It's World Teacher Day. Thanks to all of you who are, were, or will be teachers - you perpetuate civilization. But special thanks to my favorite teacher, my wife, who is an inspiration to all of us who know her: students, coworkers, and friends alike.

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

First rule of Quaker Fight Club is you don't talk during Quaker Fight Club, unless you feel yourself to be in a presence which commands your reverence.

Playing Star Wars Clone Trooper Legos with my son, and he loves it when I do my characters with a New Zealand accent. But for some reason I always feel like I sound more like Murray from Flight Of The Conchords (@rhysiedarby.bsky.social) than like a badass clone of Temura Morrison

My son wants to play spooky board games for Halloween. Any recommendations?

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Before bed I take my 9-year-old son and our dog for a walk around our quiet residential urban neighborhood. He usually rides his scooter alongside me. Last night, as we waited on a street corner for the light to change he began to circle me and the dog. A slow steady counterclockwise spiral,

Thinking about this @coelasquid.bsky.social comic from 2018 but it hits a little different now.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Sometimes I'll see an interesting article on librarians and archivists that I really want to read, and I open it up and it's just some stupid crap about libertarians & anarchists.

I don't really think of myself as "arm candy" I'm much more of what you might call "arm butter"

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Heading back into DC today. First work day in 6 months. Still can't figure out if it's ominous or a relief. Maybe it's just an ominous relief.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

I sometimes think about how, if the Republic is to be preserved in some semblance of its current form, it will probably be because of Mormons. There are massive amounts of them across the US defense and security apparatus, and they take their oaths very seriously.

Watching my 9-year-old play Roblox allows me to string chaos-ridden sentences together like, "Steal a Brainrot" is the "Grow a Garden" of Skibidi Toilets. @bruces.bsky.social knows what I'm talking about.

Well. One week after my 6 months of unemployment ran out I have successfully secured a job. Now is good. Before would have been better. But now is good.

One of the joys of homeownership, particularly with older houses, is the fun riddle you get to puzzle over while you're fixing a previously fixed problem: "Was this person who did this a dumbshit or a lazy motherfucker?" Own the house long enough and the person in question is you.

US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them. Only a nazi regime would want to honor that

New addition to my list of low effort meals: Empanadas. Just whatever you want in an empanada wrapper. Tonight I put last night's leftover meat sauce and some shredded mozzarella in empanada wrappers and baked them. Well received.

I can tell that it's shifting from Summer to Fall because my son has changed his standard breakfast food from Lucky Charms to toaster waffles for the third year in a row.

President of Slovenia: “We didn't stop the Holocaust, we didn't stop the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide in Srebrenica. We must stop the genocide in Gaza. No excuses"

So today was, I think, my last visit to the secret fig orchard for the year. I pruned it heavily in Feb/March, and probably pulled about 20 lbs of figs over the past month. About 15 lbs have been set aside in the freezer to make fig wine, when time allows. The rest we simply devoured.

Some days I kind of feel like bluesky is basically just a big-ass WhatsApp chat.

I genuinely believe a majority of people, and not a small one, would prefer a world that was less cruel. There are many people who would prefer a crueller, more punishing world, but these are nonetheless a minority.

Last night at Rosh Hashanah dinner my aunt's friend, a 70+ year old nominally Jewish Democrat who hasn't cared about anything but sports, TV shows and her grandkids since retirement more than a decade ago said, "I didn't realize how far left I was until this administration came along."

The aji pepper is, for me, the most beautiful variety of pepper. And the smell is remarkable when processing it in large quantities.

To be clear, if you haven't figured out why Charlie Kirk is receiving a level of hagiography and veneration from the GOP that is usually reserved for senior politicians, it's because he was going to be the next Republican president & everybody in the GOP leadership machine knew it. He's their RFK.

Oh, yes. The French taco. A traditional Baltimore gas station delicacy.

Inspired by this post: What's a cyberpunk story that most people don't think of as cyberpunk because of the aesthetics?

A picture I picked up in Ghana 15 years ago just showed up on my FB memories feed.

FYI, if you're trying to think of a good gift for my upcoming 50th birthday, small hand-carved Hittite crystal hedgehogs are always appreciated.

awesome that conservatives get to lie about being victims and generate enough death threats to shut down an entire store

Persistence Hunter would be a good name for a girl.

I love this so much.

So I just had an idea that will either fix or permanently break American politics for good: Dueling hot wing franchises exclusively catering only to conservative or liberal clientele, while serving wings from either the right or left side of the bird, respectively.

I feel like companies that send rejection letters for jobs you've applied to give you a sort of Stockholm syndrome. You're so grateful that they sent you anything at all that you feel love and gratitude towards them, because the other employers haven't even provided you with that minimal courtesy.

Went out to pick some peppers & tomatoes and discovered that one of the other Community Garden volunteers had at some point planted the cucamelon seeds I gave him earlier this year. They were entirely overgrown with clematis, but I spotted one of the fruits and ended up picking about two dozen.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Beef ragout is basically Italian Sloppy Joe, right?

Conversation with my 4-year-old on the way to daycare: Him: "Dad, I'm growing up!" Me: "Yeah you are, buddy. You're growing up fast." *pause* Him: 'No. I'm THROWING up. I threw up on my shorts.' Me: "Oh."

Six years ago a friend who worked at a printing company made me 50 of these pro-immigrant Uncle Sam posters in English and Spanish. I hate the fact that they're still relevant and needed today.

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.

Made this while rereading #Neuromancer. @greatdismal.bsky.social

21st century political violence in the US doesn't really come from the left. It comes almost entirely from one of two places: 1. The far right. 2. Neurotic weirdos overwhelmed by pain and chaos with unmappable political opinions.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Eating french fries with my younger son 2. Walking the dog at night with my older son 3. Stopping everything at the end of the day 4. Whiskey and ginger beer 5. Walking through the garden

My unemployment ran out this week, after 6 months. This is the longest I've ever been unemployed since I got my first job in high school 30+ years ago. I also got 2 job rejection letters today, and I don't think I've ever gotten two job rejection letters on the same day before. Strange.