A new and unwelcome development is that I am on my daughter’s shopping council alongside her best friend and am being asked to opine on whether this shirt is cute.

I came Bali to Eat Pray Love Bali:

You can’t just put stuff like this on the timeline yo.

“God this coffee is awful.” “Now you see why so many baristas have graduate degrees.”

The kids went to the beach and did crab hunger games. We will be hitting the therapy when we get home.

Jane Austen predicted modern age gap discourse in Sense and Sensibility.

Tis the season so: Die Hard 2 is structurally superior to Die Hard. Discuss.

The important thing to remember is that even pro-democracy Russian dissidents are ultimately imperialists. Detente with Russia is ultimately impossible because they simply have no other frame of reference.

My objection to the social media dump for travelers to the US isn’t about the fact that it exists, it is that the government is too lazy to use the backdoors it very clearly has to automate the process.

A tanker a day keeps the Russians at bay.

When your kid asks how they make beer, just tell them that they put root beer in a square cup.

I'm about as milquetoast a lefty as you could ask: touch my steak and watch me reflexively vote for whoever is running against you.

Hold on: Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim?

Did anything interesting happen while I was away?

How do taxes work when you are fleeing a regime that is intent on killing you and/or expropriating your assets?

This dissonance is made entirely possible by the fact that the market hasn't crashed.

How to fall afoul of border control laws in ex-Soviet states.

Slow Horses is back!

Life in the sticks

I can’t fucking stop laughing.

Incredible: we are sort of back.

I bet they didn't account for the fact that everyone in Sweden is in fact autistic by RoW standards.

Asset light software engineers encounter actual industrial engineering and their tiny brains break as soon as they can't npm install heavy-industry. Please for the love of god can someone do actual industrial policy in the US. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is as close as I’ve ever come to child abuse.

Apparently it's ~30K to launch your own personal cubesat using a rideshare. This is middle aged hobby money... why aren't more people launching stuff into space?

Of course it was a groyper.

So the BETWEEN in SQL is inclusive?

I will vote for the democrat who bans all sports until athletes and administrators can make it so that we don't have to hear anything about who can and cannot be in women's sports leagues.

GPS jamming UvdL's plane, a mass drone incursion into Poland... the Russians are 100% prodding NATO to determine tactical and strategic reaction times. They're boiling the pot for an eventual confrontation with the Europeans -- Ukraine was never the end game.

Exciting afternoon in Qatar.

When trads said they wanted to retvrn, I didn't realize they meant they wanted the Treasury Secretary engaging in violent conflict with his colleagues. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2...

We need US citizens to act like the 21st century equivalent of Freedom Riders: walk around with immigrants, get wrongfully detained by ICE, and then tie them down in court with public, long running and extremely messy lawsuits.

Ivy released a full album of stuff for the first time in a decade, and the album title *hurts* when you realize that it's all stuff Adam Schlessinger recorded before he passed away in 2020. open.spotify.com/album/4RsfzX...

I believe in asking the important questions.

Interesting mechanic where you can score your stupid tax cuts or whatever as fiscally reasonable and just shrug your shoulders when the deficit explodes because the Supreme Court invalidates the mitigating leg of your legislation.

Concept: make the painting Secretary of Health and keep Dorian Gray locked up in the basement.

Yay people are finally losing their jobs!

I didn't realize that Sneaker Pimps had released another album in 2021. Always a pleasure, but it just feels wrong without Kelli Ali sorry.

Man, what else is on Apple TV? They've been killing it with For All Mankind and (belatedly) Foundation, do they have more good stuff?

Please someone give him a phone, I gotta see the tweets.

Award travel conundrum: I see each leg of a trip available separately, but am not having any luck patching them together into one PNR.

One of the odder things about this Trump term is the relative lack of palace intrigue in the administration. They've settled on their team and it seems to be sticking.

She needs to go, sorry. But only after she does discovery and we find out what kind of trashpile Pulte is running.

I am willing to suffer short term portfolio turmoil if the Fed promises to raise rates 50 bps every time Trump tries to interfere with it.

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.

I think Trump should take strategic equity stakes in private health insurance companies.

The right thinks men have a right to socialized pu**y and the left quite understandably is against that. It's not a culture war as it is a meeting of two completely incompatible worldviews.

One of the funniest stories I heard while visiting the Balkans was the story of my Bosnian driver's grandmother's effort to claim Croatian (i.e. EU) citizenship by virtue of been having been born in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia which, for a short while, merged Croatia and Bosnia.

That staunch Israeli ally, France. Honestly I'm surprised the frogs didn't recognize Palestine decades ago.