Oh, OK. So first you need Democrats to relinquish all their leverage… and _then_ you’ll be more open to giving them what they want? I’ve read scam emails that make more persuasive pitches than this

The speed with which I heard fireworks after the Dodgers clinched Game 7… evokes a guy in his backyard with a lighter, hovering over a fuse, watching the game through a sliding-glass door from his backyard

*gently massages temples, to no avail*

I'm on the market again, whether the market likes it or not. Looking for a remote JavaScript role. Things I've done in the past few years — first, professionally: • Led a desktop engineering team

A platform all Democrats anywhere can get behind: • No Christmas-themed commercials in October (life without parole) • You’re allowed to send one “review this thing you bought” email, but NO FOLLOW-UPS (ten years in prison) • All other issues TBD

Willful idiocy from someone who, if she thought about it for a moment, would realize that _everyone_ has the right to critique someone’s views; it rises to an “obligation” for Emma and Daniel because they get calls from journalists whenever Rowling opens her mouth

All the polling I’ve seen this year supports the premise that higher-information voters are much more likely to disapprove of the president, no matter where they are on the political spectrum. The more they know about what’s going on, the more they dislike it.

Seeing people dunk on www.nytimes.com/interactive/... — and it’s fair game, to be sure. Just understand that it’s got to be someone’s job on the left to engage with voters like these and figure out how to persuade them

Much like how I dread the em-dash being used as evidence of AI-generated text (that’s just how I type!)… I quite like this lettering style and regret that, when I see it, my brain now instantly goes “oh, someone generated this image with AI”

The Athletic had a great feature a month ago about how the NFL fails young quarterbacks by throwing them to the wolves like this. Ultimately it’s the GM’s fault for thinking that Russell Wilson could be a stabilizing force under which Dart could apprentice. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Regarding the last repost, two concepts are worth keeping separate: 1. What would we do if we were in power? 2. What is the roadmap for getting ourselves back into power?

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

There are two ways you can consume this: “Obama is a weakling who is tacitly endorsing Charlie Kirk because he’s not using the language and tone I would,” or “a professional communicator is making a point, I may not be the audience, and his primary aim may not be my personal emotional needs.”

Folks, the world is broken; how do we fix it? I don’t have all the answers, but I’ll be starting with ensuring that, whenever I’m shown an annoying “subscribe to our newsletter” modal, the “close” button depicts an actual right-angled, serif-free icon rather than a capital letter X

Depressingly, once I read the awful news, I saw the rest of the day’s events flash before my eyes: the usual suspects on the right using it to self-radicalize further; intra-left squabbling about tone and respectability…

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

The crazy thing about this isn't that blue laws still exist… but that they've been affirmed by Bergen county voters. I mean, I like my Sundays to feel different from my Saturdays, but I don't need an ordinance to enforce it. apnews.com/article/amer...

The debates will continue about AI — ethics, fair use, what it what it means for the craft of programming… But the one thing I use it for that _doesn’_t encroach upon any of these philosophical minefields? Writing weird TypeScript utility types. Ain't enough room in my brain for that cursed syntax.

When I buy a ticket to a concert or show, multiple mysterious gremlins attempt to put it on my calendar without my asking. I want to find and kill these gremlins.

In all seriousness, I appreciate that Peacock talks to me like I'm an adult instead of vainly trying to soften the blow. Other services might've tried to bury the lede by calling this a "Rate Adjustment" or "Plan Right-Sizing" or similar nonsense.

What the fuck is this? What the fuck are we wasting our limited time on earth talking about? Do I avoid daily reckonings with my masculinity simply by not having the energy to care about dumb shit like this?

I’d be an awful president for about ninety-three reasons. But one way I’d be great at it is I’d never play golf. Like, never. So my political opponents would be deprived of the laziest (yet also probably effective?) attack on me

If I were an Emmy voter I think I’d just stare at this list for 20 minutes and go “can we make it a six-way tie?”

In fairness, if I were someone’s bowels, I think I’d be irritable all the time. Pathologizing it into a “syndrome” is classic non-bowel mentality

He has the same difficulty forming complete sentences that plagues Elon Musk. Why? Why show up to a NYT podcast unprepared to talk about your core beliefs? Don't you think a bit of practiced eloquence might help you sell the _dumbest ideas on the planet_?

Butterfly-effect scenario: if the Kings managed to hold on in a late-season game in 2024 where they were up 7 on the Suns with two minutes left — instead of choking it away — the Pelicans would not currently be an asbestos remediation state that is also, somehow, on fire

Democrats who want money: I swear to god I've never given anyone money because they asked for it over SMS. I know fundraising is broken. I get it. I'm not going to ragequit and join the grey team or something. But I'm never giving any of you my real phone number ever again

If a rich person wants to help turn public opinion against this stuff: please spend a few million on issue ads that do not advocate for or against any political party or message — but simply emphasize how bad this administration is, logistically, at even their top domestic priority

This is a very strange way of saying “not enough people are paying for our magic-wand icons; hence we are bundling them so we can claim more revenue from delivering features users did not ask for.”

The proposal to ban the “tush push” in the NFL has failed, and I am strangely satisfied by this outcome. Allow me to explain why to my followers (an assortment of former colleagues and tech workers who largely, as far as I can tell, do not follow football)

Bill, my mind’s made up: I’m going to the police to tell them about that horrible thing you did way back when. I thought you deserved to know before I told literally anyone else. And, yes, I will happily drink some of this tea you’ve put in front of me. How kind of you. — every Columbo victim

Maybe it’s just because every player worth watching for either the Pelicans or the Saints spent a lot of the season in street clothes, but I hear GMs say things like this and I think they’re delusional. This kid is gonna get hurt

This feels part Faustian and part, like, incredibly lazy. AIs aren’t sentient and can’t write code without supervision… unless they’re offering to do chores I hate, in which case THANK GOD and here are all the repo secrets and see if you can fix the CI config while you’re at it

Do not trust anyone who argues that birthright citizenship is not the plain reading of the 14th Amendment. As Evan Bernick explains, this isn’t a game. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I said this on the other site many years ago, but we should be prepared for “Surely THIS” to turn into “Really? THAT?” In the ideal world where something finally pokes a hole in this dystopian zeppelin, it’ll probably be the 112th-most infuriating scandal to us “high-information” balls of anxiety

I like how the TxTag fiasco from years back (and probably ongoing) is so notorious that text spammers are now using it for phishing. Just got this text and I had no trouble believing it until I saw the URL. (Redacted for safety.)

If they were licensing my old-ass book on Prototype the way they ought to, I’d be due a mere handful of pennies. But I’ll pursue those pennies with the zeal of the newspaper delivery kid in _Better Off Dead_

I promise I see merit in everyone’s arguments, but all of this feels like people arguing whether Chuck Schumer should or should not attempt to joust with a pool noodle

I am astonished that I — a person with an irrational fear of approaching those I admire but have not yet met — share a species with people who think it’s cool to do their shitty Christopher Walken impression in front of his goddamn face.

Thanks, GitHub, for sending me an email explaining that the GitHub Actions workflow I just cancelled has been cancelled

Speedrunners are a source of fascination because their abilities are as alien to me as those of professional athletes. I can't do anything Jalen Hurts does… but neither am I capable of doing what Summoning Alt does here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCX...

I’ve often remarked that being a sports fan is about as prudent of a decision as starting a caffeine or nicotine habit — in the sense that I wouldn’t ever advise introducing it into a generally happy life

Managing my mental health is supposed to involve not taking whatever bait Matt Walsh throws out there (even typing his name just now means I’ve lost)… but if they think we really want to re-litigate questions like “can women be cops,” let's do it. That one feels like a home game

The threat of mass resignations was the one goddamn thing that actually worked to curb the asshole when he was trying to stay in power last time. Folks love to ask “what would be the point?” when rationalizing their way out of something uncomfortable, but there would definitely be a point to it.

ME: Hey, universe, if I can’t have anything near my desired national political outcomes, how about you at least extend a bit of grace toward my desired sports outcomes UNIVERSE: no; fuck you

The younger version of Andrew who had to leave Netscape Navigator 3.0 downloading while he mowed the lawn would be gobsmacked to learn that I downloaded an 800mb ZIP file of CI artifacts yesterday — not because I needed any of it, but just to verify that a certain file was present within

In the midst of general cynicism about the government response to an act of god, I prefer to “look for the helpers,” as Fred Rogers’s mother used to say. A few things about this wildfire response have absolutely gobsmacked me:

Feel sorry for Longhorns fans, but they got their consolation prize: the ability to blame Quinn Ewers for all the team’s misfortunes and insist that things will be better next year with Manning 4.0 at the helm