Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"

once @offline.mountainherder.xyz and I visited Cornwall and got escorted around a moor, an ancient barrow, and an allegedly enchanted well by an incredibly friendly tabby cat, so who’s to say really

I really hope no one shows up to open the stores those days fuck that

Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

BRB, off googling “How to totally murder someone, yeah I know it’s a felony, I’d like to see them catch me at my house 123 Baytown road, unless I’m at work, dominoes pizza 1 mile away or at my GF, 123 N 43rd street”

Holy shit. They did this in the back half of November? Capitalism must be stopped.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Fish have committed credit card fraud

happy International Men's Day to trans men only, you guys worked your asses off to earn this and are playing the game on a level cis men cannot even imagine

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

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squirrels in your backyard? crows being in the sky? too loud truck driving by your house? call the law offices of BARKIN & BARKIN and get the defense you deserve, today

“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”

Saw this as a response on a thread about Bethesda games and mandatory Steam updates fucking with mods, where someone was muted by the OP. And went “Yes, that actually is how voluntary interactions work offline as well. We don’t have to stand still and let you talk to us.”

YouTube video title: "NEW THING JUST THIS NOW DISCOVERED" Actual video: [10-30 minutes describing the subject around the supposed new thing since the dawn of time] Actual video, finally: ok so this is actually about 1.2 year old information that I happened to look up or stumble across this month

Was at car dealership today. Noticed something funny. The normal cars had door poppers and overwhelming screens. The $120,000 car had physical door handles and tons of buttons. May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.

Tangential but only one of these places was never Not Bad & that was Pizza Hut until they changed their recipe & moved off the hat shaped restaurants in the mid 90s. He shouldn't be eating Little Caesar's anyway because the owner is from Detroit & paid Rosa Parks' rent for life, which is Woke.

I had the good fortune once of serving with a man who heard an insult to a woman colleague from the man in leadership. He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?” Took a beat. “Never say that again.”

He said privately later that he practiced being ready, and the formula, and that he was sorry he’d had enough opportunity to get good at it. So much capacity for goodness comes from practicing the thing you want to do over and over.

Nobody knows who the hell Frank Nelson is because everybody who watched Jack Benny is dead but you gotta admit his line delivery is fucked up good. youtu.be/nqKG2VtxN_o?...

So needless to say, my live-in doctor is aware that today stressed me out and has placed in my lap, as treatment: - two slippers and one sock - a catnip toy - a silk flower, origin unknown - half of a piece of burnt toast I had thrown away

HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account

I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

“When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

"Huh, half the internet is timing out, lemme try a traceroute... ohhh, shit, either it's raining in Virginia or someone parked on the internet again."

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

okay what i love about san antonio is that this guy stopped to help me in two minutes, spoke no english, grabbed his tools, asked for no money, drove my exhaust in his truck to a nearby garage, and now they are fixing it

last stop!

Today it’s the 27th Anniversary of The original Powerpuff Girls series, One of my favorite shows on Cartoon Network, premiered on November 18th, 1998. It stars the three little girls name, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup who save the city of Townsville when someone's in trouble.

Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.

I hope people realize that fighting these raids by arguing they "aren't decreasing crime" is a losing battle -- they do not care and will simply change the definition of "crime."

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No institution or person who caved or caves to Trump can ever be fully trusted again. This includes many universities and the people who run them and the owners of many news orgs. Remember their names and deeds.

The bill only forces the release of unclassified information. Pass it on.