Chris Merkel

This is god-tier self-deprecating humor, well done.

Well here's your problem, Florsheim isn't using freedom units on their measurement chart.
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This has real "Grandma bought you these, just wear them at her house" vibes

Let's start the @killedbygoogle.com timer!

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

Mark Zuckerberg is now closer to his lifelong dream of an all slop internet

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/m...

DoorDash didn't like all those pixel users turning off advertising pushes on their general notification channel so they created a second general notification channel

Google Photos has two ways of doing search:
- Slow and shitty (AI)
- Fast and accurate (not AI)

Same: MacOS / Pixel is the optimal tech life.

he calls him 'lil Marco and bought him shoes too big to emphasize the point. Marco knows this and shows up to work every day ready to eat shit

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Smithers worshipping Mr. Burns in a golden muscle suit

Fox News video of President Trump welcoming home the coffins of fallen soldiers this weekend

I am enjoying A DEATH IN DOOR COUNTY so much that I had to pick up its counterparts. Thanks, @anneliseryan.bsky.social, for a few hours of entertainment and fun reading. I hope nothing happens to Newt. Strongly recommended. #writingcommunity #writerslift #writers #booksky #bluesky #readers

one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism

I hate Orlando with the passion of a thousand suns. You have a combo of brain dead tourists and the most entitled people in America.

I genuinely don't understand how people can sit there and watch two people sit there

What's unfortunate is that brain cells on a slide probably are still better than me

everything else is just sparkling murder

Get Elon Musk's boys on it, I'm sure they know how to make government IT efficient

That's a good lookin car, tbh

The same peens who were pushing me to read Atlas Shrugged in 1996 were telling me to read Maps of Meaning in 2016.

I don't think Connecticut is real, I think it's just one of those made up places on TV shows about New York

We should rank states position on the flag every year on the ratio of tax revenue to federal outflows.

It's like when that one kid on the 5th grade basketball sinks a few 3's in a game and proceeds to shoot duds for the rest of the season because they're convinced of their greatness.

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Ian Coldwater makes a statement before the Minneapolis City Council. They wear a black knit hat and a vintage KubeCon EU 2019 (Barcelona!) t-shirt - a shirt which some of you also probably have in a drawer. The lower third from this livestream says: March 03, 2026 Committee of the Whole Temporary pre-eviction notice extension ordinance lims.minneapolismn.gov

Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis.

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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Oh and BTW, explaining how a CAN bus works would be great fodder for a video.

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on a Highway | WIRED YouTube video by WIRED

The risks associated with Internet connected cars and a non-segmented CAN bus have been well known since the days when Charlie Miller found a remote exploit chain for OTA hacks from the infotainment system to the bus.

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