to be surprised by this is to have never, ever spent July in San Francisco.

There are downsides.

Improvised roof deck for Oakland's special night

you: I won the lottery! your friend who only understands the world through Shirley Jackson stories: oh nooooooo

Every time a billion is made, a guillotine gets its blade.

I was so confused about why so many people were suddenly sharing this delightful Onion horse who wants cake piece in the last day. I see now that it was just posted online, after being in print weeks ago. That kind of lag seems a bit bananas.

I just realized that when It Happens, Fox News is going to be so weird to watch -- solemn, tear-filled tributes to America's Most President™ interspersed with angry coverage denouncing the millions and millions of Americans celebrating in the streets.

I don't really have space for a whole bunker, can I just have the mentality?

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

We keep doing this (broad definition of "we" here) and it keeps working. Close the streets to cars, or limit them significantly, and _people_ replace them. People spend money. People connect with other people. People generate new ideas when they bounce off one another. Cities are made of PEOPLE.

No.

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

The cat requires Blanket Mother.

He's lying, but presumably we're meant to be impressed that these people are engaging in a behavior that is guaranteed to lead to mistakes?

so do they get to finish dinner or

What is going on with Google maps

???

Why is this dodo telling his younger self about proposed bills? The intertime communication device can only stay on for so long before it starts over-timeheating and warping the reality around it like a Solo cup in the dishwasher. He should be giving himself stock tips. Get yourself rich, Andy!

"Who's that French pianist who did a whole Beethoven thing, like playing all the sonatas or whatever it was?" "Ohhh, yeah, what's his name, that uh

And I hope somebody flushes him.

One nice thing about indoor climbing in Oakland is that I am absolutely surrounded by fresh walls. So every week I have new things to fail at. I could fail at home, but that would get repetitive in a hurry. Instead I pay money to go fail in specialized failure atria, but at least it's not boring.

My 9-year-old daughter and I agree that all you Angine de Poitrine nerds are on to something. She doesn't care to hear me talk about microtonal guitar work. She just likes it.

what

guy who had never before heard of baseball before finding a poorly typeset baseball rules manual: You gotta designate a hitler in this game? Man I'm out

Yes I would like one gyozum please

I get it, Windows Hello. Some days I don't even recognize myself.

in an administration defined by unforced errors, "accidentally giving Iran formal control of the Strait of Hormuz" still might be a record-breaker

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

Girlfriend futures rise on report that Bobby has passed a "Do you like me, check yes or no" note to the girl who sits one up and two over from him in Mrs. Harrison's Language Arts class.

There should be a "do not perceive me" option at networking events, because why was I just eating a slice of Costco pizza next to the garbage can in a crowded warehouse when a man in a blazer and leather portfolio looked me in the eye, said "Yum, yum! 😃" and walked away.

We really can just do Nuremberg 2.0, if anyone cares to stand up a quick courthouse complex, World's Fair style, in this little town in Pennsylvania.

Every now and then I think about Viktor Orbán's little haircut and get angry all over again.

The term "stagflation" came to US English from UK English, where it was coined to contrast with "henflation". The UK pronunciation of the latter evolved to omit the "h" (as with "herb"), and so in US English is typically rendered as "inflation".

It is "wearing Tevas to the climbing gym" weather.

The first time I saw the Grand Canyon, it reconfigured my sense of scale. Like there was the definition of "big" I had before, and then the definition of "big" I had after, and they were different by an order of magnitude.

This is something I tell to everyone on the East Coast that I can. If you have never gone out and physically stood in front of The West before but just seen it in photos, you absolutely must. You think you have an idea, but you have no idea: it is stupendously, ridiculously bigger than you think

If you told it to not have "anxiety", it would string together a series of statistically likely words that amounted to "Sure thing, boss," and it would stop having "anxiety". That ain't consciousness.

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

"He had a stroke and now he thinks more like me."

How many aircraft can one man carry?

I would describe myself as a "Nurembergist", in terms of schools of thought about consequences.

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

I'm going to be helping my daughter with homework tonight. She's going to be shocked at just how focused I am on that, and that alone, starting around, say, 6 p.m. Pacific. It'll be like I'm wearing blinders. Might never take them off, actually.

I'm genuinely curious about this. Is it regional? Was there a place it started and then spread? Does its use/prevalence differ by race and class?

Briones Rancho de la Rosa, ContraCosta County, CA 🗺37.9627, -122.1666 🧭301° ⛰1135 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1858

Dunk _and_ Egg? In this economy?

Me: that's Walter under the bridge Friend: it's "water" lol Me: *pointing to a body as it floats down the river* no

There's a guy I always see at the climbing gym I (usually) go to on Wednesday nights. He does a couple of warm-up climbs, then he takes off his shirt. Every time. V0, V2, V4, then off comes the shirt. Tonight he didn't take off his shirt. And that's how I know it's actually chilly.