Chris

Found a dive bar. With a juke box. Had a couple of beers, and played some cry in your beer music. Walked home. Cranked up the stereo. I know all the words to Viva Terlingua. Betty Lou Thelma Liz. I love spring days.

It's going to be hot soon. But Houston is still pleasant. Figured I'd walk. Went due west, thought I'd walk until I got tired, and then take the bus home. Found a Mexican restaurant with a happy hour. Couple of stiff Margaritas and some ceviche. Bus was running late, so I started walking east.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

They were given to a friend who is obsessed with economics.

A shelf of early twenty-first century science fiction. And a trepanation drill.

I've got room for two more. Maybe three.

Rule 1: Physically secure the computer room.

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

no one wants the Toxic White Guy Confidence Machine, but the tech bros keep integrating new versions of it into everything like some sort of digital plague

I was more accurate in my alt description. A true IBM keyboard (off of a S/34) would be twice as sturdy (and heavy). I got that one about 10 years ago from a after market vendor. It goes clickety clack.

Mechanical 5250 style computer keyboard.

Mechanical 5250 keyboard. I will destroy a cheap PC keyboard in less than a year. Learned on a Royal manual.

Proof that sufficient application of mathematics opens a portal to other dimensions inhabited by eldritch evils as per @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files.

Web apps are a tiny subset of software.

Bit rot exists. Well written software runs forever. Durn Sturgeon's Law.

Why isn’t the media harping on the fact that Trump won with the smallest margin in a quarter century and got less than half the vote? This should be a 24/7 news story. Are they afraid of Donald, or complicit?

I remember when attorney general nominees were nixed because they had paid their nannies without filing the required form with the IRS.

Just got here, and you're telling people what we're doing wrong. Yawn. Go back to twitter.

"This is very different," I say, as the bayonet plunges into my abdomen, "and far less democratic than I am used to," I add, as the National Guard weekender thrusts the blade upward toward my lungs.

Microsoft one drive SUCKS

This hits like a freight train

Prescriptivism is acceptable when the meaning is within the word. Deci-. If descriptivism tells us literally literally means figuratively, well, it's wrong.

Polls Show J.D. Vance Performing Favorably Among Men Who Think the Bartender Is Flirting With Them Ohio senator and vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance is enjoying a high favorability rating from men who misconstrue the routine fulfillment of job duties by bartenders for flirting.

thehardtimes.net/culture/poll...

Watercolor of a tortoise mounting a motorcycle helmet

You're welcome.

I knew a biologist--still do technically, she's not dead--who went on a field expedition and came home with a NASTY code. No symptoms but absolutely DEVASTATING congestion. She was talking like a plugged-up cartoon character for months. Nothing helped.

careful with psychedelics, they may sap your drive to found the next generation of startups needed to *checks notes* reinvent indentured servitude and student loan fraud

YouTube video by Garn. Every Scaffolder Ever... | Garn.

Unrelated, @aotearoabadger.bsky.social I have introduced American safety personnel to Garn and it is spreading like a horrid cancer. Just as Murph intended. youtu.be/P52R-vge8WA?...

Not my work (h/t ING2Firebrand), but I’m a firm believer in letting a hundred shitposts bloom.

People do not repeat the claim that immigrants are eating pets because they “fell for misinformation”

I spent quite a while saying I was going to cancel my Times subscription. Bret Stephens is what caused me to do it.

A social post from @sofarrsogud on Threads that says: WIFE: You're very quiet. What are you thinking? ME: Prince William should rent out some rooms in Kensington Palace to tourists. Call it Heirbnb. HER: Sometimes it's ok to say 'nothing'

Brilliant!

Because I'm bothered by all genocides, and not just one?