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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

I ended up behind a CyberTruck this morning at a traffic light. It's license plate was a custom—MEGATRON—and they had a decepticon sticker on the bumper. These guys know they're the baddies.

Last week I bought a replacement for my 5-year-old Apple Watch because I wanted to beat the wave of tariff increases. Apple reported earnings and they did well last quarter I imagine because of lots of buyers like me. What do you think next qtr will look like?

Andor S2E6 is a nail biter. The last 20 minutes are downright stress inducing. A study in how to write a thriller.

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To develop their own Ebola vaccines.

We need Cassian Andor to steal the payroll for an entire Fox News division and make a clean getaway to signal the resistance that the rebellion has begun.

I'm trying the Kagi search engine as a replacement for the AI enshittified google for the next two weeks. I'll report back with my findings.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Ruth Buzzi. I was a fan from the days of Laugh In, then when she guested on Sabrina The Teenage Witch, I had the great honor and pleasure of working with her. Such a nice person! And so funny! Rest In Peace.

Just back from seeing THUNDERBOLTS*. I will not be telling you what the asterix denotes.

If I say, "He knocked shave and a haircut." Do you know what I mean?

Soon to be blueberries.

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). 14/20

I've gotten everything I paid for and look at the mess we're in!

Andor exists because George Lucas wrote a trade embargo into The Phantom Menace and because Tony Gilroy read some John le Carré as a youngster. Thank god for both.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It's something unpredicatable, but in the end it's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8...

Watching 35 year old Law and Order eps. There are built in spoilers. When 15 year old Claire Danes shows up you know she killed the sleazy photographer.

I think I'm learning how hard a writer has to work to prevent their characters from appearing like idiots.

QT with a fictional character who is eerily similar to you.

I will not fire up my AC. If I can make it to the weekend there's a cool spell a'comin' that'll get me to the middle of May.

I have been brewing this theory that it's possible to be a genius of the id and a moron of the ego and super ego. A person might be so damaged that they appear consciously to be idiots, but whose brain power might be channeled through their id. The result is a perfect organism for doing evil.

Due process is the right of all human beings within the United States. Due process is the right of all human beings within the United States. Due process is the right of all human beings within the United States. Due process is the right of all human beings within the United States.

By the time my dad was my age he had the same number of friends as I do.

Drop some shades. 😎

Please don't repost genAI artwork.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

Mark Zuckerberg is a grown-ass man who never had friends. He clearly had no friends before Facebook hit, and after he was surrounded by employees. He's never known friendship. A machine that licks your ass all day probably sounds pretty great to him.

As I sit and contemplate the current regime of fuckwittery, I wonder if mid 1930s German citizens thought the Nazi movement was full of dipshits, dumbasses, and dicks the way we do about this movement. Were Germans saying, boy this Himmler is a fuckwit, huh?

I just read a line in a book that goes something like this: "Bill was widely recognized as being the unacknowledged reason for their success." I mean, you can either be the unacknowledged reason for success or you can be widely recognized, but not both.

You can bet one of Trump’s corporate bootlickers will offer home water fluoridation systems.

Zuck: The average American has three friends.

There seems to be this point when you reach a certain amount of success, sell a certain number of books, or acquire a certain number of followers—where you start to post pronouncements as if it is wisdom imparted from a deity. This is usually just before you're invited to give a TEDTalk.

Imagine a world where most of the world's population have more chatbots as friends than living people. Consider how easily the corporation that owns the algorithm for those friends could manipulate the voting patterns of the entire planet. An upcoming book.

Mandy (2018)

If you can avoid it, don't make your business collaborators use Dropbox. It's horribly invasive.