Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

Well, I spent 15 seconds getting the folding chairs out of the closet so they can be in our way for the next 30 hours until we use them. Tomorrow we'll set the table at 10:00 AM for 4:00 PM Christmas dinner. Not sure what we'll do for 6 hours since we can't play games. Wish it made sense.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

If I come to visit and you play Christmas music at deafening levels, I'm just going to assume you don't want to talk to me. I'll quietly sit in another room.

The people that decided to work for Flock are straight up evil.

excuse me?!

What if the city of San Francisco had invested in back up batteries for traffic signals instead of expensive contracts with Flock to build a warrantless tracking system?

In my next life, I'm going to set up a think tank full of politicians dedicated to telling journalists how to do their jobs better.

I get it, but I do sometimes wish people spent as much time linking to articles they’ve enjoyed reading, than articles they want to expose as trash.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

If you're looking for a fun little logic game, check out kickoffleague.com Pieces move like chess and you have to score a goal in a certain number of moves. Each day has 3-4 puzzles starting at very easy and working up. Usually requires some time/thinking.

Christmas vacation goal: Reduce the number of open tabs by finally reading that article I was getting around to.

Planning out my multi-state holiday travels to avoid Flock cameras...

It is somewhat amazing the power that Yglesias has to bait even huge accounts into his arguments. He won't engage with it, but it seem obvious the inverse of his post is true. If everyone left Twitter (for here), it would empower the left.

Sounds like impeachment articles for Noem may be just around the corner. Let's not forget about Kash Patel!

The way that multiple academics with massive followings are dogpiling on an account with <1k followers because she dared to disagree with the number and type gen eds required to be a functional member of society is super gross. Show some respect and use a screenshot with the name blurred.

I don't know if any other states in the @statesnewsroom.com org have as great an affliate as Michigan Advance, but @michiganadvance.com is one of the best publications in MI.

Always nice to have a power failure 24 hours in to a 30 hour print. Maybe I'll get a UPS.

Glad impeachment articles have been filed against Hegseth and Kennedy.

"AI holds immense promise" Uhh.... There are too many lawyers in Congress. It's not that having lawyers is bad, it's that when it's only lawyers none of your colleagues can tell you when you're being dense. None of them have any relevant life experience in other industries.

I spent a lot of time in the 90s running advanced computer simulations of this technology. Not worthwhile at all.

It's amazing how bad some movies I remember from my childhood actually are. Examples: The Cable Guy, and Eurotrip. What takes the cake for bad movies was the Atlas Shrugged trilogy. Each movie got worse as the budgets got slashed. It seems like parody, but they were made by libertarian activists.

The Address Bar should never have been normalized as a search bar. You shouldn't have to share your browsing history with your search provider, even when you aren't even using their search!

Should I read any of those articles I've been saving in open tabs today?

It seems pretty straightforward that the boat murders were criminal. How far down the chain does that liability go? Should the pilot be tried criminally? Intermediate officers that relayed the order?

BREAKING: The #EugeneOR Police Department has just announced that it is immediately terminating its #FLOCK contract, citing "vulnerabilities and limitations that raise concerns about the systems ability to meet EPD's operational needs."

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give to EFF, now’s your chance to all donations through Dec 9 get an automatic dollar-for-dollar match! eff.org/powerup

When you catch up with people you knew in highschool. www.fox2detroit.com/news/westlan...

I still can't believe that asshole tore down half the White House.

Gearing up to watch season 5 of Stranger Things and I've finished off a season 1 rewatch. The cast is really great, especially Millie Bobby Brown.

uncle is 100% the best job in a family

TN-07 votes in 2022: 180,822 TN-07 votes in 2025: 179,899 and counting In 2022 it was R+21.82 In 2025 looks like R+9.10 DecisionDeskHQ numbers at 10:25 Est.

Updating - total reported turnout in the TN7 special is now 168k, or 93% of the total votes cast in the November, 2022 midterm general election, a race the GOP won by 22 pts. The GOP has some serious issues right now.

People that make youtube videos or podcasts need to spend more time doing retakes instead of stitching together 0.5 second clips of individual words because they droned on too long. Just switch to some other footage and do a voice over and they don't even have to get out the camera again.

Just found out it will snow tonight and I'm excited to go on a late night snow ride later. It will be the first one of the season!

Good luck to Aftyn tomorrow. Would be great to narrow that House margin even more!

Paying the President for a pardon is an entirely new crime and everyone that does it should be prosecuted and thrown back in jail for twice as long.

I was listening to a podcast about energy and the guest was droning on with industry buzzwords and clearly a moron that doesn't know what he's talking about. Turns out he's an undersecretary at the Dept of Energy.

maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"

Meta’s surveillance systems are pervasive, but there are ways to limit how it collects and uses your personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Did the mulitbillion corporation MSNBC really change their name to MSNOW without buying msnow.com?

How do I get this in MISO? Net loss of 3 GW last year already added like $8 billion to our summer capacity auction. Now they want hyperscale facilities, including a 1.4 GW not far from me. www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...

kickoffleague.com is a fun little logic game. Starts off with an easy part and works up to a challenge on most of the puzzles.

Hey people, we don't need to have our social apps blast out our locations. The people on Twitter aren't liking/following those big accounts because they think they're American, they do it because they enjoy the racism.

Since the Department of Defense is gone and we don't need a Department of War, we can mostly just zero that budget out, right?

I accidentally clicked on the Quiet Posters feed that I haven't peeked at in a long time and I forgot a bunch of these people I follow that just don't get as much visibility.

Everytime I hear Christopher Brown in Ken Burns' American Revolution my brain immediately starts to think it's William Cronon from The National Parks. Then I look back at the screen and go "oh yeah, it's this guy" They both have a soothing cadence that I enjoy a lot.

I got to do a glow ride with all the niblings (except the newborn)! The two from out of town are visiting (due to newborn), so we went out to have some fun. My sister noted that we almost had a rainbow. I didn't realize how much effect we had on the fence. I guess I'll have to get yellow next.

I looked at the Flock camera map for my area again and north of me they are literally tracking everyone door to door. They've placed cameras by every neighborhood.

I love that some of the people saying Linux is too hard for normies are also sharing detailed screen caps of hand modifying the registry to turn off Windows AI features.