I have lost all the other hats. Now I must wear the final hat.

okay, this is funny, though

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old customs house to gratefully pay tariffs on everything. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Great moments in UI design, @wmata.com edition.

Gritty is spiritually a Muppet imo

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

So, let me get this straight. The "bad" bunny is actually a great dude, and the players hardly ever touch the ball with their feet? Next you're going to be telling me there's no actual bowl, right?

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

"The Technology Connections guy makes me cry" was not on my bingo card, but here we are

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

It's this bizarre mix of cynicism (the current system is corrupt beyond repair and the evidence is everywhere) and naive idealism (if only they spoke plainly in the way I'd like I'd believe!) that just comes off as "I've made no effort to understand how/why things work."

I am begging Information Security practitioners to stop making new portmanteaus of "phishing." Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to need to explain "smishing" to your coworkers and parents?

Don't like "Abolish ICE" or "Disband DHS"? How about "Make Immigration Fair and Safe"? "Housing and Healthcare for All is Security"? "We need Public Safety not Law Enforcement"? Because these are goals we need laws, policies, and money for. Demand these from elected officials.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

We need some new email sign offs: "yours sincerely," and "best wishes," and all those are done. So I'm thinking - clement tidings, - supposedly, - in accordance with the law, - with buyers remorse, - questing after justice, - in the hope of more hooplah, - guessing, - with gentle reminders,

This is 1) totally real, and 2) only going to make sense to a small number of people, but I've spent the weekend playing Hades 2 and configuring an unfamiliar metrics server, and let me just say that I am very angry with Prometheus right now.

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

They hate us so much but we love each other more

One of my dullest takeaways from 2025: "Have really good merch" is a great business strategy. It's borderline-free advertising, loyalty, and good vibes for your organization. www.axios.com/local/washin...

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

I’ve seen enough of 2026.

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Correct, it's obviously and immediately impeachable

America will do literally anything but fund affordable healthcare www.mlive.com/life/2025/12...

2026: The Year of Low Expectations

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Straight up Na*i propaganda.

The number of severed arms on the front page of this issue of @theonion.com is 2, which isn't a lot, but is still more than you'd expect.

The Lyon Park listserv is at it again.

oh

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

ooh neat, you can hide people based on how many people they follow. I am confident I will never want to talk to someone who follows 50k+ people. This starts at 1k and goes up to 100k. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

What's the worst parking lot in the DC area that doesn't belong to a Trader Joe's or Costco?

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

angrily and repeatedly turning up the volume on this calming music playlist so it'll work faster

Trains have got winter sorted. Next challenge, please.

If nothing else, when this is all over, we're renaming DCA and melting that statue.

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

ADULTING UPDATE: Still don't know what Permanent Press is.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Oof. My train just overshot Metro Center by... a lot. @wmata.com