The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.

Uni used to have antennae :3

I am having a bad day at work (minor error led to some fliers being printed wrong, disagreements about what should go in a presentation slide deck), but this cheered me up. I am, at least, not having as bad a day as everyone involved in this case.

It’s a very sleepy Monday

Cute face, but this is his hunting face

He fits pretty good in there

many are saying: woims

There are certain queer times in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke

The ski hill knew Gary was around and made sure to put up the appropriate signage.

And Gary said let there be powder and there was powder. And Gary saw that it was good.

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

whut? someone, please, help … me … load … my .. blob?

Big Bill Hell’s Cars for 24 hours on a loop, got it.

I understand why prison abolition is controversial but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that the most passionate prison abolitionists work closely with incarcerated people or were incarcerated themselves. The more you know about the logistics of incarceration the more you hate it.

I blame most of my weird special interests (natural/unnatural disasters and pandemics, a lot of which occurred/started in the 80s) on being really, really into the song Wooden Ships by Crosby, Stills & Nash when I was about 9. why was I really into a song about nuclear apocalypse at age 9? Uhhh…

glad my If Books Could Kill and 5-4 subscription money is going to a good cause ($750 Swarovski crystal Shrek).

me: hello pharmacy my doctor sent in a prescription last month could you please fill it. pharmacy: it is out of stock right now but we will order it and fill it when it gets here. *nearly a month passed* pharmacy, the day before I fly out of state: it’s filled! you can pick it up now!

I don’t want to pretend that the U.S. is/ever was uniformly better on trans student issues than the U.K. but a decade ago I was a socially transitioning student in California and my school had no problem letting me room with other boys on trips, and neither did the other boys for that matter.

my first job was at a certain museum in San Francisco (which Phil is certainly familiar with) and part of my duties was going into the exhibit shop and reporting broken exhibits. there was *a whole lot* of wild shit in that area, which was only separated from public areas by a single badge-gate.

please look at the accursed banner I was subjected to when I opened up the Teams app on my work phone this morning.

this is not a new observation, but this definition of “biological sex” is so completely vibes-based. of all the primary and secondary sex characteristics/markers, only chromosomes can’t be changed via medicine/surgery. and chromosomes aren’t binary, either!

04 Feb 2026

Handsome even in low light conditions

Excuse me but do you require a Noodles pic?

everything is and will continue to be awful but today I found a local grocery that sells Superman ice cream, so that’s cool.

Yeah, I think if a place wants to be open for non-commercial operations (read: no sales) and it's not preventing employees from striking or going to protests, then eh, that's fine. But donating a portion of sales is not the ask, IMO.

lol at the businesses doing handwringing posts about not closing for the strike tomorrow. If your ass is going to stay open, you can at least spare us the "our brewpub is a crucial place for community" platitudes. Just do it and be whisper quiet about it.

also, republicans’ proposed “prevention measures” against fraud are always, always to means test more and make benefits recipients jump through even more confusing and unnecessary hoops – even when, as is the case here, the fraud is provider-side.

this is such a niche thing but … I love the “menacing loon with Braille on its neck” flag but the Braille is wrong. You don’t need a numeral indicator before each digit, just in front of the whole number. Flag for reference via robmcbroom.bigcartel.com/product/mena...:

most aggressive sleeper around. he doesn’t sprawl he burrows

he’s SO sleepy

Saw a guy chasing ICE and blowing his whistle while on an electric unicycle Dudes rock ICE does not

Security folklore of the morning is that no one should share URLs on Signal because it exposes IP addresses and people should use QR codes instead. Please don’t do this! QR codes are much less secure. If you’re concerned about link security, turn off link previews which you can do in Signal settings

The boys are back

Are you staying warm?

It is time to pay the Pingis Tax.

I learned tonight that Judge Zanelli was inspired to run for magistrate judge by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s focus on communication and understanding. There is a very good chance the Book of Grudges was, indeed, a poorly thought out Warhammer joke.

maybe relatedly, dental offices are an absolute hotbed of employment law violations. it's wild. you've got handsy dentists. you've got constant pregnancy discrimination because everyone who works there is a woman under 35. can't tell you how many cases we've had against dental offices.

oh cut the crap! if you want to encourage non-violent protest (which isn’t the same as “peaceful” and which I won’t share my thoughts on here), whatever, fine, that’s the job of a politician. but don’t pretend state/local cops are here to protect protestors or won’t shoot at the slightest threat.

quoting this so it’ll end up in the MSP feed – Amanda has been covering right wing politics and fascist violence since before J6 and she’s one of few non-local journalists who I trust to get on-the-ground reporting right.

I promised you some good news after a bleak week. Here it is. This is one of the most wrenching wrongful convictions I've ever written about. It is wonderful to see Charlie out and off to his new home. radleybalko.substack.com/p/after-35-y...

"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"

We don’t need to compare what happened in Minneapolis to Nazi Germany. We can compare it to what has happened in Minneapolis before.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Dad… please?

Uni patiently waiting while his dad prepares sashimi

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

Sophisticated gentleman alert