There are only two genders and they are I need a sweater and I have a hula hoop

There are only two genders and they are I need a sweater and I have a hula hoop

The NYTimes article on Mamdani at Bowdoin is "a wreck, but of a form so pure, so purely Timesian, you almost have to admire it. It certainly is instructive." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Apparently I musunderstood the phrase 'carpe diem' and long story short I'm not allowed at the ttrpg club anymore

Finished rereading Pynchon's Vineland, written during and about the madness of the Reagan years and you would not need to make many changes to update it for the 21st century.

Currently in the shop:

Once you have enough money you will always be friendless and empty insidr

Great British Baking Show, but also Star Wars

I have also found this to be true of whole eras of life

If I opened a GenX themed resraurant one of the appetizers would be poutine on the ritz

The biggest difference between 1995 and 2025 is that if I'm hanging out in the kitchen it's with the men.

One thing I've found that both New Yorkers and suburbanites/small town folks have in common is they both look a little surprised and alarmed when you speak to them unprompted.

Your periodic reminder

If we made SNAP universal and also increased benefits employers would ultimately benefit, too, because snap money has a great ROI for the larger economy.

a big reason political staffing is often a rich kid thing is that many people get their foot in the door with unpaid internships, which you literally can’t afford to do without some level of family money we want people from different backgrounds there!

Honestly, if Grok and other LLMs can keep trolls and dipshits busy not bothering actual people I might have to revise my opinion of their value to humanity

If you play as Jon Snow you can warg

I have never been happier to have mostly quit bsky

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani elected

evergreen

Guy sure af met the moment

Mamdani to NYC billios:

grew up in a very republican family, and that’s fine too. we feed and protect our kids. i guess that’s socialism.

Countdown to the first 'Yr Mamdani' joke

Another reason it's good to pass the torch is so you can have leaders who can think on their feet.

Dick Cheney: [drops mic] Donald Trump: Hold my beer

I'm glad Dick Cheney lived long enough to see the forces he unleashed destroy the party and governing philosophy he spent his whole life serving.

Block, don't engage works for websites, too.

Launching a startup for my jokes business. Got a data center and a machine learning program that I've plugged all the jokes I ever wrote into. Gonna make an loLLM

Dr Bae just really gets me

How do soccer players keep their armpits smelling fresh? With diadorant

When you sell t-shirts and coffee mugs tote bags and such that speak ill of whole classes of people that's besmirchandise

High five to everyone ghosting Halloween

What is a cat's favorite kind of tree? A dogless fir

You probably haven't noticed my absence, what with the firehose of event and commentary. But I've been taking time away to re-teach myself to be present in, well, the present, even if I am, on occasion, bored or understimulated. It's been great. I'm happier, and have more time and space to think.

I turned my phone from a part time job to a hobby with this one weird trick:

From Ted Chiang's fb

Saw a ska band of forty-something dads perform an original protest song at a crab festival in my nowhere pnw town today. America is alive

tired: seeing the world in black and white wired: seeing the world in shades of gray inspired: seeing the world in full color on fire: seeing the world through a mantis shrimp's eyes

If you're a good thesis advisor, you get your just disserts

All due respect to Joseph Campbell, but until the training montage before the final confrontation the hero is actually an amateurtagonist

I made spicy, Mexicali-style pickles. They're jala good

I like to add lemon juice to my mayo and relish to make tarter sauce

Mindlessly doomscrolling my immediate surroundings like some kind of savannah-dwelling primate

I have invented a new food: a baked potato filled with taco fillings. It's called a potaco

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Fuck it, bring on the dancing bears!

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing everyone that Gawd loves rich people

When you have a negative balance, you need a blank check. -Clarence Thomas, probably

Got some notes from my agent I've been waiting on and the good news is I only have to fix the basic structure