Breaking my usual social media silence on current events to say this: in most other civilised nations, you wouldn’t be arguing the technicalities of how and why this poor woman was killed. She wouldn’t have been killed at all.

Today’s to-do list: Lift heavy at the gym ✅ Take Skye to the groomers ✅ Have a little nap ✅ … pub? 🤔

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It’s 2025. I just bought a radio. It’s 2025. I just learned to correctly countersink a screw. It’s 2025. I’ve borrowed a planer from my neighbour to fix a door that sticks in its frame. It’s 2025. I should probably schedule a prostate exam 😬

“Cheerfully withdrawn”. Every time I’m conceding a point in an argument.

One time I went to Portland and saw a cockroach the size of my hand. That’s the only time I feared for my safety in Portland (seriously, the thing hissed at me)

This explains it better than I can

It’s that time of year 🍻

So after receiving an unexpected check for excess funds in my closing costs last week, and getting a free pint of ice cream today for helping the ice cream sample lady open the tubs (they were really on there!) I’ve bought my first powerball ticket. Because these things come in 3’s right?

‘Relatively harmless’ 😨

Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.

“The President has never felt better!”

So Verizon is having a bad day huh

Well, guess I’ll be turning news notifications back on this weekend

The White House tonight:

Turns out a lot of being a foster parent is taking turns hiding in the bathroom and crying a little bit.

Proud US resident moment for me. My health care provider just denied an in network claim for being not in network. This is a doctor they paired me with. In network.

So did anyone else see this tonight? I’m hearing it’s a Starlink thing. Pretty damn spooky looking up and seeing this alignment of lights in the sky! 😬

We’re in the shit now

When I visit the UK I pack my suitcase on the way back with sunscreen. This is why 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hard to argue with that.

My favorite joke from Bottom back in the day: Ritchie - now, can you see alright? Eddie - no, that’s why I wear glasses

This is absolutely insane, and criminal. Everyone, especially a Senator representing the state, has a right to speak out. The fact that the agents felt protected in acting this way says everything. We’re quickly traversing a dangerous path

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

It’s disgusting how quickly and readily the administration not only believed this hoax, but spread it on official channels having done absolutely zero verification. Under the slightest bit of scrutiny by law enforcement, it fell apart. In normal times, Noem would be facing pressure to resign.

** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult ** You follow one charismatic Leader. In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong. In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong. Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders. Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion. You don't know you're in a Cult

New #D&D hot tip for making sympathetic villains - give them daddy issues. I’ve never seen my players flipflop so fast from ‘We gotta 💀 this guy right?’ to ‘Poor baby, we gotta 💀 his tyrannical father and make sure he lives happily ever after right?’ 😅

There are ways to spend a Sunday evening, but it’s hard to argue with fire pit, beer, and dogs.

There are many Bad and Embarrassing things about the Trump-Big Law dynamics but this is a tremendous bit and I would happily buy a round for any random discharged O6 who called up Paul Weiss pro bono asking for help breaking their lease. 17/10, no notes, incredible stuff.

Fun fact about me, I was *very briefly* in the global top 100 Quake 3 Arena players around 2000/01. I played one last tournament, went out in the quarter finals, and decided this wasn't actually fun anymore and quit. Haven't touched a railgun since.

Me writing up the stuff about Harvard. "Oh, I'm sure a lawsuit will be filed soon." Finish writing and look. Lawsuit filed. Finish edit and get ready to post. Look one last time. TRO already entered. Things move fast these days.

I haven’t set foot in a Target for about 3 months. And I *want* to, I really do. But not until they do better. I don’t need a business to reflect *all* of my own values - but I do withdraw my $ when they roll over and give authoritarian regimes the belly.

So has Trump been spending a lot of time listening to any powerful white South Africans with a victim complex or????

Dude locks up his rental cabins for the winter but leaves one open - just in case a lost hiker needs shelter. Give that man a medal already 🫡 also ‘Slaton survived entirely on leeks’ raises many, many questions in my mind 😮

Just witnessed a small child at a pizza place having a tantrum throw a tumbler of water and hit a random man square in the face. Credit to the random man who said ‘nice arm’ and laughed it off. I mean what else can you do really?

One my of favorite photos from the recent Scotland trip. I just love how the trees are growing on *top* of the ruined watchtower - something something nature uh finds a way.

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“So do you think Glasgow changed much since you left?” “Nope” 😂

I’ve missed my city, so glad to be back for a few days to soak it in while I can :) #glasgow

Never change Glasgow ❤️

I’m sitting in a bar in London having a chicken curry and they’ve got the Partick Thistle game on - this is amazing 🤩 we don’t even show the Partick Thistle games in Scotland, what sorcery is this? 😅

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I’m excited about my first UK trip in a while, but man do I hate packing. Doesn’t matter how many checklists I use, I *always* get the fear that I’ve forgotten something important.

This song came out 12 years ago, and it made a vague impact on me at the time. Right now tho? I think about this song minimum 5 times a day. youtube.com/watch?v=1sUT...

Happy tax day! This whole system is utterly ridiculous and entirely unnecessary. Did you know other countries just take the right amount of tax automatically from your pay? Wild.

I doubt a breath of fresh air gets any fresher than this 🤩 sightseeing around Pallisades Tahoe 🏔️

Today was a ‘big boy’ day. I got up, went to therapy, then spent 2 hours in a dentist chair getting cavities filled, and they were *bad ones*. I want my lolly pop (by which I mean happy hour at the bar) 🦷

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

As a gamer, I’m also thinking about this. Consoles will have to spike in price, and so will new PC parts. Games that can run on older parts will be attractive to strapped consumers. I don’t think the AAA titles of 2025/26 are going to have a good time.

So my house has been boycotting Amazon, Target, and Walmart and strangely enough we have a lot more cash than usual. Almost as if we didn’t actually need anything we were buying there 🤔