it’s also a permission structure for not trying to do anything to make the country better. it’s decadent.

Man with an Australian accent speaking to a coworker on a Pittsburgh street what happened in that poor man’s life?

No thoughts just swim

This is my life now: “Hello I understand you’re upset one of my colleagues told you we wouldn’t let you skip over certain AI guardrails. Please enjoy the following parade of possible horribles I won’t let you interrupt.”

The absolute pulpiest book you can think of is still a better substitute of time for social media/doomscrolling. Cut that time dowwwn!

The perpetual look of annoyance.

Curt Cignetti: Rust Belt Hank Hill

Finished Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet

Ran an errand an hour away and then we got a snow squall alert and my husband panicked but I made it back home without issue.

this site seems to genuinely have an issue with viewing explanation as a form of endorsement

Finally feel like I am back in the workout groove

meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.

Feel like temp is 3F, but the bus fare reader was broken everyone rides for free !

Magdalena Bay modem noises

Star Trek is just “Gunsmoke with lasers and social democracy.” (Complimentary).

Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.

Luv 2 have hypochondria (Chatting with guy at gym who said he recently had a stroke and now my head tingles)

Putting the world back together post-Trump like this: youtu.be/e_-w_T-t8aM?...

🤔

Yikes.

Watching an old Star Trek episode where a transporter accident creates a duplicate evil Kirk and to distinguish the two they give the evil Kirk JD Vance eyes.

Bronzefrapp.

lol

Curt Cignetti pulls the most Western Pennsylvanian faces possible.

Mendoza!

Thought about this all day

Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Sitting on a call and want to scream at one person “‘me’ is sometimes the grammatically correct choice JFC.”

Repeatedly swallowing bile why saying the next sentence: Mark Cuban should buy the Post Gazette www.wesa.fm/economy-busi...

Umberto Eco on sudden change:

🎶 you used to be my bromeo 🎶

Margemaxxing.

Stupid Mercator Projection

lol

When you feel like you’re (we’re) losing, it’s very tempting to pick any fight you think you can win. You need to resist that temptation.

My gay hyperfocus on the annual Swiss Federal Council official photograph, after three awful years, has been sated!!! 2026 8.5/10

lol Steelers

“The swan ate my baby!”

Dumb Lawyer post: It is January 3rd and I have already visited states in the following Circuits this year: Third Fourth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth

43 days and 5,000 miles later… back

Important update: I am back in the Eastern Time Zone.

It’s worse than a crime, it’s a mistake.

Apparently if you have a lifted truck in Missouri and drive like an asshole, you also don’t need to have a license plate!

Gotta be vigilant that we don’t miss our next turn.

I feel G-d in this Colorado Springs Outback Steakhouse.

Screaming Eastward

New Mexico is very very concerned about people driving during dust storms.

Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...

SO MANY Justice - New Lands Neon Indian - Slumlord Madonna - Ray of Light Kylie - Love at First Sight Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar Röyksopp - Remind Me SO MANY

TBH this is where treating driving like a civil right ends up.