Kind of proud of my cats. They’ve only had this deck for like, 18 months and did so many spicy tricks they wore out the deck -and- busted a wheel! I glued the wheel back on because I’m cheap but this scratching tablet wasn’t.

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

Good. Doing “look at me“ stunts in national parks that are not prepared to deal with your corpse tumbling down. A pile of talus is a good thing, actually. I saw someone die horribly at the base of El Cap after a stunt like this. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

This is especially common practice in Silicon Valley, where Stockholm syndrome seems to be the leading communal disease.

Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Hey, @governor.ca.gov : California manages to see every car built since 1976 once every two years. Why doesn’t California have a safety inspection program that occurs during smog checks? Preventable accidents caused by negligence are just as important as once caused by speed.

Our high school baseball coach had one of these. Same guy who threw an eraser at me when he caught me clowning before algebra class.

Sad to see journalists like Eric Berger celebrating technical difficulties because it benefits his boss, I mean the guy he adores.

Happy to return to @theverge.com with a 2-part look at Chinese automaker Geely + what it faces before it can sell cars in the U.S. I hadn't driven any Chinese car since 2020, which might as well have been the 1990s given that industry's speed. Part I is my drive reports of 3 brands w/3 powertrains.

I’d like help and support in asking to have Kimbal Musk removed from the board of a non-profit that’s very dear to me. I can’t operate with any legitimacy if he is part of the leadership structure. He’s likely a sexual predator and Epstein confidant, connecting only after 2012. removekimbal.org

Do you go to Burning Man? want to go? Did you know Kimbal Musk is on their board? He and his brother helped the org make it through the pandemic with their pocket change. Elon has toured the office. Please sign, and repost. The event leadership needs to hear from us. removekimbal.org

This is a good explainer of Google's latest theft of the commons. THE COMMONS: Not private property. Most of the books and documents are public domain. They could have written a few lines of code and just limited to those. They did not. The long game is to own us. winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...

I replaced all of the wear items in my fancy land cruiser’s front suspension. Please clap.

I want everyone to know - because if I have to, so do you - that I once listened to an adult man make this argument in complete earnest. He was boasting that the fact that he owed more than he borrowed because he believed this indicated the vehicle was appreciating in value. That man can vote.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Punxsutawney Phil's weather predictions have been right 35% of the time since 2006. Elon Musk's predictions about Tesla being on the verge of solving autonomous driving have been right 0% of the time. Every day is groundhog day when it comes to Elon's broken FSD promises.

I got to see my sister perform at Kennedy Center a few weeks after 9/11. Mental illness took her away from us in the yearsafter that. That was less traumatic than what Trump is doing to our nation’s capital today

Well, Target has spent the past couple of years digging their way to being a poor version of Wal Mart that’s losing sales, so this would seem like a great opportunity to let people know if they actually care about…people.

Believe me when I say that if you feel like tackling your land cruiser 200 suspension at 200,000 miles and over 15 years since the thing was built… Consider taking it to a pro with a lift. You will need a shop press, a bunch of install and receiver cups, and a lot of patience.

This little goofball.

All these years later and they still never figured out how to make the door handles on a model X line up. That should’ve been the first clue. It appears that most of the model X cars built during the first few years now have disintegrating seals and strips around those weird doors.

How’s it going?

Just noting that Mark Kelly voted in favor of Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

As usual, the best gift of the year for the cats is a bag.

Yeah, I’m sure folks are just busting out of Woodside and SF for the climate of Austin, Dallas and Houston… Even billionaires have to go outside, and while the hill country has its own unique beauty, well, let me know how Dallas compares to surfing and Yosemite in the same day.

My take on the Avatar movies is that I don’t like them, but if you do, that’s great.

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Want some good contemporary performances of Beatles songs? Listen to Himay Patel’s performances on the soundtrack to Yesterday. Not just another movie about the Beatles or fans. Yesterday was truly moving and fun and the music is great.

I really enjoyed watching Spinal Tap II today. Made me sad, but it was lovely to see the film shot in New Orleans, with a cameo from my primary school friend Bad Beth. Very interesting vibe to the movie. Not slapstick. Better. I remember seeing Pearl Jam at Lakeshore in 1993 or so. Memories.

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

Want to read some fantasy? While it’ll get a lot of clicks…lol there is zero chance of this happening. Zero.

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

Kind of tickled I got to take my mom for a quick spin in a red Taycan GTS today. I matted it from a u-turn and I think we both got stupid grins.

An incredible thread that will smack you in the face with the obvious.

From our home to yours, warm and happy seasons greetings.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan area has more golf courses than you can shake a stick at, along with 2.2 million residents and as many as 150k visitors at a time.

For those who were politically aware in the 1980s & 1990s this was a particularly dramatic event. At the time, this felt like the USA had "won" the Cold War after decades of conflict. The new Russian Federation could at long last be our friends, or so we thought. Let there be peace on Earth.

Merry Christmas from a few miles east of the Sierra Escarpment.

Thanks for being here, you bunch of online nerds. I enjoy the company here as narrow as I’ve seemed to make it. I speak too much and don’t listen enough here. I’ll try to do better next year.

Such a heartwarming story. Father and son, united in lowest common denominator slop as entertainment, and bending the once-trusted bastions of news to their extreme right wing perspective. Money. It’s what really brings people together.

Hey, remember like four months ago when they said the investigation was closed and they had nothing left to review?

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

“I forgot to set my parking brake” “ hey, please be more careful Your car almost hit a person and a car” “ fuck you, man” Happy holidays from jeep and the Las Vegas Raiders owners club

Americans will spend the next 20 years paying the price - a market of last resort for Trump's petrostate oligarch allies whose oil reserves would otherwise go stranded.

This guy is gonna slick his way into the White House, I’m afraid and we are gonna be right back to 1992 again, except with a software-backed hellscape and its creators that he is beholden to. Better than Trump, and still regressive.

Some of these “new space” people are deeply sick.

Everyone was so busy worrying whether the Hellmouth would open that no one noticed it when the Hellbutt opened