A.I. sucks. #STICKERS suck, too. I have more than 300 of these fuckers. Yours fer a buck each + stamp to mail them nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com

I swear at least 25% of my general anxiety is due to Apple's completely arbitrary times on any of their progress bars. Running a backup, 3 hours turns to 10 minutes and back to 2 hours then abruptly done. System updates are the same. Makes me insane.

The bluesky account cwebbonline. com is routinely stealing other people’s work without credit & has developed a big following. Content farming is lousy & opens the door to all kinds of misinfo. Please keep an eye on who you follow and repost to make sure they’re legit and worth your time

Going to be housesitting for some friends with ducks for three weeks and anticipating lots of good duck egg dishes.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Tonight is my first experiment with a low FODMAPS curry (no onions or garlic), and vegan just for funsies. A week into the diet and he’s definitely feeling better, so challenging ourselves as cooks to stick with it.

Continuing the tradition of have one useful update per, like, seven shitposts, here's an advance ticket link to our next Twin Peaks event with special guest appearance by actor Harry Goaz (aka Deputy Andy). Announcing on the lesser sites tomorrow morning. cstpdxtickets.square.site/product/twin...

I've come a long way since I believed in anything. youtu.be/x9JSCaWzF-k?...

The basalt waterfalls, autumn maples, this place is really lovely. youtu.be/MUbDzXIl8qM?...

New favorite travel YouTube account visits serene hot spring resorts (onsen ryokan) in Japan, hitting some shrines and waterfalls along the way.

Caught a bit of an episode of the A-Team with "Refrigerator" Perry, Hulk Hogan and Paul Gleason, and looking up one of the other "that guys" found that it was directed by none other than David Hemmings. The 80s were weird.

I’m dog sitting a good boy who likes walks very much and it’s been a while since I just strolled randomly around the neighborhood and I gotta say Portland is just gorgeous this spring. Gardens have finally really recovered from the heat dome and the big freeze.

Paris and I had a great discussion about Tim Cook's real legacy, which far too few media outlets have highlighted imo: His role in shaping labor conditions for millions of precarious workers in China, and enshrining the production regime that makes modern electronics possible Wrote about it here:

'champing' refers to when a horse is getting worked up and ends up with frothy saliva around their mouth. Horses don't 'chomp' bits because the bit is placed in the gap behind their canines

Stepped back in time for a minute at the venerable Driftwood Room, a gold standard for hotel lobby bars.

BIG SAME on Kurosawa's Dreams, Oscar. Watch it high, whenever you need it. youtu.be/-GZ1xYEZDgc?...

I’m at a Portland Thorns game for no particular reason but it’s nice and fun.

One of my crows has an injured foot, hopping around with toes curled under. Flying kind of sluggish too. Hungry, keeps coming up close for peanuts. Glad I have a new bag of nuts. Hope they’ll be ok.

When the Rightwing Revolution Devours Its Intellectual Enablers For @zeit.de, I wrote about Chris Rufo – and the long tradition of conservative intellectuals who fancy themselves the vanguard of the Right while actually serving as facilitators of extremism. Gift link, and some thoughts in English:

Sorry, kids. We needed plusher sky boxes.

Husband finally diagnosed with SIBO (long suspected) and I'm trying to figure out what we need to cut from his diet and every list I've looked at contradicts every other list. Soy, honey, potatoes, lentils, and a dozen other things are both forbidden and recommended. I don't think doctors know.

This might only be funny if you know who Michael Tracey is (you're better off not knowing), but as a long-term hater it made me cry laughing so hard. youtu.be/n8G96sKm-OQ?...

So all we know about the alleged Correspondent's Dinner gunman is: -normal liberal social media diet, no long history endorsing illegal direct action -he seemed to support more restrictive gun laws and viewed widespread gun ownership as bad -he had started shooting regularly at some prior point

Communists and Fascists brawling at Goodwood in the Comrade Bingo episode of Jeeves & Wooster. Roderick Spode, perfect caricature.

Completely forgot this gem of a film featured a fabulous Michael Nyman score. (currently on Hoopla) boxd.it/1WOa

Criterion Mobile Closet coming to Portland Art Museum at the end of May. Sign up to get a spot! www.criterion.com/current/post...

But why that book? I really want to know.

I want to do a brief 🧵 on my experience teaching a lot of conservative students at the university level. I am thinking about this issue as I am planning out the rest of the semester (ours runs well into June) My Main Point: It takes so much more work/delicacy to teach to conservative students. 1/

Bruce is a New Zealand parrot missing his top beak. It’s a serious disability, but he has managed to become the alpha of his group, through creativity. Here’s my story about Bruce and the mostly mysterious natural history of disability. Gift link: nyti.ms/4cwVGT5

Actually got my shit together to clean out the old raised beds and see if I can get another harvest out of them. Mostly peppers this year, going to work on some fermented hot sauces.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Looks like an alien facehugger on his shoulder on the right there. Good work, CNN.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

I dunno, maybe Palantir has a point: can anyone deny that Silicon Valley has produced a regressive and harmful subculture? That things would be better if we excluded their inferior subculture from America? 🙃

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.” Also: it misquotes the Pope. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Had a tradition going for a while with a friend with the same birthday to take the day off and meet for brunch at the really popular place you can’t get into on the weekends. Treat yourself.

Man that Tom Waits song with Massive Attack has really burrowed into my skull

So this is going around and people are outraged but I'm begging people to think about the last word in the post - SUMMER. It's fucking April, this corn probably came from the southern hemisphere, of course it's going to be expensive.

Can confirm, Battery Daddy is a great dad or handy partner gift.

This is how you get something that tastes almost, but not quite, exactly unlike tea. And a reminder that the marketing arm of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation was first against the wall when the revolution came.

Today (Wednesday) and Sunday at the Lloyd Center if you’re in Portland. Recommended, the only 3D movie I’ve seen that really worked.

Had to factory reset the "smart" tv today and it was excruciating.

Thanks for reminding me to go back into the catalog for this one, I needed it. Insightful discussion of a perfect little film.

teamed up with my @westernstatescenter.org coworker Elianna Boskoff and @benlorber8.bsky.social to talk at length about why Joe Kent is not offering a way out of MAGA. he’s trying to use half-truths to get you to follow him down a rabbit hole: religiondispatches.org/2026/04/09/w...

Casino capitalism, luck and chance

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

The old oregano patch is looking particularly lush and dense this year. I need to remember to dry some, though there’s really only a couple months I can’t just pick it fresh.

I've been convinced for quite a while now that Trump's guiding desire is that he needs to drop a nuke before he dies. The threat he put out overnight pretty much confirms that, and also implies that he doesn't have much longer to live.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters