don't be surprised if some of your favorite baseball stars wind up playing major league baseball this season. i guarantee you that this very minute, big-league teams are beating feet all across the country – and beyond – as they look to fill their rosters with the very best ballplayers they can get
Tomorrow’s newsletter is about an experiment I’ve been doing with my phone for the past couple months—you can subscribe here to read it on Thursday morning: semi-rad.com/subscribe/
this slack message is a pretty good depiction of what it is like to work with me
I love this, thank you @douglasmack.bsky.social
love it
Every year, I teach a writing and trail running workshop with the Freeflow Institute. It's the most fun week of my year, and the 2026 workshop is June 7-12 in Montana. I'm doing an informational livestream and Q&A about it this Thursday: semi-rad.kit.com/321e379c5a
at 7:05 a.m. today, I was desperately trying to find the words to answer my 3-year-old's question, "why is that knife sharp?"
so good
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for
solid financial tactic here
Answer: No, this has not happened before.
(I checked the list of all World Series match-ups)
we actually over ordered them and have a few left if you need one to pee in—sorry, I mean "drink out of" store.dftba.com/products/wha...
no need to be sheepish, Ned, it was fucking incredible
As usual, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social captures it.
"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years."
There was a shooting yesterday that was one of the ones that was big enough that we all had to know it had happened so they sent me out to lower the flag to half-mast outside work. Half-staff they call it on land I don’t know. I looked at my phone out of habit on the way back inside and there was another shooting going on. A real nasty one it looked like. It wasn’t immediately clear to me what the protocol here was supposed to be. If I were meant to put the flag all the way back up to reset things or lower it halfway down again still. They had fired the main flag-knowing guy last month who had been in the National Guard a hundred years ago or something and this wasn’t really my job in the first place but I said I’d do it so I wouldn’t get fired myself. I figured I’d be proactive so I lowered it down to the ground to one-third mast and went back inside feeling fine about it and none of my bosses seemed to care and then there was another shooting by the time I got to my desk. I went back outside again and lowered it further still. The next day I came in to work and you won’t believe what happened. Now we were in a Zeno’s Paradox–type of a scenario vis-à-vis the flag height and its approach to the soil. People inside were debating what the definition of a mass
shooting was and the managers were getting a little pissy about how work was being waylaid by all of us streaming the news on the computer all day. Trying to find out what kind of guy it was who killed everybody this time. Everyone hoping it was the other type of guy to balance it out. Like trading free throws at the end of a close game. Being sort of new I was left to my own devices so I went out and lowered the flag halfway closer to the ground once more. Probably not worth remarking on what happened by the time I came in the next morning and the next one too and just between us I was running out of real estate there height-wise with the flag so I went around back to the maintenance area to look for the custodian but there was some kid there instead who said in his cockney accent that the guy had been sacked so I borrowed a shovel from this kid he was an actual Victorian child with a sooty face smoking a cigar and everything and went back out to the flagpole and started digging to give the flag some breathing room so it would never have to touch the ground which was considered poor form in the flag community. I had dug halfway to the molten core by the end of the next month but on the upside I was bulking up. The planet itself was spinning on this flag pole’s axis now. I was going to hoist an upside-down American flag in a country on the other side of the globe at this rate. It was going to be a whole international incident. People were going to get shot over it.
An international incident
before and after: internet
if you do an image search you should be able to find many many versions of it
RIP Sisyphus you would have loved Chumbawamba
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
being an elite reader and an elite stick shift driver is a huge part of my identity but maybe I'm just old and out of touch
Most of my experiences with AI thus far are like sitting next to an enthusiastic kid in a high school algebra class who never does the math correctly but won’t stop shouting answers, like, “X equals 37!” No, Richie, it’s 6, please stop interrupting
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New York Times, 2025: "The unlikely alliance of two mercurial billionaires deteriorated in remarkably swift and public fashion over the course of a few hours on Thursday, as Elon Musk and President Trump sniped at each other from their own social media platforms"
please someone tell me how to disable Gemini
CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
Yeah I love creatine! creatine problems for everyone
Every book contains a secret and it’s your job to torture this information out of them
