Michael Ekstrand

Alas, poor Yorick!

book: “having a dedicated practice buddy is a huge support”

me: <misreads ‘dedicated’ as ‘decapitated’>

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Some of the biggest (mostly white) panic merchants on here strain to compare current events to Nazi Germany, and while there's always something learn from that era, the best comparisons for Trumpism are wholly American: Jim Crow, the Klan's terror, on and on. We beat it before, we must do it again.

IP is not a new debate.

Greek gods were all like, “YoU WoUlDnT DoWnLoAd A FiRE” and Prometheus was all like “watch me!” and then a giant eagle/legal was like, “you must pay $100 million or your liver.”

I am utterly humorless and relentless about this: you absolutely should never, ever, not for one second, not only a minor, obvious point, never hand it to this man.

Start reading this thread from the top. Cat makes excellent points about the importance of effective health-science messaging in general, but specifically in regard to antivax parents.

The vampire Lord Harkon from Skyrim, scheming from his lair to acquire a magic arrow that will blot out the sun and let vampires rule the land

God forbid a man have hobbies.

Something something ice skate uphill.

oh my.

TIL that my institution requires *6* external letters for tenure applications.

academic fam is that normal? (my previous institution required 3-4, I think)

Very happy that @mvdan.cc is about to release a new version of the excellent 'shfmt' with support for a lot of ZSH syntax! github.com/mvdan/sh/iss...

If you are attending #ECIR2026, @mariaheuss.bsky.social and I invite you to join us at the IR-for-Good Track. This year, we are revamping IR-for-Good as a core track at the conference and we have a really exciting agenda lined up for you! #IR4Good

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you want to see a dead body?

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

do they also offer letter?

lol now i want to take number.

ICE drawdown may be too late for small businesses like El Sazon Operation Metro Surge kept many people of Latino and East African descent home, afraid to go to work or out to shops and restaurants. This caused a drastic drop in revenue for small businesses, which ...

I had really been sleeping on El Sazon. I’ve been dreaming about that burrito for DAYS now. Please support them so I can keep going there because oh em gee it’s incredible. Best camaron in town and it’s not close

again?

(and this time it's directly GitHub Actions that is failing.)

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

This is worth reading.

These guys are constantly telling on themselves that they can’t imagine anyone acting on an actual principle. Protesters? Must be getting paid. Bishops noticing that Jesus had some thoughts on welcoming the stranger? Gotta be a payday in there.

That’s not true. But Buddy Holly was scheduled for an interview with Chotiner in Moorhead, MN.

the thing that the Democratic base cannot abide above all else right now is Handing It To Them

and being anti-trans is, in fact, Handing It To Them

don't do that, it's bad morals and bad politics

He then lost his seat in a primary challenge by Feemstra, whose campaign platform was “Steve King isn’t effective enough at implementing white supremacy”.

This racist assbasket. Also an example of different media universes: he would make international news for some fresh white supremacist shit and regional papers would not inform his constituents of that fact.

It's impossible to describe the kind of moral violation it is to leave shipwreck victims in the water with no help, even when you're the one that caused the shipwreck. At sea ships help each other and sort out the diplomatic bullshit later because at sea you can only rely on each other.

I would love to have seen a perspective like yours represented in this panel.

this post is actually evergreen, doesn't matter the tech