home to reset for a movie date later 🥰

My presidential platform is that growth hacking like this will be illegal and punishable by removing the spam filters on the offenders’ email accounts

Who voted for this www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

remember when the “tech right” were insistent he’d increase high-skill immigration? lol. lmao even.

Beat Borderlands 4 last night with the help of my brother (who is on his second character, lol) Good game, quite possibly the best in the series

Pedro Pascal is a load bearing part of multiple franchises, so Bob Iger better get his act together before his choices manage to torpedo Marvel and Star Wars plans

My girl cats *really* love my corgi, and I think it’s because they think Athena is just the beefiest, most ripped tomcat they’ve ever seen

One of the vapes I got tonight actually has Baja Blast as a flavor, wow

they genuinely all believe in 'the cathedral', that someone somewhere is just funding all liberal beliefs and that if they can just find the plug and yank it, the public will be theirs forever

Some of this is probably just the economy starting to suck more, but also, the nonstop chaos - and not fun, goofy Trump 1.0 chaos, but scary, disturbing chaos with people getting killed and the words "dictatorship" thrown around a lot - probably isn't great for the public mood.

John Boy and Billy He's a social democrat born in Cali who grew up in New England, so it's more shocking than it might sound.

I increasingly feel like people a lot of people pronounced the dream of near term AGI dead too soon. The machine god? The singularity? Yeah, that's still a loooong way away. But I'm pretty sure incremental improvements of current tech can get us to AGI.

Based alma mater. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/17/e...

Jesus apparently not IFR certified

fun fact about high tech jobs: they can be done from anywhere. US doesn't want those jobs and the tax revenue they bring in? Canada and Mexico will happily take the additions to the tax base. Or the work just gets offshored to another continent.

Some of y'all see the glass as 95% empty, I see it as 5% full (This isn't a shitpost. There's a lot of hype-driven throwing AI at stuff needlessly, but the takeaway of this study should not be that AI is useless or necessarily a waste of money)

Bisexuality/pansexuality should be the “default” sexuality. The presumption of heterosexuality is an Abrahamic invention. Like it's perfectly cool if you wanna come out as hetero and all, but that's a deviation from the norm.

I get most people don't have my passion for water fowl, but one of my biggest pet peeves is people mixing up ducks and geese. Pekin ducks (left) and Emden geese (right) are like one amorphous blob in people's heads but are very different!

We're excited about this change. We think the long-term success of AT Protocol — and paradoxically, Bluesky itself — rests on people not seeing AT Protocol as just "the Bluesky thing." This is a good step towards realizing that vision.

holy

I've had a couple of people reaching out asking if they can use a separate PDS/AT Proto account from Bluesky, since they want some separation between their fun/professional stuff Of course! Just plz put the DID or handle you actually want whitelisted in the form. 🙏

I know a lot of people were underwhelmed with GPT-5 due to it demonstrating foom with LLMs isn't a thing. But it's honestly becoming the first AI I downright respect as a software developer. LLMs saved time there before, but they made so many mistakes. GPT-5 is different.

I love it when fellow social democrats tell it like it is

One of the reasons I think Republicans are trying to clamp down SO HARD with this Charlie Kirk stuff is they're scared. They know that Trump 2.0 is flailing in the approval polls. Their coalition's longevity is dependent on guys like this continuing to toe the line.

Just to put the zeitgeist into perspective, on the most recent Theo Von podcast, he and Shane Gillis talked about how based and what a good guy John Brown was. MAGA's cultural victory is proving extremely short-lived.

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism

when your wife sneezes so loud you can hear it from the literal opposite end of the house