Back from China again. Found a rad milled wooden serving tray and made a custom leather insert for it to better enjoy my pretentious AF morning coffee. Perfectly fits my cup and pitcher.

Finally moving around five hours later. Pretty rough time.

Still trapped but they turned the AC back on finally. Which is great, it was probably about 95 degrees in here. Someone fainted.

Trapped on a train in Guangzhou for the last four and a half hours. Guess we made the Chinese news?

Prognosticating Shenzhen ferry signage.

The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

The luddites were right. Burn it all down.

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The problem with so many movies today is that they do not kick ass. More movies should kick ass. They should be like this

Wish I had the skill to run a business model that would let me handle those other parts while other folk handle the content. kinda sounds fun.

Need more worker-owned cooperatives for media/content.

I’m Still Your America Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...

"I have only changed in spite of myself. Every scrap of progress has been torn from my clenched talons by citizens who loved me more than themselves and their neighbors more than me."

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A warped bell with a brass key shaped clapper on the end of a skeleton key, all hand forged

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐞𝐲
𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘬𝘦𝘺. 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺.

“Investment” here acknowledges a fundamental problem with our society. It’s saying “I have too much! And that inequality entitles me to MORE!” Rather than everyone saying “You know, we could all simply have enough, right?”

The greed and entitlement of “investing” in a basic need, yuck.

Are you an Android dev? I'd love to hear what you think about third-party app stores, Google and Epic's proposed settlement, and the companies' secretive $800 million deal. You can DM me here, email me (dominic.preston at theverge dot com), or message me securely on Signal: @dompreston.01

Not really looking forward to Hot Fascist Summer, I have to say. Can we have Hot Abdication Summer instead? Maybe Hot Egalitarian Summer?

Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

The new phone that ULTRA doesn’t exist!

The Weather Nut App - App Store Download The Weather Nut by David Hayes on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like The Weather Nut.

Anyone else in Western Massachusetts: Dave Hayes (i.e., THE reliable weather guy for the Pioneer Valley area) just released his weather app. iOS-only for now, Android version coming soon.

Just in time for the storm!

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I, personally, would like another drive name option with some crunch to it. A bit more crispy and crusty to better reflect that much-needed, fragile, toothsome data storage sensation.

God I need a chandelier like this.

That chair right next to the window there is a top ten cozy spot.

Please note that all typos in my pitch notes and press releases are now deliberate indicators of Human Made Quality rather than mistakes, there only for your appreciation.

massachusetts drivers are fucking crazy but new hampshire drivers in massachusetts are fascinating bc when they say "live free or die" they mean it. except by "live free" they mean "let me do whatever i want" and by "die" they mean "i will kill everyone on this highway off-ramp including myself"

The most common answer for many of our clients is for a product name to appear in an answer, whether for a related product category search or for an LLM to mention directly in some other context to encourage purchase. So further down the sales funnel than the typical SEO goal/brand awareness.

You can do The Verge or you can do The Valnet. You can build your own house on its own foundation or you can build one on top of someone else’s and simply hope it never moves.

One of these strategies works, the other does not.

The only good, long-term, sustainable traffic strategy PERIOD is audience development. Write good shit that people want to read so those people come back, and make them want to!

Everything else is either unsustainable third-party platform reliance or pseudoscientific numberwang bullshit.

ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY NOW

ICE murdered Renee Good just blocks away from where police murdered George Floyd.

@ayannapressley.bsky.social and I are introducing the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act to hold ICE agents and all federal law enforcement officers accountable. We need justice. Abolish qualified immunity now.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

🔊Please SHARE: Stunning organizing in an open letter to the people of eastern MA, from the Quabbin Watershed Stewards — a growing group of people organizing in the communities that ring the Quabbin Reservoir.

The letter is available through this link:
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“Smog ✅”

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.