Mr Beast launching a theme park in Saudi Arabia sounds about right

LRT: if you’re trans and talking to an NYT employee at all at this point you’re just not very fucking smart

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Glad my friends and everyone else at RockStar are getting more time instead of more crunch

YOUR SETTINGS HAVE CHANGED CHANGE THEM BACK Settings > Accessibility > require alt text

Sure enough, one of the recent app updates turned off require alt text in everyone’s settings

Bit of good news for the day

Nostalgia mining not as lucrative as they’d hoped. Jokes aside it’s never good news, damn

Remember that dipshit that got super mad at me for pointing out Nintendo wasn’t ever going to get anywhere suing Palworld and then blocked a bunch of people for pointing out that I worked for Pokemon? Jake was right

Being the internet goblin counterpart to the extremely offline spouse is an important responsibility, but sometimes also a burden

My extremely, sometimes alarmingly offline wife just asked me if I know what vabbing is. How has that come back enough for her to be asking me of all people 💀

Netflix tapping into the lesbian westerns fan market

"Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how it of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are"

Bagels and barbecue around Seattle have sort of the same problem. The best version of either you’re going to find is made at my house

The flip side of this is there are some pretty funny phrases that people use when they’re pretending to know about games. Phrases that tell you they have zero clue what they’re talking about Like netcode

It turns out fennel and blue cheese are pretty great on a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich. The Rogue Creamery smoked blue is amazing on cheeseburgers, too

the leftist fantasy of building a large, complex bureaucracy to handle large, complex human problems without any technocratic expertise whatsoever

A cool thing about having half a brain and even a quarter ounce of sincerity is that it's manifestly obvious Mamdani isn't antisemitic. Just radiantly Islamophobic to say otherwise

DHS is sending their best 😬

Mixing a fresh batch of shenanigoon juice

I am forever telling people

Washington : Idaho :: Michigan : Ohio

For these purposes Idaho gets to be part of the PNW too

Whenever I have any questions about videography, or if I want to sanity check my own thoughts on audio, I go to Jake first. No hesitation. They're the real deal.

Your periodic reminder that I’m available for hire for camera operator, audio engineer, and gaffer work anywhere in the PNW

"Centrist" remains the most annoying way to spell "coward"

Woof, definitely let my lifting routine fall off for way too long. Just barely squeaked out a single overhead shoulder press rep at 125 Box squatted it 20x out of spite and definitely not just to make myself feel better

Corn cobbing at a White House podium

I can’t explain why but this picture is non-binary representation.

“It’s like what if Bellevue tried to have a hippie coffee shop” will go down as one of the meanest things I’ve ever said about a business

Fondly remembering the time a Copilot product manager told me Copilot being used to create malware was a non issue

If you’re ever not sure what to get me, you can literally never go wrong with a cosmic stardust alani and a gas station corn dog

If you’ve ever wondered where I find all this energy

Every day someone comes on here and perfectly demonstrates that no amount or level of credentials actually indicate any intelligence at all

Having the rarest eye/hair color combination in the world is surprisingly uninteresting

Brianna Wu has been saying absolutely batshit nonsense since 9/11. She said unhinged shit when she was pretending to be a leftist too, it just wasn’t as obvious

Copilot showing up as a promoted app in the “games you might like” section on the iOS app store. Microsoft ad spend is drunk again

Debra Messing went from posting > 100 Instagram story posts in 24 hours before the election to absolutely silent lmfao

Wild that Ben Shapiro managed to find an opinion I care about even less than Ben Shapiro’s

It’s a little weird that I haven’t picked up Pokémon Legends ZA yet

Being both a snack and a frequent provider of snacks leads to a surprising number of miscommunications

Working on a piece about cities with limited/no taxi services with sliding scale or otherwise assisted prices and the impact that has on locals. TIL there are only two cab services in all Lewis County, only one running 7 days/week, and they’re not able to serve demand in just Centralia/Chehalis

Nobody remembers 2006, I know, but Google "Dubai Ports World controversy" and have fun.

So who wants to go storm chasing on the WA peninsula tomorrow? For real

Bsky staff are pretty abysmal but moving to northsky is a fucking hilarious choice. That's not an alternative

Dick Cheney being dead is a net good for the world. Rest in piss you piece of shit

Anyone tried Europa Universalis V on a Steam Deck/Linux setup yet?

this makes some people unhappy because it means segments of a community can coordinate to tune them out. but "i can talk about anything i want, to anyone i want, whenever i want, and however i want" is not a realistic expectation if you assume other people have agency

Board of Natural Resources Meeting starting now. 6 legacy forests are on the chopping block today. #PublicLands #Washington

I’ve finally hit “I’m more qualified than any of these options, do I need to run for local office” years old