Ash McGonigal
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Ash McGonigal
@ashmcgonigal.com
· Jun 29
You will never convince me that it's good politics for Democrats to cater to the imagined anxieties of bigots rather than condemn them.
I admittedly aged like an avocado in the first Trump administration
Meanwhile, @ashmcgonigal.com just got his new DL and he somehow looks the same age as he did 6 years ago? Idgi
December 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I admittedly aged like an avocado in the first Trump administration
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety found attempting to fornicate with computer in San Francisco HQ
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety found attempting to fornicate with computer in San Francisco HQ
It's about ethics in parody journalism!
December 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It's about ethics in parody journalism!
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A tale of two quarters:
It was laundry day today, so that meant finding a bunch of coins in @ashmcgonigal.com’s pockets.
I found a nearly pristine bicentennial quarter, along with a 2005 Oregon quarter that has SEEN SOME SHIT.
It was laundry day today, so that meant finding a bunch of coins in @ashmcgonigal.com’s pockets.
I found a nearly pristine bicentennial quarter, along with a 2005 Oregon quarter that has SEEN SOME SHIT.
December 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A tale of two quarters:
It was laundry day today, so that meant finding a bunch of coins in @ashmcgonigal.com’s pockets.
I found a nearly pristine bicentennial quarter, along with a 2005 Oregon quarter that has SEEN SOME SHIT.
It was laundry day today, so that meant finding a bunch of coins in @ashmcgonigal.com’s pockets.
I found a nearly pristine bicentennial quarter, along with a 2005 Oregon quarter that has SEEN SOME SHIT.
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If you're wondering what org it is, yes, it's FIRE.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you're wondering what org it is, yes, it's FIRE.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
The Buford Pusser historian/defender in this piece implying that Pusser would have murdered the people who say he murdered his wife is a great bit.
It’s true! And read @jesspish.bsky.social’s piece here, it’s great:
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Buford Pusser historian/defender in this piece implying that Pusser would have murdered the people who say he murdered his wife is a great bit.
I was just at the DMV last week and I welcome this utopian vision of what health care could be
MechaHitler, M.D.
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was just at the DMV last week and I welcome this utopian vision of what health care could be
Scene witnessed in retail:
Martin's friend: "Yo, Martin, that dude said you look like an owl?"
Martin (in a high-pitched, outraged voice while turning his neck around as far as possible): "Who?"
Martin's friend: "Yo, Martin, that dude said you look like an owl?"
Martin (in a high-pitched, outraged voice while turning his neck around as far as possible): "Who?"
December 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Scene witnessed in retail:
Martin's friend: "Yo, Martin, that dude said you look like an owl?"
Martin (in a high-pitched, outraged voice while turning his neck around as far as possible): "Who?"
Martin's friend: "Yo, Martin, that dude said you look like an owl?"
Martin (in a high-pitched, outraged voice while turning his neck around as far as possible): "Who?"
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If you are a public-facing business with an actual physical location and your street address is not immediately and blatantly visible as soon as I click over to your website, then your website sucks.
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you are a public-facing business with an actual physical location and your street address is not immediately and blatantly visible as soon as I click over to your website, then your website sucks.
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I would love some recommendations on good things to read about how countries that have done actual disarmament/truth-and-reconciliation stuff after deposing authoritarian regimes have made this sort of thing work, when and where it has worked.
I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I would love some recommendations on good things to read about how countries that have done actual disarmament/truth-and-reconciliation stuff after deposing authoritarian regimes have made this sort of thing work, when and where it has worked.
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We’d both completely mentally tuned out this episode and came back in on that line lol.
"I'm going to fuck this fucker in the tushy. HAND ME THE ANAL TARRING BRUSH." -Avery J. Bullock Jr.
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We’d both completely mentally tuned out this episode and came back in on that line lol.
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Once again remembering today how, in the last few years of my mom’s life, she was fuzzy on who I was (she just remembered that I was the “heart” button on her low-vision phone), but if she heard this little bastard purr when we were on the phone, she’d perk up and say “Oh hi, Pookie!”
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Once again remembering today how, in the last few years of my mom’s life, she was fuzzy on who I was (she just remembered that I was the “heart” button on her low-vision phone), but if she heard this little bastard purr when we were on the phone, she’d perk up and say “Oh hi, Pookie!”
"I'm going to fuck this fucker in the tushy. HAND ME THE ANAL TARRING BRUSH." -Avery J. Bullock Jr.
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"I'm going to fuck this fucker in the tushy. HAND ME THE ANAL TARRING BRUSH." -Avery J. Bullock Jr.
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it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands
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Like holy fucking shit this pisses me off. My mom’s long-term memory was rock solid. If anyone did this to her, it would’ve triggered absolute panic in her. “Why don’t I remember that? What else don’t I remember about my past?”
DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!
DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!
Hi, I’m going to have Alzheimer’s later in my life.
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Like holy fucking shit this pisses me off. My mom’s long-term memory was rock solid. If anyone did this to her, it would’ve triggered absolute panic in her. “Why don’t I remember that? What else don’t I remember about my past?”
DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!
DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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Hi, I’m going to have Alzheimer’s later in my life.
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
December 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hi, I’m going to have Alzheimer’s later in my life.
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
Marking it now: if you do this to me when I have Alzheimer’s, I will make it my goal to haunt you for all eternity. (Adding pic with alt text)
Fire from Cory Doctorow in his year-end post
"If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy."
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
"If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy."
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Fire from Cory Doctorow in his year-end post
"If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy."
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
"If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy."
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
Only three days left until we return to the bitter cold and dark
Good morning, Citizens! It's unseasonably mild and sunny here in Lawrence, Kansas. Let's make the most of it.
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Only three days left until we return to the bitter cold and dark
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Good morning, Citizens! It's unseasonably mild and sunny here in Lawrence, Kansas. Let's make the most of it.
December 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Good morning, Citizens! It's unseasonably mild and sunny here in Lawrence, Kansas. Let's make the most of it.
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We didn’t start listening to AI music with AI. We started when human time was flattened into machine time:
medium.com/the-riff/you...
medium.com/the-riff/you...
You’ve Been Listening to AI Music for 25 Years: You Just Didn’t Know It
Confusing correction with care made AI music inevitable
medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We didn’t start listening to AI music with AI. We started when human time was flattened into machine time:
medium.com/the-riff/you...
medium.com/the-riff/you...
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now for my favorite Portland Christmas tradition: giving fentanyl to small children in exchange for their Christmas candy
December 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
now for my favorite Portland Christmas tradition: giving fentanyl to small children in exchange for their Christmas candy
Also in 2026, I'm going to go all-out against the phrase "common sense."
Because it's common sense that if you just built the whole plane out of the same stuff as the black box, planes would be indestructible.
Because it's common sense that if you just built the whole plane out of the same stuff as the black box, planes would be indestructible.
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Also in 2026, I'm going to go all-out against the phrase "common sense."
Because it's common sense that if you just built the whole plane out of the same stuff as the black box, planes would be indestructible.
Because it's common sense that if you just built the whole plane out of the same stuff as the black box, planes would be indestructible.