logging off for a while ... I find Oscars discourse absolutely insufferable

…everything) is a beautiful, righteous city, warts and all. Miss you every day, dc 🤘🏻✌🏼✊🏼 Gets his dumbass fucking troop deployment out of the city.

ironically looking forward to significantly safer e-biking as this crisis progresses

Place du Colonel Fabien (côté sud), avant et aujourd’hui, dimanche 15 mars.

The Frankenstein director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros.

The best writing about videogames this week, all in one place. www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-7/

So NYT is in this dilemma of its own making. Maintaining the noble-savage myth about MAGA requires ... never actually hearing directly from MAGA. Hearing directly from MAGA requires ... abandoning your own stated moral & journalistic principles. There's no solution to that equation, as I wrote:

I can find no independent verification of this, sadly

slopulism generator: Eliminate *spins wheel* Sales Tax *throws dart* for Teachers *draws card* on DoorDash

the bad guys in "Hijack" have strong "1980s multicultural street toughs" vibes

Funny how the nyt’s bogus, insinuation-dependent attack on Mamdani was followed by the Atlantic’s bogus, evidence-free attack on Mamdani. Elites joined at the hip.

While I dig this analogy it strongly implies that in 20 years Trump will return, somehow

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?

A racoon came out from behind a tree. “I heard that you were looking for a button,” he said. “Here is one that I just found.” “That is not my button!” wailed Toad.

“Bob of Speakers Corner” has sent me

the Theroux documentary "Inside the Manosphere" (Netflix) is absolutely incredible ... should be required viewing (as an inoculant) for all teenage daughters

What a horrible way to live. You can see in their faces a constant calculus to understand who is in the top of the hierarchy at all times.

being a Trump supporter means being lumped in with Trump so few seem to understand the **complete** collapse in reputation that comes with that

How about the reputational damage to all the scholars they’ve put on professor watch lists and whose careers they’ve tanked. Own it, script kiddies. No one made you do this.

the party of "free speech" this is why Trump's supporters supported him, so I'm told

NEW: The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

this is 100% where I am right now ... it's just f*ing wild

These champagne flutes of room temperature milk make Beavis and Butthead look like Marie and Pierre Curie

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Disqualifying ... cutting taxes is culturally corrosive, plain and simple

This is what happens when elected officials make your transit decisions. (There is a categorization error. The Caltrans rep cannot vote. The other rep is appointed by LA mayor and does her bidding. 100% of LA Metro Board votes belong to elected officials) bsky.app/profile/rsda...

The Woke Ginger won't see your mean posts about him, but - hold on, I'm hearing that he can see them.

Every single moment that a driver is driving they are brandishing a weapon, and they need to act like it.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

we *really* don't have much time left to turn this around

This is VERY BAD

Pretty special to witness a prosecutor violate her ethical obligations on live TV.

whatever forces keeping oil at just a little over $100 / barrel will soon be outmatched by reality

If "Coach" want to talk about death cults, we could have a whole conversation

When drivers inch forward or rev their engines to get a pedestrian to go quicker they are saying, "You don't belong here." They are using their cars to intimidate others. A pedestrian has just as much right to the roadway as a driver does.

a MASSIVE gut punch -- know-nothing bullshit vandalism

This is the story that caused Hegseth's meltdown today. CNN, of course, stands by it's reporting. "The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz..." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

But seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to run a dark money influence op on a professional influence op researcher and her influence op former reporter boyfriend? Just insane dummies. Vote Kat and she'll out this shit in Congress constantly.

The “eat more protein!!!” message is popping up all over, usually in the context of encouraging more meat. This could have huge impacts on land use requirements, water use & pollution, emissions etc. Americans consume >200 pounds of meat/person/year. We should eat more plants/less meat instead.

the queen of late night snacks: - toasted sourdough - layers of dijon, swiss on both slices - thinly sliced dill pickles in the middle

news flash: - cutting taxes is easy, but corrosive - rebuilding a robust national culture pays off for generations, but is difficult and expensive Senator Van Hollen, which consultants are tell you to do this, and could you please throw them out the nearest window?

*kyriarchal