This new UK smoking ban law is the dumbest law I've seen in a long time. It seems likely to: - Making smoking cool again - Drive a massive illegal trade - Encourage a lot of tourism to Ireland - Lose some of the younger vote for Labour It's just an unworkable overreach

Congrats to JD Vance on sinking Orban’s campaign without trace 😂

Easily the funniest thing about the new Godzilla movie universe is how hard they keep trying to make Kong happen.

Earthset

Houston, please be advised. The Artemis crew are steely eyed missile humans.

Peace, and long life

He lies so much I doubt we're even in Iran

Of all the various Christian holy days, Spy Wednesday has always been the coolest.

Are any of you actually using AI for a full virtual assistant’ing workflow? Like for real, not just for experimenting? If so, what’s your setup?

Bottom-right is what I always hear when someone tries to tell me game companies have a master plan that took years to pull off etc. Y'all need to understand this business is way too chaotic for that.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Verve and joy versus tedious blaring. A tale of two halftime shows

Money also apparently can’t buy a conscience or the ability to see the world as humanity rather than paleo ideas of races and nations.

A happy Imbolc to you and yours ☘️

The Rams suddenly seem out of gas

So are we the USAV now?

Remember, no iPodding!

I’m not sure when I started this, but every Christmas I post this carol. Once again, a happy Cthulhusmas to you! youtu.be/1ftld7Ohojg?...

Ain’t no sleep like the long sleep you get after a massive day of travel (with a little Zzzquil and melatonin assistance). 11 hours down 😊

This why imma Seahawks fan

Seems like the US TikTok sale is happening. Still unclear whether this means basically US-only content on US-only Tiktok.

Where are you at with AI these days?

If house insurance can be $200 a month covering potentially a million in payouts, there’s no good reason why health insurance shouldn’t be $3-$400 a month max. Anything above that is a scam.

Show me how your 2025 went

$1000 a month is not insurance It’s a fucking scam

This is the cheapest non-sketchy option I can find on the Washington State healthplan ACA marketplace. This is for an individual. It was only a few years ago that this was the sort of price that I was paying to cover me and my wife. Every politician needs to own fixing this.

Man the spinoff shows for The Walking Dead are ridiculous. The basic problem is this: It is unbelievable after 15 years (or whatever) of this show that every surviving human on Earth isn't totally efficient at killing ombies, and so all surprise scenarios seem contrived.

What the fuck? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

LA doesn’t seem to think the Chargers are in LA either :)

All of the wild card contenders in the NFC have better records than all but one of the division leaders. The NFL league system is ridiculous. There are too many divisions.

Say what you want about The Game Awards but last night was the best-dressed night I’ve ever seen in all my years in videogames.

I refuse to believe that anyone thinks the Chargers are an LA team. They’re still the San Diego Chargers to everyone and they know it.

Do not bring omens

I know this seems like a bit, but this is not a bit www.crocs.com/p/xbox-class...

The NY Giants are just cursed.

Some great news from the Mobile Game Doctor team as it expands to encompass further verticals in console and PC (and beyond!). gamedoctor.net/2025/11/19/i...

Well Valve has been busy eh. www.ign.com/articles/val...

Well it seems like the moderate wing of the Democrats just self-destructed

Of the various remnants of Magic Leap swag that I own, this T-shirt remains my favorite. It was meant to be for a baseball day to see the Mariners, but the logo is pure nightmare.

The rest of the NFL is not nearly afraid enough of the 2025 Seahawks

Although I’ve watched a few seasons of the Witcher I couldn’t name more than 3 characters, the armies, the cities, etc. It’s all Hurgebkurk of Scrovivia must fight against the encroaching darkness of the empire of Wublivika and the dark wizard Florgbenkraft. Or something.

US airports seem confused lately as to which CBP line a green carder is supposed to go through. Every airport (and sometimes individual terminals) has slightly different rules and often no signage to explain. There are only 12.8 million of us, I get it, it’s such an edge case 🤣

Has anyone else just sorta given up on email?

If you use Sling for TV and are currently hitting error hell while trying to watch the Mariners game tonight (thanks AWS), logging in through the Fox Sports app seems to be working.

Remember kids: it’s not “hating America” if you want to preserve democracy and reject kings. Attacking congress, jamming religion everywhere, putting troops and goons on the streets and deliberately destroying the economy is what hating America looks like

The shot heard ‘round Seattle 🙂 Go Mariners!

Maybe it was a bad idea to let gamergaters be the future of the GOP after all

So: - more welfare handouts for farmers - jobs numbers in the toilet - flouting of judicial orders - gravy seals deployed to Illinois for pretend - Stevieboy Miller goes full “everyone’s a terrorist” - the AG is AWOL on doing her actual job American Greatness