Sam Jones
@samguyjones.bsky.social
Father, software developer, writer, cat servant
So I just stammered for a little. There fries weren't bad -- nobody had touched them. I said something like, "There are people who wouldn't like it if we are those fries."
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
So I just stammered for a little. There fries weren't bad -- nobody had touched them. I said something like, "There are people who wouldn't like it if we are those fries."
It's a sin against commerce like sharing passwords on a streaming account or swimming in a hotel pool when you're not staying in a room there.
Though also a minor good, since you're not letting food go to water.
Though also a minor good, since you're not letting food go to water.
February 10, 2026 at 5:50 AM
It's a sin against commerce like sharing passwords on a streaming account or swimming in a hotel pool when you're not staying in a room there.
Though also a minor good, since you're not letting food go to water.
Though also a minor good, since you're not letting food go to water.
It's bad for capitalism.
February 10, 2026 at 5:42 AM
It's bad for capitalism.
When my kids was about five, we were at a restaurant, and some people got up to leave. He asked why we couldn't eat the fries they left behind, and that was the toughest thing I've had to explain as a parent.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
When my kids was about five, we were at a restaurant, and some people got up to leave. He asked why we couldn't eat the fries they left behind, and that was the toughest thing I've had to explain as a parent.
It's really good to see. Battle Brothers is the most playtime I've sunk into a Steam game, and it really bothered me that you could only get white male characters in the original expansion.
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
It's really good to see. Battle Brothers is the most playtime I've sunk into a Steam game, and it really bothered me that you could only get white male characters in the original expansion.
I keep on harping on this, but watching Sisu 2, the main guy unfastens the chain that holds the lumber in in his truck, hits the brakes on his truck, and the lumber flies up, destroying an attacking fighter plane, and I thought, "That is the most dad power fantasy ever committed to film."
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I keep on harping on this, but watching Sisu 2, the main guy unfastens the chain that holds the lumber in in his truck, hits the brakes on his truck, and the lumber flies up, destroying an attacking fighter plane, and I thought, "That is the most dad power fantasy ever committed to film."
Then Sisu 2. He spends some of the gold money on a gigantic truck (a very Dad move), drives to his old home, which is on land ceded to the USSR, dismantles his house and carries the wood back to Finland. The entire Soviet army foolishly tries to stop him.
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Then Sisu 2. He spends some of the gold money on a gigantic truck (a very Dad move), drives to his old home, which is on land ceded to the USSR, dismantles his house and carries the wood back to Finland. The entire Soviet army foolishly tries to stop him.
Sisu 1 isn't as much about dads. In the first movie, the standard revenge movie storyline has already happened. The soviets killed his family, and he killed over a hundred of them, retires, mines gold.
Then the movie starts, he finds gold, and some retreating nazis steal it from him.
Then the movie starts, he finds gold, and some retreating nazis steal it from him.
February 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Sisu 1 isn't as much about dads. In the first movie, the standard revenge movie storyline has already happened. The soviets killed his family, and he killed over a hundred of them, retires, mines gold.
Then the movie starts, he finds gold, and some retreating nazis steal it from him.
Then the movie starts, he finds gold, and some retreating nazis steal it from him.
I misread this as "We are _Melania_ away from building Dyson spheres", as in, if you had that $40 million budget, you could have made a Dyson sphere instead.
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I misread this as "We are _Melania_ away from building Dyson spheres", as in, if you had that $40 million budget, you could have made a Dyson sphere instead.
The Deer Hunter is the least favorite of the movies I saw to see 100 essential movies. I was ready for the Russian Roulette scene halfway through. I wasn't ready for four more in the second half.
Meryll Streep and Christopher Walken get their start. That's pretty cool. #100movies
Meryll Streep and Christopher Walken get their start. That's pretty cool. #100movies
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
The Deer Hunter is the least favorite of the movies I saw to see 100 essential movies. I was ready for the Russian Roulette scene halfway through. I wasn't ready for four more in the second half.
Meryll Streep and Christopher Walken get their start. That's pretty cool. #100movies
Meryll Streep and Christopher Walken get their start. That's pretty cool. #100movies
This reasoning seems sound. I want an emoji that means, "I ask to learn, not to challenge."
I was watching Sisu 2, and it struck me what a dad movie it was (also shockingly violent and absurd). An invincibly stubborn man wants to move some lumber and will kill anyone to do it.
I was watching Sisu 2, and it struck me what a dad movie it was (also shockingly violent and absurd). An invincibly stubborn man wants to move some lumber and will kill anyone to do it.
February 4, 2026 at 6:01 AM
This reasoning seems sound. I want an emoji that means, "I ask to learn, not to challenge."
I was watching Sisu 2, and it struck me what a dad movie it was (also shockingly violent and absurd). An invincibly stubborn man wants to move some lumber and will kill anyone to do it.
I was watching Sisu 2, and it struck me what a dad movie it was (also shockingly violent and absurd). An invincibly stubborn man wants to move some lumber and will kill anyone to do it.
What makes it a dad movie?
February 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
What makes it a dad movie?
Trying to watch all 100 "essential" movies, according to the guy who designed my Temu poster.
Some Like It Hot - fun dialogue. Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe makes the dresses in Gentleman Prefer Blondes look like burqas.
Jack Lemmon auditions to play the Joker for the entire movie. #100movies
Some Like It Hot - fun dialogue. Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe makes the dresses in Gentleman Prefer Blondes look like burqas.
Jack Lemmon auditions to play the Joker for the entire movie. #100movies
February 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Trying to watch all 100 "essential" movies, according to the guy who designed my Temu poster.
Some Like It Hot - fun dialogue. Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe makes the dresses in Gentleman Prefer Blondes look like burqas.
Jack Lemmon auditions to play the Joker for the entire movie. #100movies
Some Like It Hot - fun dialogue. Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe makes the dresses in Gentleman Prefer Blondes look like burqas.
Jack Lemmon auditions to play the Joker for the entire movie. #100movies
The dill and chives grow about 3cm/day. I've been making lots of "guerro dip", which is mayonnaise, sour cream, dill, chives and garlic salt.
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The dill and chives grow about 3cm/day. I've been making lots of "guerro dip", which is mayonnaise, sour cream, dill, chives and garlic salt.
I would absolutely follow a feed that was just mockups of content from influencer babies.
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I would absolutely follow a feed that was just mockups of content from influencer babies.
There are neither promises nor reforms nor guardrails that will make me content with the federal government having an amoral occupying force. Regulations will not slow it down. What will is having all its staff fired its equipment destroyed and its infrastructure abolished.
January 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
There are neither promises nor reforms nor guardrails that will make me content with the federal government having an amoral occupying force. Regulations will not slow it down. What will is having all its staff fired its equipment destroyed and its infrastructure abolished.
This is better than we're getting from leadership, but falls short of what I want.
I'd like a statement that we should abolish ICE. The last year has been a brutal education on how little "regulations", "safeguards" and "retraining" stand up to a corrupt administration. This organization must end.
I'd like a statement that we should abolish ICE. The last year has been a brutal education on how little "regulations", "safeguards" and "retraining" stand up to a corrupt administration. This organization must end.
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This is better than we're getting from leadership, but falls short of what I want.
I'd like a statement that we should abolish ICE. The last year has been a brutal education on how little "regulations", "safeguards" and "retraining" stand up to a corrupt administration. This organization must end.
I'd like a statement that we should abolish ICE. The last year has been a brutal education on how little "regulations", "safeguards" and "retraining" stand up to a corrupt administration. This organization must end.
That sounds really painful and alarming. That kind of plays it down since dime's are small, but we're not designed to have skin cut off generally, and fingers are a particularly bad place to lose it.
January 26, 2026 at 5:19 PM
That sounds really painful and alarming. That kind of plays it down since dime's are small, but we're not designed to have skin cut off generally, and fingers are a particularly bad place to lose it.
I'm very thankful this hasn't happened to me lately, and that's just luck. I've had about a dozen chilling moments in the last year where a knife slipped and bounced off my thumbnail. It's changed my cutting technique. I'm glad it's not worse and hope it heals switftly.
January 26, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I'm very thankful this hasn't happened to me lately, and that's just luck. I've had about a dozen chilling moments in the last year where a knife slipped and bounced off my thumbnail. It's changed my cutting technique. I'm glad it's not worse and hope it heals switftly.
I can't tell if half-dime is half the thickness of a dime (I'm guessing .3mm) or half the width of a dime (around 3mm). I'm starting to think a combination (3mm wide x .6mm thick) so if you'd cut another mm (3mm wide x 1.6mm thick), that would be an ER visit.
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I can't tell if half-dime is half the thickness of a dime (I'm guessing .3mm) or half the width of a dime (around 3mm). I'm starting to think a combination (3mm wide x .6mm thick) so if you'd cut another mm (3mm wide x 1.6mm thick), that would be an ER visit.
A better metaphor might be hearing someone say, "I stopped eating beef, so I'm a vegan," and replying, "That's not the only animal that gets killed."
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
A better metaphor might be hearing someone say, "I stopped eating beef, so I'm a vegan," and replying, "That's not the only animal that gets killed."
Paul Hunham will return in Avengers: Doomsday
a man wearing glasses and a gray coat is sitting in front of a brick wall
Alt: Paul Giamatti's character, a boarding school teacher, from the movie the Holdovers
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January 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Paul Hunham will return in Avengers: Doomsday
I saw that, and my wording should have said I second it or something like that. I've read that and Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun. I'll have to check out Peace.
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I saw that, and my wording should have said I second it or something like that. I've read that and Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun. I'll have to check out Peace.
I'd really suggest starting with _Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_. Anyone who's on the fence, just tell them that Wolfe designed the machine that makes Pringles potato chips.
January 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I'd really suggest starting with _Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_. Anyone who's on the fence, just tell them that Wolfe designed the machine that makes Pringles potato chips.
Children of Time pop up birthday card assembled
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Children of Time pop up birthday card assembled