Thank you, daily affirmations app giving me a Valentine’s Day reminder

Happy Valentine’s Day from Breaking Bad star Dean Norris

Winter olympics be like

As @aselrod.bsky.social says, the reality of this administration is enough to drive you mad, when the fact is that it is reality that is mad www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

american’s are too polarized these days. it used to be that everyone believed some people deserved some rights. now one side believes everyone should die painfully and the other thinks most people should get to live. i am paid $500000 a year for my insights

FANTASY/AVATAUR.GIF

Crash (2004)

wrote about love, the apparition of love, what it can mean when someone says i love you, and the deception of love. happy valentine's day michelecatblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/i...

Life in prison for this shit. I'm not joking. The only reason that's not the statutory sentence is that US torture laws only apply to torture committed OUTSIDE the US; torture committed INSIDE the US isn't a separate crime

"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

Just to watch him cry 🎶

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

If you've been meaning to delete that Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp account you never use, now would be a really good time!

New citizenship test just dropped

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.” When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder. On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

greatest headline of my adult life

do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo?

The bravery and courage of educators in contrast to the callous cruelty of DHS continues to astonish me. “We love our children fiercely.”

USA Simulator

tHeSe aRe NoT ur FaTheR’s DeMoCrAtS

But Mr. Krabs didn’t say “fudge”…

Beano #725, June 9, 1956

Building a software user experience that can actually meet consumer expectations is much harder than many tech people think. Unfortunately, a lot of FOSS is simply not ready for the consumer experience. Maybe @jenson.org has a different opinion. www.theverge.com/report/87507...

I’m so not ready for spring

A random reply generator for freelancers to politely decline unpaid work. (For when you want to be polite.)

paranoia device rolls back to previous version

Y’all what is up with autocorrect going insane when you have to back up and correct part of a word? Why does it treat this as a new word? So if I spell “from” as “frim“ and back up it thinks I’m trying to just spell “om”… did anyone QA this?!?

Hey y’all, former journalist here reporting about the wrestler and the “fuck ICE“ chant. He wasn’t absent from the show because of all that. He was getting on a plane to Australia. 🤷‍♂️

Logging

How is natto not on here? To be fair, I’ve probably only had nasty imported stuff that isn’t representative, because I know a lot of folks eat this outside the USA. But what I had tasted straight up like gym socks. I cannot.

Didn’t Nickelodeon have a show about this?

Thomas CAUGHT doubtmaxxing as Christ stuns death-cels

amazing

I can no longer agree that we would “make great pets”

Similar to my last post, there’s also the folks who want to use signal for messaging and are very finicky about security in theory, but post on TikTok and check signal maybe once a month. Not entirely helpful! Lmao

my new job at the EPA is to hunt and destroy every last goddamn bee they’ve ever saved

Please tell me we’ve all got that one friend who discovers two weeks worth of news on a late Thursday afternoon and posts that shit on instagram like they are the only ones who caught it 😂😅😮‍💨

Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files execute silently via Markdown links www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

youtu.be/R-rDQs5NOP4?... Dirty punks predicted this…

Yelp! The Musical

Waiting for Garfield

If Pam Bondi was a waitress.

NATURE/SB91003G.GIF

Yet another crucial point: the vast majority of the world’s historical archives have not been digitized and are thus totally invisible to LLMs/AI. bsky.app/profile/jcte...

I think “failed to load blob” is should become my standard response any inquiry from here on out I’m in my “failed to load blob” era

So glad our culture and news media spent decades responding to people like this with "what would make you say that," and "let's debate this respectfully," and "why do these ideas resonate with people," and "let's hear him out," and "wow so provocative," instead of "man, shut the fuck up."