You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Something in the Walls, 5 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Dinner for Vampires, 4 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

14 years sober today. If you think you should get sober, believe me, if I could do it, you can, too.

everyone you know is secretly foo fighting a battle that’s getting the best the best the best the best of them.

Iga out, Sabalenka on the other side of the draw, Jessica Pegula has looked the best she has in her career. If she doesn't win the #AO now, she ain't winning a major.

A Marriage at Sea, 4 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Minnesotans are better people than me because if ICE came for my neighbor who uses his leaf blower 1-2 hours a day, 4-5 times per week, I am pretty confident I would not intervene.

Insurance: we'll never cover anything because we believe all your health problems are because you're fat. Me: this medicine will make me not fat, will you pay for it? Insurance: 🌈 no.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

She'll deny it, but my mom LOVES it when someone tangentially related to her dies. Not someone directly in her family, but her sister's husband's uncle? Her niece-by-marriage's dad? She's on the phone with her sisters, she's gossiping, she's having a great time!

*Me, one of the most powerful people in America, dusting off my hands to indicate satisfaction at a job well done* "This strongly worded letter to our tyrannical president, Illiterate Don, will solve the problem."

No kidding.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Every American on January first:

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

People mad that Wake Up Dead Man doesn't say anything about Catholicism need to understand that it's set in the Catholic church for the Gothic vibes, weight of history, and tang of occultism, but it's culturally Protestant. The priests' vestments are Catholic. That's about it.

you know how evolution keeps trying to create crabs again? i feel like that’s where we are with television. social media? tv. podcasts? tv. explanatory articles? tv. movies? tv.

the kyrgios sabalenka stunt match was the first sporting event billie jean king skipped in 50 years

Glad to be going back to work tomorrow. Christmas nonsense can't follow me to the insurance factory.

If the line at the Honey Baked Ham store compared to prior years is a good economic indicator (and I think it is), people are having a lean Christmas this year. ☹️🎄

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

My Friends, 3 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Does anybody near Shawnee, KS want/need an elliptical? It was my mom's, but she can't use it anymore. It works fine and has been in the basement up until a few weeks ago. No charge, but you would have to pick it up/move it.

A&M was the most dynamic team in the tournament and they ran through three #1 teams to get to the final and they earned it. #NCAAVB

Many KU fans should maybe do a Google search on Melvin Council Jr before you declare your love for him.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Does anybody near Shawnee, KS want/need an elliptical? It was my mom's, but she can't use it anymore. It works fine and has been in the basement up until a few weeks ago. No charge, but you would have to pick it up/move it.

On the strength of a 10-0 run, A&M takes a RARE set off Nebraska. We got ourselves a match today. #NCAAVB

I think we should stick a broom through the handle of the Senate chamber door and set the building on fire.

The Dream Hotel, 4 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

More Everything Forever, 4 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Katabasis, 3 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Medicine River, 4 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Joyride, 5 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If you're worried you're not gonna make your reading goals this year, here are some short books (under 250 pages) I enjoyed recently: Exhibit, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, One Woman Show, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, I'll Never Call Him Dad Again...

First snowy day of the winter and you know what that means, folks. Everyone with cats has come down with severe cat lap.

Daniel Woodrell's writing was the literary equivalent of getting a dislocated joint snapped back into place without painkillers. Fast and violent and cutting, he wrote Missouri and the mountains and Midwestern noir like he was born to do it. His voice will be missed.

Me as Carol five minutes into Pluribus

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

A House of Dynamite succeeded in making me want to rewatch Chernobyl. If that was its goal.

Today, Rogue says no thank you, world!

I think we should stick a broom through the handle of the Senate chamber door and set the building on fire.

Bobby Witt Jr. wins 2025 AL Platinum Glove Award.