Whenever I see him wearing a hat, my favorite bit is the embroidered estimate of how many times he appears in the Epstein Files on it

Oregon people: as of a few days ago anyone over the age of 6 can finally get Covid vaccines without a prescription so get your flu and Covid shot. I scheduled and finished mine within an hour of looking it up on the Walgreens app.

A friend traveling abroad sent a photo of this, and now I can't believe I've never seen it before in every Car Guy's liquor cabinet

having a normal Tuesday morning after reading the news

This list of AI "tells" in text generation on Wikipedia is a great rundown of things you commonly see in LLM output. I'm glad to see I don't use any of the common telltale phrases in my own writing as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

YouTube recommending me nothing but sports, farts, and woodworking feels like it's dunking on me at this point

I pay too much for healthcare and am always looking for a cheaper way to buy my ongoing prescriptions, so earlier this year I signed up for Mark Cuban's Rx company that sells things at cost plus 15%. It's been great so far, cheaper than anything else and the shipments are fast.

Every video from Zohran Mamdani is so damn refreshing. He talks so simply, plainly, and honestly it’s a breath of fresh air when every other democratic politician seems to speak in only focus grouped euphemisms. I hope he wins the mayorship. I hope he becomes governor someday. I hope he becomes […]

This real world story of how the real time translation works in new AirPods is encouraging. I never thought it could work as good as the demos but it sounds solid https://pdx.social/@louie/115287075622058308

A thing I’ll never understand is right wingers who think their leader is a “tough guy”. He’s the most weak, thin skinned, vain person on earth. His first kidnapping/deportation was a young woman who wrote an op-ed in a school paper he didn’t like but probably only a few hundred people read.

this news is a bit disturbing. Kushner and his billionaire buddies are buying the biggest game company as conservatives try to control all culture and media. I bet what EA under new ownership will feel like will be similar to the new game Skate that EA released last week.

[US Pol, NYC pol] I have been fretting for some time about when Trump will send the National Guard to New York City (for the obvious reason that I live here,) but I think I’ve realized the answer: Should Mandani win the our mayoral election only will then National Guard be sent. Either shortly […]

This week I learned that September 26th is the most popular of all birthdays during the year, probably because it's about 40 weeks from roughly the week between xmas and new years, which explains why half of everyone I know seemed to be born this week.

How on earth does Treinen still have a job at The Dodgers?! #mlb

The pro women's soccer league has been sponsored by Tylenol this season so whenever they do promotional photos on socials they're also inadvertently poking fun at the stupid government's pursuit of silly conspiracy theories

I moved to a place with a septic tank instead of a city sewer and we just had our septic tank serviced and pumped out for the first time. There's probably a German word for the weird feeling of seeing a truck drive away with every poop you've taken since 2019.

It's wild that less than two months ago, the state of Utah passed a bill to allow concealed carry guns on all state college campuses but I bet not a single lawmaker in Utah is announcing any changes this law now

Wow no morning traffic today, thanks Rapture!!!!

Why is everyone so down on the new Liquid Glass? It’s not like anyone looking at their phone would ever want to easily read the time

I love that the TV show about a fictional podcast Only Murders In The Building now has an official podcast. It has real High School Musical the Movie the Series the Stage vibes.

I'm not typically someone who sends an email tsk-tsking another person's choices but when a creator I supported for years on Patreon moved their entire operation to substack, I told them I have a personal rule that I don't give nazi bars any of my money, and since they're now on substack I can't […]

Every normal person I know is canceling Disney+ this week and I’m doing my best to lead them all towards a promised land while singing “Pleeeexxxxxxxxx is this waaaaaay”

Imagine writing a near future sci-fi book where a leader proclaims that being anti-fascism makes you part of a terrorist organization, then picture your publisher laughing you out of the building for being so dumb and obvious with your leader character's overreach.

welp

I just got an email from my password manager promoting a new AI-powered web browser (derogatory)

Just remembered the time an old man came up to me in a grocery store asking about my Three Sisters T-shirt I bought at a state park depicting a beautiful mountain range I love visiting. He insisted I didn’t deserve to wear a shirt with mountains on it unless I’ve summited all 3 peaks first.

accidentally clicked on two gluten free bread ads in the same week and now Instagram seems convinced I’ve had celiac disease all my life

Is there a website with a running tally of how many losses Trump is racking up with his own brain dead moves? We got $45B here, Hyundai killed their $5B battery factory, $12B lost soybean exports…

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I love watching the Emmys where I have to google at least 1-2 show titles from every category to learn a show I’ve never heard of is in its third season on HBO

I went through a whole thing with a life insurance company this week that ultimately ended in my favor, but jeez, the entire industry feels like a stack of highly optimized dark patterns created to line their pockets while separating you from money and safety.

I forgot that one of trumps first acts the moment he got in office again was a full pardon for Dread Pirate Roberts, the creator of the Silk Road crypto-for-drugs site. There HAD to be a massive crypto bribe behind the scenes for this.

When Trump got into office in 2017 I remember a historian focused on fascism said to watch for times where the leaders told you not to believe what you could plainly see with your own eyes. At first I thought, maybe in ye old days that wouldn’t fly but not in our modern times, right? This […]

Five years ago today, 9:55AM in a McDonald's drive thru picking up a McMuffin and this is how the world looked.

The orange does in fact, rock

Water-cooled iPhones reminds me of overclocking chips in the early 2000s

Apple should put the city location of each of these remote locations. I’m curious where these elaborate Apple stores are located.

Realtime translation in a foreign country with spotty network coverage can’t possibly be as smooth as they’ve shown. Can you imagine asking a shop keeper a question then waiting 30-60sec for your translation to complete?

I wish I could wear in-ear headphones but they’ve always squicked me out, like having someone else’s fingers in my ears.

Never forget that XOXOfest had the greatest drink menu of all time in 2019

✅ purchased movie tickets for Spinal Tap 2 on Thursday night

I loaded up the CVS app to find their only store with an updated Covid-19 vaccine is 60 miles away in Vancouver, Washington four days from now. RFK Jr. is a fucking murderer.

I just watched the most 2025 Dodgers game ever played.

Maeve #caturday

I hope more people can see what Israel has done to Gaza is a blueprint for what Trump wants to do here in America

can’t wait for my AI stimulus check

I bought a wall clock off Aliexpress and restricted my search to US-based shipping to avoid tariffs. I got a successful delivery notice a few days later, but it wasn't at my door, no sign of delivery (even checking our door cam). I call Fedex, who say it went to a different address likely typed […]

Something feels off in iOS where these days if I want to enable some lost basic app functionality, it requires a handful of searches and trying things out to get to a hidden settings screen blocking things instead of how it all used to be in the earlier days of iOS, where stuff made sense.

I watched the first 2 episodes of The Paper, the ~sequel~ to The Office. It has smarts and laughs but half the characters are total assholes who disrupt the flow, like an improv show with someone saying No, but instead of Yes, and. Don’t know if I can finish season 1, honestly.

Holy crap, Emily Blunt's sword from Edge of Tomorrow was auctioned off today from a prop house. That'd be one of the few bits of movie memorabilia I'd want to display in my house (but probably not worth the 10-15k it was supposed to go for) […]