Oh no, I just remembered what tomorrow is and @mattmay.bsky.social is intensifying

Love this beat in Star Trek where Khan whacks a guy so hard he blows the crotch out of his pants

Here’s Where The Story Ends Something Academy Fight Song Myth Night Shift (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville Fake Empire Ten Years Gone Like A Hurricane Cut To The Feeling

Here, let me get my Target complaint file... (drops file on desk; desk collapses from the weight)

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

Countries that don't put their leader's face on the inside cover of their passport: North Korea Eritrea Turkmenistan Even Mao kept his face out of the passport

I have 50 tabs open right now on Chrome This is also a metaphor for my ADHD addled brain

I am so underwater with work-wrangling and thought-wrestling so this is just bubbles rising from the deep, but: what I am excited about right now in the networks zone is that we have a real shot at a do-over on the social internet, which means we have a chance to make new and better mistakes.

Just reeks of desperation and score-settling They're really out of ideas other than "try to punish enemies" and "build ballroom"

Regretful Trump supporter interviews read like interviews with people who gave their money to televangelists, only the televangelists somehow weren't as corrupt

Thing about the We Must Build The Ballroom movement is even if there WERE a ballroom now at the White House, the WHCD wouldn't be held there because Trump would have barred them from using it They seem to have confused The Ballroom with The Convention Center

To help those who learn visually:

Oh wow really

The hard thing for me with the state of AI discourse is I don’t like the AI cult behavior, or the moral and ethical and environmental horrors arising with AI, but I also have found it useful in specific ways when used as an augment and not as a replacement. And I think you can hold both beliefs.

Tonight's random music thought: Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown" has one of the best bass lines of the 70s

$4/hr as a babysitter, 1988

Take anti-papist rhetoric from the 19th and early 20th century, give it billions of dollars, and strip it of all the religious faith, and you end up with absolute incoherent idiocy like this. The sad thing is people actually believe this claptrap.

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

begging conservative Calvinists to read the works of John Calvin please

My only disappointment with this perfection of a headline is @theneedling.com didn’t write it first Fixing the Route Late Bus sure makes a bunch of right wingers who insist they never would set foot in Seattle angry for some reason

I had YouTubeTV open after the event happened. CBS broke in first Then ABC… after the Knicks playoff game was over Fox kept right on going with the Dodgers-Cubs game I don’t think people inside the media bubble get that their tempests in teapots are nothing compared to Saturday Night Baseball

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

"THIS IS ALL A FALSE FLAG" look we'll know within 48 hours because you know none of them know how to STFU

tried to figure out what was happening and then decided I didn't need to know anyway I hope those pocket squares helped

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

You know I'm going to build my own cheese cave

I guess Trump has to come back because otherwise how else will he hold them hostage for two hours blaming everyone in the room but him for everything

me sauntering into the weekend vs. me being dragged into the work week

New @khuh.bsky.social mascot unlocked

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Strongly considering leaving tech, and design, partially for sanity, partially because I don't know where my skills fit in the tech world anymore. All the things I've pushed for -- doing the work, being kind, building resilient teams and people -- aren't what people are buying

Stoners watching Trial of Tim Heidecker: HAHAHAHAHA THIS IS SO FUNNY I AM SO BAKED Alex Jones watching Trial of Tim Heidecker: THIS... MUST... MEAN... SOMETHING!!!!!

I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

I worked at a Big Tech Company where they banned taxis and made everyone take Ubers. Saves us millions, they said Then Uber had to start making money and suddenly they were more expensive than taxis Anyway, can't wait for the tech CTOs to learn why AI is so "cheap" right now

What you gonna do about it, huh? Nail a strongly worded letter to some church door somewhere?

“The rich don’t play by the rules” is part of what got Greece in trouble a decade ago. Everyone cheated on their taxes because the rich were getting away with it. Completely buggered their federal budget and helped further Golden Dawn

You can have any ideology you want in America as long as it's misogyny.

That sudden sensation that you've seen this fad before: déjà Labubu

Her self-hatred is worrying; her want to transfer her self-hatred to others is deeply disturbing

GOP gerrymandering: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! GOP finding out the Dems can gerrymander too: Well this fucking sucks.

I'm confused why Mr Met is angrier about a referendum vote than about his team, with the second highest payroll team in the NL, absolutely shitting the bed right now

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

I know a Hugo finalist! Congrats Olivia!

Funny, the Mariners snack I thought of was the Shishkaberries, if only for that very drunk Cleveland fan one time asking me in some amazement, “Ma’am, are those chocolate-covered strawberries ON A STICK?!”

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Not the best, but the Mariners used to have chapulines — fried grasshoppers. Not bad really, kinda nutty, tho the shells stuck between your teeth worse than popcorn shells

My day/week/month/year in summary: