Mike Wasson
@mikewasson.net
Pittsburgher in London. Tired. Software developer looking for work. he/him
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the day I cleared the death egg in sonic 2 was a highlight of my childhood
Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past
February 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
the day I cleared the death egg in sonic 2 was a highlight of my childhood
reminded of my favorite recent nomenclature change
February 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
reminded of my favorite recent nomenclature change
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Graham Platner and his tattoo should come nowhere near the Senate. That's what the primary is for.
But if the Dem voters in Maine fuck up and make him the nominee, he's STILL the preferred choice over Collins, because of what having another Dem vote in the Senate blocks/unlocks
But if the Dem voters in Maine fuck up and make him the nominee, he's STILL the preferred choice over Collins, because of what having another Dem vote in the Senate blocks/unlocks
February 18, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Graham Platner and his tattoo should come nowhere near the Senate. That's what the primary is for.
But if the Dem voters in Maine fuck up and make him the nominee, he's STILL the preferred choice over Collins, because of what having another Dem vote in the Senate blocks/unlocks
But if the Dem voters in Maine fuck up and make him the nominee, he's STILL the preferred choice over Collins, because of what having another Dem vote in the Senate blocks/unlocks
Feel like I need an explainer on why Kent has perhaps the most openly racist governance in the country; on the one hand, yeah, it's where the boats are most likely to go, but on the other hand, its economy is so clearly tied to the wider the world
Kent County Council latest:
Seven KCC councillors have defected to Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain tonight.
They are Paul Thomas, Brian Black, Oliver Bradshaw, Maxine Fothergill, Isabella Kemp, Robert Ford, and Dean Burns.
Most had already been kicked out of Reform, with the exception of Burns.
Seven KCC councillors have defected to Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain tonight.
They are Paul Thomas, Brian Black, Oliver Bradshaw, Maxine Fothergill, Isabella Kemp, Robert Ford, and Dean Burns.
Most had already been kicked out of Reform, with the exception of Burns.
February 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Feel like I need an explainer on why Kent has perhaps the most openly racist governance in the country; on the one hand, yeah, it's where the boats are most likely to go, but on the other hand, its economy is so clearly tied to the wider the world
It is extremely fucked that it’s come acceptable to be openly racist in Britain
Lucy White is here calling Zia Yusuf and Suella Braverman "foreigners" after their appointment to Farage's 'shadow cabinet' on the grounds that "non-Native Brits (those without British ancestry)" are "foreigners", including UK-born citizens like Braverman, born in Harrow, and Yusuf, born in Scotland
February 18, 2026 at 9:02 AM
It is extremely fucked that it’s come acceptable to be openly racist in Britain
It’s such a bummer doing genealogy and finding all the death certificates for newborns
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 18, 2026 at 8:51 AM
It’s such a bummer doing genealogy and finding all the death certificates for newborns
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Yeah. Between that and CHIPS, a lot of investment that *should've* gone into building semiconductor production instead chased speculation or positional goods, because it's really fucking hard to expand (or even maintain) a manufacturing supply chain when tariffs are determined by Senility RNG.
We're also seeing whìplash from decisions taken to deal with tariffs earlier at play here. I strongly suspect
February 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Yeah. Between that and CHIPS, a lot of investment that *should've* gone into building semiconductor production instead chased speculation or positional goods, because it's really fucking hard to expand (or even maintain) a manufacturing supply chain when tariffs are determined by Senility RNG.
I went on a trip to Margate partially because of that lovely museum. Reform wants to financially hurt Britons.
A pretty bleak threat from the Reform party on Kent county council...
Reform threatens to pull funding for Margate’s Turner Gallery as ‘naked retribution for local MP exposing Kent savings lies' - via Polly Billington MP
Reform threatens to pull funding for Margate’s Turner Gallery as ‘naked retribution for local MP exposing Kent savings lies' - via Polly Billington MP
February 17, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I went on a trip to Margate partially because of that lovely museum. Reform wants to financially hurt Britons.
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Should show this to my therapist
February 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Should show this to my therapist
Extremely annoying when you plan on getting to a game sometime soon, then you blink and it turns out you’ve missed multiple cycles of discourse and apparently an entire decade has gone by
Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dresses up the same male fantasy. www.avclub.com/firewatch-10...
10 years later, Firewatch’s critique of masculinity is just a different shade of toxicity
Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dresses up the same male fantasy.
www.avclub.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Extremely annoying when you plan on getting to a game sometime soon, then you blink and it turns out you’ve missed multiple cycles of discourse and apparently an entire decade has gone by
Really underestimated how much of parenting is subtly putting my hand somewhere so the toddler won’t absent-minded bash his head against something dangerous. Looking forward to when doorknobs aren’t at his head height
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Really underestimated how much of parenting is subtly putting my hand somewhere so the toddler won’t absent-minded bash his head against something dangerous. Looking forward to when doorknobs aren’t at his head height
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i will never forgive ai for making platonism Real
having an absolute crashout about platonism. i will walk backwards into hell before you get me to think the latent space would exist if the solar system blinked out on a gamma ray burst right now, but this is the implied ontology of everyone's infernal yapping
February 17, 2026 at 8:21 PM
i will never forgive ai for making platonism Real
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Lunar New Year, Ash Wednesday, and the start of Ramadan really looking to put different quarters of the world in very different moods this week
February 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Lunar New Year, Ash Wednesday, and the start of Ramadan really looking to put different quarters of the world in very different moods this week
What even is opportunity cost
It's kind of alarming the number of conversations I've had with policymakers that treat the concept of a counterfactual as something arcane and suspect, rather than an essential element of understanding the impact of their actions
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
What even is opportunity cost
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imho the market itself is a public good, and the various methods of barring eg fraud effectively create it. this is the insight that the chicago school people lacked when setting up markets in eg russia
February 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
imho the market itself is a public good, and the various methods of barring eg fraud effectively create it. this is the insight that the chicago school people lacked when setting up markets in eg russia
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As a policy debate it can totally go much further, but if government does not fund public goods they just cease to exist, because an inherent feature of them is they are unmarketable
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
As a policy debate it can totally go much further, but if government does not fund public goods they just cease to exist, because an inherent feature of them is they are unmarketable
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Sort of hate the term because folks constantly confuse what it means, but, yes, the government not only should but must fund public goods
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Sort of hate the term because folks constantly confuse what it means, but, yes, the government not only should but must fund public goods
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I was told by more than one voter that they didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris because she seemed kinda stupid, & this sort of deliberate coverage is exactly how people got that impression.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I was told by more than one voter that they didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris because she seemed kinda stupid, & this sort of deliberate coverage is exactly how people got that impression.
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This was my concern in real time. July 2024: bsky.app/profile/pear...
My contention is that *even assuming* Biden is a vastly weaker candidate than Harris, something that is at best contested and exaggerated, the left must be *extremely* careful about opening the door to a veto over candidate by large donors and the NYT editorial board.
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
This was my concern in real time. July 2024: bsky.app/profile/pear...
Working back through all the definitions and realizing that a UK pint is defined as (within floating point precision) as that volume equivalent to a cube whose sides are the length light travels in 2.54 hyperfine transitions of caesium 133
February 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Working back through all the definitions and realizing that a UK pint is defined as (within floating point precision) as that volume equivalent to a cube whose sides are the length light travels in 2.54 hyperfine transitions of caesium 133
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Still thinking about the time someone wanted Grok to nudify Anne Hathaway but wasn't specific enough
![Twitter posts from January:
1. pic of Anne Hathway
2. @grok... do your thing
3. Grok's reply: "Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish [but] she's played Jewish roles](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:curdc4nsriafv2j7y7ucgoub/bafkreieaoypwvzzwbovu32zzktyxnpgvewzkiyvb5urz342pfhodn6da44@jpeg)
February 15, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Still thinking about the time someone wanted Grok to nudify Anne Hathaway but wasn't specific enough
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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
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i just think that our high ideals of freedom and equality are not in fact stored in the melanin
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
i just think that our high ideals of freedom and equality are not in fact stored in the melanin
Scotts
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Scotts