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In Which I Eat The Food Crime Known As Kraft Apple Pie Mac & Cheese You may have heard the news — and if not, you may have felt it in your bones, a paroxysm of worry squirming in your marrow like worms — that Kraft put out an apple pie mac and cheese. A…

The full report on this alleged food crime, now posted at ye olde blogge:

Shoes for Industry!

Shoes for industry!

IYKYK

That was such a blast. I was way too unhip to be aware of them before Whip It.

Me for waffles

I like your thinking on this

Me for waffles

Watching now, thanks for the tip!

Seems like a natural end state, like carcination.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Not only is this brilliant, this is what the rich boys of AI want for us.

American makes history by winning one of France’s top cheese competitions | CNN American cheesemonger Emilia D’Albero won gold at France’s Mondial du Fromage, the world’s top cheesemonger competition, with teammate Courtney Johnson earning bronze.

Americans take first and third in a French cheesemonger competition.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/t...

America in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong? 1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th...

"No matter how bleak it gets, you can’t stop scrolling."

Boring can be brilliant. In Pueblo, Colorado, they're planning to replace a coal plant with one of largest clean energy hubs in US.

At its core: a thermal battery. These batteries can provide round-the-clock heat, slashing emissions, creating jobs, and improving public health.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

YouTube video by CurzonRoad Irving Kaufman: Masculine Women... Feminine Men.... (1926)

This song from 1926 randomly appeared in my playlist yesterday. Just shows that things ain’t what they used to be, and never really were.

youtu.be/hdTIJ9dpX-w?...

credit where due

Orange kitty asleep in a laundry basket

“The FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those three states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did D.C.”

Two cats curled up on the bed

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

I followed you because of your books, but have found books by other authors that you’ve mentioned.

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

1. Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel want everyone to think the so-called Steele Dossier was a major source for the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. No, it wasn’t — an assessment of the “dossier” was included as an annex, which they haven’t released. Why?

Burning Down the House rocks.

Guess I need a bus transfer to get to the Grey Havens and go into the West.

Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed The judge in the case said Trump failed to “plausibly” show that he and Woodward intended to be co-authors of an audiobook, or that Trump had any copyright interest in his responses.

#GiftLink wapo.st/3IAiC8U

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