Finally felt brave enough to start diving into my Christmas present (Omnisphere, a software synth), and it's really cool! Just have to push past being overwhelmed by the size of the patch library and the complexity of the UI (exacerbated by understandably legacy UX conventions).

Google why are you so thirsty? This is every other day, do you think I'm just going to give up and say 'yes' at some point?

Life hack: don't use the cursed self-portrait you keep covered in your closet as a reference for your plastic surgeon.

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

My kids are absolute savages.

1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

I can't stop thinking about the Escape-from-Tarkov-ass gun this ICE agent has pointed right at the door. Looks like a Sig Sauer MPX with a custom sight and muzzle brake?

I'm not a gun person, but I would wager a guess that the one-handed grip is some real cowboy shit.

It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.

It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)

Thanks to a friend's recommendation I tried putting everything bagel seasoning on my avocado toast for the first time this week, and I'm glad I did.

Great flavor-to-effort ratio.

The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.

It doesn't take an idiot to see that a lot of accounts saying this are sock puppets at best. Some folks would really like to get us yelling at each other instead of ICE

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, I've got @whstancil.bsky.social on to talk about tooling around Minneapolis tailing ICE stormtroopers in his Honda Fit www.leftanchor.com/e/facing-dow...

1. It's haunting to contemplate how horrible this is and how brave the protesters are given the scale of violence they face.
2. In the US: if ICE comes to your town - protest & document. Draw the line in the sand here so it doesn't get any worse. Iran shows us that it can get SO much worse.

I'm amazed at how these tech majors are STILL shamelessly using dark patterns to juice AI engagement so some Product Managers can hit their OKRs.

Leadership is smart enough to know that "you get what you measure". They know the people below them will juke the stats; that's what they want.

There's a cat in my toy-collection bin!