M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

sure hope they're right about the rapture being on tuesday because I could really use some peace and quiet

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: little more than, ceaselessly bathed, quill-scrawled, propertarian, extortion angle, healthy disregard, used to be, garbage, apocalypse, forceps, august brands, emboldened, hyphenated names

the hives forever, forever the hives

in my next lifetime, I’d like to be a spoiled house cat with an owner who buys me my own personal heated blanket

prolly not gonna see that new tron movie as I haven't seen any tron movies so far but the NIN soundtrack is great. extremely here for trent reznor's pop girlie era

I have been fascinated by kamala harris's attempts to promote her book getting completely drowned out. she's like trying to do some gossipy revelations about pete buttigieg or joe biden or whatever and meanwhile the entire culture is having a meltdown about using charlie kirk's name at starbucks

it's the most wonderful time of the week (placing holds on library books)

"It’s hard to tell if Joe Kahn is a morally bankrupt prig or a well-meaning fool."

"if you dont use smart glasses with an always-on AI assistant youre going to fall behind intellectually" i cannot express how little i am concerned about being shown up by people who have paid money to have a simpering computer lie into their ear at all times

it's not just online dating lol a guy I met hiking sent me some of the weirdest most linked-in-ass texts I've ever received! sir I am a writer, don't disrespect me like that www.thecut.com/article/ai-i...

Jeeves feels very strongly that my laptop is a usurper

wrote about something other than doom and gloom for a change www.theverge.com/tech/781387/...

I need to go to bed but that valks loss drained me of the energy required to get off the couch

“Always close enough to hurt.” And that was the 2025 Golden State Valkyries inaugural season. Not at all the outcome I wanted but I’m so proud of this team and can’t wait for next year. Now I’m gonna go puke.

fuck

I am going to walk into the sea

come on

valkyries fixing to break my heart

valkyries fixing to break my heart

valks valks valks valks

honestly in awe of how wrong megan mcardle is; you'd think she'd occasionally manage to be right, like a stopped clock. it's a talent

loving this valks run

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Can I just get one normal day to focus on my own little problems

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

with the coffee prices these days, thank god

cheap cocaine? damn dude the 2000s hipster era really is back

The light this post shone through my mind revealed, among other things, that THE RUNNING MAN (2025) absolutely dropped the ball by not giving the Richard Dawson part to Stephen A.

deglazing a pan feels like a cheat code

back in november i told a bunch of people to start behaving like HUAC was coming back and i am extremely pissed off to have been right

always funny when someone texts me and inadvertently bumps into a hornet's nest of gossip I just happen to have on my person

I am allowed to pet my cat's tummy exactly three times before she bites me but it is of profound importance for her to be in contact with mine every time I sit or lie down

Natalie isn’t a public figure. But she’s been caught in the crosshairs of a broad right-wing harassment movement — one sanctioned and encouraged by the government. www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no such thing as a libertarian

that sound you hear is the collapsing of the wall that separated 'public' and 'private' (unregulated) financial markets & ofc it's robinhood that move fastest

TFW you are definitely not worried what CEOs will say about tariffs on analyst calls on.ft.com/4pGgopF

A data broker owned by major US airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE and other agencies

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Everybody say Go Valks.

on that shit that got me forgetting how to use a zipper and then realizing it's part of god's plan

tried out a hideous new pair of running shoes. they are neon yellow and pink and unbelievably bouncy. I love them.

woke up this morning with the bone-deep certainty that today was the "later" I'd been talking about when I'd been putting off various chores by saying "oh I'll do it later"

I just saw a child wearing silver glitter Birkenstocks and I need to figure out if they make them in my size

bro the iphone review people are clowning you into the palaeozoic

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