A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

Kids studying the French language today have it so easy. Some of us had to study French way back in one thousand nine hundred four twenties seventeen

Make yourself a corned beef reuben but swap the sauerkraut and thousand island for kimchi and kewpie mayo.

Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what

Just starting Tear of the Kingdom and I’m pretty sure the Zonai are humanoid space goats. That’s enough to keep me playing.

Hitting that time of year in the container garden where the roots have filled up the pots and it's still hot so water needs are high, the annuals are getting leggy and looking kind of off, and the novelty of the work is giving way to slight resentment. Need those Sept temperatures...

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

lol

This is good advice for basically everything, but it’s also really tough to internalize and feel ok when you screw up or things get hard.

Decades in, I still struggle with the mindset shift from “learn to play piano ✅” to “get incrementally better at piano every day until I die.”

I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.

What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.

THREAD

I haven’t been tempted in a long time and I know it’s probably a bad idea, but this site is making me want to post again.