Mitch Wagner

Isabella Stabile

“I love that Jules Verne asked the question “What kind of person could circumnavigate the world in 80 days?” and decided that the answer was not a groundbreaking explorer or genius inventor, but a guy who’s really, really, really obsessed with train and boat schedules."

“Chronicles of Narnia if Lucy Had a Sword.” A delightful GIF set.

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

"So much of the modern world makes you feel like a widget on a conveyor belt, as our fetishization of efficiency has begun to corrode our souls…. When people rage against the machines, this is a lot of what they are frustrated with. Th... https://mitchwagner.com/2026/02/16/so-much-of-the-modern.html

"While a lot of TV actors were trying to mimic the mush-mouthed vocal delivery of big-screen movie stars like Marlon Brando or James Dean, Shatner went in the opposite direction. He enunciated his words carefully and broke his sentences in... https://mitchwagner.com/2026/02/16/while-a-lot-of-tv.html

JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:

"Neither a robot nor a human but actually an entirely new entity": https://mitchwagner.com/2026/02/16/neither-a-robot-nor-a.html

Rubio brings Naziism to Munich: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/02/16/rubio-brings-naziism-to-munich.html

Marco Rubio went Nazi on America’s European (former) partners — at the Munich security conference last week, espousing a vision of Western civilization united by whiteness and Christianity.

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"@gardengeek here is Obama’s Follow up"

I’m old enough to remember when we had an intelligent President who wasn’t an embarrassment every time he opened his mouth.

[David Boreanaz will star in a Rockford Files reboot.] I am looking forward to this. David Boreanaz is perfect for the role.

But nobody uses answering machines anymore. Text messages wouldn’t be the same.

Consolidation. Fewer places to check and post to. Less copy-and-pasting. Also, I like to fiddle.

Changing how I handle blogging and social media (again): https://mitchwagner.com/2026/02/14/changing-how-i-handle-blogging.html

I vibe-coded a thing!

Bookmarked for later review. Your skeet made me say to myself, "Huh. I never thought of that before. Why *did* proto indo european become the root of so many major world languages." Also, I am a nerd.

ICE is preparing to spend $38 billion this year on a network of concentration camps to incarcerate 100,000 people. This is obscene. They are the American Gestapo. Fuck ICE.