The story of one-time capital investment and movement of materials verses perpetual extraction, movement, and consumption of materials

Number 4 is a bit evergreen once you get past the changing labels and hyper-specific trends

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Less than five minutes' worth of work laying down adhesive, placing a sheet of OSB subfloor, and liberal use of a nailgun can take hours to reverse 30 years later

Tomorrow the best day to hit up the gym?

The borkening will continue until doggo is unshackled from its unwanted outside life. It is now everyone's problem.

Should do a blog on cursed air fryer recipes

It's the asymmetric troll you see on forums all the time - make wild claim that gets under opponents' skin - and Democrats fall for it every GD time, spending hours or days dismantling it while the opposition has walked away and is crafting the next such "exchange"

Musk/Altman-Senpai will never notice you

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

> Can the US have a vibrant battery sector w/o robust production of EVs? Doubtful because the other side of the coin, BESS (ex: battery banks be they residential or utility-scale), is also ideologically objectionable to the Trump administration

Whenever holidays land on a Tuesday or Thursday, the respective adjacent Monday or Friday is not a productive workday in DeskJobVille. Especially when it's a Thursday holiday.

AR pistols sporting a beta and tombstone mag with the former costing huge range of motion. Dude's not going to physically capable of reacting to sh_t going down in time because of that dedication to LARP'ing.

"Director dropped in on a technical meeting at the halfway point while on the highway to deliver a bad hot take on an issue resolved at the start of the call" vibes. Art imitating life.

SO likes to get minis for stocking stuffers - many for the lulz. This is the latter and the reviews are ... interesting ... suggesting that it's premium marketing - less so the liquid - sold for the spectacle more than anything else.

A failure to ruthlessly shank bad ideas in dark alleys can lead to said bad ideas coming to shank you in broad daylight

The Defiant-Class eh? Looks like someone tarted up the DDG(X) renders then went on to pad the spec sheet adding tonnage, VLS cells, other missiles, some nonexistent big guns, and other spinny rims to appease Dear Leader.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

For creatures that love to cause chaos, cats are awfully reactionary about chaos caused by others

A neighbor's dog is making their increased time outdoors everyone else's problem

Film trailer: awesome, inspiring The actual film: insipid, formulaic

Nextdoor: the schadenfreude of watching residents in their >$1M homes in what was once an isolated bedroom community (but is now surrounded by suburbia) lose their sh_t at the prospect of a retail development in their town

Having an unfortunate proclivity to check LinkedIn I get occasional promoted messages. All too often it's universities pitching me on additional education. Usually for an MBA - funny since that degree is, uh, on my profile - sometimes for something more vocational. 1/

Show your age 19½ - a bit hazy on whether I've ever actually *used* a payphone before

Between the SO and myself we have four cats. @shinjira.bsky.social is familiar with one of the furballs.

A near-perfect example of bleak NTX winter. Only thing missing is a shopping bag twisting in the wind in the barren tree.

A near-perfect example of bleak NTX winter. Only thing missing is a shopping bag twisting in the wind in the barren tree.

For the life of me I do not understand using multiple tabs in a spreadsheet when - with the introduction of one additional column - it could be a single sheet that one *filters*

Can't say I'm surprised. The Lightning was demanding a huge price premium for a vehicle that - while serving customers' demonstrable *needs* - did not satisfy their (driven largely by marketing) *wants*, no matter how infrequently these corner cases were attempted.

Reduce "creativity" to yet another commodified output - accounting, production, HR admin - sure, I guess. AI can template powerpoints, spit out copy (for the plebes to consume), vibe code an application frontend. But it's copypasta-with-a-twist of whatever was hawt when it was trained.

It's 2017 all over again: • Trump says [thing] • Cue 24/48/96-hour cycle of chastising [thing] • Talking heads squander face time expressing disapproval rather than asking hard questions • Nothing changes ~90% of the time

Libertarians used to have something like principles. But seems widespread pot legalization all greatly diminished their Goldstein leaving them grasping at straws. So naturally they became weirder, angrier conservatives.

The story of so many a "marketing-first" company (or crowdfunding campaign) that outsources its operations - the true source of value - to other Lesser People™. Turns out that the marketing isn't always the next-level stuff that only Better People™ are capable of.

The energy drink: aspiring to refinery-fresh flavour

When your LinkedIn tagline is "Sales Leader & Technologist" I'm going to accept the former descriptor and completely discount the latter

The pronunciation of Lutz, FL in fact does not rhyme with "yutz"

The confusing thing about this is my location is still DQ'ed for deliveries. Said Wal-Mart is a touch closer to the airport than my house (and in the same sectional zone), although unlike my house *not* under any of the approach paths.

Another disaster pr0n addict outs themselves

Saw a drone making a delivery from the nearby Wal-Mart the other day shortly before dusk. A touch eerie. Moving slower than expected.

There is no corporate Valhalla

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

When you break out the level only after you're ⅓ of the way done

I won the landfill sweepstakes! First prize: free screw Odds: 1-in-4 Note: must be present to win

Despite the ever-decreasing UV put out by newer floro tubes (and LED fixtures emitting none), all the plastics in an exam room are either beige or seemingly designed to yellow at an accelerated pace. Everything converges towards putty.

Did anyone outside of Meta actually use *The* Metaverse?

I am clearly in the wrong business. >$500 for routine 24mo service on a water heater that was $2000 installed 5 years ago. As the prior cheap unit made it >20 years before failing gracefully, think I'll just flush it myself.

I administered Lifeline for a bit. Based on the service addresses (nursing homes, trailer parks, *very* low-end apartments), about 0% of recipients were scamming the taxpayer for an ~$8/mo benefit yet the means-testing was relentless with a dozen-plus people employed reviewing paperwork.

This week’s comic is now up on @dailykos.com - The Republican Circus: First they came for you, not me. - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

General observation: Libertarians used to have principles. Nowadays they're weirder, angrier MAGA forever circling back to the refrain "taxation is theft".

Two-plus weeks of near-continuous overcast skies (a road trip to the midwest last week played a role) have had an unexpectedly bad impact on my mood - maybe there's something to that seasonal affective disorder after all