I won 1000 tickets. The tickets are digital and stored on my card. I have to watch it count one by one 🙄

The government wants to fix problems and make life better for its citizens! It’s socialism! Sharia law! Run!

My new conspiracy theory is that light jazz musicians wield a tremendous amount of power. This is the reason behind the RTO trend after Covid - no one was forced to visit office bathrooms and elevators, leading to a decline in light jazz profits. Amazing how they got everyone to fall in line

The internet is an amazing place

Fuck me

Reading the Narnia Chronicles with my daughter, I’m reminded frequently of the deal white Christian Americans were willing to make for power

This is the merit badge the DoD is butt hurt over: 2. Document and discuss with your counselor what leadership means to you. Share what it means to make ethical decisions. 3. Consider ethical decision-making. (a) Think about a time you faced an ethical decision www.scouting.org/merit-badges...

Ugh. Can we have one time in history when all the tech companies are aligned to not make this country a horrific dystopia?

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Petition to keep scouting open to all www.change.org/p/keep-scout...

This is an old article and a looong read, but absolutely relevant in the days of “full self-driving” and looming autonomous vehicles. I read this years before I joined Cruise and it’s one of the reasons I detest Tesla’s approach to self driving www.vanityfair.com/news/busines...

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

I guess I will be increasing my monthly donation to Scouts gomag.com/article/pent...

It’s not fair that these babies are gone and they’re never coming back. I love seeing these kids grow up, but I miss these little ones

I so wanna laugh at all the idiots who voted for this, thinking they were going to make America great and affordable by removing all the immigrants taking the good jobs and stealing all the tax money… but this week is too much. I’m done with the FAFO. Just stop dailycaller.com/2026/01/29/d...

OMFG

Wow. Even BicyclingCircleJerk is standing up against ICE. The most unserious sub on Reddit has decided we’ve had enough. Now you know a line has been crossed

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

That was hard

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

In a few years, this will be the equivalent of saying “I’ve never looked at the machine code my high level language generates at runtime”

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Watched The Stand miniseries with my kids this week. Finished it tonight. It is such a good epic tale. They all loved it

Good uses of LLMs are where there’s either a known correctness checker (a spellchecker, a compiler, existing unit tests…), a human in the loop (my wife uses ChatGPT to plan what questions to ask her doctor about treatment) or where hallucinations simply don’t matter (6 fingered people in artwork)

The Blind posts are crazy right now. I don’t know what’s in the water, but… people need to cut back on the drugs

Thank God I have my helicopter

Closed out 2025 with her last radiation treatment. No more surgery, no more chemo. I don’t see how 2026 can possibly be worse that 2025

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

2025 really was the worst year

This one is true 😂

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains Oh my god, there are so many, but I’ll start with this: Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You

I’ll be very disappointed if this doesn’t make the semi-finals

It’s wild to me that there’s a senior government official who posts daily about how they don’t like Black & Brown people on social media and it’s not a scandal. It’s just background noise in the overall awfulness of the Trump administration.

I love the response to this post on r/Conservative , which seems to be intended as some kind of burn on the media. And to our country’s founders, I guess

My wife left this out on the bathroom counter and I caught the initials and thought “what the hell? Is he doing makeup now”

Remember high school when they explained the commutative property of some math operations? This guy doesn’t

Remember that it’s the radical left loonies who glorify death and violence. The right protects and honors the sanctity of life

Sigh. When the stock is up, the trading window is open, now that the trading window is open, stock is down Why are my trade restrictions so much stricter than members of congress?

Good thing the evangelicals are bringing back those good old-fashioned Christian values, like empathy and compassion and kindness

This is so fucking boss! Also, my father was a marine corp vet who came to this country when he was 12 and they absolutely would have shipped him back if he were still alive

🤦🏿‍♂️For people outside the US to know how silly this is... Everyone in the US, and I mean everyone, knows that a disproportionate number of US homes *are built by* undocumented workers from Mexico and El Salvador.🤡 This isn't "unskilled labor." These are skilled trades men and women. They are FAST.

Yeah, in the world of cloud computing, Brewster’s Millions is kind of a joke. Spend $30M in a month and don’t own anything? Sure, let me calculate a 100 trillion digits of pi, find all the prime numbers under a googol or stream Twitter into an AI. I could burn $30M a month without sweating

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

This thread makes me so happy

Rick rolled by the Foo Fighters. How epic! m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdkC...