You know the feeling when you're holding a drink or whatever, and aside from the physical awareness, there's like a persistent mental warning light that's like, "Remember, you have something in your hand." Does anyone else have that when they CTRL+C, but haven't CTRL+V'ed yet? Jobs are weird.

Is it a good sign if the department-wide meeting about AI optimization includes a slide listing the stages of grief?

It's weird that we never questioned the decision that public school kids would specifically need to learn the names of three types of columns used in classical architecture.

Proposed constitutional amendment: To be eligible for any federal office, you can't have ever earned more in a year than the current salary of that office.

Maybe the most optimistic political development in recent months is the Right's shift to ranting about the evils of "communism" because "socialism" polls too well. Despite MAGA's rehabilitation effort, white suburban centrist normies still seem to feel no particular fondness for McCarthyism, so...

Just saw a video about the popular myth that medieval people didn't bathe, though there were LATER trends of believing that bathing was bad for you. Seems like the "Everyone is 12 now" crowd who hates getting flu shots and only wants to eat beef is primed to turn against bathtime any day now.

Of all ways Trump radiates weakness and insecurity, the crowd-size obsession is my favorite one, because of how it's led to news media just gleefully posting b-roll of these haunted, empty venues. Every shot is just begging for a Sounds of Silence needle-drop and a deadpan Ron Howard voiceover.

When did, "Make an assertion, then take a drink from a big cup" become a conservative signifier? It's a thing all over vertical video. They're so weird, you guys.

A belated happy Fathers Day from me and my meat son.

Question: Is it neurotypical to do all the neurotypical stuff, but ON PURPOSE? Answer: Who cares?

The worst tendencies of the left and the right are both insistence that we're doomed if things aren't exactly a certain way. For the right, that way is however things were when they were 12. For the left, the way is just different enough from other leftists that they can't cooperate effectively.

Has anyone written a fantasy/sf story set in a post-apocalypse where there are also vampires or other fantasy creatures, not caused by the apocalypse, but just like, "Well, we don't need food and bullets dont kill us, so there are just proportionately a lot more of us now, so we can't hide anymore."

If I told my friend that I was throwing them a birthday party, and then had the party three weeks early, at my house, on my birthday, they might suspect that the party wasn't really about them.

Hey, America. If we all rush him at once, we can beat him up and take it. We each get $2,600.

Movie pitch: Starts off as a '90s magical realism comedy where like, the real Cupid (Josh Gadd, I assume) helps people with their love lives, and then follows as the world learns of the tangible existence of immortal, supernatural beings with mind-conrol powers, and society as we know it collapses.

If Back to the Future was remade today, the song Marty plays at the dance so his parents will fall in love would be Kiss From a Rose.

Someone should start an Etsy shop with a bunch of cute label stickers and 3D printed shaker tops and special racks to turn prescription bottles into spice and seasoning storage.

Has Congress ever impeached the holder of a sub-cabinet position on the grounds of "being a fucking dork"?

Congratulations to Virginia, on behalf of my fellow Minnesotans. We're still keeping the flag.

I looked it up, and according to the best sources I can find, AI technologies account for 30-40% of the total current value of publicly traded stocks. I also looked up what the word "clarion" means.

I just ate some grapes and small pieces of cheese out of a stoneware bowl while listening to relaxing music, and like, this is a normal, chill evening, but I get why the ancient Greeks (or whoever) considered this to be degenerate hedonist behavior.

The first batch of spring bugs has led to the return of spider season at my house. I generally let the sizeable population of spiders do what they want, but three times this week, I have walked into a web built across a doorway, which implies that they do not recognize the truce.

Say what you want about Karoline Leavitt as a person, but hardly anyone is talking about Trump pooping his pants a few days ago, so she's definitely doing something right.

Anyway, here's dinner.

Armband tattoo, but it's the green 'crazy daisy' Corelle pattern.

A question for your conservative relatives: If undocumented immigrants are bad, and getting rid of them helps the cities where ICE is operating, why aren't conservatives mad about all the money ICE is spending to help Minneapolis when they could be deployed to other places that need them?

A lot of conservatives online going, "Ackshually, they weren't ICE, they were Border Patrol."

Dinner for the returning protesters. #thispotispraxis #dutchovensandscottishmaidens

Sometimes my wife has very silly ideas for things for me to photoshop for her.

Steak and eggs with chimichuri and leftover sides from Brasa Rotisserie.

Share a television show that raised you.

Everyone dust off your Friendster accounts. It's 2003 again. In addition to an illegal Republican war for oil and a plague of low-rise jeans, I'm told that the Perkin's breadbowl salad has returned.

Glenn Powell is this generation's Greg Kinnear, but Hollywood is trying to convince us he's this generation's Brendan Fraser.

I'm in my 40s, and I can confidently say that I have never bought waste basket liners for the tiny trash in the bathroom. It's always Target bags. I'm not sure it had occurred to me that they make bags for those baskets until this morning.

Happy birthday to me and fellow soup enjoyer Hayao Miyazaki.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

I made too many little toasts.

Have they confirmed if she's coming back for Avengers: Doomsday?

Christmas dinner was an unqualified success, and one which I am unlikely to ever make again.

Too much ham? Put beans!

Is every season of Taskmaster played by a pretty lady, a polite young man, a full maniac, somebody's mum, and a dum-dum?

I like pretending that restaurants whose names are possessive are instead plural. I went to Arbys. I got one Arby. And a jamocha shake.

Every snack has an optimally tasty number of pieces to consume per bite: Doritos - 1 Potato chips - 2 Gardettos - 3 Dry Roasted Peanuts - 6 to 8 Pizza rolls - alternating 0.25 and 0.75 Cornichons - 1 (only the most incorrigible perverts are biting cornichons in half) Sun Chips - 0 (Gross)

It increasingly seems like the end result of the entire AI boom is going to be, "Yeah, it turns out if you feed a data center the whole internet, and then ask it to make some more internet, it can do that, but not in a way that anyone is willing to pay $15/month for."

A lot of conservatives posting Never Forget memes have picked an ironic day to forget about the existence of Christian terrorism.

Wild to see all the people who constantly insist that all Democrats are socialists are suddenly crying and shitting their pants over the possibility of a Democrat being replaced by a socialist.

Halloween 2025

I've been searching for the best analogy for Antifa to use in dumb social media arguments with people who don't understand the distinction between a practice and an organization. I think it's yoga. There are outfits you can buy, and books about it, and lots of people meet up to practice together.