Fantastic breakdown of a race that on the surface, and even a bit under the surface, appears to be pretty even. If you need help deciding before the voting booth, give this a read.

Zach Lahn, his Kansas home, and the 🍆 ring of it all.

The biggest difference between 26 and 47 is that one was a genius who bent his worst traits to the service of the people and one is a dumbfuck who has bent the people to his worst traits.

One of the last bastions of my Iowan pride is that we don’t generally fuck with gerrymandering here. Somehow.

Wait so Prime has exclusive WNBA broadcast games that supersede the league’s own streaming app? The fuck did I pay for this league pass for then? #wnba

i work with a lot of women—long history of female supervisors, just kind of goes with the job. sometimes they warn me that a colleague is tricky/hard to work with, and those warnings are tough to parse because there's like a 33% chance the person in question is actually just sexist.

thinking about getting a vanity MArch. how hard could it be?

year is basically half over already, so that's kind of comforting

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

This is on the same day that Chip Roy says Dem's lost the 2024 election because their campaign was too gay.

The real bullshit here is that according to AP, this is a thing the navy has been doing for VIPs in Hawaii since the Obama admin, under some bullshit pretense of enhanced strategic understanding. Like snorkeling is the only way a secDef can grasp the concept of “big old ship sunk in shallow water.”

If you’re an Iowan and it’s not glaringly obvious at this point that ethanol has always been a grift, it’s time to open your eyes. Not low emission, not an oil surrogate, lower energy density, huge carbon footprint, incentivizes monocultures… ethanol is bad. Iowa needs to come to terms with that.

“I think this is the last time I travel to a place where my skin says I speak the language without being able to speak the language,” he said for the seventh time.

This prospect cannot be realised… because the relationship between architecture and capitalism on which parametricism was premised ceased to exist long ago. Capitalism no longer plans to incorporate the urban masses into its operations. www.dezeen.com/2026/05/11/d...

at this point if we could just have a president that didn't describe our country as "hot" i'd take that as a pretty big win.

pretty bummed this cartoon still accurately describes the Iranian conflict 27 days later.

i've recently had the luxury to be prepared for meetings i'm leading and wow does that help!

when one of your projects wins an award, AFTER the company laid you off

wish there was a way to feel your own handshake. too strong? not strong enough? who fucking knows? i'm just saying, i can squeeze more. or less. whatever's good for you.

If e15 is only going to save me 10¢/gal in this era, then wtf are we doing here in Iowa?

A downside of the ability to write in a fun, conversational tone is that people sometimes think that you are fun and conversational in real life.

Renaming CoPilot on my work computer Orwell because [gestures broadly]

Have to do a brief highway commute now and all I can say is jesus, what the fuck people?

This rules lol

Usually I lament admin officials leaving because they are inevitably replaced with more corrupt appointments, but I’m not sure it can get more corrupt than Bondi. She didn’t get fired for being too principled.

I’m sorry, if I have to hear one more player explain the b.e. boomerang idol with faux excitement… #survivor50

Going to the gym at 5am wearing yesterday’s hoodie with a little bit of pizza sauce still on it is a power move.

"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...

If only somebody online would tell me what a grave and alarming situation we are in as a country in a hostile and defensive tone. Only then would I have the conviction to personally stop the bad things.

I complain a lot about Iowa’s unemployment system, but in my experience, the actual people who work in the DSM office are universally fantastic. They know the system is a nightmare, they’ve seen it all, they have a sense of humor, they are providing outstanding service. 5 stars

Some prog jazz funk keyboard thing played in the car this morning and my 3.5 yr old said “what is this? It sounds like Mr. Rodgers.” and he was dead right and I’m very proud of him.

Let’s goooooo!

Pretty wild that the world had 50 years to figure out how to do global energy without everything hinging on a single narrow strait controlled by a radical theocracy, and we just didn’t.

You think social media is a hellscape, but then you have to spend time on LinkedIn and you understand the true meaning of hell. Vacant-eyed “CEO/strategic growth coordinators” grinning through gritted teeth about the future of integrated stakeholder synergy. Bleak.

the word is catcalling despite nothing motivating strangers to shout at me from their cars more than when they want to say they like my dog.

Oh hey look someone photographed the millennial psyche.

Last time I was in the job market it was the middle of COVID, and I only ever had to interview over Zoom. That part was fantastic.

Been thinking along these lines a lot lately.

saying goodbye to my designer-y gant style resume in favor of basic af text in columns, so that the robot screeners know what to read first. thanks AI.

There should be a distinct branch of the postal service dedicated just to same-day delivery of underwear. Anyone buying multiple variety packs at a time online is clearly a person in crisis.

Is my auditory hypersensitivity getting worse as I age or am I just becoming more aware of what’s bothering me in the moment?

A tiny cartoon mouse with a deep authoritative voice is always a good bit.

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

It’s been too long since the January sumo tournament. Time for more sumo.

outlook just prompted me to rate it on the app store. yeah okay microsoft, i'll help you get the word out about your hot new email client default installed on every office workstation in the world.

Oh my god it’s so bad. Why is the text SO big?! Is he really not bothered by seeing the same ornamental foam pieces in every room? And now outside? Omggggggg

sometimes think about how a good chunk of early US colonization was by religious nutjobs too crazy for their home country. good thing that had no lasting impact on our culture!