as a parent I almost always decline to criticize other parents. But the mom on the plane who told her (not at all disruptive) toddler “you‘re being ill-mannered, so I‘m withholding all attention for the next 45 minutes” (verbatim) is an exception. Are you trying to cause Axis 2 personality pathology

Wanna feel old? The SkiFree monster now serves on the Claremont Institute’s Board of Directors

The world should boycott the upcoming World Cup & Olympics. Not only do we deserve it, it’s also super unsafe to visit this country. Unlike Russia or Qatar, our government is too stupid and spoiled to understand that you’re supposed to soften repression/build good will during global sporting events

You couldn’t make “Halt and Catch Fire” today because of the vertiginous pace of technological advance. It’d be called “John Galt’s Cybertruck Catches Fire” instead…

not a Tailwind CSS guy (in the enterprise space; nobody is fussy how websites look) but this is bleak. Docs + tutorials are how free/open source projects make money & AI is starving them. Now Tailwind has to lay off almost all its employees—likely halting major development github.com/tailwindlabs...

Yes it's a joke and anyone in Greenland (or here for that matter) who believes this is the kind of dolt who hands a shoebox full of $50,000 in cash to a guy. Ask literally any contractor ever if he's paid up. Ask Avelo! They wrote a huge story about this exact thing with "self-deporting" migrants

Re. the chyron on this: it's pretty striking that circumstances have frozen both the job market and the housing market (millions have low rate mortgages they would lose if they moved) in place

How many people ever had a speaking voice so cool that literally every person in a notable profession copied it? Only one I can think of is Chuck Yeager

per the New York Times the state of Minnesota is no angel

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Orinoco Flowbee

X is producing deepfakes at a rate 84x higher than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined, according to an analysis. Victims say there's no recourse. Their images are still up despite reports to X, and those who speak out become targets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the Family Matters writers’ room slogan in 1989 was “Don’t be Stevil,” sternly warning against making Urkel a breakout character w/ supernatural miracles at his command. It was quietly dropped when—desperate for ratings—they had Steve’s ventriloquist dummy come to life & wreak havoc on the Winslows…

ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke or be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am

there’s little pushback against Trump from the world’s institutions because elites largely agree with him, differing only on emphasis/marketing…Wearing a suit & tie, holding prestigious roles, & using polysyllabic words don’t by themselves make you better than unwashed gamers on fascist image boards

going to commercial playing the breakdown to Hell March 2

The CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil looks like a cutscene in a Command & Conquer: Red Alert game

Brent Musburger: The 1984 NBA Finals, Game 1. The matchup everyone’s been waiting for: Lakers vs. Celtics. Magic vs. Bird, picking up where they left off five years ago. We turn now to Orson Welles, who is courtside with analysis. Orson, what’s the key to winning today? Orson Welles: Mwah…the bench…

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

NADELLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Windows 11 randomly pushes notifications asking you if you would like to disable notifications you haven’t seen or interacted with recently because maybe you find them annoying. What genius thought of that feature

The Imperial Pinkberry of Trantor

(an 80s teen movie bully emerges from a portal, and salutarily throws my 10th grade term paper defending the “Lockean Nightwatchman State“ into a fish tank) “hey dweeb, I just published your thinkpiece in The Atlantic”

Ground control to Stacy’s mom

Are we sure this isn’t a Timecop (1994) or Looper (2012) scenario where JD Vances from different timelines are trying to fight each other?

lol only privileged white leftist crybabies are mad about “imperialists” spreading freedom, democracy, and arresting dictators who oppress their own people. UPDATE: wow! Thanks for the gold, Reddit!

How do I see if I’m a “negative poster?”

Americans didn’t invent the Internet…The French did. It was originally a Gaullist dirigiste project to modernize the national pastime of trolling. Why do you think modem speed was once measured in baud rates? That‘s short for “Baudelaire,” in honor of the poet’s epic misanthropy. Everyone knows this

Wish there were psychotherapists accepting new patients where I live. I’m determined that my midlife crisis will be “becoming a toxic therapy guy.”

i modded all-star baseball 2005 so that the pitchers reproduce by laying eggs

Where I live, rich New Yorkers & Bostonians (who work remotely), as well as holding companies, bought up the available housing stock. The cheapest one bedroom apt is thus $1,800/month. So $20,000/year doesn’t mean “not doing great;” it means homelessness. Or is having a bed considered a “treat” now?

Theodore, the wisest, cleaves to God as his name denotes. Simon is more ambiguous, either Simon-Peter or Simon the Magus. We are all Simons in this respect. Alvin ("old friend") is clearly the Devil or unbridled ego, dressed in scarlet and adorned with the accusatory "A", the most duplicitous chipmu

Grok’s prose style is like if Charles Manson expressed himself like Chuck Wendig

watching the 1980s Chipmunks’ Christmas movie to entertain a sick baby. Dave Seville is trying to teach the chipmunks that Christmas isn’t about material things but rather a higher spiritual purpose; however, I’m having a hard time accepting that a loving God created Alvin in His own image…

So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed. For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Tolkien wrote in a letter that the elves of the first age had jet skis

The most junior copy editor at the nation’s worst college paper could find a way to squeeze “which killed an estimated 40 people” somewhere into these top 6 grafs of the NYTimes story. It was a conscious decision to bury it in the bottom half.

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

naming my son "G-g-g-ghost!" so his bullies sound scared of him

Betting big on a resurgence of both “shoot, then cry” movies and SNL character spinoff movies with my spec script: “Stuart Smalley Must Burn the Village In Order to Save It”

Europe has never been in a sadder state of groveling vassalage to the United States and we’re going to sell the continent out to Russia anyway

APNewsAlert: CARACAS, #Venezuela (AP) — No visible signs yet that US is running Venezuela after Trump claims, as country's security forces control key sites.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Saw a ragged blue jay out in the cold morning. flipped him off of course

this was always the quote from The Iraq War runup that stuck with me the most, total lack of logic or strategy, completely evaporating international goodwill and billions of dollars so a few dozen horrible guys in well-furnished offices can briefly feel the saucy little thrill of committing murder

i believe the unilateral abduction of a head of state and commission of air strikes against his country's civilian and political infrastructure is deeply unamerican and a gross and unsettling violation of fundamental US and international laws and norms. however,

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE ALMANAC 1/3/26 “America is a giant mistake.”—Sigmund Freud

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

(a bell rings, reminding me of previous times i have eaten) these memories are so good... might as well salivate. it's my choice.