Zipline Brewing was going to host a political event for Pete Ricketts and Ted Cruz on Friday. The staff made noise and promised to quit or skip, so the owners just fired everyone and closed shop. If you miss the wonderful beers of Zipline in the coming weeks and months, you have Ted Cruz to thank.

This morning I launched a book aimed at 8 to 12 year olds. I'm happy to say, I hit one of the little shits. 🐢💨

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

The 25th Amendment lets Congress create an independent commission and gives them (w/the VP) the power to remove a President when they’re truly unable to do the job. Not just the Cabinet. Take 30 seconds to support it:

I used to be all about clean, neutral UI’s; black & grey everything. Now if I find a bold colorful theme in an app, I’m like.. why not? Embrace the whimsy. Wallpaper also changes color 😊

Yeah, you can just call me any form of “Cow.”

Hegseth is asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

Listening to audiobook on iPhone. Pause with AirPods control. Click resume 2 minutes later while away from phone. Nothing. Walk back into room and resume iPhone playback. 20 minutes later, discover AirPods decided to launch Apple Music for first time on sleeping MacBook. 😑

Well that tracks, I guess.

Found this really cool little site that shows off all the versions of Mac OS X, from the Cats to California. Check it out!

We had a fun time! Huge thanks to Diesel JC who made the trailer we used, available on the Steam Workshop. Any modders out there want to make a really good Play Live themed one?

American Truck Sim convoy stream with @natecow.com is on! Drop in and help us raise money for @stjudeplaylive.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/boterbug #StJudePlayLive

This week's #StJudePLAYLIVE streaming schedule is shaping up to be a busy one! Mon-Fri 10AM-12PM EDT: Stellaris Mon 7PM EDT: American Truck Simulator with @natecow.com Fri 7PM EDT: Whisper/ASMR stream we unlocked after reaching $250, LEGO building Sat 10AM-??PM: Extend-a-Stream ($1 = +1 minute)

The Christian Nationalist handbook.

It’s what we do, fix, repair and scrub up after republikkkans burn it down.

I’ve come to the realization that my Mac Studio’s password prompt taking almost 5 seconds to appear is due to it waiting for my Apple Watch, which I’m not currently wearing. Turning off Watch unlock makes it pop up instantly. So now I’m deciding if I’d like to give up other watch auth for this 🤔

Carl warned us

Well that’s a new one, but totally on brand for the dumpster fire that is LinkedIn.

one for the VFX’ers:

I have this delightful little app on my Mac called Sip that lets me quickly sample colors. What has amused me lately is that 2-factor codes I copy from my iPhone get picked up as a color. So I get this little chirp and the icon changes. sipapp.io

Happy Star Wars Day! Our announcement for SaberComp 2026 is later today... but first, a final glance back with the release of the highlight reel for SC2025: Chaos, edited by Spenceley! youtu.be/_MwVGST7BZ0 What was your favorite entry? Who do you hope enters again? And will you be among them?

Awesome theme we have for SaberComp this year! And for a shorter period than usual? You're being hunted by the deadline, Competitors, so you'd better snap to it! Bravo to Max for taking a bunch of different promo ideas and bringing them together into this!

Ready your sabers, Competitors, because SaberComp 2026: The Purge is here! Show us the most terrifying scenes you can imagine from the Jedi Purge, whether it’s Order 66 or the terrifying years that followed. Learn more at sabercomp.com/rules

Bruce the Wonder Yak: https://blog.natecow.com/2026/05/03/bruce-the-wonder-yak.html

Why yes, Audible, this is precisely the behavior I want when trying to AirPlay audio to my Mac. Just take over both screens with no option to hide.

It's Star Wars month! Can you feel it? May the 4th - and the next SaberComp - are right around the corner. This one will not be for the faint of heart! Se you there...

Hottest of hot takes: only people who deeply give a fuck about the thing should run companies that make the thing. Cheeseburgers, software, doesn't matter. If your Steam library is empty, you don't get to run a games studio. www.selfonomics.com/p/only-the-...

I don’t think the political party that’s spent 30 years telling us ‘actually everyone should have guns, no restrictions ’ should try and pin the blame for political violence on the party that’s been saying ‘more guns is bad and we should have some common sense limits’ for 30 years.

I just tried Malört for the first time and honestly, everyone else is such a wuss. This is like if you removed the flavor from Campari. It’s just bitter water.

El Capitan Lives!: https://blog.natecow.com/2026/04/14/el-capitan-lives.html

Recovery crew opening the hatch and welcoming the Artemis II crew home after a nearly 700,000-mile journey. Video: Reid Wiseman

When it’s painfully obvious that you’re just using a web app in a trench coat.. For a brief moment, my messages in Microslop Teams messages were surrounded by <div> tags.

Artemis II, both crew and capsule, all home and fully aboard.

Welcome home!

This is so well done. 👌

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

I think the biggest Liquid Glass crime on Tahoe has to be QuickTime. The blue is all wrong.

@hechtvogel.bsky.social It's from www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Having seen two total solar eclipses myself, it’s depressing knowing how no image will come close to conveying what the Artemis II crew is witnessing right now.

Unbelievable how many fake image I see being posted claiming to be from the Artemis II mission. And then on the flip side, how many people claiming the real photos are fake. I hate this timeline.

I’m a lefty, and the hotkeys in Silhouette are mostly concentrated on the left end of the keyboard, which as resulted in this layout for me when doing roto. Finally picked up a Wacom remote so I can be more comfortable. But trying to retrain 20+ years of muscle memory is a challenge 😬

See here's the thing. It was hard arguing against a department of defense. Because it's for defense. Do you not like defense? The department of War, conversely, can get fucked from low orbit. I don't need any wars. Zero conquest required. I would like none of my money going to the lies, thanks

My biggest worry as the Artemis program started sending people into space was how these moon missions will be talked about in the age of social media and… boy howdy is it going to be rough. I truly detest what this shit has done to our collective intelligence.

No, I’m not going to upgrade my Mac Studio to Tahoe just to fix AirDrops to my MacBook Neo and better SMB reliability. I’m going to complain that Apple won’t deploy those fixes to Sequoia because THAT’S WHAT I DO HERE.

Earth from Artemis II!: https://blog.natecow.com/2026/04/03/earth-from-artemis-ii.html

NASA has published some of the best footage yet showing yesterday’s launch of Artemis ll, the first manned mission to the Moon since the 1970s, lifting off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida.

look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

A few hours ago, the Artemis II crew fired the Orion capsule’s thrusters, leaving Earth orbit and setting course for the Moon. If you're 55 or younger, this crew has already traveled farther from Earth than anyone in your lifetime.