Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
It's genuinely stunning just how much the post-Twitter landscape has changed in the last two weeks. Y'all it was a long, lonely time in the wilderness. So glad to see so many of you again.
posted at 9:20PM on November 21, 2024
still laughing about Matt Gaetz tbh
posted at 6:47PM on November 21, 2024
lol emdash.fan might be the most robust thing I've ever built. the last time I touched the file was over five years ago. It just gives you your emdash, no fuss, no problem. Bulletproof.
posted at 4:55PM on November 21, 2024
had an annual appointment I made like six months ago that was supposed to happen just now and it got silently cancelled at some point by the health system and I am excited for all this to get so much worse soon.
posted at 4:42PM on November 21, 2024
it is slush hell across chicago now
posted at 3:38PM on November 21, 2024
I am very good at coding myself into corners.
posted at 2:52PM on November 21, 2024
Well, JD clearly nailed his one job yesterday. 
posted at 12:09PM on November 21, 2024
Current status.
posted at 9:20AM on November 21, 2024
Hear ye, hear ye... Insomnia Club is called to order.
posted at 2:13AM on November 21, 2024
Let's get back to when the message was Republicans were creepy weirdos who wanted to look at your junk before you used the bathroom.
posted at 9:31PM on November 20, 2024
doesn't get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/
posted at 7:22PM on November 20, 2024
Goddammit it's snowing
posted at 5:19PM on November 20, 2024
Renewing an ACA plan that has suddenly leapt up by $300 a month is extra fun when you know that you'll be lucky if it's still around this time next year.
posted at 7:19AM on November 20, 2024
Sure let's go with the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment for the head of the Department of Education. Why not.
posted at 9:11PM on November 19, 2024
"We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons," Anil bringing the absolute fire in his Substack takedown. www.anildash.com/2024/11/1...
posted at 5:51PM on November 19, 2024
This moment in time has me itching to build.
posted at 3:32PM on November 19, 2024
Thinking about how as a disaffected youth, going to the record store to buy pissed-off records meant taking two trains and walking forever and how many human-level interactions were involved and how, ultimately, that probablty changed me for the better more than the records.
posted at 8:06AM on November 19, 2024
Balatro should probably be regulated as a controlled substance.
posted at 5:50PM on November 18, 2024
Migrating fonts is the biggest pain in the ass of a new computer.
posted at 2:38PM on November 18, 2024
People real quick to declare a winner when really we should be pushing for interoperability between platforms and protocols. Single platform dominance is the wrong thing to wish for.
posted at 8:47AM on November 18, 2024
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