Steve Toth ousting Dan Crenshaw is really just Woodlands-area guys who own pool cleaning businesses reclaiming their rightful place at the top of the hierarchy in exurban texas enclaves after briefly being usurped by the soy right deep state blob
I coded @holdonbot.bsky.social as a fun Friday night project: ask it a question and it will reply with a wise answer taken from the lyrics of Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On”
Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."
Is it even really possible to self host email anymore?
“peter you’ve wasted your money” no i haven’t. i did this for each and every one of you, and you’re all worth it.
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider
This is another evening of glorious disobedience from Oscar the Dog, the neighbor dog who has FOUND A BALL and is not going to PUT DOWN THE BALL or COME INSIDE RIGHT NOW OSCAR or OSCAR ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME PUT THE BALL DOWN AND COME INSIDE IT'S GETTING DARK Oscar, my friends, is STILL RUNNING.
The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
A significant amount of safety research has existed for decades on Human Machine Interfaces proving exactly this. It's exhausting to watch money and effort wasted in a tech hype cycle to constantly undo and redo what we already know in safety engineering.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin
gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law
Pretty sure it was actually this
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
You want a military tradition worth venerating? We took immigrants who grew up in rough neighborhoods and the culture of football and ran through the SS like shit through a goose.
doomscroll break
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
The thing about ukulele protests is that they can so easily escalate to violins.
I am like if ‘jump to recipe’ was a person
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Chatted with a cat from Sesame Workshop last night and pleased to confirm for fellow nostalgic dorks that, not only is “The Monster at the End of This Book” still in print, it is the only Sesame Street book that has never been out of print.
The kids are gonna be all right.
