I’m old. Sitting here watching “brew” install all my free software upgrades, and noticing that all my ancient but serviceable programs build in a handful of minutes, while the frustrating UX but GUI-beautiful applications take hours, gotta run ‘em overnight. “They say, it’s ok to be 70” 😅

So… I’ve been enjoying @patrickworld.bsky.social’s amusing loosely-captioned portraits thread, and was absentmindedly assuming this was one. A bit of cognitive dissonance ensued!

PSA: if you see a @patrickworld.bsky.social post that strikes you as being odd, DO NOT REPLY. It is a test. Just a test. Not an IQ test. Of your patience. If you can refrain from replying to these, you can stop yourself from replying any time you want. It is a superpower. Exercise it!

Yeah, I’m going to vote in Ohio for Sherrod Brown as many times as necessary.😇

Where's your girlfriend live? In a datacenter in Canada?

When the subtitle is actually the headline: “In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

A day ago I posted a quote, “Never meet your heroes”. Now Japanese TV had Shaun White on for a cameo. He said “when I was 14 I said I can’t do this forever, but at the Beijing Olympics I didn’t think forever would come today”, as a clip of him congratulating the very young medalists after he DNF’d.🥰

One of my mistakes. After 9-11 Bush (who I detested) made a speech saying Islam is not the enemy. In testimony at my church in Japan, I praised him for this, looking for anything not bad to come of the attack. Had to walk it back a couple weeks later when he started profiling Muslims.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

The hackers of yesteryear accomplished actual magic, true sci-fi shit, by refusing to do the same task manually more than once. This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.

one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel

Spotted on walk:

I followed altnps for about a week, but I caught their copypasta act (see #10 in the thread) and I unfollowed because they did it to one of my faves (I’m an academic, I don’t forgive plagiarism). If you’re following, make your own choices, but do read the thread.

Surely you mean to exempt chain gangs?

外国人経済学者で 日本人に聞きたいですが。 １　経済学者にとって日本の世界的に一番低いインフレ（デフレに近い）でるため、物価高てはなくて賃金低迷の方が問題である。なぜ政治家とマスコミが物価高を主張するの？賃上げを訴えるのは誰？ ２　高市総理が「責任ある財政」を訴えるが、ほとんどの人が「その責任がお金持ちと大手企業のためだけだ」と思うでしょう？ @wakachang.bsky.social

The danger and glory of youth movements: “they’re not well-prepared”. 🥰

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

Right wing white dudes finally noticing things a lot of women do for their kids, offices and communities on a daily basis: PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS

😳 My best writing is when I’m trying to keep it to one skeet. 😬

Majority, maybe. What if we can split 25% off on each issue? Wash, rinse, repeat.

gimme a picture that says "y'all motherfuckers just picked a fight with Old Man Winter"

My Congresswoman joined as cosponsor, so on Monday I’m going to call her and thank her. Small things, but we WILL make a difference.

I bet there’s more than one Linux workstation in Greenland that boots to a console with Tux on it though!

What amazes me is that Trump could decisively defeat a self-styled imperial power in war with zero American troops and less than the budget of ICE. Everyone would know he did it. Despite being a military action, he might very well get a real honor for being a peacemaker. But no. #NAFO #NATO

From the Nikkei (Japan’s Wall Street Journal): 【速報】日経平均株価、終値914円高の5万3688円　TACOトレード波及 Yes, you see it right there: TACO is now official jargon of the financial press. (Betcha no surprise at the translation: “BREAKING: The Nikkei average closed ¥914 higher at ¥53,688—TACO trade ripples”.)

This is good. Specialization and division of labor is good, regardless of ICE. But the 3rd post in this thread is important too. Many tasks are invisible (even when the reason isn’t to avoid advertising to the invaders). You can’t count them, and people won’t just answer. So just do it! Help comes.

I met Dolly Parton and we talked for a few minutes.

I updated to iOS 26.2 “Liquid Glass” a few minutes ago and I don’t like it already. - On an iPhone 11, it’s perceptibly slower than 18 was. - Most images are crap in BlueSky?? As if they’re applying a sharpening filter? Apple will be hearing from me.

The EU absolutely should grasp him by the golf balls and twist

Can we please stop calling the Machado Participation Trophy a “prize”? Trump didn’t win it, he extorted it.

@governor.ca.gov Until seeing this, I was very likely to vote for someone else in the Presidential primary, but vote Dem-no-matter-who in the general. Now, failing to face down Ben Shapiro on ICE is shitfuckery deserving of no respect. Now, I plan to campaign against you in the primary. Do better.

As much as this month has sucked, it has also given me enormous hope in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinarily selfless things.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Undoubtedly in response to Trump’s tariffs and general bullying, you’re paying for this:

Their first mistake was invading Minneapolis Their second mistake was invading his true home: Online

He did NOT take the Prize. He took the trophy. I’ve never said this before, but I want Just Jack’s post to go viral. Please help! (Do click thru to like HIS post, NOT mine!)

I hadn’t thought about this, despite all the individual posts about keeping kids home etc. Offering police escorts might be an interesting symbolic effort. (They don’t have the manpower to protect everyone.)

Is Greenland (or really Denmark) attacking the United States? Do Greenland and Denmark pose an imminent threat to the United States? No? Then the President needs to go Congress first. This is stupid. The answer, if this happens, isn’t the WPR. It’s impeachment and immediate removal from office.

I understand the irritation at smugness. But ya know wut? We need more smug women in my experience. At least of the “fuck you, I know what I’m talking about and I will bury you if you challenge me on it” well-deserved type of smugness. So much good science lost!😢

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

"The very first thing he did is launch Trump Coin and it just felt like the extractiveness has now been institutionalized" Area crypto guy is *so close* to getting it. The whole damn thing is extractive, you numbnuts www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

Somebody offer the man a job!

IceでこけるICE、色々なアングルがあり、手厚くてわろてまう bsky.app/profile/davi...

C’mon Politico. Finishing with a quote from Kevin Hassett? Wouldn’t the Door Dash driver who brought lunch give you one? www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I am tired of people talking on social media about what other people should do. If you must talk unsolicited about what someone should/must do, call your representatives. If you’re not a voter, they still represent you (districts are apportioned by residents, not voters). Ofc give advice when asked.

The chair of the fed ripping off his shirt and yelling "you know where to find me, bitch" while very clearly signaling to The Money that Trump is breaking The Money can I have a precedented time again? I've been good