This morning I changed the van’s dead battery in -7° temps in under 25 minutes. If my glasses hadn’t fogged up it would have gone faster. This is a top achievement for middle aged, midwestern living.

Thanksgiving dinner is usually a long, exhausting affair with endless food and boring, unfocused conversation. Skip it this year in favor of a single bowl of Soylent for the table and a lightning round where each family member pitches an idea for disrupting an established industry with AI

yes hahaha yes

The first time I remember hearing Bob Dylan’s Masters of War I thought, “oh, he’s talking about Chaney”. But of course he wasn’t. Apparently that type has been around for at least two generations.

I don’t like that both Windows and Mac OS have made it a little harder to get to a simple calendar with a single click by default. I must have been one of the few people to use that often.

I still hate that the tech industry is pushing AI garbage on us through everyday tools.

Sand in mouth. “Why did you do that?” “Ahm… I saw mama?”

Well— Apple successfully made my iPhone 12 obsolete. It’s so slow now!

This is hilarious.

Small nephew just told an incredible joke Q: How many grownups does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Just one, screwing in a lightbulb is not hard

I heard Mr Sandman at the grocery store and wanted to tell the cashier I felt like I’d been time traveling. Then I realized a good number of adults wouldn’t know what that means.

Windows 11 complaint: if network latency is high, typing a term into the Start search sometimes freezes the Start menu. It looks like Windows is searching the web for my term before it searches my list of applications.

I’m kind of obsessed with Bluey.

We don’t talk about how perverse it is that many of our country’s current leaders think that empathy is for losers. That’s an idea that people should be ashamed of.

Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has started to drop. Don’t forget we can help one another. We can live honestly. Fiction can be powerful. Don’t forget to feel proud of those values.

I firmly believe that the best way to sightsee non-metropolitan parts of California is to rent a fun car. Convertible, sports sedan… German or American muscle. Something like that.

Trader Joe’s chocolate peanut butter cups > Whole Foods chocolate peanut butter cups. Way better.

the expression "never the twain shall meet" is about how Mark Twain will never hear Man! I Feel Like A Woman

Minneapolis bike community: What are your favorite shops for repairs?

Happy Captain Picard day to those who celebrate it!

I saw this dog at the park and I think you should get to see it too. Old friend was just chilling, watching kids play on the playground. ❤️

TIL that novelist Michael Chabon cowrote lyrics for Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special. Also, that album is now 10 years old.

To this day my phone often autocorrects to “happy bodegas!” And I just send it.

@mattlieb.bsky.social I’m halfway through Pod Yourself a Gun. I hope you never stopped making dumb songs. Each one is brilliant.

@lauragmitchell.com did you see this article yet? (Pretend “cars” isn’t in the URL)

Pathetic.

I don’t think it spoils anything if I say that John Noble is in Severence. I LOVE watching his face. His characters are so rich.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

YES! It’s hard for us to admit that we’re a racist people. It’s even harder to for us to see that all the dumb things we do (🍊) are because of it.

If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

Can we imagine a world where I-94 didn't induce all this carcinogenic car traffic to these particular neighborhoods? Would people drive their cars here to idle at a standstill for hours every day just to keep the poisonous fumes flowing? Could we study that?

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

I only remember the date of Valentine’s Day because of OutKast.

Nice.

I poured spoiled cream into my coffee this morning and had to dump it. This happens sometimes. Christopher Walken once had an SNL character "Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic" who would predict unimportant things in a dramatic way. (1/2)

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

the bad things our government is about to do are downstream of the bad things our government has done. don't give the Nazis credit for our unique history of harming vulnerable people in creative ways

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

God, I am in the mood to fight people. Selfish people on the road this morning. Then I hear Biden pardoned Miley and Fauci on his way out- cool. But the reporter had the nerve to immediately ask about the precedent this might set.

Hot take loosely held: By verbally bashing Big Tech yet failing to pass any meaningful privacy or antitrust reform when they had the chance (2021-2022), Dems managed to alienate tech tycoons while leaving them stronger than ever, setting the stage for an unholy alliance between tech and Trump's GOP.

@lauragmitchell.com @mplsalex.bsky.social I need encouragement this morning. Should I ride to work? MyRadar says the wind chill is -12°F.

why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots

It says a lot about our car culture that I was almost run over today by a driver who failed to yield at a turn and: 1) The other pedestrians barely registered what had just happened and, 2) I almost didn’t think it was worth mentioning to friends or family in conversation.

There are a lot of fat white Americans in K-Pop videos.

I can’t love this more.