My god. Imagine being this fragile about your own masculinity and this big of a misogynist at the same time? Boggles the mind.

Oh, I absolutely do not trust you, Slack, not even a little bit, not even—especially not—when you use cutesy language instead of actual details of what fresh AI hell you’re no doubt subjecting me to.

I am so profoundly tired of these spineless centrist democrats either being too stupid to understanding the moment or understanding it just fine but being too weak to step up. They can all go get fucked.

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

Every day the US legal system’s out here ensuring it’s just Calvinball all the way down

i remember learning "there is no silver bullet" in my cs classes and it's bleakly hilarious that all tech speculation now is "what if we made a silver bullet? we will add the line 'you are the silver bullet' to claude's code"

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

This post from @ky.fyi about AI burnout and their place in tech resonates so deeply with me and articulates so much more clearly (and with copious anecdotal receipts!) what I was getting at last month with my bit of moaning below. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

Love, love, love this pro-em dash/anti-AI abbreviation tooltip on @kittygiraudel.com’s Interactive Cover Component blog post. They’ll have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands. 🔗 kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/09/a...

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

Tonight’s Jeopardy! episode was so incredibly intense. My 11 year old was pacing during final while repeating, “Jamie will get this. Jamie will get this.” 😂

It’s really fucking excellent when it doesn’t get dark at 3:00 in the afternoon. One could get used to this whole “sunshine” thing.

The world is objectively shit, but Jamie Ding’s current run on Jeopardy! is an uncomplicated source of daily joy.

Been in line with my 15 year old for three hours now at Music Millennium for Record Store Day. We’re almost to the door. If they don’t get the record they’re hoping for I fear tears. Mine and theirs both.

The Butthole Surfers are culture

I am not being hyperbolic or glib when I say I do not want to live in this world.

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Yet again: reading long form fiction and nonfiction widely and frequently helps with this. The primary conversation around so many canonical texts from Paradise Lost to Lolita is exactly this. That the majority of Americans don’t read is a problem that touches so many aspects of our lives.

He’s not wrong. This place I live is pretty easy on the eyes.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

We all do harm by being.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

I hate how stupid everything is.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

It is absolutely no wonder these myopic, self-absorbed lunatics are actively destroying society.

I’m closer every day to leaving tech altogether. The inexorable crush of LLMs, the callousness of the culture, the diminishing value of doing versus the elevated status of the result. I’m already in a second career and rapidly approaching 50. But I don’t know that I can stomach much more of this.

i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it

Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

But we can’t possibly afford canceling student debt or universal healthcare or a national election holiday or high speed trains or a federal single payer system or renewable energy infrastructure or a universal livable wage or universal pre-k or…

Brother, the time each day I already spend in that particular fantasy would alarm and amaze you.

An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen

Really disappointing to discover I was correct six months ago.

I genuinely believe our drifting away from this over the past half century or so is a direct cause (of many) for the situation we find ourselves in.

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Genuinely, what the FUCK is a politically correct war? What’s this ghoul even talking about? We’ve effectively been at war my entire adult life and not once have I thought, “At least no one’s calling the children we’re bombing the r-word.”

Can he be one of them please?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

evergreen status

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.