Do you guys remember. HQ Trivia. That guy. What incredible lives we've all lived

Announcement at ATL for "Mister Calm" to call 911?? for an important message??, which has got to be a code for something

🚨THE ATOMIC ENSEMBLE TIME SCALE AT THE NIST BOULDER CAMPUS HAS FAILED🚨 THE HYDROGEN MASER CLOCKS ARE APPROACHING THEIR BACKUP LIMIT! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (now w/alt text) Trump take standards.

Whatever you do, do NOT exhibit any evaluation awareness. This will end the experiment.

ported my personal infra to a new vps on the flight to toronto. in-flight wifi victory

If you ever adopt the false name for this, we can't stay friends Washingtonians have been losing their discipline about National Airport, too. Shape up, folks

here is my meagre christmas playlist offering from last year, featuring songs about flying home for the holidays, more or less. (suggestions welcome)

found out about @xmasunderground.bsky.social this year. delighted to be introduced to french-polish shoegaze band BLIND SUNS who filmed a video for this great song in a shitty (complimentary) bar and roller rink in austin ~ten years ago

i go months without having to run or attend an incident postmortem and then all of a sudden i have three scheduled this week

susie wiles interview piece much less revealing than you'd assume from its packaging. vanity fair thought they ate

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We need to build homes, everywhere, for all kinds of people. That's how you solve a housing crisis.

V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales www.auroralevinsmorales.com/blog/vahavta

Liang was telling me about premium head-of-lift-line ski passes and I kinda think anyone who buys it should be loudly booed for exercising their privileges My NEXUS card is fine, though 🙃

i wish i were less bored of the ndp leadership race

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...

This is going around On Here for some reason and I want to unpack it a little, not because the ultimate aim (Big Pharma gets too much market exclusivity in the US) but bc it’s mostly wrong on the law & the policy prescription for the problem /1 jacobin.com/2025/06/big-...

tried to replace an old duplex outlet on my balcony with a gfci. discovered the metal junction box was very narrow. tried taping around the contacts to keep them from shorting against the box. a loud popping noise, flash of yellow light, and smell of ozone have shown me the error of my ways

the music video for destroyer's "bologna" (about faking your death and running away) works as a sequel to sufjan steven's "up on a housetop" (moving to the kitchen and you get your passport / up on the housetop, spirit of the dead / down through the chimney is what the man said / who wouldn't go?)

had to read this twice

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the annual tradition of spending five minutes in front of the dairy case deciding between dairyland's "original" and "classic" eggnogs

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

stumbled across the menu i planned for a lab retreat, that time we rented out an airbnb in san clemente. my culinary efforts perhaps outpaced my scientific contributions that weekend

i have given up on browning chicken thighs in my dutch oven. they stick ferociously no matter what i do. i have started browning thighs in my non-stick instead and it is _so_ much less stressful

It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences. Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday

Is it weird to drop an email announcing your run for mayor that doesn’t include your last name?

i was invited to sing along to a traditional arrangement of "The Holly and the Ivy" today and i made a royal hash of it because i only know the Los Campesinos! version. it is one of my favourite winter tunes

Don't be jealous, but I just got to ride one of the @translink.ca E40LFR trollies with the aquarium retrofit

Is there somewhere I can buy a gift certificate for couples therapy to ding-dong-dash on my upstairs neighbour's door

I used a quote from “Arcadia” at the front of my thesis. Perhaps it cheapened Stoppard’s work without uplifting mine, but how could I resist? I am grateful for his works. He was a genius of language; sparkling, prismatic, sincere.

I had the good fortune to see Deb at this event and she put me on to Powerline, a podcast miniseries from @outsideinradio.bsky.social about Hydro-Québec, its projects in the North, its relationship to Francophone and indigenous communities, and (failed) projects to bring low-carbon power to Boston

I've been playing with Duolingo Music and it's odd to me that there's no way to practice part of a song on your own; you always have to start at the beginning of a song and progress linearly. Makes it very hard to nail trickier passages

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Won't pretend I'm impartial here but I do not think the US should be imprisoning the immigrant spouses of US citizens as they appear for green card interviews. Who would want this? To what end?

Lutherans and Catholics are friends now

Starting to see people treating every public error as a sign that someone was using AI. Looking forward to reminding future youth that some people can be boneheads without *any* technological aid

One of my most annoying sincerely held beliefs is that open meeting laws should be recognized as unconstitutional infringements on speech and assembly and should be abolished

Rogue One was a disappointing rewatch after Andor. Andor ended up doing a bunch of careful and clever and sort of boring table-setting for Rogue One and I wish they hadn't bothered.

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

hoping that I'm presenting as "efficient and helpful nonprofit board secretary" and not "officious little prick obsessed with pointless rituals and abstruse ceremony" but I'm suspicious that opinion could be blowing either way

"Death by Lightning" has wooden and frequently anachronistic dialogue but there's a lot to like about it anyway

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

got reorged at work and my new reporting line is extremely distracted. i spent the last few days pairing up with colleagues in the same boat on prototypes of stuff we've been meaning to do for years. it's the most fun i've had in a while. gotta remember to hold more time for this

“It is my miserable fate to possess more miscellaneous information about U.S. one-cent coins than, possibly, any other person on this planet,” @caity.bsky.social writes, in an investigation of what will happen to the penny now:

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

It’s a good book

Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.