Jon Stewart

Achievement unlocked! I did not get off my Yellow line train at Mt Vernon Sq because I was reading something on my phone. I kindly let a fellow engrossed passenger know what what had happened so she wouldn’t wind up in Alexandria.

I do not even know who is in the Super Bowl this year.

The fact that the Epstein files aren’t littered with the names of Congressional Representatives and Senators just goes to show how little power and prestige they actually have.

The Peter Sellers episode may be best/most unhinged moment of television ever.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

I love how Rust is positioned as a systems language and meanwhile its linker story seems like the kind of thing a web developer would come up with.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

After a 90-day extension, Brooke Pinto released her required personal financial disclosure statement for congressional candidates: disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/...

She has assets totaling between *$1.23-$3.75 million* and made *$98,710-$253,700* in 2025 investment income. And no debts.

Good news! The Green Team has gotten everything back to normal!

Hilarious watching Bowser admin announce things will be operating at normal any day now. Like... is there a plan? what will be be done to make that happen?

Another two-hour delay from DCPS tomorrow. Why?

When has the Committee of 100 ever rejected something because it was fascist?

So glad DC taxpayers just put 7 billion into his pocket! Great work everyone.

There’s like six MPD patrol cars at a very minor protest of Target at Tenleytown. Idk maybe they could be shoveling rather than trying to curtail first amendment?

Deal Middle School has no heat in one wing and a busted pipe in the kitchen, but there’s school today.

Except there isn’t because three wmata buses were stuck on Park Rd and DPW’s bermed in every alley, so no way to get kids to school.

lol trying to figure out bus to school with two hour delay DC is under siege send help we need the National Guard and federal response

My long-handled ice scraper remains the 🐐 of DC sleet-ice storms. I am coordinating sharing it amongst a long list of neighbors.

If you’re good, you don’t need EZ.

Unsurprising there's no school tomorrow, Bowser's a lame duck, f' them kids.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Terry is one of a few colorful characters I was proud to represent in my SMD when I was an ANC. He is the 🐐 of DC 311 and it's not close, he works in homeless services, he tidies up, and yet... 🤷

I’d been originally annoyed how a [at-the-time] USG employee so actively promoted a particular commercial product (X-Ways). When he spouted antivax junk during covid, I decided, I don’t need that in my life. And now he seems to have gone off the deep end.

But, sure, if you’re a fan of buggy shellbags parsers, you can devote a whole conference to him.

For the record, I blocked this asshole years ago:

a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it ALT: a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it

Thank you, EHN.

You go to New Orleans to party.

I go to New Orleans for forensics.

We are not the same.

truth. They’re gonna be out of business in a generation.

This guy knew what was coming