how it feels to put your power drill into safe and hold the trigger to keep the light on

just read a post asking for the repliers' "comfort watch" and i won't be annoying to the poster but my first thought was the Casio W-59 on a NATO strap that I'm wearing right now

this is why I'm always saying that "husband and father who kills his family and then himself" is the best explanatory framework for contemporary american politics

magical

where is the ski slope that will rent me a fat bike? i need to fend off the urge to pop the battery out of my e bike and try to rip around the hills in a park because the tires might be fat enough but the geometry is ALL wrong

pronatalist? uh, yeah, everybody should pronate. if you don't, you're probably wearing shoes that are too stiff and/or you have some calf and ankle problems

i fucking hate how many walk signals in this city make no noise when they're switched on. obviously it's incredibly fucked up for people with less eyesight than i have, but i too am punished for staring at the moonrise

i HOPE the authors of these articles are doing more investigating and thinking than reporting the "intent" of a machine designed to have manipulable (but siloed) priorities, but so many editors are so fucking stupid and/or optimizing only for clicks

just saw a size chart for a bralette with only band size listed, new reason to hate skinny people unlocked in my head

how come nobody is talking about Rama's boots from the morning ceremony

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

the san franciscofication of new york

sometimes i think death metal is the only music worth listening to in the brief course of a single human life and sometimes i think all metal bands that don't swing their 8ths a little should be dismissed ipso facto

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

timeline got me thinking about ~1550-1950 naval warfare again

Attempting to explain AO3

i always confuse christopher caldwell and christopher cantwell the crying nazi. christopher caldwell also crying like a nazi isn't helping

i know you can't take this garbage at face value but you really have to be a slimy piece of shit to say that someone who said she would have done jan 6 with guns and won is a defender of liberal democracy

The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination. #WorldBollardAssociation

adding on to my last retweet - the security implications of sloppy code have been here for decades. they're unlikely to be catastrophic (see the Bangladesh bank robbery which was stopped quickly enough to avoid total disaster) but data leaks and big ransoms from corporations are par for the course

I get where everybody is coming from with this but we're already living in this world and if you are a programmer who works somewhere that gives a shit about code quality over velocity you're in the minority. it's all about what the business wants at the end of the day

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Godrest Ye! Merry Gentleman

Me and who

it feels like every year this dying culture produces more horrible covers of existing christmas songs and fewer horrible original christmas songs

once again thinking about the communist bicycle that the protagonist rides in m butterfly. peak performance etc etc

cronenbergs that are due for a rewatch for me: - dead ringers - the shroud - eastern promises - m. butterfly

my boyfriend and i refer to the gynecological instruments from cronenberg's dead ringers as "the cow tools" and i sometimes forget that only we do it

american mainstream liberal media is in nearly unanimous agreement that we all need to listen to the fascist-aligned ressentiment against the public health establishment and anyone else who suggests that covid is or ever was a social crisis requiring social responses

looks like it's gonna be another day of thinkin about battleships

new jules gill-peterson just dropped

learning Rust from beautiful trans women in the 2020s

of all the ships the 21st century us navy cannot design, build, or maintain, this has gotta be the most impossible one to design, build, or maintain

it's good for the body, mind, and spirit to humble oneself with a 4/5 spicy dish from a thai restaurant now and then

guy from dog day afternoon when his back hurts in a canyon: SCIATICA!!! ATICA! ATICA atica

i need my e bike back from the shop so bad fr i only wanna run errands in the suburbs with my car. let me back into downtown where stuff is better

a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision or use a credit card

they call it switch 2. because you see the price and switch 2 a different console lol

kernel: OOMF killer disabled

Leaf blowers should legit be illegal

hard truth to face but it's undeniable just looking at the numbers for, say, northwestern: endowment in the 10s of billions (interest this year likely in the billions) frozen funds in the 100s of millions fine in the 10s of millions why bother paying instead of fighting unless you like the deal?

scaring the hoes (my cat) with my music choices

could god create a final day of the term so hectic that even they would be overwhelmed?

fuck that, mandate them in new cars like seatbelts or airbags

Fuck it we ball

the REAL scandal

i'm becoming an old engineer who can't do algebra unless there are units involved

big news

it's schadenfruedening to hear an extended rock drum solo if you've ever really listened to a good jazz drum solo