Now it's European summer vacation

Coming over the river into Porto

On the high speed train from Lisbon to Porto

Streetcar tracks visible through the construction on Payne Ave

Is one nice day without someone running a gas-powered leaf blower too much to ask?

happy easter i hope you enjoy your freshly laid eggs xox

A GREAT CONFLAGRATION OF PRICES! As General Sherman Laid Low the City of Atlanta, So Too Shall We Lay Waste to Our Wares. All Must Go - Naught Shall Be Spared!

"This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin" is actually the exact sort of headline I was expecting to see every week for the next four years if Trump won.

The sun came out so I dropped everything I was doing (posting) to go see the cherry blossoms

The Nasdaq is down 21% YTD and we have 104% tariffs with China going into effect in a few hours, while he's signing EOs about "woke energy" Total mad king mode

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

my life is vacuous and devoid of meaning and what will get me meaning is a life doing the same repetitive industrial task for 12-14 hours a day, six days a week until I am 54 and the polio finally gets my mobility

it's called sports, it's called baseball in particular

Being a manufacturing engineer on Twitter post-"Liberation Day", I now understand what all the virologists went through during the early days of covid.

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

once democracy becomes partisan, all freedom loving citizens have an obligations to become partisan hacks

i have heard from 3x separate manufacturers this week (not even through work, these are friends) that they're shutting down manufacturing due to tariffs.

Dude's telling us we need to run, but Donald Trump just cut our tendons. Before Trump took office we had a 4.1% unemployment rate, where is all the new labor to build factories going to come from? They people they fired from the CDC?

Becoming negatively polarized into supporting a woke regime in America. I will vote for whoever promises to lock up the most people in this administration.

Trump is evil, lazy, racist, loves tariffs, and hates being told no. That's it, that's the entirety of the plan such that there is one. That's what everyone voted for.

Remember like 2 days ago when people said it would actually be fine because we would finally at least have stability in our trade policy?

My company just confirmed our policy allowing people to use the bathroom for their gender identity is still in effect. Thank god we're still woke. I might have a chance.

Update

The internet figured out that the tariff rates have absolutely nothing to do with the actual tariff rates imposed by other countries in about 15 minutes. Has any real news organization figured this out yet?

Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory

Glad we finally have a president with big enough balls that he can put them directly on the stove.

Trump announces his tariffs, which are (somehow?) related to the trade barriers other countries are imposing on the U.S. But... THE NUMBERS HE'S PRESENTING BEAR NO RELATION TO REALITY. It would be absurd to call these reciprocal tariffs. They're grievances.

“I do not want to assemble toasters as I have a good job, but my neighbor (not my real one, I hate all my neighbors, but a hypothetical neighbor I like) must be an unemployed loser who yearns to assemble toasters.” -like 50% of the population.

Twitter down again for me. But sure, cutting 70% of the staff had no negative impact on service

If Elon actually goes forward with this, the AG needs to simply have him arrested.

Me. I do.

lmao at MLB TV crashing on Opening Day

Just saw a Vivek for governor ad on Hulu. The primary isn't for like a year? How bad does he think his name recognition is?

Very cool that we're getting to see this play out in real life.

We need to quadruple immigration, India is beating us in pizza technology.

My prediction for April 2 is there will be a bunch of countries we export almost nothing to that will quickly announce "deals" to get the reciprocal tariffs repealed because eliminating tariffs on US goods will cost them basically nothing.

I think the likely rush of new, fiercely anti-GOP candidates competing for 2026 is good and will bring a ton of new blood the party badly needs. IL-9 is an interesting case - the current representative has progressive politics but will also be *eighty-two* in 2026 and has indicated she'll run.

the libs are screaming at me not to let this big wooden horse into the gates I'm gonnna do it, just to piss them off!

if we do not immediately re-establish substantial deterrence for breaking the rule of law then we're just going to be stuck flipping the fascism switch every 4-8 years until it gets stuck in the on position

Ever since I learned how to make paella it's been one of my favorite things to make. I should probably get a real paella pan.

Apparently this area didn't have enough parking already

lmao Tesla's self-driving car tech regularly drives cars onto railroad tracks, it's not going to be able to navigate a robot around a room.

Absolutely incredible to see this in Wyoming.

Not doing much to dispel the rumor that this is basically just the secret police disappearing people arbitrarily!

like this is not nor has it ever been a GOOD country but it has been a very profitable one right up until - essentially - a class that consists largely of people who own Jet Ski dealerships took it upon themselves to destroy all conditions necessary for people to buy Jet Skis

It is wild to think about how long it took the US to transition from "what if we strip mine all of our natural resources and have a bunch of slaves" to "why don't we get smart people to move here and develop patentable stuff" and that has switched back in like two months

“We have always been at war with Eurasia.” Sad that replaced Senator Sherrod Brown w this Trump bot.

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

Guys, we're crashing the entire US economy over DAIRY TARIFFS. We have wiped out $4 trillion in stock market value to grow an export market worth less than our exports of scrap metal.