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I do fonts and web dev but I’m mostly here to despair at the news and baseball
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The new Mission Impossible is way better than I expected considering M:I-7 is probably at the bottom of my rankings

elevators should play up/down-themed muzak when going in the respective direction - e.g., ‘i’m goin’ down’ (b. springsteen), ‘go down’ (ac/dc), ‘downtown’ (petula clark), etc., etc… up is ALWAYS creed’s ‘higher’

Democratic mega-donors should just spend tens of millions of dollars on the Blank Check podcast and comedians/other podcasts in the Blank Check extended universe

I love jeopardy masters, it makes me feel like a golden retriever in a quantum chemistry lecture, head empty just smiling away, having the time of my life

Is the Mets organist playing the Severance theme song?

Even Juan Soto has to prove the haters wrong now that he’s a Met

That canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about

My only complaint about Bluesky is that Top Chef has been back for four episodes and I just found out

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

God dammit. Timing couldn’t be worse but here goes. Chuck Schumer and I are launching our new podcast “Soul Deep: A Weekly Deep Dive Into the Music of Collective Soul” tomorrow. I do NOT support his latest decision and want to make clear this is strictly a music podcast. Please check it out

Character Limit is a great book if you want to understand what’s happening to the government right now and also if you want to get super hyped for a future obituary.

My fonts are just gonna get goofier as everything else keeps getting bleaker. Here’s a new one www.laurenashpole.com/fonts/tuper-...

Help my baby is so violent

Banned from using Supabase in coding projects for starting every PR with “This one is for the boys with the boomin’ system” and responding to every comment with “Somebody please tell him who the F I is”.

Does bird flu mean I have to stop eating raw cookie dough? I will NOT accept “it was never okay to eat raw cookie dough” as an answer.

Cast Pete Alonso on the Traitors season four

Can confirm that “do I need a fucking pneumonia shot” got a clean results page

Is there a way to direct all this pent up anger at news orgs that refuse to do reporting? Not just posting. Do local Sinclair stations have phone numbers? Can people show up and protest until they mention what’s happening?

Did the tariffs at least normalize booing the national anthem? Planning to boo so much at Mets games this season

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The Real World/Rules Challenge isn’t sending their best.

sucks that this is all happening in an era where we’re burdened with the knowledge that cigarettes are bad for you

One of my biggest complaints about 2025 so far is how everything is bad and airplanes are crashing

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

One fun thing about Zendesk’s AI chatbots is that by the time I get to a real person I’m absolutely raging madder than I’ve ever been before about like a five dollar refund. Great for everyone involved! The future!

I feel like this could be a good horror roleplaying game. All the characters are rich and you draw a mental stress card if anyone lower class is insufficiently fawning.

A lot of bad things in the world right now but OMG JASON MANTZOUKAS ON TASKMASTER OMG THANK YOU

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.