"Complex carbohydrate" what's that a french fry with feelings

Reminder that these people think that automatic voter registration is a socialist plot to take over the country.

Mitch McConnell is a world-historic coward and villain comfortable in his belief that neither the world nor history will remember who he was

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.

Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German

rare to find a sentence containing two true sins of contemporary usage—“You could gift a pair, and it would feel impactful.”

No contest.

once you read Hegel u see abstraction everywhere

There are more people in Los Angeles County than there are in Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, and West Virginia _combined_.

3/We are the very logical end of the Reagan Revolution, but it is the part of the Revolution were everyone is being guillotined.

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

Something something destroy the village to save it.

I heard a Kubernetes joke and would have shared it with Ian, but I looked it up and Ian wrote it.

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

"What's the tradeoff between time and eye-candy here?"

I worked in IT for 40 years. I've been retired for a year and 13 days, and I have not written a single line of code- or even remotely wanted to- since that last day. It was a job, i loved doing it, and it turned out to be lucrative. But it wasn't my life and now it's over and done.

Conover has been quite good in office; we’ve been much happier since we moved to Pima county and she’s no small part of that. We’d definitely support her for higher office if she were to go that way.

There is no amount of love or money that would convince me to spend the time to read Infinite Jest. Life is short and we only have so many waking hours.

My parents used to tell the story of the night before I was born. They went out for dinner and a movie: garlic chicken and Psycho. The rest is history.

I was on fucking *PLATO* I have usernames older than your mom.

Before I retired last year I had co-workers who drew sincere, utterly *blank* stares when I used 867-5309 as an example phone number. That's the moment I really knew that I'd overstayed my welcome in the workforce.

Heaven or Las Vegas, Hunkpapa, Star, Goo, All of This and Nothing, Document, Nothing's Shocking, and for God's sake why is The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste not here?

When my company was bought by a large Indian firm, I expressed concern to a US-based EVP about the CEO's chummy relations with Modi. He said: if you're friends, your business is left alone. If you're hostile to Modi, the full weight of the Indian bureaucracy will crash down on you every day.

Seconded. With a vengeance

… None Oatmeal I’m not going to make a single dollar, am I?

Imagine walking through a park in a blizzard, coming across the pure joy of an ad-hoc snowball fight, and not only failing to throw your own snowball but actively approaching it as the scene of a crime. Policing creates mental illness in the police. Full stop.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

In Sociology grad school in the 80s, I worked with a full professor who wrote a well cited paper arguing that sociology always lagged economics & that litcrit / cultural studies usurping soc’s territory was because Econ had stagnated.

Old enough to remember when Jerry Falwell, challenged with the Inquisition after his claim that Christians have never been antisemitic, responded that those were Roman Catholics, not Christians.

Seriously, 12 step rooms are filled with bio-hackers. We just used to call it “self-medicating.”

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

Current status:

I think Bjarke Ingels owes his whole schtick just as much to Mark Zuckerberg as he does to Rem Koolhaas

If we rebrand mRNA to mRNAI we’ll have vaccines again by Monday

A few days ago someone said that these public servants seem to think their job is to yell at subordinates, make short form videos, and fly private. Hard to argue with that.

Remember when people thought Benioff was one of the good billionaires? Class solidarity is a hell of a drug, man.

Especially for the less popular events where you can’t make a living. It’s always something like “Lucas has seven Olympic medals and four World Champion Cups. Back home in Des Moines, he’s a tax analyst at a soybean processing plant.”

Who decided to call it Epstein Island instead of Kid Rock?

Day 7 #HackerFit 28 day challenge. 3x10 minute threshold efforts: one ramp, one up & down pyramid, and one 30 second over/under. I love these; should have done another.

Post a banger that isn't in (real) English vimeo.com/1071644859

Age verification? I can still work a slide rule.

YouTube just served me up a short called "Who knew Stevie [Nicks] could look this good?" and I think I may just log off for the day.

Day 6 #HackerFit 28 day challenge. The plan called for 2 hours endurance on the trainer, but it's 75F in Tucson so outdoors we went.

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

Bad Bunny crushes it at half time AND New England gets blown out. In dark times like these, how did we get so lucky?

Day 5, #HackerFit 28 day challenge. Failed to record yesterday's HIIT session but it was a killer- so today was an easy 35 minutes on the trainer. Barely broke 100 BPM but recovery days are super important...

Those who fail to learn from John Lott…

Day 3 #HackerFit 28 day challenge. A gorgeous afternoon for an easy, short spin around the 'hood.