Won my first ever match of Highguard Immediately got kicked

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

My fiancee whenever I talk about upgrading her RTX 2080 Super

My fiancee looks cute as all get out in her new glasses and she doesn’t believe me

At SPSA. Trying the gator.

Remember: this isn’t federalism failing. This is federalism working.

Travel with your parents. Go to their hometowns. I went to Tacoma with my father and he told me stories I hadn’t heard in my 35 years on this earth just because he had the landscape around to cue him. Do it before it’s too late.

How it’s going

I study it for a living, but this is why, in my gut, I’ve never understood why Catholics ally with right-nationalists. When you hang out with people who scream about ‘illegals’ and ‘Jewry’, ‘popery’ is always, always the next word outta their mouth. It takes basically nothing for them to go there.

Here's the thing about the ICE killing: this just *is* what a wide-scale crackdown looks like. Whether it's deportation, gun confiscation, homeless relocation, whatever. The state, especially its policing arm, is a big dumb machine filled with trigger-happy morons. This is the only tool you've got.

A valuable cautionary note to university administrators, and a good outcome in the particular case. clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-t...

So far, in this conference paper, I have managed to spell it "Deenen", "Denneen", and "Deeneen".

Skyrim graphics mods got me droolin

You know, I wanted to dunk on Stranger Things, but midness was kind of the vibe this year. I played a string of pretty mid, AA games in 2025 and I had a really great time.

I know you’re supposed to complain about your doordasher online, but dude didn’t miss an item and packed that bag with *military* precision

WEEEEEEEE I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE I LOVE POWER VACCUMS I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N

personalism isn’t the right level of analysis. you have to assume instead that there are mini-trumps inside trump’s head warring for dominance

Asking ChatGPT how much I can sell my used RAM for, but having it run the query 50 times to drive up demand for RAM and thus increase my resale price.

before i left was talking to a coworker directly managed by a GOOG VP about the Issues and she told me that it was like being managed by a Dark Souls boss: couldn't get anything out of him other than incoherent and mournful sentence fragments about why he was obliged to do something plainly evil.

Good haul this year

Stop. You’re not ‘above’ Michael Bublé. Just stop it.

Remember - present wrapping is a game invented by a generation that was scarred by the Great Depression into using as little tape as is humanly possible. You don’t have to play that game.

I wonder who the last person to say “GamerGate” will be I wonder if they’re born yet

This is true but also Pillars II: Deadfire is fantastic and everyone should play it.

A comparison between the ongoing Ryan Lizza Nuzziposts and the Zoepost would be interesting, but basically nobody is incentivized to do that in any way.

Just had a revelation that I can just go buy dinner rolls even if it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas. Like, who can stop me?

The thing is that, in this tweet, what's happening 'at scale' are all examples of bad things only. It's inevitable, but distorting, that the millions of tasty AI-generated recipes, AI-aided cover letters, and personalized AI fact-checks don't get mentally included in what's happening 'at scale'.

Somebody posted this insane, AI-made blueprint and so I had to build it in The Sims

Reading the quote-skeets here and adding Harrison Bergeron back onto my syllabus

Me when my fiancée starts clowning on me for dying too much in Elden Ring

You either die a Very Stable Genius or live long enough to see yourself become Low Energy

So weird that the Other Place has been embroiled in a days-long argument about grading a paper and this, the academic website, seems to know nothing about it.

Even as a former Paulite, Ron Paul has been one of those guys I’ve been waiting to start pandering to MAGA as he ages, and he just hasn’t.

you know what would *really* help men in America? getting a party that has become corrupted by crypto, gambling, and bro podcasters out of washington

"Imperial Lannister Cosplay" What do they teach them in schools these days?

i feel that this is not really ultimately about men, its really about a world where the “non-toxic” cultural milieu relentlessly emphasizes an autonomous, secure self that simply doesn’t exist

While I do admire the Poasting, I think a huge chunk of the political disputes here come down to whether or not you think we should treat this reticence as an obstacle, or a constraint. There was wall-to-wall coverage of January 6th, and it basically moved the moved and persuaded the persuaded.

Hey, so all we have to do after this is elect a one-in-a-century political and legislative talent who perfectly balances the ethic of responsibility with the ethic of ultimate ends, shouldn't be a huge problem

Forcing my fiancee to play Lords of the Fallen with me and seeing her go, in 19 hours, from “what is this bull****” to bragging about how her endgame zweihander is lore-appropriate for her character… There really is no greater feeling as a gamer

“I related to Howard Dean a *lot* as a kid.” - @jwrightpritch.bsky.social

consistent libertarians exist and they look like @ilyasomin.bsky.social

Me, beyond sick of hearing about New York.

There's nothing intrinsically illegitimate about this. Nobody ever promised you a fair, unbiased, or logically consistent electorate. Sorry!

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

Testing AI alignment

You have *got* to be kidding me

A little deceptive. He specifically brackets macroeconomic concerns.

It seems like a future Mamdani situation would be more analogous to the 2012 election, where Obama and the entire Democratic party treated Todd Akin like Mitt Romney's running mate.