This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Nick Offerman singing a song about making things yourself is the little dose of positivity I didn't know I needed today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z329...

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Halloween when your city is walkable.🎃

happy 12 years since dorkq, the best bug github.com/gruntjs/grun...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face. Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?

It’s wild to me how normalized it is among Americans that living like all our ancestors did — in small homes where a family has to share space — is impossible. This story is the metastasized version of that, weaponized against poor people.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

This is the lesson of 2025

The traditional checks and balances that rely on ordinary people are doing a lot better than the ones that rely on elites not capitulating.

“You must be careful with these students,” one department chairman told her. “You must not give them a glimpse of a world they will never see or give them a false sense of hope for what their lives could be like.” She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:

“All this started over a lost sponsorship” That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

This is some wicked clever stuff from BTD. Looking forward to seeing these tactics used in the field soon! Seems like such a win for the region. www.boston.gov/departments/...

This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades. People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡 No.

Such language model, big smart.

The scientific method took a long time to take hold because it’s upside down from how we primates are wired to come to consensus about stuff that was important to our primate predecessors. We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’ Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’

what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

It might be smarter to declare war on an American city that isn't literally characterized by how much the people who live there make their entire personalities about how much they love it. Have you even seen my timeline? We've basically been training for this for years.

If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

This is when it would be nice if Massachusetts had a less dysfunctional state house, because we should be hurrying to fix this.

Sure is getting pretty genocidal out there. Y'all need to understand that "rounding up" ANY group leads to more of the same. We do need everyone to speak up on this, and hold the line to support our trans neighbors.

Off to the first day of high school on the same bike he rode as a passenger at age 1. #bike

I commuted to high school on the subway. I had maybe 5 issues in all that time and 100% of them were adult men (of all demographics) being perverts. This was not a subway problem, it was a misogyny problem—and I never had to deal with it alone once because another woman always stepped in to help.

That feeling when your teen says “oh don’t worry about picking up [my little brother] from Kung Fu Camp, I’m already near there and will meet him.” 🙂

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

just lost $100,000 on a polymarket bet that trump would negotiate a peace deal today with putin. i was sure of it. i can't believe i lost all this money. he wrote the art of the deal.

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

This is why I practically fly into a rage anytime I see someone say, "Actually, crime concerns are real." No! There could be zero crime in these cities and Trump would still be attempting his fascist takeover. Do not accept the premise even in the slightest!

honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model

If you're running out of hope, you can still find nourishment in the deepest reservoir of the human soul: spite.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.

What gets me is how utterly un-manly the manosphere is. It’s crybabies and insecurity all the way down. Truly embarrassing stuff.

Impressive!

Last week I participated in a town wide evacuation drill in Stinson Beach. I walked down the hill with my go bag. I was told twice that I should have brought my car, and that if I get stuck in a traffic jam, I should just sit there in my car. I beat the entire line of traffic to the staging area.

The cure to the male loneliness epidemic™️ is to recruit 10 friends and acquaintances to your plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously, both to enrich yourself and to get one over on the guy who's with your ex-wife. Think of the opportunities for male bonding!

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Or maybe fast+cheap deliveries are a feature of cities with great urban design, and attempting to bring that level of convenience to low-density car dependent neighborhood requires massive subsidies.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life. It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.