Chris Strauber

NYT real estate articles read like fever dreams, even (especially) the ones they think are about people with modest budgets.

MeToo had effects for months. The backlash has been running for years.

Picture of Cuomo in a generalissimo outfit and a map of NYC: BREAKING: Cuomo has fled the NYC mainland following its fall to socialist Zohran Mamdani. Sources say he will establish a new govt on Staten Island with the goal of eventually reclaiming the entire city. Mamdani has promised to purge all remaining Cuomintang on the mainland.

“Cuomintang” is so good.

nervously watching the election results and digging through the trash for all the DEI I threw out in february

The Pope is, in fact, Catholic. The version of Christianity where you get to do your own interpretation is not.

Democratic strategists ought to have noticed that it literally doesn't matter what a Democrat running for office says, it will be branded as socialist. There is a freedom to speak your mind in there.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

If your political opponents are going to say the same things about you whatever you say, you might as well say what you believe. Especially because everyone can tell when you're not.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Love to put my medical history on thirteen separate shoddily-run websites that are nonetheless all hosted on a small number of shoddily-run but legally-approved contractor platforms. Thus creating piñatas for hackers. Seems like a great system.

I think you guys are all underestimating our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. He can ABSOLUTELY lose a war to Venezuela.

I cannot believe we are still talking about the nazi tattoo.

On the off chance I haven't blocked everyone who needs to understand this:

We can't afford the benefit of doubt on that.

If you do nazi stuff, people targeted by nazis MUST assume you're a nazi.

Change one letter, ruin a candy

MERS bar

Thanks for sharing this. Goddamn unified field theory.

Disinformation belief is more about defying societal norms than having incorrect views New study finds that believers in false statements are trying to project strength

Really annoyed that brand researchers seem the closest to describing modern politics accurately. Facts don't matter, only that I don't believe what "they" want me to believe.

plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...

Quote of the day:

"...what's fundamentally most important to me is that we find a way out of this hollow, godless, bullshit Ponzi scheme, where I have to pay for the benefit of having an influencer share an affiliate link that earns them additional money in a chat room they pass off as community."

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

Imperator! Imperator!

Variation on @pat-folle.bsky.social: what problems does a smart home solve that are worth adding a ton of surveillance devices and possibly ads to your home? Bonus: do any of them apply to tiny-apartment-dwellers?

This nicely completes the demolition of a report on AI and academic libraries I was just reading. You have to be a pretty sophisticated user of research to critique the tools at all, and lots of people have no reason to be.

Eating oreos while I write odes to my eels. (and loving the crossword puzzle training series)

@puzzmo.com

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

Would love to read a Phones Website deep dive into whether anyone's financial planner is prepared for a world where T-bills aren't stable--the two I've asked aren't. @theverge.com

Sparky and I are fine with this.

Mercenary War - Wikipedia

I mean, all kinds of precedent one could draw on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercena...

sources are telling me that if mamdani wins he's going to let the warriors make it back to coney island safely. we can't afford to let that happen.

Cronus: revolutions eat their children all the time, what’s your point?

That’s what I don’t get. Big institutions are betting that either this is forever or nobody else can remember anything that happened last quarter either.

That might work for my safe space also. Is it a thing you can share, or is it samizdat?