This dog looks like he just bought me a drink from across the bar…

IMO we should be thinking about full-size pickups in higher trims especially as luxury vehicles because that’s how they’re treated in the market. Any time you see a high trim, lifted, heavy duty or spec’d out pickup you’re very likely looking at six figures on wheels.

¿Se aprovechará la que se viene para enterrar a los trumpistas patrios en la que nos va a liar su jefe o se dejará que estos mismos politicen los problemas/en las españa socialcomunista no funciona nada?

They raided the Fanatics warehouse amirite folks

"The children of the most ruthless executives and military commanders very often turn out to be delicate aesthetes who want nothing more than to play with puppets, or make long necklaces out of small colored beads." —Wallace Shawn www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Steve Earle says a lot of dumb shit but this was SUCH a good line, it's up there with New York Review of Each Other's Books. Neither is entirely fair, but the best insults never are

It looks like this was only translated into English because of the Solvej Balle books, which is making me wonder how many other time loop novels are out there?

Oh. Our hotel is across the street from the venue

I think there are at least two powerful themes that conservative writers handle really well - the grief that comes with change and the struggle to preserve the good against the tide of humans’ worse natures. Modern conservatism is all-in on humans’ worse natures and thinks grief is for losers

The KMT thing is part of a larger peeve that some people are really selective about the experience of high wartime debt stocks turning out ok.

hey now, that's MY lynchian swamp city that should not exist and is repeatedly reminded by God each hurricane season that it is an Afront to his Plan

This Garry Trudeau movie based on the new biography certainly seems to have gotten the casting just right, but seemingly at the cost of veering off in a quite anachronistic direction

what to get the man who has everything but his kids’ current addresses and phone numbers

Next week, embrace the mystery as the Washington Post interviews couples who somehow keep finding that the closets they open very often turn out to be filled with their own clothes.

friends don't let friends select on the dependent variable

Mark Carney to everyone who liked his Davos speech

Is Scott Walker (& this album in particular) the funniest possible music/sports tie-in?

Okay I gotta know who dropped half a yard on Claude tokens. If the business press is worth anything this will come to light.

I did not know the verb "skirl" (Scots dialect, google tells me) and it's a great onomatopeic verb. It reminds me of Missy Elliott's "skrrrrd" braking sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKI...

This is one of many super common ways that stats are misreported and you should watch out for it.

no no, take off the collar, we're going to sit here and read Audre Lorde until we develop an unalienated relationship to the erotic

thank you so so much for the offer but I won't be reading a 6,000 word essay on the Labour party from Tony Blair, so kind of you but afraid I'll simply have to pass

It’s not the world’s biggest problem, but some of these Spotify lists would be more interesting if they separated out ambient/instrumental music

"Venice, California, in the old days had much to recommend it to people who liked to be sad…" One of my favorite opening pages from Ray Bradbury, who wrote a lot of great ones

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

An excellent paper that fails to consider one key fact: In New York, there are no telephones. We can only communicate with New Jersey via parlays and duels arranged in Weehawken from which survival is not guaranteed.

i had this from yesterday, and i think this might be my answer — the ability to produce medicine independently as an individual, or at least fully federated across mom & pop suppliers, that seems like a big deal that would positively impact society long term bsky.app/profile/timk...

i dont want to have so much input into the battery life of my devices. if 80% is better than a 100% then make me believe we’re at 100% when we’re at 80%

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Detroit is a good one but it’s Atlanta and Georgia and it’s not close. Atlanta’s symbolism of black wealth and political power against the backdrop of the provincial southern white supremacy of the rest of it has to take the cake man. Runner up is Jackson vs Mississippi and New Orleans va Louisiana.

Is Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven the only real Taoist novel by a Western writer? Or maybe PKD's Man in the High Castle, which was earlier in that trippy 60s/70s sci fi era, and clearly an influence on Le Guin. I'm struggling to think of others

TS Eliot: human kind cannot bear too much reality Ursula K Le Guin: it is unreality that he cannot bear James Baldwin: we bear a little more reality than we might wish

My own measure of Threads' failure is that I can forget it exists for months on end. I never see Threads posts in the news, or shared by friends (in contrast to IG/TikTok which I'm not on either) or even hear about it as an ad spend target in a work/investment context. WTF is even going on there?

I think Pete Cosey might be the ultimate guitarist's guitarist, because none of the guitar guys on Youtube has even tried to make an explainer video about him. Even Robert Quine has one or two www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Xj...

Interesting:

In 13 years of learning about various government programs and agencies, the two-word phrase that explains the most, and that I most wish the general public knew about and understood, is “administrative burden”.

open.spotify.com/track/0uxXl8... A forgotten earworm, from the guy who also wrote Whispering Your Name

if they want people to play games it should be called GameStart. and that is the only problem

Why do good books become forgotten? Prejudice does play a role, but the most important role, I believe, is overproduction. Even the great Alfred A. Knopf once said that most novels fail on the day they're published. Yet the temptation to look for villains continues. neglectedbooks.com?p=10738

tfw you’ve been partying with REO Speedwagon

Three chicks in the Red-tailed Hawk nest on Central Park South near Seventh Avenue.

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

give me just one day on this fucking website without someone brandishing the word cuisine

Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

interesting thread

New blog post: Ambient associative agent memory Largely, I think deep research styled agents are extremely useful for new content we haven't seen before, but fail hard for memory that's already supposed to be "known" Here are 2 patterns, mine and @3fz.org's timkellogg.me/blog/2026/05...

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

we know, frank. We know