Its one thing to read the histories and realize that fascism is an ideology by and for weird losers who suck at everything, and another to live through it

the thing about kids is they fucking rock

being a Little Bit Sick is very unsettling because I mostly feel normal but sitting upright in front of the computer makes me tired and i don’t have an appetite, which is a thing that never happens

every week trump does five things that would have been viewed as the most flagrantly authoritarian abuse of power for any other administration in the past century. idk chat even if four out of every five monstrous evils are ultimately blocked or reversed I don’t see how we’re coming back from this

i like it when claude is like "you know what this teammate is taking forever, fuck it i'll do it myself"

taking a deload week and i'm bored. this should be illegal, i should be allowed to injure myself in peace.

yes it’s actually good for an AI company to push back against an authoritarian government trying to force them to remove all guardrails so it can murder people, what are you talking about

who up late claude coding a TBEST knockoff

A big reason Democrats lose is that people think they're phonies who don't believe in anything or have any self-respect. Act like you believe in something. Anything. For fuck's sake

I think there are times when you've got to eat a shit sandwich for the greater good, or to take abuse to be seen as the bigger person. And I think attending a Trump speech is the stupidest possible way to do that.

the townhome next door was recently purchased by a younger single guy and it’s mostly fine but he’s definitely a Gamer (derogatory) and that means occasionally being subjected to his shouted Gamer Words (slurs) through the wall at 10pm

Gyok is all shoulders and no hips. But give him that kind of space and he can do some stuff!

anyway congratulations to Brock Nelson

My son Cale Makar

SEND HELP is so good, every moment you have not seen SEND HELP is letting ICE and the terrorists win.

the thing about horrible billionaires replacing journalists with chatbots is it will be a disaster for the public good but more than a few journalists deserve what’s coming

women’s hockey and zercher squats

i have seen probably ten variations of this post and it's striking that nearly all of them misrepresent or snidely diminish what AI is capable of doing *right now*. Which, of course is one of the primary critiques of the original Transformer post they're ostensibly responding to.

young children getting their nails clipped be like

me: spends billable hours drafting a client's federal grant application narrative document. Uses ChatGPT for outlines, revisions, and alignment checks but specifically edits out the "LLM voice". Sends to client for review. client: Sends back doc, it's just mine but laced with ChatGPTisms 🙃

the current state of the left is like if you paradropped dropped printing presses with instruction manuals to every factory in the 1800s and all labor did with them was smash them with hammers for being haunted by evil spirits

The best local hot chicken place is advertising that they cook their fries in beef tallow. Is it because it’s tasty, is it cynical pandering, or is the owner one of those idiots who think it’s healthy

I know disliking Liz Bruenig is a thing in my social graph but if you read her measles article without immediately clocking its form and intent, that’s a skill issue on your part.

I love going to bars* *local barcade, maybe three times a year, ordering precisely two drinks, leaving before 10

doing an RFP response review I'm basically just marking up chatGPTisms.

my most old man computer complaint is I hate how hard programs make it to just save or open a file in the directory I want. So many useless overlays just to get to a file explorer menu I can actually use

ranking the 2000s TRL-era rock/nu-metal bands that went MAGA: Disturbed: Winners by default because they have several good songs (Stupify, The Game, Pray). Their Sound of Silence cover, however, is a literal crime against humanity. Godsmack: They have at least four songs I kinda like.

every Trump post is just the leftist meme meme

smh everybody talking about the Super Bowl but not a peep about Six Nations, you call yourselves sportsball fans

I rode into work on the new bike lane the Utah state legislature wants to force Salt Lake City to “mitigate” and potentially rip out. As you can see, a tangle of peak hour AM traffic from the devastating loss of one travel lane.

I don’t love that the whole family ends up co-sleeping most nights but I appreciate when the boys arrange themselves efficiently

well well well, if it isn’t my greatest adversity (final 4x5 vo2max interval)

i just saw an earnest "libs just want to go back to brunch, leftists should build a true mass movement by handing out more zines" take in the wild and folks I think we need a new topic of discourse, this one's got mold spores everywhere

bravely resisting the urge to become negatively polarized against self-described activists and organizers of any stripe despite the best fucking efforts of people on this site

pitching my spinoff, The Pitt: Day Off. Dr Robby goes kayaking. Langdon does laundry. The farmer doctor is thwarted by an automated checkout machine scale. etc.

not to be all cinemasins but a central premise of Pixar's Cars universe is that elite racers, who are also actual cars, have never heard of counter steer, to which I call Bull Shit

so has anybody made a pepe silvia chart of all the people in the trump/far right orbit who were tight with epstein

a very fuck ice to all whom celebrate

this sucks but it’s funny that “kids these days haven’t worked hard enough to deserve a home” also mirrors geriatric NIMBY boilerplate pretty much everywhere in the country

inevitable result of the Stancil thing is 1. "organizers" will continue trying to assert control over networks via arbitrary bans, unannounced rules, whisper campaigns, etc 2. regular people will become increasingly aware of and troubled by it but carry on doing the work

like it seems painfully clear that current elected Democratic leadership is in no way laying groundwork, be it legislative, rhetorical, moral, whatever, for any kind of major reforms. They just aren't, and there's no reason to think they're gearing to do so if they regain power. That's a problem!

There are people on here who talk about needing a second reconstruction (we'll call them Liberal Currents dems) alongside a contingent of, let's say, Procedure Scolds, who aren't necessarily the same people but do exist in the same social graph and I genuinely don't understand how that works

Update: in addition to Trainer Road-style progression bars I’ve now stolen and expanded Strava’s weekly summaries and added canned analysis + quick copy of rides and metrics for a parallel “coaching” chat.

Arsenal are gonna blow it aren’t they

sorry it's 2026, we've developed robust antibodies against this kind of clout farming woker-than-thou wrecker shit. Go away, nobody needs you.

i took the plunge on Claude Pro and I made it hack together a functional homebrew Trainer Road clone so it’s basically already paid for itself @proptermalone.bsky.social thought vindicated

I don't mean to dunk on Mina Kimes who is cool and good, but I strongly suspect that AI use is already widespread in her industry, if not in writing final copy then in drafting, outlining, organizing etc, there are just powerful social incentives against talking about it.

it's wild that in 2020 you started hearing former active-duty marines talk about cops having lower ROE standards for protesting civilians than they did against insurgents in Iraq, and now cops are starting to talk the same way about ICE and CBP

you ever stop and think about how we were maybe two inches away from none of this happening