Sorry but a good plumber will tell you that if you don’t have exposed plumbing for your kind of cold, kind of warm, gray, puce, longing and XOR lines then you’re just asking for trouble in ten years

Really horrible scenes in San Diego today When I worked as a 911 dispatcher many years ago, this center was just down the street from my office. They were routinely subjected to threats and evacuations even back then

They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.

From the same person that brought you the definitive “Roblox is terrible and you should never let your kid anywhere near it” thread comes the definitive “editing posts is an abuse nightmare” thread with bonus “starter packs were a mistake” content!

Next up: DOOM on ATProto

One thing my grandfather regretted doing was not passing on Italian to his kids. When my child was able to study abroad in Italy they picked up the language surprisingly fast. That they brought the language back into the family is something I’m very proud of

We finally had to replace our super basic, no frills $15 Black & Decker coffee maker. It’s $40 now

If I were a more ambitious poster I’d black out every mention of Google from this and ask “Guess which company this person just quit from?”

Chise is exactly who you want to hear from when something like Hantavirus makes the news

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

Cow tools

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

How far away are we from “They had ChatGPT do their taxes, now the IRS wants to put them in jail for 20 years” stories?

Hopefully this will be an improvement over the gravy gum

Just got the email that the first season of DS9 are waiting for me to pick up from the library. Guess I’ve got my weekend planned

I’d recommend reading Drive now so you can say “Oh, yeah I was reading Drive before it won a Hugo, got bought by Netflix and turned into a prestige show”

Strawberry Slept Wrong

I’m old enough to remember when “peak oil” was the mantra of libertarian doomers who claimed that the globe was going to run out of oil causing an apocalyptic economic collapse

Not the Disney version

My next train read is Grass by Sheri S. Tepper. I know nothing about this book. I just put my name on the waitlist at my library after @scalzi.com’s recommendation of “Dune world building with feminism” and it finally popped up

If I were a a person with political opinions and a Bluesky account I would just not put a lot of effort into posting regularly so I wouldn’t have enough of a following to worry about one of my followers doing crimes

Good thread on our education crisis. Her point on laptops was striking to me because I decided to start taking the train to work and made a rule for myself to just read books on the ride. No phone or laptop. What I found was that my reading skills had slipped. The good news is they came back quick

I’ve got to admit, convincing Americans that hotel lobbies aren’t a decor to aspire to wasn’t on my list of “things Trump accomplished on accident”

The surf and the weather was too perfect to not play hokey and I saw something really neat. I was paddling out past a sweeper and just as I got to it I see this seal catch the wave and torpedo down the drop. He popped his head up after and looked at me like “Was that cool?!” And it totally was

I’m reposting the broth video because sometimes I just need to see it

Weird that the baseball guy doesn’t like playing hardball

Do you want a thread on the Artemis I & II’s heat shield along with a bit of history on both the Space Shuttle’s and the Apollo’s? Complete with pictures? What am I saying, of course you do

This week’s Optimist Economy covers something that people definitely haven’t been arguing about for last few weeks: wage stagnation! tl;dr it exists and the cause is monopsony. I mean, duh, super obvious but it’s still a good discussion from @kedseconomist.com optimisteconomy.com/episodes/the...

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The First Law of the Varda is to use greater force against itself

I've got 5 years 10 months and 12 days of sea service with two Gulf deployments, including OIF in 2003. Even at the height of combat operations I don't remember this ever happening www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

“Dan F.'s daughter told him in sporadic messages – when the USS Tripoli reached a pocket of internet service – that members were rationing their food supplies on the ship.”

It’s interesting to see how many reacted to this by insisting that people don’t have long enough memories to realize that they put a greater share of their paychecks into groceries because of COVID and are still doing so. No, the vibecession has to be a social media thing bsky.app/profile/gell...

I’m not a sports guy but even I know the last minute of a game in overtime is important

I didn’t think anything could top @davidjroth.bsky.social’s “if Hot Wheels made a VHS rewinder” but I think “Fisher Price Brutalism” might have done it

TAPPING THE SIGN ONCE MORE

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

Does the Leopards eating Faces song work for the British pronunciation of leopard?

What elevates A City on Mars above most books about permanently populating space is how clear eyed it is on the subject. Besides the logistical and engineering challenges the book goes into the legal ones (such as state creation) which may be the biggest of them all. Seriously, you should read it

Something @kedseconomist.com pointed out was that whenever UBI, EITC, etc comes up there’s always someone saying these programs will just drive up prices but the same is never said about tax breaks for rich people. I doubt we’ll see any discussion about how this will just make boats more expensive

Top tier ice cream. Even the cheap ones can be really good, but a lot depends on the firmness of the cookie. You don't want it Oreo hard, but you also don't want it mushy.

He’s not exactly wrong but I don’t think @edzitron.com had to put me on blast like this

Next book is These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs. I’m still early in but I can say that for a space opera with a lot of moving parts it gets through its setup at a good pace so it impresses early

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