Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

Saw a laptop listed on Ebay today (location, Beverly Hills, CA) that was described as "Working, but won't power on." Working on a clever joke for this right now.

It's a fair point.

RIP

I wrote about politics in 2025: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united...

i am personally against the jeffrey epstein memorial ballroom, sponsored by youtube.

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Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

John Candy was a great comedian, and Paul Myers is a great writer. Seems like a no-brainer deciding what book to buy next!

My Financial Times interview got reprinted on the front page of the newspaper The Australian Financial Review with an incredible illustration of the contents of my mind and the big handle I turn when I blog www.afr.com/technology/t...

What fresh hell is th... Actually, this one is kind of interesting.

Bad Bunny is set to perform at the next Superbowl halftime show.

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

If you look for a GIF with the search term "Chris Elliott David Letterman Show" this is what you get if you scroll down. It's a feature, not a bug. 😉

Technologically advance a band" Talking A.I.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

As a child, I was told by many cartoons & comics that we would have future robots to do the boring-ass chores like dishes & laundry so we could spend that time reading & writing & watching movies & listening to/making music & thinking & pondering INSTEAD. It sucks so much we got the OPPOSITE of that

william shakespeare: [a bunch of dumb ass crap] roger miller: roses are red and violets are purple, sugar is sweet and so is maple surple

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Y'all could have told me about the rapture before I printed out the shipping label for a package I'm sending... uh, was sending today.

Found a little toad in my basement. Thought he might be dead, but dropping a little water on him perked him up a little. So, now what?

I don’t know if they could have, but I know they could have pulled out all the stops to try. Impossible to imagine that, e.g., Trump would ever laugh off the sale of a media company to a political opponent

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

Dems were very proud to demonstrate their savvy by telling anyone who would listen “Twitter isn’t real life,” which, in addition to being a severe underestimation of its role, became the conventional wisdom largely because of pundits repeating it ON TWITTER. Which should have been a clue!

Never underestimate the value of a kind gesture. 🥺

I see that the national weather service in by area reported that one of the communities it covers had some "mothball" sized hail today. Nice up-to-date reference there! I would have asked my grandmother what size that was, but she died in 1976.

This is an example (to me, anyway) of the phenomenon of the band / song combo where I don't know which is which. Is it Super Furry Animals, by the band Golden Retriever, or Golden Retriever, by Super Furry Animals. The first time I noticed this was...

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Insert your own "no rush on these" joke here.

That's code for "We saved your dog bowl for you to drink out of next time."

the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media

Fascinating thread.

A rare (semi-rare?) non-political column from Sarah. If this doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you're even more dead inside than I am. Just beautifully written.

Make a band singular: The a. (The The)

Today's "Song Of The Day" Today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvP... A few years back I recorded an album of Prine covers and I think I'm about due to make another one. I've never LOVED this song but when I heard it done this way it became one of my favorites.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

I guess victims of school shootings are less sympathetic because the media can't say they have left a wife and 2 kids behind

I feel seen.

it's possible empathy is not a sin, but rather a really necessary thing for a society to not collapse

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

Well, Donald Trump now has his excuse to cancel the 2026 elections, if that's his plan.

If you listen closely, you can hear, "Won't you drop dead!" or something similar. 🫡

Are we certain RFK Jr. isn't recommending this?

Might as well.