Brian Vastag

@tayfonay Buditis is the worst.

Crazy beisbol game. All of Canadia clenching their bowels.

The guy is amazing but still not superhuman.

Maybe rolling out an exhausted Ohtani was a bad move for the Dodgers.

#baseball

Guess I need to check who wrote a film before I watch. Last night I watched "House of Dynamite" from Netflix and the end credits said written by Noah Oppenheim. He's the former NBC news exec who killed Ronan Farrow's story on Harvey Weinstein. He's such a shitbag (read Farrow's book for lots of […]

Flame shooting out of a flute as a dude ignites it while he blows.

My buddy flamed his flute at a Halloween gig. I think he used high proof rum. Hot stuff.

Hey DC folks, why are they shuttering the H St. streetcar? Seemed like a good idea for that corridor.

#DC

@chrisod I would have never guessed there was a high school there. US military?

A black lab wearing an Eeyore costume.

Therapy dog Star nailed the Eeyore sad face.

#Halloween

The nurses at the infusion center I regularly go to really go all-in for Halloween and I'm just wondering if any of the cancer patients with terminal prognoses care about all the death imagery? I dunno...like here's a song about death and dying while a little skeleton dances on the desk. And […]

The missile ascended for about 90 seconds and then we saw some red streaks flashing and had no idea what we were looking at. Later we saw a news story saying it'd been a successful anti-missile test. The dummy ICBM was launched from Kaua'i, and a missile cruiser off the coast had launched the […]

A bright streak of a missile's launch plum ascends on the left side of the photo; a beach is in the foreground and ocean in the background.

Because nuclear testing is in the news: This is the luckiest photo I've ever taken & it's of a missile defense test. We were camping on the west side of Kaua'i, at Polihale, a long beach shared with the Pacific Missile Range Facility (aka Barking Sands). MPs told us […]

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A screenshot of a small circular windows update button on a taskbar.

How many more weeks/months/years can I ignore this update button on windoze? It's been there a while.

Remote clinical trial of Zepbound for #LongCovid

#medicine #research

https://longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/

I was a federal employee once upon a time (last millennium lol) and would've been absolutely incensed to be expected to work without knowing when I'd get paid.

Two Efforts To Help People Hit By Shutdown, Including SNAP Recipients Applications for one aid fund open today. Details are still being worked out for another, which is specifically for Native Hawaiians.

Also, Gov. Green announced programs to help #Hawaii residents through the federal and SNAP shutdown.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/government-shutdown-hawai%ca%bbi-announces-financial-aid-for-housing-utilities/

Donated to a local food bank. Not much but I know they need it. They've been helping Federal employees (a lot of TSA folks) who are working without pay.

Kinda crazy that folks making automatic 401k contributions are pumping up Tesla and the like through regular purchases of ETFs and probably have no idea.

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

@ButchH11 Well, I'm pretty sure humor is subjective.

Watching the Dodgers lose is fun.

#baseball

@ButchH11 I do have a shred of self-respect remaining.

Tim Robsinson really said, What if I took that guy I always do and instead of using him in three-minute sketches, he exists for hours and hours running an entire series.

Anyway, The Chair Company is very funny.

#TV

I delete so many dumb posts y'all should pay me.

I rotated* my mattress today, please clap.

*only 180 degrees, don't get too excited

I haven't been a full-time journalist since 2012 and I still get pitches from zombie PR firms looking at...what exactly? A roster of WaPo reporters from 13 years ago?

My Scrabble app scolded me for not playing yesterday and breaking my consecutive days streak but it's not my fault, my Scrabble partners are shirking so go yell at them, app.

So much reporting on the tech giants & gov't agencies now is just so rote. Reporter emails queries. Nameless account reponds "no comment." Transaction over in 2 minutes. It's all so weak.

When corps stonewall a big story, it's easy for reporters to not spend time trying to get anything from them. I get that. I do wonder if anyone reporting this story has told MS: "A lot of people say that your silence means that MS endorses the administration's use of your IP to dehumanize […]

If I ever have a confirmed case of #covid, I will get a prescription for metformin.

"Still, two years later, many people — including healthcare providers — don’t know that taking metformin during an active SARS-CoV-2 infection might prevent Long COVID. And recent studies, including a trial […]