remember to start fresh and clean

Score one for “fuck you, make me”

my 2025 year in review

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Today, we remember the life and legacy of Roberto Clemente. A great person, baseball player, and humanitarian, his legacy lives on through compassion, courage, and service to others.

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

This was a major factor, yes—like a big pile of cultural kindling

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

Why add a closer when you can buy a theater? #SFGiants

"Ask meta to summarize" / "ask grok to explain this to you." Thanks but I have a brain and I would sooner ask Bobcat Goldthwait, drunk, to explain Bose-Einstein condensates to me in Pontic Greek at 4x speed than look to shitty *AI* for comprehension or a summary

2026 has a lot to live up to. Can it continue the ten-year streak of every year being the worst year ever?

🤣 read the thread it'll be the best thing you do for yourself today

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

MTG is still a huge bigot against trans people and minorities, and pushed an anti-trans bill in Congress, so while it's interesting that she's opposing Trumpism now, by no means is she a moral person.

Its easy to be flippantly sarcastic about her feud with Trump but its not motivated by being a good person but an interpersonal feud and we should be clear about that.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

This 👇🏾

my kink is kirk shaming this is not what starfleet trained you for

Does this mean nobody's getting slapped this year?

I’d kind of forgotten that when @darkrose.bsky.social picked up our Hawks order for Christmas dinner, she got some hot chocolate for me. Just heated it up and damn, it’s like thinned down ganache. So. Good.

Brad Lander approached Nancy Pelosi at a gala and told her he was running for Congress. “I am a Dan Goldman Democrat,” she responded. “Democrats don’t run against Democrats.” “Was I too much of a b—?” she asked after. @donlemonofficial.bsky.social tells the story:

The whole DEMOCRATS DON'T RUN AGAINST DEMOCRATS shit is just It is LITERALLY PART OF THE ELECTION PROCESS. That's what primaries ARE. It is baked into the whole thing! Pretending that it's actually more normal for a candidate to have zero primary challengers and just skate through is NUTS.

"The Cookers did not give a reason for the decision in a statement on Monday that said, “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”" Seems like they absolutely did give a reason. NYT reporters can't read.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

PSA: it’s 2025 and I am pretty sure every single person you have ever met who mentions they have seasonal depression to you has, in fact, already heard about and tried the lights and vitamin D supplements while you mean well, please stop telling us about them as if they are new information

White men and women re-elected Donald Trump and are to blame for all this shit. It's pretty simple. Any other take is wrong.

The *lonely* fascist guys who are heterosexual are going to get lonelier over the next few years. I've never seen a generation of young heterosexual women less interested in these guys. I spent a couple of days with some Gen Alpha girls and THEY ARE NOT HAVING IT.

Bring back the idea that there's stuff it's rude to ask people about and none of your business (why are you masking, why aren't you drinking, etc.)

Good article by Julia, but I would add, don’t just let us be, HELP. Wear a mask in places where high risk people have to be, so you aren’t *contributing* to their risk. This is ground zero of a you’re either helping or hurting situation.

My take on people wearing face masks is very simple: It's not my face, so I mind my own business. That's it. That's the whole take.

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

IS THIS YOUR KING?

It's amazing how people got so butt hurt over having to mask that it traumatized them to the point that they completely forgot like a million people died...

What’s fascinating is how the “chud” adopts the most failed ideologies and movements in history as something cool--a pillar of masculine expression, in fact. Whether it’s the Crusades, the Confederacy, monarchism, Nazism, all they have is millennia of utter disaster and humiliation.

No she wasn't. She never believed that. She is savvy and calculating and understood exactly what she was hitching her wagon to. Her redemption arc is not getting off the ground. She's a piece of shit who literally kicks kids who survived school shootings for walking in front of her.

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)

But tell me again why we need to support him?

This is funny because nowhere in here does she admit that she's wrong about the antisemitism, transphobia, or any of her other bigotries

Here's my favourite example - I was looking for information about a researcher named Vors, at U of Sydney many years ago. I love how the LLM got stuck in the alphabet - exactly what you'd expect from next-token prediction!

Me constantly refreshing Patreon now that the Worst Takes of 2025 bonus ep from IBCK is on the Apple podcast feed.

While you’re in a good mood… Pitchers and Catchers Report 🌵🏜️= 44 Days First #SpringTraining game 🍺☀️😎 = 54 Days Opening Day 🏠⚾️ = 87 Day #SFGiants #SpringTraining 🥃⚾️🌵☀️😎

I’m naming my startup Palpatine. We just straight up murder children. Please trust me, we’re the good guys.

Okay, I know this is so far beyond the point, but Sauron? This guy named his security company after the character whose entire story is “I died because my security measures, while seemingly impressive, were actually incapable of predicting or stopping the thing that lead to my demise”?

Love these techbros who think they’re the master race and the smartest guys in the room, yet fail to understand the message of what is a pretty straightforward story.