Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
I have had many friends work at the USDS—some are still there now—and every single one of them left good jobs in tech to work for the government because they believed that the government should really help people. That all got blown up tonight, but thank you for your service.
posted at 9:53PM on January 20, 2025
just this song on loop until it comes true: www.youtube.com/watch
posted at 9:46PM on January 20, 2025
anyway, so this all seems very bad
posted at 9:03PM on January 20, 2025
My St Pauli ANTIFASCIST hoodie is all I’ll be wearing for the next while k thanks.
posted at 1:15PM on January 20, 2025
🖕
posted at 11:04AM on January 20, 2025
Not today satan.
posted at 9:51AM on January 20, 2025
All day instead of my brain being like “oh no Trump takes office tomorrow and things are going to be terrible,” my brain has decided to make me have high anxiety every time the heat turns on, worrying that this one will be the one where it breaks and we’ll be heatless in the polar vortex.
posted at 7:54PM on January 19, 2025
I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again
posted at 4:07PM on January 19, 2025
As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they've seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it's always their gen that has gotten fucked. This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.
posted at 2:00PM on January 19, 2025
Finally took care of the real enemy, Marvel Snap.
posted at 1:38PM on January 19, 2025
The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.
posted at 7:08AM on January 19, 2025
Spent a bunch of the day with some folks passing through town and am convinced more than ever that person-to-person is how we're going to make it through this next stretch.
posted at 8:27PM on January 18, 2025
Chicago, it's time to protect your neighbors.
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/1...
posted at 8:49AM on January 18, 2025
Anyone else find themselves just cruising along normally and then remember what happens on Monday and everything comes to a screetching halt?
posted at 8:56PM on January 17, 2025
Inauguration shoes just arrived.
posted at 6:17PM on January 16, 2025
Thinking a lot about how for those of us of a certain age, the people who taught us it was OK to be different are all leaving this earth and it feels so desperately lonely.
posted at 3:34PM on January 16, 2025
RIP David Lynch. King of the weirdos.
posted at 12:24PM on January 16, 2025
I've worked with dinks like this before that put enormous numbers on a slide deck and the bosses nod enthusiastically and reset everything to meet a made up goal that will never be achieved. (from www.nytimes.com/2025/01/1... )
posted at 9:18AM on January 16, 2025
Here we are, once again, welcoming you to Insomnia Club. It's the worst club, but we're in it together.
posted at 3:39AM on January 16, 2025
So like the tiktok ban just seems like a collosally stupid idea, poorly executed, and benefitting basically no one. Absolute A+ job all around.
posted at 6:50PM on January 15, 2025