Fire yesterday in Bethesda… as you can see from the photo it was a case of St. Elmo’s fire mocoshow.com/2025/12/01/o...

Had a fun moment at work today where we were just fanpersoning @volts.wtf ‘s podcast

The solution for those of us who still appreciate the function that an em-dash provides – or simply want a shibboleth – is to adopt the British use of the en-dash. Though of course the AIvestigating zealots probably couldn’t tell the difference

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Really interesting findings here. People project their priors about the cost of 4-year college when they talk about decline in college enrollments, but the decline is actually mostly driven by the decline in community college enrollment (a decline which in turn is driven by strong job markets)

I think that evolutionary psychology needs to face a cultural reckoning over the fact that its funding lines (Epstein-tied) coincide with a public history of advocacy for "its adaptive for men to have a harem full of nubile females"

Amazing that Everton won despite have 21 fewer shots on goal, worse passing, and playing with 10 men

Spurs taking some anti-scalping measures www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2025/no...

Foods that books tried to convince me are bad but turned out to be good: anchovies on pizza, liverwurst Foods that books tried to convince me are good but turned out to be bad: licorice, Turkish delight

TIL that a surprisingly high share of the difference in life expectancy between men and women is simply due to the fact that men are taller on average

My most Maryland moment: had to fix my in-sink garbage disposal unit because two crab claws had fallen in, causing the motor to jam and the internal overload protector to trip

Wow just watched the 4 goals that put Scotland in the World Cup and they’re all absolute bangers

Genuinely one of the best use cases for AI is better quality emails for business transactions. Bluesky by its nature skews towards people who already have faculty with words, but a huge portion of the population writes terribly.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

I never realised how much Honoré de Balzac looks like Fak from The Bear

This sounds like the robot had a Rocky start

This seems like there would be many fixes. M is clearly the code name for the head, why can’t James Bond be the name of whichever agent is 007 st the time? Or just do a straight reboot

I bought a pack of scissors that needs a pair of scissors to open

Hillary Duff’s “Mature” is really catchy. Also part of a subgenre of song that I love, women calling out men who were creepy or worse to them when they were younger.

Wow, too cheap to meter

Insomnia has its advantages sometimes: hit Genius in Spelling Bee in 2 minutes

Reading social media about people complaining about not being able to watch Monday Night Football because of the YouTube / ESPN dispute and it’s pretty shocking how many people don’t even know that you can watch MNF free on over the air TV.

I’m still a bit unclear why some states continue to have separate elections for Governor and Lieutenant Governor

Love the pangram in today’s NYT Spelling Bee

My local supermarket is selling giant mini cucumbers

Pretty easy NYT Spelling Bee today but why no DILUVIAL / DILUVIAN?

What a performance. Mr. Ohtober

Greatest Sho on Earth

I came home and am on a bit of a delay but I just saw that Ohtani homer and oh my. I did not know it was possible to hit a ball out in Dodger Stadium

Friday #NYTXW. Really nice fill in this one by Karen Steinberg. 5:45

Got my COVID and flu shots on Sunday. Glad to do it but as a side sleeper I should have gotten them on the side I don’t sleep on

In 3 consecutive match weeks: Liverpool beat Everton 2-1, Palace beat Liverpool 2-1, Everton beat Palace 2-1

OMG it happened again! Wordle 1,569 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One benefit to insomnia is solving Spelling Bee when it comes out www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

People who talk like this about cities need to be widely mocked and shamed as weenies

This is just the Python Standard Library

Just absolutely devoured Holly Jackson’s Not Quite Dead Yet in one day. Superb stuff and a very dramatic ending

Them: *tagging me as a performative male* Me: You're using the word ´performative´ wrong.

Ooh an S in Spelling Bee

OMG OMG OMG Wordle 1,535 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Haven’t hit 5 minutes on a Friday NYT crossword in a while!

Singapore Changi is miles ahead of most places, but the Istanbul business lounge is amazing. For US domestic I like the new LGA

Back from a week in Provence, my first trip outside the US/Canada in six years. Absolutely wonderful

Re-listened to the last few chapters of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere audiobook and I can safely say no other book I’ve read this year has made me so emotional. Great book

I finally started reading @lauralippman.bsky.social’s novels after years of following her on social media and now I’m wondering why I didn’t get started earlier. Finished 3 in the last week (Baltimore Blues, Lady in the Lake, Murder Takes a Vacation) and they were all excellent

Take that, Wordlebot!

Saturday #NYTXW. Finished and wanted to gush about it so I checked the constructor and of course it’s an Erik Agard puzzle. Seeing 10-Down & 20-Down in the grid made me so happy. Wordle fans might like 6D. 6:46

It’s hard to stop reading about that Coldplay concert couple… but nobody said it was easy

Really surprised that the NYT Spelling Bee didn’t accept WINCHING today