A massive economic bubble is on the verge of bursting, a new Simpsons movie is on the horizon, and someone decided to start manufacturing plastic drums again. I've seen enough. 2007 Part II is finally here.

I could smell the mustard and the onions

I’m not voting today because I’m in California so I voted two weeks ago. If you don’t have this excuse then go vote!

This thread reads like an Arrested Development episode

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My wife picked up a little battery operated bubble machine a few years back that we always put out for the trick or treaters. A lot of the real little kids like it more than the candy

Back before unlimited PTO I used to tell my employees not to give billion dollar companies money by maxing out PTO. Now I just rant about unlimited PTO being a scam

I wonder if your baseball game or this meeting I’m in will finish first

We’ve had something like 6-7 (?) pedestrian traffic deaths, including 2 children, in San Diego County this month alone. If it had been 7 stabbings, the national media would be all over it and we’d have emergency city council meetings Kill someone with a car, though? Barely a blip

At this point it really doesn't matter what new additional tariffs president dumbass announces because increasing rates have sharply diminishing returns. A 30% across-the-board tariff basically makes that country's products unmarketable in the US so adding another 10% doesn't actually do anything

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

Most of California's congressional delegation is demanding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth answer questions about who ordered artillery fire over Interstate 5 on Saturday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bY...

This applies to every service, AI or not: If you are designing a popup window and neither of the response options is "no," you don't actually believe in your product's ability to stand on its own feet and also you are the baddies

It took me way too long to realize that @ryannorth.ca Inside UFO 54-40’d me

Quite by accident (and virtue of shopping at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social) I’ve started a collection of books signed by the author. First two are @maryrobinettekowal.com and @scalzi.com

No parking at the Old Town station and the trollies are packed here in San Diego

🚨 If you live in the city of San Diego: we need your help! 🚨 Next Monday, Oct. 20th, our city council will be discussing an ordinance relating to resident safety and due process and your support is needed A staff report summarizing the ordinance is here:

Messing up the commutes of thousands by shutting down the main freeway between LA and San Diego for a military parade in the middle of a government shutdown to try and distract from the No Kings protest definitely won’t backfire abc7.com/post/5-could...

Just a few years ago I was more on the libertarian side of things like gambling and drugs. If people want to harm themselves, so be it! Adults can make their own decisions, right? I can freely admit I was wrong. We really should be regulating this shit way more than we currently do

Code freeze tomorrow morning

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

Self serving nonsense. Andreessen has never demonstrated that he would do anything other than take profits if the cost of production went down. The idea that savings would be passed onto consumers is just another version of trickle down economics.

I feel like there’s a conflict of interest talking up this episode of @kedseconomist.com’s podcast since they answered my question right off the bat but it’s a really good podcast that harkens back to the heyday of NPR podcasts. UBI! Minimum wage! Hardly any f-bombs! rss.com/podcasts/opt...

Stand up for the rights of trans folks because everyone should have human rights and freedom to live their lives, it's really not complicated.

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

It wasn’t bad as a running gag but at some point everyone starts to wonder when Charlie Brown will figure out that he can’t trust Lucy to hold the football

Oreos and Cheese Whiz. (I picked this up from @danryckert.com which makes this a food crime with special circumstances)

The advantage of not blocking Tom Nichols is that I get to see him crash out like he is today.

Baby steps is a stupid game and I hate it

They ruined Google search for nothing

Soon: “Calm Down. They’re Only Zip Tying All the Kids in the Building and Taking Them Away From Their Parents”

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

It was probably a mistake for us to pass that constitutional amendment that voided the emoluments clause

I basically don't buy meat unless it's on clearance now. A pound of 80/20 is $7. And it's just not a story. Every disaster becomes a natural one when the chuds are in charge.

Just a reminder that the shaving thing is because Black men are more likely to have curly facial hair that gets trapped under the skin causing pseudofolliculitis barbae. So they get a shaving waver so their faces don't burn. He got rid of the waiver

Microsoft has successfully nagged me about needing to upgrade to Windows 11 enough that I’m looking at how to dual boot into Pop_OS

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

The lineup to the Riyadh Comedy Festival is funny because it's like I'm super disappointed in... one or two of you. But the rest make perfect sense.

elon musk: the only reason any westerner might have for living in thailand is pedophile sex tourism also elon musk: there might be any number of reasons for visiting little saint james island that have nothing to do with anything unsavory, from the pristine beaches to the intellectual fellowship

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

"ICE Out of San Diego" protest planned for Thursday outside downtown federal building https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/ice-out-of-san-diego-protest-planned-for-thursday-outside-downtown-federal-building 

Anyone who has dealt with an addict recognizes the “Yeah man, I’m sorry! I fucked up” sentiment from the first guy. The inevitable next step is them asking to be bailed out while trying to make sure they don’t face any consequences

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Everyone’s yelling at the pitcher for allowing a home run

What do we think will happen if we unmask ICE? We think people who are illegally assaulted, kidnapped, abused, and tortured by ICE agents will be able to seek justice through courts. We think the American people will learn that Republicans hired known violent criminals as secret police.