Just one day after Election Day and I'm already getting next-cycle spam from Democrats again. My name is not "Michael", for what it's worth, and I've had the same phone number for like 30 years. Infuriating.

““There’s been only one shortcoming in Dallas this year: the entire defense, which is on pace to be one of the worst we’ve ever seen.”

I was there for this evening in February 2012—3 months before Hop Sing actually opened—and it was even more mind-bending than Jason Sheehan describes. www.phillymag.com/foobooz/202...

Newsom 2028.

That’s baseball.

My advice to the Blue Jays: Don't drop any easy fly balls to the outfield.

The Nobel Peace Prize campaign gathers steam.

I keep getting this ad for men’s clothing. It’s absolutely wild that it took this long for Han Solo Core to catch on.

I enjoy your work. I think you’re a thoughtful and perspicacious analyst, and fundamentally a good guy. But I *love* rooting against your asinine NFL picks. I can’t explain this well of hatred it taps into.

NFL week 8 picks: gruber.micro.blog/2025/10/26/nfl…

Fetterman lost the plot. If the Democrats unite behind one primary opponent (Conor “One N” Lamb would be my pick), he’s going to get creamed. What a fucking buffoon.

"Trump is tearing down the White House." Hit that. It's not exactly true, but it's not lie. You have the photos. Poll it. The poll is not the point, of course.

Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

Yankees have the Blue Jays right where they want them.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

@gruber.foo I found it!

App Store scam of the week? apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-2-...

'Fuck You, Make Me' daringfireball.net/linked/202...

Huh I wonder why Trump fired him oh there's a picture included, nevermind, same as usual

This is some fucked up shit.

VP JD Vance is opining on the Bolton case on television. Before we had an authoritarian tyrant running the government, the VP would say that it's in the hands of the DOJ and refuse to comment. But he's a motor mouth who can't help strutting and posing about everything just like his boss.

My favorite post in a while:

Trump should demand that whoever made today’s Wordle be fired.

"I've got an exclusive for you. We're offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome." "You're not talking to anyone else?" "Nope, exclusive for the Journal. I definitely do not have a colleague sitting next to me on the phone with Bloomberg as we speak."

A better Tim (Snyder) wrote, “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”

★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon

We’re defying basic number theory at this point—riding roughshod over the intrinsic properties of integers.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

Struggling with figuring out how to get International service when roaming outside of the United States? I’ve untangled all the carrier options and roaming eSIM alternatives for you @sixcolors sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...

Incredible.

★ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/iceblock

Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.

Baseball fans like to debate who the GOAT is, and to me the GOAT is John Smoltz, because he managed to make the Hall of Fame despite not knowing a single thing about the game of baseball.

I'm about to do it. I'm about to say "imagine if Biden did this." I don't want to but I must, because it'd be very funny. Imagine if Biden said his uncle told him how brilliant the Unabomber was a decade before he was identified. Imagine the very funny NYT push notification you'd get on your phone.

Jiminy.

K-Billy Supersounds of the 70s

I love Drexel and I hope this guy is a great president and he's there for a few decades of growth and success. But damn if he isn't a dead ringer for Merkin Muffley.

★ More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad

Many thanks to @gruber.foo for having me back on The Talk Show this week: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Not the biggest issue right now, but Dutch continues to not be a serious language

Retrospecs, a superb iPhone and iPad app that can make any image look like it's from a classic game system, is having a ridiculous barg sale: $0.99/99p for full unlock. If you don't already have it, buy it! https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/retrospecs/id887031094

I don't know will be funnier — if Trump himself starts using one of these, or if he doesn't. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/16/trump-mobile

Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqwPUHTFEkg

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

@gruber.foo please stop with the Siri posts. I swear no one else cares as much as you do about Siri and at this point it seems like you need to be proven right or something? “These people aren’t your friends” is a good lesson you learned (again) but scorned lover is a look best suited 4 some1 else.

A US Senator. Donald Trump’s America.

Starting to doubt there’s going to be an Olympics in 2028.