postit notes are one of those rare things where it's actually worth it to buy the brand name esp if you're doing fun stuff like sticking them to walls

If you're selling an ereader online and you don't have some way of me seeing how big it is... what are we doing here? A hand, a banana, a ruler, something!

I'm just eating the lettuce out of my garden and I'll have you know it only occasionally gives me horrible diarrhea

The fact that `display: grid` doesn't have the equivalent of `border-collapse: collapse` fills me with incandescent rage

I would like someone to do a postmortem on the people who built the new Reddit interface, so we can figure out what's wrong with them. The original ain't pretty but this thing is just... wow. Awful.

Wildfires continue. My air purifier clicks up a notch. The Four Horsemen rumble by. judas-thaddaeus.bearblog.dev/how-to-live-...

Also why does the topic of powdered wigs *keep* coming up in my reading today? Psyop by Big Wig maybe?

Looking kinda apocalyptic out there rn ngl

Let's make "this" the pronoun for bots.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

And by the way, it’s not an ad hominem attack to question whether NYT should publish someone who condemns an entire ethnic group as a “scourge on the republic.” It’s a fair question about why media helps launder and mainstream the views of a bigot who spreads disgusting, unapologetic racism.

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

If I ever pivot from making a music podcast to a decades-long campaign of starting imperialist wars abroad while subverting democracy and removing civil rights at home, you have my permission to say "I'm glad that bastard's dead" when I die.

My wife explaining football stuff to me must be what it's like when I talk about computers

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

It tells you everything you need to know about the state of British society when the Anne Frank Trust has to step in because of the dehumanising attacks on the LGBT community. What a disgrace we’ve become

If we can get some kind of reasonable token cost and good models, it's not unthinkable that the SaaS era will be definitively over. A lot of SaaS stuff is just lockbox expertise. But if you can more reasonably do it with a small inhouse team, why bother?

Just saw The Invite, and it's kind of crazy good? Funny but also sneakily devastating?

what a surprise. again, he reacted like this when the Nazi tattoo was revealed! he wasn't contrite, there was no actual acceptance or suggestion of change, it was pure entitlement and anger. All of this should have been obvious.

you ever repost something with a heavy sigh

THE ACKROOMS

It's really weird how companies like Meta, Google, etc, are never interested in talking about their actual product--advertising. If you didn't have that, you'd have nothing. And yet Zuck et al are constantly pivoting and reinventing their company. A luxury--because they have the advertising.

The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.

If at the end of your romance novel the CEO main character hasn't given away all his wealth then how am I supposed to get any gratification from this

When the Shrek so good you find God

As in all things I am rooting for England to lose

Got a tub of serviceberries at the farmo today! Just a fantasic fruit and hard to find...

Klein may actually do more damage than Rufo. Rufo's an obvious piece of shit. Klein is (charitably) an inadvertent and genteel piece of shit. The genteel piece of shit polished the obvious piece of shit. HOWEVER--and this is important--both remain pieces of shit.

So imho Obsession very much looks like a low budget movie and not in a good way.

Everything I learn about Bill Maher is against my will. BUT I will say this in his defence -- he has to decency to present like exactly the sleazeball he is. Dripping of grease. Slick. I imagine he smells of rendering beef.

Americans have lost the right to call any country corrupt ever again.

Really enjoying having a finished basement rn

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

"Mythos is the narrative framework that shapes reality before reasoning begins. Logos is what happens inside that framework. ... They named their model after the layer where meaning gets made. They weren’t being poetic. They were being precise." mariaturcan.substack.com/p/they-named...

"For years, she’d complained ... that not only are our cultural activities mediocre, they’re also overpriced. 'All people do here is eat at restaurants and go shopping'. Well, she’s not wrong. It’s hard to find anything that makes Toronto remarkable." jacobfilipp.com/paris/

Genuinely nothing as teethgrinding as reading something obvs LLM genned. Danger here is that folks internalise LLMish and start themselves writing & speaking this way! Maybe its that LLMish seems very LinkedIn-y. Either way... don't?

Toronto is kind of boring.

the climate, she's a-changin' judas-thaddaeus.bearblog.dev/how-to-be-bo...

So I think facial recognition should be entirely banned except maybe for personal use. I don't think this is something we should be doing.

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

You can laugh at this but it’s fifty years of reactionary politics at a glance. Yes, they got everything they demanded; yes, they’re angrier than ever and yes, they want more cruelty, vandalism and idiocy. As I told you in the 2010s: they will always be like this, they can’t be pleased or appeased.

Hard to overstate just how much of the Brexit campaign was based on lies. Looking back it’s a sad case study of a country voting to immiserate itself due to the mendacity of right-wing politicians and tabloids. But it’s almost never framed that way in UK media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Why did city leaders listen to the anti-vax and anti-flouride nutters instead of dental experts? This has creeped in too far. Look at your local store for fluoride rinse. Count how many mouthwash options have fluoride. These nutters have hit retail, too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Not to be too buzzwordy but the whole establishments “it is bizarre and unknowable why Starmer is hated” is weaponised incompetence on an industrial propaganda scale