There’s a *reason* I have no patience with “go back where you came from” said to anyone. This Midwestern, uh, failson, sure, correctly understands that I have to vote in solidarity with the Black and brown kids around me and against chucklefucks like this

Yep. I love how Shrodinger's Midwesterner is both subsidized and unworthy while possessing the degrees that make them globally mobile and "temporary"

If the general public hated all new disruptive tech, people wouldn’t have lined up for the first iPhone. Show people something useful for them and they’ll want to adopt it. If it’s a solution in search of a problem and people are being forced to use it? Maybe not so much

"because I don't want my job to go from helping my co-workers debug broken code they wrote, to helping my co-workers debug AI-generated code they don't understand"

I am up in yr loom, fixin yr tension. #DHmakes

"One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet."

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." I'm just saying. When it comes to "sacred words," those are some good ones.

I think this generalises further: a maxim I have developed is that as a society we should treat children a bit more like adults, and adults a bit more like children. So for example I think we can stand to be more paternalistic with adults, but give children more decision making autonomy

Absolutely! First I learnt how far the baby's mood depends on whether they have eaten, slept, emptied their bowels. Then came the humbling realisation that the same is true of adults

I think that parents are the ultimate materialists: if there’s something upsetting the kid, it’s usually because something has to come out, or something has to go in

Paying attention to children and how they think tells you so much because they are just like adults, but can't hide their motivations.

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

"There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."

Gross

Wow, please do not freaking repost screencaps of CSAM from X. I don't care if they are cropped or whatever. Will 100% bock on sight.

Everyone trying to think about this in terms of the standard for things like defamation, but that's not the standard for criminal statutes like CSAM and revenge porn. If you start a CSAM website you go to jail

Move fast and build things

without farms pulling a significant fraction of labor away from cities, there's nothing keeping those workers in the countryside instead of going to the city where wages are higher. And that's what we've seen, the rural population is actually shrinking

it's fun how they were kind of right about the "can locate a factory anywhere" and got the implication of that almost precisely backwards bsky.app/profile/paul...

And again, this resonates with what Team Fight is demanding Dems do about Trump once they take power back—this is the equivalent of a Day One executive order from the next president repealing all of Trump's executive orders and announcing that his ballroom will be razed.

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Well, it’s 2026. May the new year be better than the last one

This is even better 🥰

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks

If you're elderly like me and planning a small quiet NYE with a few friends, here's a game I came up with a couple years ago and have enjoyed a lot: I call it Song Relay. It's simple. Someone picks a song. The next person follows up with a song that's connected to the previous one in some way.

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

In the coming year, I wish you all a thriving community

It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy let’s go exploring

I deeply appreciate that Elon’s cycle on reupping this thing is just long enough that big.teslafuckbot.energy can properly expire and I can re-buy it cheap instead of paying the exorbitant .energy renewal fee

What's something silly, frivolous, or trivial that you accomplished this year?

A _lot_ of bartenders I know are like, oh I go through a handle of tequila a day

elon musk dot today mentioned

Seattle area small biz folks… I need a new CPA/tax preparer. If you have one you love, lemme know!

Helsinki

THE DEATH OF MME EGLANTINE Invite three friends over to your house to play a game, "The Death of Mme Eglantine". Tell them you've invited four players. See how long you can keep your friends waiting for the final player. The first player to leave your house wins.

The perfect new yorker comic does not exis-------

mayor mamdani in 24 hours 😎

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" I drew the original of this. (I storyboarded and assistant directed on this episode.) (Fry, "Shut up and take my money")

Oh dear

baaaaaaaaaby

So many such stories, coming back from a hiking trip in the Sierras, when I had to tap out two weeks early with a sprained ankle. Hitchhiked, it took rides from two separate families to get me down the mountain to Fresno where I could catch a train. A lady gave me a fresh peach at the train station

🧵 Probably the most altruistic thing anyone ever did for me was when I was in the seattle downtown emergency shelter and just coming out of an almost total fugue. I was still very psychotic, but I started to understand where I was, and how unsafe and cut off I was from even my own identity.

It used to take an entire legacy news corporation to wag the dog. Now if you can make one viral reel that’s racist enough, you dictate domestic and foreign policy

we used to have a patriarchy but lately it's feeling more like manarchy

By over forty points!!

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If anybody wants some electronics stuff, I uh www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

Good! 10k to follow, with stoves that have batteries. With batteries on an induction stove, there’s no need for the building to upgrade the electrical. Bye, dirty gas, asthma and other health issues from the pollution. citylimits.org/nycha-to-rep...

I have been saying a thing about how the ability to tolerate a bit of discomfort in e.g. the weather is very predictive of the ability to tolerate discomfort in other areas of life, and, well