I want to get some seeds planted but it’s rainy today. May be for the best as I have indoor chores to do before Moms come for lunch tomorrow. But I’d rather be planting…

If you can’t win without rigging the system…

I made toast and then decided I wanted an egg. But I was hungry so I set a timer for the water & egg while I ate my toast in the adjacent room. I started to hear a weird sound and wondered why the dishwasher was on… no it was my eggs in the boiling water that I had forgotten about 🤣🤣🤣 All is well.

Is the US alone in making dental insurance separate from medical insurance or does universal health cover all of it? I wouldn’t be surprised if was American thing to do.

Use this guide when serving up fresh ideas to clients.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Birds birds birds today

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

Campaign staffers are turning private polling data into personal paydays. They describe election prediction market as a "Wild West" for staffers. www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

Love this vase.

Morning birds included a new one apparently passing through to breeding areas farther north. It’s very pretty.

“In an attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience, many campaigns opt for a sterilised version of diversity. …it is a prevalent habit in large scale commercial work. It is a form of visual middle ground that attempts to represent everyone but often fails to reflect anyone.”

Slept terrible last night. Every dream went the bad way. Woke up for an hour around 1:45. Tired.

Twilight, Venice - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11075

Hahha The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins is hilarious. Another great comedy with Daniel Radcliff. If you missed Miracle Workers, also check it.

Feeling nostalgic. Remember when we had accountability?

Trying a new-to-me brownie recipe. Melt butter in a pan and make the whole recipe right in it. They’ve gone into the oven so we shall see how they come out. www.inspiredtaste.net/24412/cocoa-...

I am gonna publish the INSANE list of the hundreds of records smashed allover AUSTRALIA A heat wave which is rewriting history. It will be several tweets, i thank the source Australian Weather News by Laurier Williams besides the BOM.

Did you guys hear about Will Stancil leaking the Tinder ICE Honey Trap details just to take credit for the work done by women for months (ruining the entire operation by doing so)?

I’m not laughing 🙂‍↔️

Spent the evening watching a couple (long) episodes of Phantom Lawyer, a K-dramedy. Just the right amount of cheese. Still think Behind Your Touch is better but only two eps in so let’s see how it unfolds.

Terrible ad formats make too much of the web unusable these days. It shouldn’t be a surprise that people would rather get the info they’re searching for right in their search vs clicking through to the hellhole you call a website.

I was unaware they were making Remarkably Bright Creatures into a movie. Comes out next week.

Watching a bee documentary.

The Grand Canal, Venice - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11067

How not to be seen

There was still a touch of light in the sky around 8:30pm. Wild to be only a month and a half from the longest day of the year already. It’s still cool here.

Size of Jupiter compared to Earth.

Made pot roast and the dog is just sitting by the counter where the meat is, hoping it will fall on the floor.

Fossil Fuel Production is killing us and our beloved planet earth. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/23/t...

On par for cable news entertainment shows. 🥴

Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead. An Essay by Flora Champy

Happy Perfect Date Day

An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75). So much throwback inspiration here! [kottke.org]

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

"How do we make AI writing appear more human whilst at the same time ostracise and demonise human writers who use the techniques we're teaching the AI to copy, so they end up writing like an AI to avoid being accused...."

Imagine still not understanding who this guy is after all this. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp www.newsweek.com/trump-pardon...

Did the designer make the mistake or was it ai?

Happy St George’s Day to those who believe. #gottahavefaith

As You Like It. www.patreon.com/posts/as-you...

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated" democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Birds this morning on our walk and post walk hang

I googled Japan to see news or an update on the earthquake and tsunami warnings and this Google quick facts popped up. Is it weird that it lists consent age? I checked a few other countries and that is not a data point they list.

Currently reading: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathi

They’re making a Top Gun 3?! abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/...

Watching the pilot episode of Moonlighting. This guy is jogging in Converse. Such low tech shoes compared to now.

The way people celebrate that LLMs can do dev and design and write, etc might mean folks are losing jobs is weird, right?

Digging around in the dirt a bit today. Still a bit early for most things but I need to get started and it feels good.