Having love and lost is way worse than never having loved at all. Like it’s not even close.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

It's Beltane! Days are still getting longer, but by a little bit less every day. They'll be getting longer and longer slower and slower until the summer solstice. Anyway, here's my music selection for this season. open.spotify.com/playlist/4qV...

iNaturalist except it's for mapping the diversity of types of guy, a collaborative effort to identify every type of guy.

Hi science journalists and child development folks, I am looking for information on the impact of traffic, active vs. car commute, and commute times on toddlers. Point me in any direction!

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Here is an insane piece of lore inside SQLite's source code I am researching VACUUM and I was studying their code. In VACUUM, SQLite creates a temp file prefixed with `etilqs_` Here is why:

I am basically a homebody and I was childless in 2020/21, so covid social isolation truly was easy mode for me. But it did suck for a lot of people and I don't quite know how to put this but I think we should cultivate more gratitude for people doing shitty hard things for the collective good.

Anyway ALSO everyone should read American Hippo by @sarahgailey.bsky.social because nothing says 'yes fun' like both riding hippos and man eating hippos and queer people. torpublishinggroup.com/american-hip...

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop] Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

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Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

I lowkey hate how much this delights me 😂

The other possible doctrinal conclusion is that blasting rope to waluigi hentai is not a sin

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Classic laughter demon summoning fuel

Angine de Poitrine, Vol II Sarniezz is the stand-out hit, imo. Utzp is legitimately hilarious. open.spotify.com/album/3FqqIe...

Next year in peace. Free Palestine.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At this point, if someone ran for president on the single campaign promise that they'd hang Trump and Hegseth for war crimes, they'd have my vote. Hell, I'd knock on doors for them. That is not even an extreme leftist thing, "killing fascists" is like, a 1940s-era conservative position.

Absurd Trolley Problems neal.fun/absurd-troll...

why is this so funny to me

Guy who keeps hinting at the fucked up problematic media he likes and finally reveals he's talking about Scooby Do.

the hardest part about separating the art from the artist is how i seem to have glued myself to this macaroni picture

London Liverpool Street, London Laugherpool Street, London Loverpool Street.

Look, it’s right there in the name, “le mort d’auteur” only applies if the author is dead. If you really are that desperate to spend your time and money on the terribly built fictional world of the transphobia-supporting racist antisemitic franchise, you know what you must do.

This is clearly a fake image. Earth is nowhere near that close to Saturn.

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

I’m not crying your crying 😭

the airport really is the ultimate pressure point for senators, huh

I extremely hate that "prove this wasn't authored by AI" is a thing that people think is worthwhile or possible. It's not just foolish and harmful — it's embarrassing. (See what I did there?)

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Many moons ago I used to give a talk to coding bootcamps about how to be a web developer. It was very popular and I gave it over 30 times. At long last I have got around to making it into a website, so more people can read it: stuffeverybodyknows.com

Periodic reminder: "ask" has been used as a noun in English since Old English "ascian" (and its variant "acsian" as well.) Both "ask as a noun" and "pronouncing 'ask' like 'aks'" are *centuries older than the word "ask"*. When someone complains about either, they are admitting to prideful ignorance

We’ve modernized those old stodgy “academic” “subjects” and replaced them with poop from a butt. That’s right. No more long hours studying, just to be a bore at parties. Now, students will have that stamp of academic approval on the poop from their butts as they prepare to enter the job market.

There's no "good guys" in a war, even "self defense" is monstrous cruel violence. But like, Israel blows up a bank, and so Iran releases a target list of every tech megacorp with offices or data centers in the area? Feeling very "I'm glad you're in a dilemma." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

One easy way to remember the difference between a calque and a loanword is that "loanword" is a calque and calque is a loanword. Dandelion is a loanword that comes from a calque.

One common objection to full-coverage unit tests is "it just documents what the code is doing, it's not verifying that's correct", and like... yeah. Verifying correctness is what integration tests are for. Documenting what the code is doing, all its expectations etc, is still super helpful.

Porn on the pob

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Happy Spring! Today, (about 2 hours ago) we cross through the point in our orbit when the Earth's axis is perpendicular to the position of the sun. Day and night are roughly equal (day is slightly longer due to air refraction, but whatever), and daylight is increasing at its maximum rate.

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Do not surveil your lover like a security camera or panopticon to control or punish their behavior, but rather surveil them in the nature of "sickos: Yes... YES", to get off on it.

In my old age, I’ve been coming around to “Marx was right (but most leftists/communists aren’t)” on a lot of things. Like, for example, so many ethical “fairness” concerns really do just evaporate if everyone’s eating well. Material conditions are material.

Brass Against - Tool's The Pot

In every photo Sam Altman looks like someone just told him there is no Santa.

Hm, this is somewhat imprecisely stated. What I mean is, the movie "Austin Powers" is as old in real life as the time that Austin Powers came from is in the movie "Austin Powers". The character himself is obviously older than that, since he's an adult in the 60s, not a newborn baby.