I'll roll peanut butter, chili crisp, and spam in a small corn tortilla and eat it cold.

Caught up on Murderbot and I'm obsessed with the dramatic comedy of SecUnit and Gurathin having the exact same reactions when they're apart and the exact same opinions in the opposite direction when they're together

This is true and yet I want one anyways. With a firefighter pole in the middle to slide down.

Ok if someone asks you how to prep for No Kings, don't warn them about kettles and tear gas, warn them about the literal sun. "Bring a hat, sunscreen, snacks, twice as much water as you think you need, and flag/sign of your choice. Wear comfy shoes. If your phone is old bring a battery pack."

normalize writing an emo poem and walking into the nearest river as an appropriate response to being given morally unconscionable orders by a deranged would-be emperor

Not a writer but in between bad fanfic I wrote the first 30-ish pages of the following novels before abandoning them: - Eragon ripoff, but the dragons are alien space eagles - Murder Tomboy goes to evil magic school - Teenager falls into hell, is adopted by Satan, becomes crown princess of hell

Reading comprehension is bad on this site, but my hot take is that some of this is because people write badly and expect to be understood. You can't prevent a stranger from taking your words in bad faith (waffles/pancakes), but if your sentences are an incoherent mess, that's a you problem.

The nyt article has this nyt-hosted screenshot static01.nyt.com/images/2025/... So one would hope the author read the cnn article in the screenshots he presumably took before writing a flattering profile of the guy. The cnn article, for reference: www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/a...

there should be age verification + labeling on bluesky if only so that I can immediately discount the opinions of 14-year old edgelords, instead of having to read them and take mental damage first

I'm saving this for the watch party, and this review is making it even harder to wait! Slightly disagree about the casting though, I would've liked an nb actor but it's also kinda nice to see someone who presents outwardly as cis male as you can get, being pointedly not cis

for some reason google translate really wants to read 無 as "pussy" at all times 英勇無敵 -> heroic pussy enemy (google please fix your tokenizer???) anyways, I think it would really enjoy the classic play "Much Ado about 無"

- vance kills the pope - trump declares himself AI antipope - the vatican elects woke chicago pope in retaliation what a wild timeline

Rapidly becoming in favor of competence tests for voting that are like - Name the three branches of government - Is the Earth round or flat - Do you wash your hands after you shit

the amazon basics truck character creator has a pronouns field

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I feel like I'm going insane when I see "we need Abundance to be non-partisan" in deep-blue cities. I don't care what the national median voter thinks, the people writing California zoning laws are all Democrats! Why are you chasing an imaginary west coast urban Republican bloc!

petition to decide the new secdef by conclave, every 12 hours the blue angels fly over the pentagon dropping smoke signals

While the delusional overconfidence of the bottom 2/3 of this chart is incredible, I'm also mildly confused at the 30% of people who think they would lose in a fistfight with a rat

Hot take, it's important to make kids read Shakespeare in school. Not for the content, but in order to train the skill, stamina, and patience to read tiring and unfamiliar prose. If you can power through Henry IV, you have the mental muscle to read a longform news article

The best way to roast and eat marshmallows is to peel them, eat the crispy bit only, and put the rest back over the campfire. Rinse and repeat. This is because marshmallows are secretly personal dessert shawarmas.

this will not make anything less stupid but I would like to introduce trump to the concept of git squash like maybe instead of saying ten contradictory stupid things in a row, you can batch them into a single stupid thing, maybe once a day? once a week, even? you can even shut up forever???

what a great time to be dependent on very expensive meds that the specialty pharmacy will only ship one month's supply of at a time

This is a tangent, but this is one reason why I don't think any of the AI publishers are going to get anywhere (putting aside the quality and ethics for now) Doesn't matter how cheap it is to produce tons of slop if even (artisanal, fully human-produced!) books are too expensive to print

Also like, people generally don't get hurt in sports because people generally don't want to hurt each other! I and all my cis girl soccer teammates were perfectly physically capable of wrecking each others' ankles, but we didn't. Because we were there to play the game! And we weren't psychopaths!

Trade wars aside, $450 for a newly released console is a fair price and $80 for an AAA video game is a deal, actually.

five guys tariffs and lies (sorry) (may actually just be one senile unhinged guy)

voting to set ourselves and the global economy on fire because an Atlantic opinion writer convinced us that HR's "don't be too rude to your teammates or you might be fired for being an unpleasant and ineffective coworker" bulletin was a violation of our human rights

US gamers all looking at Nintendo like hey so was the Switch 2 price calculated pre-tariff or post-tariff

Gonna launch a new LLM startup that provides exactly one service: deprogramming right-wing relatives by calmly repeating normie centrist talking points and extremely boring facts with infinite patience

My copilot 1-year license ran out, and I didn't renew it. Kind of interesting; I was working in a new language, and after a year of LLM-assisted coding, I had all the semantics down but had to google the syntax for a switch-case, which would usually be muscle memory by now

One one hand, left-NIMBYs are annoying and their position is incoherent. On the other hand, I can't really blame them for being negatively polarized against the concept of houses when the Abundance dudes are out here podcasting with Hanania and Weiss!

acab includes teachers woke war criminal putin nice to know that there are still brand new phrases being invented every day on al gore's internet

Increasingly convinced that Schumer is playing (competently? extremely incompetently?) some Lucy football mind games here, with the sole evidence being that bsky isn't even the target and yet we're all taking friendly fire psychic damage simply for being able to read. (this is a joke)

Pretty sure that everyone on this site freaking out about cloture does not know what cloture is, or has a wikipedia-skim level understanding. I also dunno what cloture is so I'm not howling! Tell your sens that you'll blame them for a bad budget more than shutdown and then go touch grass!

If a team has "no manager" and yet gets things done, it just means one or more people is managing without the title. A staff+ engineer should be able to manage a project and wrangle a team even if they prefer not to, and if they don't have that skill they shouldn't be staff!

why are people so damn annoying

the people in my professional tech circles who spent december and january crowing about buying trump sneakers to trigger libs and sucking up to musk are scrubbing their linkedins. remember who they are.

feeling really lucky that my pcp randomly decided to give me an mmr booster 5-ish years ago, just because there were a few cases in a neighboring county and I was like hell yea gimme four shots in one arm

Social media let everyone eavesdrop on everyone else and we couldn't handle the difference between "this person is talking to me and therefore I expect them to code switch into our shared register" and "this person is talking to someone else in an entirely different register"

this entire administration is passing around a single braincell but that braincell is actually a moldy worm

Because they're all deathly afraid of being uncool and don't have enough confidence in their own taste to openly like things. Reading Foundation/Dune/etc: safe, appropriate, intellectual, rational Reading Teixcalaan/Radch/etc: cringe, overemotional, insufficiently nihilistic

@marthawells.com Do you plan to re-release the Raksura patreon snippets eventually? I was a subscriber and just reread the series, was hoping to find the shorts in my patreon email updates but no luck. I'd love to buy them as a zine or something!

Extremely minor and petty and local but I'm going to be so pissed when the Bay Area tech yimbys run on evicting women for not dating their failson nephews, and I am forced to spite-vote for Dean Preston V2

The thing about the average tech guy just out of college isn't that they're stupid, it's that they're small fish who have never been out of a tiny pond

that's not a dogwhistle, that's an air raid siren

we should add a feed yourself requirement to the SAT * chop onions and garlic * fry an egg * cook a carb (pasta, rice, noodle, potato...) * cook a vegetable (stovetop, oven, doesn't matter) * heat canned soup * microwave freezer mac and cheese * pack the leftovers

Maybe we would have fewer ridiculous drone/ufo/Iranian Mothership panics if people just looked up more all the time. Go outside! Touch grass! Like down on a rock! Inoculate yourselves to the concept of stars, they're very pretty!

Without insurance, my main drug would cost $6.5k a month. The baseline cost of having a mostly functional body is more than mortgage on a million dollar house!

every time a conservative opens their mouth to say they really care about women's sports they should have to donate $10K to a local girls sports program

A major reason I don't use LLMs to write emails and other bureaucratic little things is actually very simple: I like writing words. I like rolling them around, I like playing with the sound of them, I like stacking them one way and then another to see which suits my mood and intent