Arsenal has won the Premier League. This feels strange. I don’t know what to do. The house is empty except for me and the dog, and it would do no good to yell in her presence. Consider this a placeholder for however a normal human being would celebrate.

Jira, I try not to be precious about my own prose… but when you’ve got a button in the toolbar with a magic-wand icon labeled “Improve writing,” you’re writing a check you cannot cash

If you’re trying to sell me your software, I am unsure what you hope to convey by including the phrase “built by former Palantir engineers.”

Paranoid NIMBYs on Nextdoor love posting “follow the money” without ever, ever, ever following the money

I need browsers to stop promising to restore my windows and tabs after an update/relaunch. I would prefer if you did not. I am a hoarder and you should not enable my self-destructive behavior

I get it, but this is not what is happening in that podcast. This makes it sound as though NYT columnists are _just now finding out_ that the orange man is bad. It’s more about how best to illustrate, on an ongoing basis, how the orange man continues to be bad.

Pasadena.

Me: *typing a comment on Confluence* Atlassian: Check out the throbbing purple button Me: *typing* A: purrrrrrple buttonnnnnnnnnnn Me: Trying to focus A: So you're not at all curious about the throbbing purple button? Me: No, I just— ugh, fine, what is it for A: You can take a screencast now!

Part of what sucks about the zeitgeist is waking up every morning and seeing the same A.I. debate in my timeline. Of course it’s worth talking about! But it won’t resolve any time soon, and it’s so hard to keep my own focus on the aspects of tech that I find energizing rather than exhausting

Why did I get this email. Why did anyone get this email. Can you please just send me things related to my money or lack thereof

In two-person luge competition, the athlete on top handles steering and the athlete on the bottom is mainly there for weight distribution and stability. I’m gonna be honest: that really doesn’t feel like a compelling reason to stack two guys on a sled

Ways to prove your age to Discord: 1. Submit sensitive credentials 2. Let it photograph your face 3. Show it how many hours you’ve spent playing video games about Hanseatic League trade routes

Cool, thanks for the insult. I will seriously consider using your product now that you’ve insulted me

Hi, folks. I’m getting married in a few days. As a wedding gift, I was wondering if everyone who looked at this post could internalize the grammar rules about using commas for direct address: www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/comm...

“Pelicans should’ve drafted Ja Morant instead of Zion Williamson,” said everyone in hindsight. Well, the monkey’s paw has granted my wish to shut those people up… albeit not entirely how I intended. (I wonder if that’s its whole gimmick. Must investigate.)

Replaying the Zelda games since I got a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it occurs to me that “Rusty Claymore” would be a great name to give at Starbucks if you’re bored

There are 42 episodes of _Yellowstone_ available to watch on my flight because I guess that’s what the market demanded?

Things that signify the most wonderful time of the year, according to the song: • Children jingling bells all the time • People constantly telling you to be in a good mood

ahhhhhhahahahahahahahahaa 🤘

I don’t live in Arcadia. Also, that’s not Arcadia, you silly advertisement. That is San Francisco

I’m glad Dick Van Dyke got interviewed on _Today_ this morning — and that he’s so healthy for a guy who turns 100 in a few weeks! — but news outlets must realize that any headline I see that starts with “Dick Van Dyke” is going to make me think “oh-FUCK—oh-wait-he’s-okay-never-mind.”

I could give you context to this NextDoor comment, but I think we both know it won’t make much of a difference

Man, if UCLA wriggles out of its contract with the Rose Bowl, then words cease to mean anything anymore. (Their lease runs to the mid-2040s)

Going into this thing, I thought there was an outside chance they’d get what they wanted on the ACA subsidies, but a greater chance that Republicans would eventually get tired and route around them, abolishing the filibuster in the process. Well, we got option three: a shit sandwich

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