the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Unexpectedly stopped by the grocery store last weekend while waiting to pick up an item I would later have to return and came upon some fulsome leeks so of course I made leek confit and now I have leek confit for my scrambled eggs and sometimes life can just be so beautiful you know.
This is how all my nightmares begin now
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Love this writeup about how Puzzmo — an incredible collection of "newspaper puzzle games for the online age" — basically built Game Center on atproto
The coat rack in my home office, containing no fewer than five jackets, workshirts, and/or shirt-jackets, as well as a beaten up cap that has been used as a toy by the resident sheepdog.
"Cool mornings, warm evenings: a study in contrast" (2026, mixed media)
It’s a hard thing to describe if you weren’t there in 2003 but it really did feel like you were insane for protesting the Iraq war. The entire country, especially in the media and at elite levels, was so gung-ho.
ok bsky, if u feel like having a little fun and wanna help me with researching something, draw me a doodle of a MOTH by hand from memory with zero references and reply with your doodle
ty!!!
Compressing all of the absolute idiocy of the first three years of the Iraq war into a week and a half really is quite a feat.
Turn Your Old Clothes Into a Sheet That You Wash So Often It Becomes a Chamois for Wiping Your Glasses
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Excuse me, that should be “Ted Carter resigns over The inappropriate relationship”
FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Yeah that’s a bit of my broader point. The same thing happened to media broadly, moving from blue collar shoe leather reporting to credentialed analysis. Also explains (incompletely!) eg trans panic, woke backlash, Trump credulity, ignoring Epstein, etc etc
Pretty amazing superhero origin story though
The reason this post by Bruce Schneier is more coherent — and better analysis — is because he’s spent decades writing about complex technical topics for a diverse audience, not the past five years trying to get invited to Marc Andreessen’s luxury apocalypse bunker
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
I’ve lately come to understand the writing of Thompson, Smith, et al less as coherent analysis and more as class solidarity with VC and finance, especially post-pandemic.
The ZIRP era when these drips made all their easy money also included a largely credulous press that was bought in on SV’s project to technocraticize the post- end of history. I’m glad WIRED at least is pushing back now that tech is mask off.
Well at least the big 3 automakers didn’t pull back from their already modest EV commitments and double down on full size trucks last year.
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Emil Michael now where have we heard that name before…
The way everyone regardless of race, creed, or religion treats the posted speed limit as a floor with 15mph of ceiling — whether in a school parking lot, residential street, or highway — is going to be what turns me into Michael Douglas in FALLING DOWN.
Wondering if the media would've chosen "honored" as the verb if Obama had saluted fallen soldiers in a fucking baseball cap
It is both ageist and disinformation to tell me the last Gnarls Barkley album came out 18 years ago.
There’s a bit in HERE COMES THE SUN about how the rotation of the earth does for free what we spend so much money and carbon on — transporting energy — that it expanded my view of the universe in a small but important way.
Brother this is like 45% of my entire personality
Are you telling me the guy with one other startup, a Foursquare clone that failed so badly he had to sell it to a company that makes its daily bread on prepaid debit cards, and a tenure running a VC finishing school wasn’t able to meet the moment on the power of dank memes? Well I’ll be.
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I’m sorry for you and your family, Dave. They’re good friends and never here long enough.
