Doug Bailey

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz Is The Verge doing anything at SXSW this year?

The bigger trays of Stouffer’s lasagna cooked in an oven is the Platonic ideal of lasagna. Microwaveable sizes are ok

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

there’s a line there that almost reads birth of a nation

We are part of one civilization: the world. And our peaceful interconnection despite language, religion, and history is the greatest moral accomplishment in world history. The attempt to reverse it is evil

The Strangers’ Case I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

Guys before I refuse an invitation I am always sure to ask for details about the wildness of the event and hammer out specifics of my travel to that event and that’s when I hit em with I AM NOT COMING WEIRDO but always using a different communications method than for the previous conversations

@liss.bsky.social

So happy Amy Madigan got nominated!

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

How did I not know @harryshearer.bsky.social did ADR for Star Wars (1977) until now?

Not a lawyer. I struck out badly but I had the gist of the categories. The ones that really stumped me:

BUSINESS INTERRUPTION
CONSTRUCTION
CONVERSION
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
NUISANCE
STRUCTURING

You call that a knife? This is an ultrasonic knife. Seattle Ultrasonics’ C-200 uses piezoelectric ceramic crystals to vibrate over 30,000 times a second, helping it cut as if it’s sharper than it really is. I was skeptical,...

@infinata.bsky.social someone made a real vibroblade www.theverge.com/tech/854424/...

@support.bsky.team almost every time I tap a video on iOS, I get in a situation where the video plays full screen but the app stops responding to taps. I have to quit it. I filed a bug report a few versions back and they reported it as a known bug. Please prioritize it. It’s very frustrating

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.

All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

I had such high hopes for it before it was released

For some reason, I'm suddenly recalling how all of MAGA has been claiming that Biden's pardons don't count because they were done by "autopen" meaning he didn't really know about them or approve them. Not sure why I'm suddenly thinking about that, but it just sprang to mind.

Cool, I never knew about Anderson

Arg... editing posts would be nice... "Fair! I just..."

Trump Blames ‘Democrat Delays’ at Airports President Trump spoke to reporters: “They're all Democrats delays. There are delays at the airport. That's standard.” He added: “I look at people with very low IQs like Crockett, this woman Crockett. ...

Fair! I was just came across your piece because I wondered how many people he called low IQ were minorities and women after seeing this "...ike Crockett, this woman Crockett. I’ve never met her but she’s a low IQ individual.": politicalwire.com/2025/10/08/t...

Analysis | The people whom President Trump has called stupid A brief history of one of Trump's preferred pejoratives.

@pbump.com is it time to do an update to this? www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...

@skyfeed.xyz Hi! The OnlyPosts feed does not appear to have updated since 3 days ago for me. It’s the same in a browser as the app.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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@infinata.bsky.social have you read the Star Wars book by Isaac Chotiner’s latest victi… er.. interviewee, Cass Sunstein? Thoughts? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wor...

Whoa, Abby Elliott (Natalie/Sugar from The Bear) is Chris Elliott’s daughter!

So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.

I can

I can

Dave Brubeck and what WWII didn't solve... YouTube video by satchmo35a

making my way through the ken burns JAZZ documentary and this portion of his interview with dave brubeck — who passed in 2012 — is a reminder of how *recent* american history really is. start at :55 or so. youtu.be/stadqAHRroA?...