It is depressing how often “abandon people” is part of the liberal playbook. Abandon trans people, abandon women’s reproductive rights, abandon the red counties to focus on the blue ones, abandon the red states to focus on the blue ones.

Oh yes, data driven, data driven! If only everything could be measured with a number, in all cases! When everyone just calculates their data correctly, every project would be a success, right? Which is why big successes are so common! ...more like data driving off a cliff.

Btw "everything is a distraction from Epstein" internet people & "everything is a distraction from health care policy" official Democratic accounts, eventually the overrepresented-on-Bluesky people who care most about collapse of the constitutional order & ethnic cleansing will lose our minds.

Gov. Youngkin recently announced the state will invest an additional $11 million to reclaim mined lands and repurpose them for economic development projects in Southwest Virginia. virginiamercury.com/briefs/south...

It's crazy I've been doing this for six weeks now, but it's Friday and that means time for another Friday 10! See if you can identify any of the ten lyrics my music player brought up on shuffle, then stop by my brother's for more (and, usually, more obscure) lyrics!

It's Friday, and you know what that means. Another ten lyrics to identify! #blog #music www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0...

I think as workers we can learn a lot from Claude Code: * Take frequent breaks without asking permission * When you get tired, declare "You've reached your five hour limit" and refuse further interaction.

Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.

If anyone’s interested, editors now prefer binary reviews - to generate online heat - and pressure their critic teams to deliver slatings or hymnings. A standard three star review (like this) will not get you much work as a freelancer, unless you’re happy to have it headlined as a pasting.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...

When did car washes become so complicated, and why does no one want to advertise their price?

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Well, we're nothing if not consistent. Towards the end of the workday here on the US East Coast, seven of ten lyrics have been identified, leaving three. Anyone care to give those other three a go? www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0...

It's Friday so I have another ten lyrics for you to identify. Last week four people guessed seven in record time, so now's your best chance! www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #music

Thelma Todd and Harpo Marx in Horse Feathers. (1932).

My visceral reaction to a fridge with a screen was an immediate “oh hell no,” but I think this move justifies it. Nobody wants to make a product anymore, they just want to collect your data, sell your data, show you ads. www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

It's Friday so I have another ten lyrics for you to identify. Last week four people guessed seven in record time, so now's your best chance! www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #music

It appears the right is behaving hypocritically. If we point that out they’ll probably stop. They’ll probably be soooo embarrassed.

There's one CSS 'rule' I always come back to – the heart of what I'm calling Poetic CSS: What are we trying to express, and how clearly can we express it? There's no best unit, best layout mode, or best selectors – only the ones that express our goals most clearly. Use the whole language. #CSS

This is what’s wrong with the mobile web. - massive “download our app” callout - header taking up a good amount of real estate - ANOTHER DOWNLOAD OUR APP BANNER - fixed ad on the bottom - huge ads in between copy 😠

hell yeah.

I spent some of the weekend trying to code a thing with Claude. Is it faster? I don’t know. Is it better? Not really. Did it give me a headache? Yes, but would have had one anyway. www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0...

I spent some of the weekend trying to code a thing with Claude. Is it faster? I don’t know. Is it better? Not really. Did it give me a headache? Yes, but would have had one anyway. www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0...

“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

The *most* impressive thing about xenomorphs is how their life-cycle is entirely dependent on the dramatic needs of a particular scene.

If you want the TRUE expert level experience of watching The Long Walk might I suggest getting a large soda, drink X% of it and then enjoy the movie. At 20-25 min before the end, your own Long Walk will begin. Will you succumb to the pain? Will you stick it out?! Will disaster strike?! 4PX, amite?!

We had seven of our Friday 10 lyrics guessed yesterday in a real hurry! But there are still three to go. Two of them are even from songs released this century! www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #music

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Veiled threat from the governor of Virginia today for state employees. @reason.com @enbrown.bsky.social

It's guess-the-lyrics day again. Remember, no searching. Also, I am reasonably certain I didn't invent this game so if you want to post your own lyrics on your blog, please do. I like guessing them, too. www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #music

Hell of a week, huh? You should stop by my website (and then by @thudfactor.com's, quoted below) to play our "Guess the Lyric" games!

It's guess-the-lyrics day again. Remember, no searching. Also, I am reasonably certain I didn't invent this game so if you want to post your own lyrics on your blog, please do. I like guessing them, too. www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #music

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

I mean, it kinda makes sense—if you think you are smart because you are rich ...

I have at least 10 lyrics for today's Friday 10. Actually, I have a lot more because I've just started writing them down somewhere so I don't have to scramble on the day. I'm always second-guessing myself: is this something people will guess? Is this too obscure? Am I, personally, too old?

Hello, I'm TypeScript. Instead of Object, I call it Record. Isn't that neat? Anyway, I found 241 errors and refuse to compile. Have fun, bestie! ✨💕✨

www.404media.co/the-software... Lots of “AI” schadenfreude flying around about this article, and rightfully so. But also, this is quite literally what deskilling looks like: use automation to displace experienced workers, then underpay others to perform the same labor.

When I post tomorrow's Friday 10, I will have been running this music game for four consecutive weeks. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it's changed how I listen to music and how I blog. I wrote about that here: www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #webdev

Instead of posting a screed regarding my nuanced and conflicted thoughts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, here's a picture of a long-eared jeroba

The political party who celebrated Paul Pelosi's assault, ignored Melissa Hortman's assassination, laughed at the attempt to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, and cheered as insurrectionists on Jan 6th attempted a violent coup of Congress want you to be ultra respectful about Charlie Kirk

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

When I post tomorrow's Friday 10, I will have been running this music game for four consecutive weeks. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it's changed how I listen to music and how I blog. I wrote about that here: www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #blog #webdev

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Repugnant Ghouls Who Feed on Innocent Blood Plead for Decorum

Lincoln Project people out here proving their first priority is always scolding the left.

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.