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🆕 blog! “Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?”

It looks like the new Google's Pixel 4 watch comes with yet another incompatible change in charging technology. This is a ridiculous situation.

The original Pixel Watch used one type of wireless charging. Then the Pixel Watch 2 & 3 […]

1st base: kissing

2nd base: petting

base 10: math stuff

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a white background . Alt: David byrne doing the hand measuring time against his arm gesture from the once in a lifetime video

it took me awhile to realize this but when I ask my 10yo semi verbal autistic daughter how her day was she'll sometimes do the David Byrne "same as it ever was" gesture from the Once in a Lifetime video to let me know nothing important happened and I fucking love that

Trump Hammered Over Epstein With His Own Anti-Woke Attack Line California governor hopeful Stephen Cloobeck launched an ad riffing on the president’s 2024 “they/them” targeting of Kamala Harris.

A Democratic candidate is using Trump’s own words against him in a campaign ad attacking the president over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

photo of a gray and white kitten on a green pillow lying under a computer screen

also, here is my new granddaughter, tippy toe

It reminds me of nothing as much as it does how authoritarian (and totalitarian) states often allow politically connected busybodies to terrorize poor ppl and minorities with harebrained social engineering schemes that almost inevitably accomplish nothing except human misery and economic waste.

Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–2024) - Wikipedia

A perennial complaint about the 'champagne socialist' crowd RFK Jr. comes from is that members of it all too often are involved in these schemes in such countries.

The most recent example is the catastrophe in Sri Lanka, caused by eco-primitivist fantasies about organic farming.

Vandana Shiva - Wikipedia

Behold, RFK Jr.'s chief competitor to be remembered as the Lysenko of our time!

Yeah, they're horrible at maintaining local ground cover plants, essential for erosion control. Only a matter of time.

Mangling Foreign Dialects Another WTF: a Russian might sprinkle palatalized consonants into his English, but even a beeg Cossack won't put it on Russian words that aren't palatalized: it's Irina, not Irinya. (Also, it looks like they were aiming at a surname, so that should just be Balushkova.)

I would like to present a counterargument in the form of a handbook for producing offensive impressions of a host of hyphenated Americans, mostly "white", from 1943.

zompist.com/dialect.html

Yugoslavia, famously ethnically homogeneous.

A Canadian friend who did his PhD at Glasgow said whenever a Scot referred to him as an American he'd reply, "You English really need to learn some geography." :-D

as an ugly american, I gotta say, white people being racist about other white people *seems* quaint until you, like, see a bullet list of jeremy clarkson quotes and go "oh wow yeah that's pretty racist"

You can't argue the UK is an ethnostate without getting the Norman yolk on your face to begin with.

So, I realize racists are really dumb, but I was not prepared to have multiple people arguing with me on Twitter, the Everything App, that the United Kingdom was an ethnostate.

Like...what ethnicity, mate? What's united about it? What were they uniting?

Expensive Typewriter was an interactive program. (Read the PDF manual linked to from the Wikipedia page.) The PDP-1 was about as interactive as the Apollo computers, and the fact the PDP-1's CPU was a different box from the text input and output doesn't change anything.

Expensive Typewriter - Wikipedia

Spacewars was a real-time interactive game.

Plus, the PDP-1 definitely had interactive text input and output. It even had a text editor, Expensive Typewriter. Yes, the text I/O was done via a peripheral (the Flexowriter); that's how it was done back then and for quite a while longer.

The “we have to do it. The voters will thank us for it. People just need to pay more for things” Voter Respecters on immigration really don’t seem to have noticed that the number one thing people will not tolerate is inflation.

👇Unsurprising. What does surprise me are the bits of the political class which failed to absorb that we *just last year* saw that people weren’t willing to absorb inflation in favour of something they support (the war in Ukraine).

When it gets to 10% you are in “didn’t understand question” factor

I thought of one thing

bsky.app/profile/real...

She is cooked

OK, so you Blueskiers are getting a sneak preview before this gets press-released in the morning... it's bombshell news, but completely predictable.

NEW SURVEY!!

Alaska Survey Research
July 29 - August 1, 2025
N = 2,053 adults, 1,958 RV registered voters
MOE = +/- 2.3%

🧵 1/9

Clearly, it should be "the best state in which to have a baby in"

Headshot of young Leo during his ‘Growing Pains’ days

Leo, more recently, in a tuxedo

Born Nov. 11, 1974, Leonardo DiCaprio is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Leo! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

You can go online and say anything “they stopped making new books for teens” no they didnt that isnt true

Are the Brits curtain-twitching about cutlery again?

this may literally be the one subject on the planet on which everyone is aligned in this way

I’m not sure you could get these poll numbers with “the sky is blue” or “two plus two equals four”

Morning pt.II

Metro headline: Volunteers polish giant's erection by hand. There is an accompanying photo of the giant’s giant penis, with the caption “Volunteers work on the Cerne Abbas Giant's shaft and balls”

Roses are red
The thyroid’s a gland