Lots of people out there with their pants around their ankles and don’t realize it because they’ve got disbelief suspenders on.

Pat oat lost my bike ability to type

Look, my feeling is AI is extremely competent and we mistake its competence for sentience (or consciousness, subjectivity) because we’ve made ourselves less competent and, in a way, simultaneously less sentient, having flooded our consciousness with slop. Our admiration for it grows to fill that gap

you just did it though

“If you want to stay boring all your life, you will never be a clown.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a...

anyone else having a hard time feeling motivated to do their taxes?

It’s me, sitting cross-legged in a plywood-sided trailer, zipping along in the sooty slipstream of your pickup, distributing flyers titled “How to Talk to Your Children About This Guy’s ‘FUCK YOUR FEELINGS’ American Flag Window Decal.”

They share a single disappearing anus.

Beth Ditto=Beth Beth=The Beths

Driving alone, breaking into helpless little buckshots of laughter, as I hear myself instructing the car to “Play ‘Poundcake’ by Van Halen.”

This is the Olympic spirit made manifest, the magic of the Games inflating us with hot air

My dream is for some adventurous publisher to do one of these paperbacks of my novel “GONDOS: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture ‘Gondos’” Would be even more fun now that the format is dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

wow tgif, almost time to turn away from the rancor, racism, resentment and schadenfreude online and settle into the window seat with my novel about slaughtering buffalo

there is a Taiwanese basketball team that is straight-up named after the DEA. the United States Drug Enforcement Agency is their mascot.

dumping bitcoin

Guys you gotta take reindeer organs

fellas, let’s check in over some protein shakes and share best practices for when your teen girls want to process all the vile, graphic stuff they’re reading in the Epstein files before going to bed…?

The WALKING Podcast pivoted to video (without me) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Caring is so powerful.

Marty Supreme Happy Birthday Betsy

LONG ISLAND FIREFIGHTERS VS ICE EXCUSE ME WHAT IS HAPPENING

Slash is like Dread Pirate Roberts. “November Rain” was actually eight Slashes ago.

3/2 at 7:30 PM | In "A World Appears," journalist @michaelpollan.bsky.social explores the concept of consciousness — what it is, who has it, and why. Pollan will be in conversation with @jmooallem.bsky.social. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/pGTXmL4

"Mom, I'm in the Epstein Files!"

Joyce Carol Oates has an opportunity to do the funniest thing…

I do not think posting is healthy for me.

"There’s a cynical conception of 'maturity' that asks us to disavow things we believed in our youth, not because they were shameful but because they were virtuous." a GOAT LoR, newly relevant too bad bro only writes sleek recon about pants and housewares now www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/m...

Deescalating is short for Definitely Escalating

It’s mine, actually. I’ve known about this planet for years and I own it. Guess my secret’s out lol. I’m on it right now—my planet. Posting while I eat snacks and watch The Pelican Brief on Blu-ray. No streaming here. Only Blu-ray on my planet. Very limited selection. Don’t come here.

SlothSurf for accomplishing recreational tasks cc @evrat.bsky.social

“Who’s window?” “Overton’s window!” (I don’t know what it means. The protesters were chanting this in my dream.)

I’m thinking a lot about Adam’s insight about ”neighborism,” and realizing how many frictions of modern life may boil down to Real People vs. Boogeymen

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on my Samsung SmartFridge.

To keep from scrolling all afternoon I’m going to the woodshop, because if I try to scroll there I’m likely to cut off a finger and embarrass myself in front of a lot of gruff older men whose respect I crave. You can have your time management apps, this is the incentive structure that works for me

Caring is so powerful.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Just an absolutely deranged thing for a member of the cabinet to say.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

currently the most-liked comment under the WSJ story about the shooting

I recommend Minnesota Public Radio live. I’m learning a lot I’m not getting elsewhere.

When the NBA cancelled games in March 2020, it felt like crossing a threshold into a genuine pandemic--something crashing through all the buffers to touch each of our lives.

Vulture also said Evan's show "pokes at something essential about the hours we spend on this earth." One of the best podcasts I've ever listened to. Yes. And CEO Kyle Law, despite not being human, is among the most compelling and pathos-rich characters I've encountered in a journalistic work.

The full 8-part season 2 of Shell Game is out! The tale of HurumoAI, the world’s first AI agent-cofounded and led startup, ready to binge: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/show/7IddLas... "Evan Ratliff is a total weirdo." —Vulture, best narrative podcasts of 2025

I am not a social media influencer I am just a regular Minneapolis dad trying to do a kid pickup this morning and get some gas. What do I find but that one guy and a bunch of bortech (whatever that is) blocking the station for a glamour shot. I stood right where I wanted to stand this is my town.

The country of Norway does not run the Nobel Prize.

We could have set up a federal agency for Postmortem Affairs. Spouse, parent, etc. dies? Fill out this form and everything from social security to transferring frequent flyer miles gets taken care of. Just one small, great American possibility receding into the past, not yet visible in the future.

will probably do this from now on, since I happen to have a branding iron with my face on it

agents of the state tackle dancing fox

if you look closely you can spot these subtle uncanny embellishments amid the escalating surreality of everyday life