I can’t say this enough — you don’t have to mutilate your language, and you do a disservice to important topics when you do so. This is going to be even more important as American authoritarianism accelerates.

It’s wild to see Bluesky talking about local political candidates as if they’re not just your boring neighbors.

Instead of exporting right wing populism, the US should consider exporting norms around air conditioning. 91f in London is … hot.

Reminder when the court inevitably finds for Mahmoud in Mahmoud v. Taylor today: this was a really bad case, the people from the county made really dumb decisions and fighting it to the Supreme Court was just hubris. Total self own.

I for one am shocked congress wasn’t asked to formally declare war. The only other time this has happened was Libya2, Iraq2, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq1, Libya1, Grenada, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea…

I just hope today’s youths know that the real way to stop a for-funsies war in the Middle East is protest videos set to Op Ivy’s Unity. @reckless.bsky.social knows.

You break it you bought it

Is there a way to invest in yellow ribbon stock?

A pan-Asian punk band covering Neil Young in the parking lot of an abandoned Sears across from the state capitol is exactly the America I want.

Congress could regulate this but they won’t. It’s like watching a car accident happening in slow motionn

Is there any consensus on the maximum number of alarms a fire can have?

Is there any chance that in the process of blowing up our economy, we end up with the opportunity to buy the good prosciutto?

I miss the days when people posting “Tim Walz is a fascist” on this site would have been funny shitposting instead of echo chamber virtue signally defeatist bullshit.

Hanging out on the lawn of the state capitol while a Thai drag queen teaches us how to dance. Best state.

I guarantee that nothing in Clownfuck McGee’s life gives him as much pleasure as getting the proper plastic clips for the spoiler on my 20 year old Volvo just gave me.

Can anyone explain the weird noise floor on APT (Rose)? It’s not there all the time, wondering if it’s there to fool compressors or auto EQs or something? Pretty sure it’s not tape hiss 😂

@reckless.bsky.social one thing I really love about European ceos on decoder is that they’re much more willing to entertain the idea that they’re wrong, that the business might not pan out, etc.

Itchy boots, a Dutch woman who makes YouTube videos traveling solo around the world, is cancelling her US visit because it’s too risky. For context, this is a woman currently riding around Yemen. youtube.com/post/UgkxL4_...

Oof, NSF disbanded the advisory committees today. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

What if the light rail just added a smoking car, so at least all the people smoking could go to one car?

I'm guessing this is implicit and deliberate comment by whoever does the web layout?

Scary stuff here.

Always good to spend a weekend in Vegas cutting loose* with the boys. *implementing poorly documented SDKs

I’m super excited for TikTokers to discover smuggling. “Hey guys here’s how you can pay for your trip to Europe by bringing back these six items”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... An era of unmatched peace and prosperity comes to an end. It wasn't perfect, but the world will be poorer and more unstable in the decades to come.

Took many bags of books to the used bookstore. Only bought one book while there. Please clap.

A story I wished I'd written when I was in India was on the Uttar Pradesh Association Of Dead People. It is a real thing! A lobby group for people accidentally or malevolently declared legally dead. Fun America might need its own soon

Getting rid of most of my physical books. Cleaning out all the books from a poli sci major at the end of Clinton and in the early days of the global war on terror is quite a throwback.

Sucks that we’re moving to a centrally planned economy but I can’t buy a Lada Niva.

It’s just a fact that waffles taste better if you successfully remove all four wedges from the waffle maker as a single circle.

Had a phone call with some normie (as in, not you people) friends tonight who are looking to buy an EV. They opened with “of course we can’t get a tesla so…”

Me: look at these idiots letting sports distract them from the collapse of society. The opiate of the masses! Also me: ooo new Drive to Survive!

Give them a shout on Facebook. At least they might make a cringey pr statement which they can feel bad about someday. www.facebook.com/share/v/153S...

There’s an event celebrating the public safety services in Hanoi this weekend. Love the Google translate of the sign…

It’s been interesting to see how ultra cheap portable induction cooktops have changed street food in Hanoi

Temu engine hoist! How could I lose?

@reckless.bsky.social disappointed you didn’t call out Panos for cooking a ramen egg for 8 minutes. Cmon, 6.5 max! (fun episode!)

Apple Music somehow found 100 songs for the “ska-punk essentials” list. Having lived through ska punk, that feels like “essentials” inflation.

I’m all for newspapers getting rid of opinion sections if it means the Very Online crowd will stop willfully misunderstanding how newspaper opinion sections work in order to take false umbrage. Pretending to be dumb is annoying no matter who’s doing it.

Fascinating to see YouTube adds for sites selling pirated games

Excited that a random tourist got my tshirt.

I'll be out in Maplewood again this Saturday. Join me, or go to the #TeslaTakedown in Golden Valley. Gonna be sunny, cold but not frigid, and only slightly breezy.

@jnbpage.bsky.social @aliceysu.bsky.social was listening to the latest episode while wandering Luang Namtha in Laos and came upon a big Vivo store. Fate!

Dang didn’t know the pound was doing this bad.

72 eggs for $3 in Laos. Arbitrage opportunity!

Made it to Laos, something the CIA never did, right? Wink wink…

What’s the email address I should use to update OPM on my week?

Xcel reveals major investment in renewables, will meet carbon-free target 5 years early

One day the US is going to discover how difficult & expensive it is to project military power around the world without the benefit of enormous bases and logistical hubs in Germany.

Suggested on the local car enthusiast facebook group that it’s ok for the state to enforce the speed limit, got called an enemy of freedom and told to leave the country. Makes sense.