And this is why regulation is so important! Some day Comcast and Disney are going to merge and BOOM, supermassive black hole.

The real victory of the Republicans is making the Democrats argue amongst themselves over whether food or healthcare was more important. Like one of those tic-tac-toe boards where you can’t lose.

I really need a moratorium on lecturing people who already agree. How about we all assume that everyone here already knows why most things are bad and don’t need it explained to them.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

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Energy makes the world go round, so it’s no surprise that greedy assholes want to control it, creating scarcity to inflate their importance and enrich themselves.

The Lowdown is aces and extremely my jam. Like somebody put Justified, Terriers, Poker Face, and a Coen movie into a blender and made some magic.

A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve in The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail – on sale later this month, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍 www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-dog...

Kid: “If I get bigger, I won’t fit in the house!” Me: “Have you ever met anyone so big they wouldn’t fit in a house?” Kid: ”Chewbacca.”

Clockwise 630: Extreme Forms of Liquid Glass Using agentic AI features, iPhone upgrade methods, Apple Podcast app updates in iOS 26.2, and whether you'll tone down Liquid Glass in version 26.1. http://relay.fm/clockwise/630

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

I do love to see rich people throw their money away on hopeless causes.

I love the ritual of home improvement projects. The gathering of the tools. The trip to the hardware store. The beginning of the job. The second trip to the hardware store. The litany of swears.

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The Trump administration's refusal to pay SNAP benefits is galling to me on a very personal level. I can't change their minds. I don't have billions of dollars to give to people who need help. But I can do some good. Will you join me in donating to your local food pantry?

On a rainy day like today, it’s so nice to see our green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) in action around the Spring Hill project. 🌧️☔️💧

Clockwise 629: The House is Just for the Robot What we use our Apple Watches for, moving to a new HomeKit home, the tech we use while cooking, and a new humanoid robot for the home. http://relay.fm/clockwise/629

Definition of “threatening me with a good time.”

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

In two weeks! @sffaddictspod is hosting a virtual launch party livestream for The Tower of the Tyrant! Activities: A (short) live reading! Banter with special guests! Q&A! Assigning people bird companions! It'll be great fun. 10AM PST / 1PM EST / 6PM BST!

Tyranny requires constant effort.

This is like an illustration in a Star Wars RPG allowing you to distinguish which kind of stormtroopers are shooting at you at any given moment.

Pretty cool that the unflinchingly corrupt leader of our country is so dumb, so corrupt, and so malleable that he doesn’t have the first clue who he’s letting out of jail or why.

Smart people, please explain why the Democrats aren't setting up a shadow cabinet and working in concert to send a daily message on how they'd govern differently? Like, why did they decide to go with the "some of us shitpost on X, some of us go to rallies, some of us ask for money?" thing instead?

You'd think the wealthy would realize that "tax the rich" is a preferable outcome to "eat the rich."

Spent way too long making this in response to a Discord comment about complicated heists vs. breaking into the Louvre with an angle grinder and a lift truck, so you all get to reap the benefit.

If this administration has shown us anything it's that societal norms are not worth the paper they're written on.

The only honest part of this whole bullshit spiel is when he says "I was damaged very greatly."

“Relax, he accidentally got the Nazi tattoo while drunk in Croatia” is not the reassurance you think it is.

Fuck, man, I wasn’t even allowed to paint the last place I rented.

Oh, thank god, just sniper scopes. 😐

The Hudson Hawk redemption begins now! NYT picks it as one of its six heist movies to watch. (I did a podcast a decade ago about why it's criminally underrated: www.theincomparable.com/ump/11/) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...

This administration consistently employs the least competent and most bananapants people.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Just going to point out that Neal Caffrey was last seen in Paris, so this tracks.

brb, calling Regent's Park to let them know that Roddy Ho's vehicle has been located

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

The utter antidote to AI-generated “art.”

College journalists are not only the most passionate in all of media but also are college students who will totally stay up all night to make this happen.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Apple strikes five year deal for Formula 1 rights

Look, I don’t live in New York City so I don’t have a personal stake in the mayor race, but let’s just be clear: if your argument is “less experienced unknown is worse than more experienced know shithead” I’m not buying what you’re selling.

Making me root for John Bolton is not the worst thing that Trump has done...but it's up there.

Did I do a podcast as my persona?

Clockwise 627: R2-D2 / C-3PO Situation Apple's M5 updates and whether we use AI locally, media that's brought us joy recently, whether the Vision Pro update changes our minds, and the Apple services and products we would rename. http://relay.fm/clockwise/627

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Apple TV+ gets a new, familiar name

The absolutely nightmarish situation for authors right now is a big part of why I'm probably never going to stop teaching. I like teaching, but it's frustrating that full-time authoring feels like it will never, ever be an option. At least until I hit retirement age.