A poignant reminder that any life can be unexpectedly cut short. Don't put off finding your joy to another day, because you might not have one. Life is too short to sacrifice your happiness to some tech oligarch asshole who wants to monitor your keystrokes. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

I'm watching "Spiderman: No Way Home" for the first time (the whole pandemic thing, and then I had a kiddo), and it occurs to me that Spiderman doesn't need another fight scene—he just needs a therapist.

@brandur.org "A new version of the company’s dashboard shipped on V3, and an unaffiliated developer who we’d never met before built Heroku’s first iOS app on it, without a single feature request sent our way" — was this me? github.com/aaronbrethor...

Amazing. This is a time to double down on common sense, high value light rail service expansions. Say, like, I dunno, Ballard. www.theurbanist.org/sound-transi...

I regret to inform you all that the bouncy castle skeet inspired me to buy this symbol of bourgeois frivolity for my toddler. Little Lord Fauntleroy loves his new toy.

I think I'm going to start photocopying and mailing copies of the chapters "The Highwayman" and "Point of No Return" from "The Power Broker" to newly elected public officials. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.

I wrote down my thoughts on the importance of domain expertise in the world of agentic AI software development. (Spoiler alert: software engineers are less important than domain experts, imho.) www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05...

One of those “IN THIS HOUSE” yard signs, but it says that we never skip leg day 😅

NERDS! (complimentary)

My “Americans are wrong: I am not a partisan hack” t-shirt is raising many questions answered by my t-shirt.

Our revolution endorsing Tom Steyer is good, of the candidates with a shot I think he’s probably the best one, it reflects well on them and shows policy seriousness. All that said: it’s still pretty funny.

I know that guy! 😆

LinkedIn can be good sometimes.

New on the blog: set up your own OBA Maglev server for the San Francisco Bay Area and use it to power your transit projects opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/sett...

@kateriga.bsky.social was right. Kamala could’ve run away with this. Being governor of California is not a bad consolation prize

CONGRATS GOVERNOR STEYER

Hey, so an acre of solar panels powers a car way more than an acre of corn. If they are growing corn for ethanol, create an incentive for them to lease the land for solar installations instead! Less labor and water intensive, they keep a stream of income, and we diversify our power generation!

This is a real article from The Atlantic. Turns out you want to be the thing that is incinerated.

They're not really being subtle about it any more

Don't sleep on this Todd Achilles for Senate thing in Idaho. I did not have former Republican carves out path as notional independent, caucuses with Democrats on my 2026 bingo card as a potential route for Dems to retake the Senate, but here we are and I'll take it.

I can’t believe it’s not fascism

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

Make it stick.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

My toddler just yelled out, while leaping into the air, apropos of nothing, “I’M READY TO MAKE POPCORN!” It is 10pm here. Everyone is ready to go to bed except him.

I’ve been hearing a lot of doomerism from friends about the midterms: Trump will rig it. Trump will suspend the elections. Etc. I think this is all rank doomerism. Even if he tried, I think he’ll fail. Even if I’m wrong, the response from the American people would be without precedent.

Just the absolute worst, most venal, mush brained man you could imagine. Congrats everyone, we could’ve had the nice Black lady instead.

Yes, I too find it very hard to enrich myself by 25% literally overnight.

A hit dog will holler.

READ THEORY!

Also the politician most feared by the notionally revolutionary socialist.

Welcome to life in your forties! 🫠

Can I just reiterate what an absolute failure of an AG Merrick Garland was? edition.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

Evita?

FEC should force Carr and Talarico to label this as an in-kind donation.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

it's possible that Spanberger hates these people enough she could actually do a one-term 'burn the crops and salt the fields' demolition on the GOP. the memes from the tribunals would be tremendous

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

Utterly deranged shit happening over in the bad place. The Rubio thing is appalling and the Blob is terrible but you don’t Have to Hand It to Putin.

Pam Bondi is orchestrating a massive cover-up of the Epstein Files.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Rachael Leigh Cook or Josh Hartnett. Honorable mention to Alex Pareene.

Excellent work by Jayapal here

"e/acc" indeed.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.