There are few things I hate quite like the data center boom. It’s an environmental crisis, invitation for corruption, and economic bomb in the making all at once. It’s a lot like 19th century railroad booms and bubbles. I wrote about that for @damemagazine.bsky.social here.

he who fucks with his dick has forgotten the face of his father

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Obama should invite Trump and Khomeini over for a beer. It worked for that cop/university professor situation.

And this, kids, is why cream cheese does not make for a productive conditioner substitute.

@folktunes.bsky.social I’m pretty sure I’m morally required to check and see if you’ve seen this yet youtu.be/SasPSd3yP0A

The SECOND most popular mailing list is the Holodeck feed that tells folks when a new Angela Lansbury rpg campaign is out.

Pitch an unnecessary sequel There will be Viscera

Pitch an unnecessary sequel Bring it Surf Ninjas 12

"...it sounds like you're feeding US Navy ships to Iranian mines"

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Nine months old and this kitten is a giant and at least once a day he’ll demand to be picked up and then purr about it for fifteen+ minutes

Everything reminds me of her (my wife)

A halfway mark

Holy shit 3 pounds of salmon is SO MUCH FUCKING SALMON?!

How does one go about finding a good tattoo artist? I need one in Denver….

Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.

Again, Americans are not “choosing” not to depart at the time. The airspace is closed.

My dad just discovered the glory of the Opinel as a pocket knife while up in Canada. “I got one that seemed the right size for cutting salami and cheese, do you think that’s a good way to use one?” Oh yeah. A whole lot of French people have hoped that that’s how the knife would get used, 10/10.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social thanks for doing an appearance down south of Portland! I can’t get up there as often as I’d like (especially on a Friday, I-5 on a Friday? Oof) so it was wonderful to have you head on down.

This is already quaint

So our kittens are Geminis, probably. Huh. I mean there are three of them which seems like a kinda two faced way to be Geminis but the more you know! (Estimated day they were born is May 25th, but +/- a day or two, tempted to run the 5 charts and then pick the “right” fate based on results)

If you have a family member or close friend sheltering in place in Puerto Vallarta right now, I'd love to speak with you and/or them ASAP. I can be reached at fmelo (at) pioneer press (dot) com. Wishing the best for everyone. www.twincities.com/2026/02/22/2...

Citrus fruits are the Hapsburgs of the fruit world.

Sexting you one handed because, you know (Risotto really does need THAT much attention the whole damn time)

Well fuck. Got RAM, upgraded RAM, computer boots to no visual output, even the BIOS isn’t available. Back down to 16gb for now, I’ll have to figure out Best Buy’s return/exchange process tomorrow. And they damn well better exchange because what do you know DDR4 costs more now.

Wait, so does all this mean the de minimis exemption is back too?

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

Can’t. This boy’s a time bomb

Can’t. I’m ripping up my transfer and a photograph of you.

Can’t, I came in burned

Throwing this open to the hive mine: anyone got decent information on the working principle of the Ericsson engine or the Wilcox hot-air engine?

What is a manscape? A miserable little pile of secrets!

Okay this whole Wikipedia page is fascinating. At skim some of these regions had water that was green as often it was blue, but the idea that “terms for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue” is a mindfuck

Roses are red I bet you'll agree Which one is bouba And which is kiki

My mother is visiting and she’s been here for like 3 hours and already the kittens are just actively sleeping on her. I was excited for her to meet them but I was worried they’d need more than a half day to get comfy with her, I’m beyond cloud 9 right now

Y’all don’t understand how large the contiguous United States is Other things in comparison for scale

“1% milk” is so very cursed in comparison, if you think about it.

i don't think anyone on the left is saying you can't get femboys pregnant

Well fuck. My dad is convinced that Epstein is doing the Elvis thing right now. What the actual fuck?

We’ve still got two biathlon finals left, right? I have an idea

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

this is galen mckenna, i met him on grindr and he raped me, he's into trans women, he goes to eckerd college in st. petersburg florida and stays with his parents in powerderhorn minneapolis when he's back in minnesota very bad and inattentive rapist, dni

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Great art, but also some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten from a “sometimes my brain is doing Bad Brain shit” standpoint.

We all agree that if Musk rolling *everything* into “finance AI data centers in SPACE” causes him to bust then he no longer gets to Lowttax and instead has to Ayn Rand out instead, right?

On reflection if Elon ever DID successfully make a sex bot it’d totally gonna catch on fire with you stuck inside it.

Been sitting on this for FOREVER but I’m wicked stoked to say I was a contributing writer on this episode!! It was a ton of fun coming up with some statements for consideration and it’s super cool a bunch made it to air!!

Wait does Cleveland also call jojos jojos? I thought PDX and the rest of the PNW called them that because of some packing company where the owner labeled them that after his wife, but that was a PNW company? How would the naming hegemony spread to *Cleveland*? They have their own, bigger, culture?