It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance. Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

This bird has a soundtrack m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRH...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Tangential Public Service Announcement: UPS invents fees attached to your packages. Three times now,I've received a "negotiation" fee for ~1/3 the price of an international package. Three times,I've asked them to show me a document where I agreed to pay that. Three times,they've cancelled the fee.

!!! I’m reading _training for the uphill athlete_ and they just said this!!! P40-41 High intensity -> glycolysis/anaerobic metabolism -> pyruvate/lactate Moderate intensity -> aerobic metabolism _which can use pyruvate_ If the pyruvate doesn’t get used up, it turns into excess lactate & fatigue.

On Monday, I'm sitting down to talk with Katie Wilson, the progressive candidate for mayor of Seattle. Goodness. So much to talk about. What should I ask her?

I just realized that after 8 months of a regular high volume of moderate steady state aerobic exercise, my insomnia has mostly gone away. I’m kind of pissed tbh. Not that I didn’t know it should help; that I didn’t know what “moderate intensity” was. Whenever I tried I failed immediately because…

If you’re wondering about whether to vote for Harrell.

“Leave their church potluck casserole untouched.”

Teenagers are hacking multinational corporations and we are meant to believe ChatGPT has found safety rails that will protect young people that can’t be circumvented with ease.

I think I had a decent idea of what the Trump administration wanted to do. I am surprised by the speed: not because they’ve so successfully executed their plans but because no authoritarian consolidation playbook I’m aware of starts with: 1. Cripple state capacity 2. ?????? 3. Profit!!!

It doesn’t get better.

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

“Comprehensible input” is kind of a fad among immersion language learners and also really important and useful, because The Little Prince is annoying as fuck. The idea is that you find stories/audio/video you can partly understand and get use it to learn the language by reading/listening/watching.

if youre a white man having an existential crisis its important to avoid right-wing propagandists, as their entire machine is built around exploiting the fragile little minds of white men in crisis

I posted this late so it’s still #caturday y/y?

This is from 8 months ago and I hate how current it is. :(

I recorded some time puzzling out the food puzzle. This is the most difficult one for them; they usually miss one of the pockets. (It’s long and all the same; there’s nothing exciting to watch till the end for.) But look how well they cooperate! #catuday

gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now

@anthonymoser.com I am already getting use out of this

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Want to co-sign this as someone who works in philanthropy. Conservative donors and foundations have been willing to invest huge sums for general support, correctly assuming that it would produce long-term gains. The liberal approach to philanthropy has been pretty much the exact opposite.

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

I think this is correct. Even if they think they have an agreement to do some important thing. Removing RFKjr is important. I do not think it is as important as the Constitution. Without the Constitution, we can’t make any agreement stuck anyway.

Ugh, apparently the chickadee-sitting-on-an-identification-book-opened-to-“chickadee” image that I retweeted was stolen. Sorry.

The cats saw me start a workout and immediately jumped into the cat tree to wait for treats. Since I haven’t used kb in a week, that’s really excellent memory! (I began training them to wait in the cat tree while I work out instead of interfering, because I was worried about squishing them.)

The second shingles vaccination is still noticeable after a whole week! That’s a lot, given I rarely notice vaccinations at all. Anyway I did the main workout fine but decided to skip the hanging for time part at the end, because the injection site was all “YOU MESSING WITH ME????”

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

i made a helpful reference

I won’t pretend to know the intricacies, but rulings like this almost compel cong Dems *not* to negotiate bc even if a “good” deal could be struck in concept, one can’t rely on the exec to uphold its side of the bargain and SCOTUS is announcing it will ratify their decision to shirk.

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“Tf are you looking at?” 🪶🌿

This is one of the more chilling things I've read in recent weeks. I can't believe Just Security had to publish this, but I'm glad it did.

The “workslop” term is great. The article? Is _bonkers._ at the end they start talking about people who adopt AI and use it much more and use it better because they have the right mindset….? I didn’t finish; I couldn’t cope. Only the people who don’t use ai much are creating workslop????

If you think the status quo in Seattle is great, Bruce Harrell is your candidate. If you know Seattle can be even better, can truly live up to our stated values in this moment of national crisis, and be a home for people of all kinds, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is your candidate (and mine).

I am 100% all in on the theory that Clark Kent is Isaac Chotiner.

1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area. Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.

What I want to know is whether he thought he could pull off this interview with Chotiner because he’s Built Different, or if he really is so ignorant and isolated that he didn’t know and had no friends to tell him.

Seattle knitters, there's going to be a new yarn store in town starting next week! www.instagram.com/emeraldcityy...

Anyway, good luck beating the brand so famously good at PR they bounced back from their products literally being poisoned by a serial killer.

Another one for the anti corruption ticket

I do feel like the attack on Tylenol — Tylenol! — is gonna be considered a major overreach, for several reasons: 1. It’s _Tylenol._ 2. The decades of misinfo were all about vaccines, which Tylenol is not. 3. The tragic consequences of fever in pregnancy and infants will be immediate and clear.

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

Increasingly convinced that the anticorruption ticket is the thing that will work best in These Times and also has the advantage of doing something about (some of) the people we wish weren’t the face of our side.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

IT IS TIME.

I must say that Tylenol is an ~interesting~ target given that at one time, they had the best PR crisis management in the business. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...

I would be suuuuper interested in a deep dive on Johnson & Johnson’s and Kenvue’s political donation history. Just sayin’. (Deleted & reposted bc J&J spun off Kenvue as a separate company in 2023.)