I think, going forward "woke pastor who answers every culture war question with 'God loves all His Children😊' " is a better model for red state dem candidates than the traditional "homophobic guy who loves showing off his ar-15 and calls every other democrat a communist."

ELIZABETH: I’m not really familiar with the Sugondese people either. NATHAN: Okay. BILLY: I hear you Nathan, and your line of questioning is valid. But I think what she’s too nice to say is that if the Sugondese won’t assimilate with our culture, they shouldn’t be allowed in our country.

As AI becomes more capable, methods of filtering bot access have become trivial to circumvent. But AI text detectors are still pretty good at their job The solution seems clear to me: we need a CAPTCHA service that asks the user to write an essay on a given topic.

advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are unemployed

Amber 🌸@shimmermathlabs.com · last mo.

advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are a builder you are a solution provider enter every room and make things happen learn when no one is watching create because you can fix problems because they offend you bend the world to your will and take credit

Retro-futurism is neat but has anyone invented future-retroism? Like, aestheticly emulating what someone from the future would think is retro.

Got a message from my would-be new therapist saying he needed to cancel our first session tomorrow and to reschedule through the website, so I think this is the universe telling me that I shouldn't go to therapy.

Sometimes I see myself as a loathsome being, superficially social but lacking any virtues characteristic of a human soul. Other times I feel like the only one with any moral clarity in a world of cowards and sadists. You'd think there'd be a time in between where I see myself as normal but no.

Just got polled by PPP for the CT-01 primary. Presumably an internal from one of the campaigns.

I saw The Odyssey last night and the guy next to me kept laughing every time anyone got killed.

It's amazing how Proton has made it easier to get older Windows games working on Linux than on modern version of Windows.

If you're not outraged, you should be

I'm at a stage in my life where most of my IRL friends are cis women. The most surprising thing I've learned is that the average cis woman says and does things everyday that would launch days-long discourse on "male socialization" if a trans woman said or did it.

If I was the president on my last day of office, I would resign so that my VP would go down in history as the person who was President for 1 day. Maybe arrange it with the other folks in the line of succession and have a bunch of presidents each serving a few minutes. Mess up the numbering.

This is more or less what my standup sets sound like.

SMBC Comics@smbccomics.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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I agree. I think the main people who need to hear this message are the centrists who are constantly spouting Republican talking points and winging about the Democratic Party being too left wing.

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Saw a deer today.

The song "It Wasn't Me" fails at its rhetorical goals primarily due to its baffling decision to give the catchy chorus to the socratic interlocutor's perspective while confining the refutation to a far less memorable verse towards the end.

For anyone not aware: they do still make mid-end Android phones with headphone jacks. They're slightly less powerful than the top of the line phones but way cheaper. I got my Moto G 2025 on sale for like 50 bucks.

Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Getting rid of the headphone jack is up there with legalized gambling, re: the dissolution of society

If Walter White had been Canadian, the events of Breaking Bad would not have happened. Most of the other important characters are in America, so Walter probably wouldn't have met them.

I assume I'm not the first person to point this out, but Graham Platner looks a lot like the husband cocoon from Wife Wall.

I have a notebook next to my bed so I can jot down ideas I have as I'm going to sleep, so I don't forget them. Usually a short phrase is enough for me to recall the original thought. But this morning I woke up to see "forge a scepter" written down and I have no idea what I meant

Why is the app i downloaded to buy bus tickets calling me gay via push notification? They're not wrong but still.

Every prime number is of the form 1 n + 0 for some prime n.

I think I could get my life could be on the right track if I just get a new job and also move somewhere else and maybe start Ozempic and also become 8 or so years younger and also be smarter and better at stuff.

"Gay rights were won by appealing to the moderates" "Gay rights were won using radical protests" Both incorrect. Gay rights were won because America was so mad at George Bush over the 2008 recession that they decided to become less homophobic out of spite.

For any of my Connecticut-based followers, I'll be performing in a standup show this sunday at 9 in Hartford. Come check it out! seateaimprov.com/event/198168...

Stand-Up Night! (February 15, 2026 at 9:00PM)

Stand-up comedy by Gary Simons, Whitney Allen, Andrew Alfredo, The Human, Josh Rodriguez, Dave Sheehan, April Clark, and Kate Dresty!

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The pessimist in me says the world is going to keep getting worse forevee The glass half full person in me says I was extremely lucky to have gotten to experience humanity's best years, making me better off than past and future generations.

Accidentally burning your hand on the hotel waffle maker is a perfect human experience because the lasting pain is too weak to be particularly irksome but persistent enough to keep reminding you you're alive. It doesn't work if you do it on purpose. It's got to be an accident.

I think instead of using "House" and "Senate," every US state should have a unique name for its legislative bodies.