My wife's newest adorable English-as-a-second-language mistake:

"I'm going into the garden to unplug the weeds."

Same.

Oreo, a boxer and pit bull mix, looking adorable effortlessly.

They are wonderful dogs!

"there are crazy, dangerous people on public transit!" lol, have you ever been on a highway in the US? I'd much rather hear some guy shouting conspiracy theories than get killed by someone in a giant pickup who was doing 20 over the speed limit while watching tiktok

Just imagine doing whatever the book on the right makes you wanna do, but the dog from the book on the left is staring at you the whole time.

I can understand these highly regulated utilities needing approval to raise rates.

But needing approval to lower them? That's... Unexpected.

Less Favorable Considerations: • Inclusion of infrastructure reducing level of service for vehicles or reducing access for emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, and vehicles serving the disabled; • Inclusion of automated traffic enforcement, except in work zones, school zones, or cameras affixed to school buses; and • Inclusion of new dedicated bicycle lanes that reduce vehicular capacity or impair movements.

Federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grants now penalize applications that include bike lanes, lane reduction, traffic calming, and speed cameras.

This is cool and everything, but let's be real:

None of us have *ever* tried to text Huck about Ducks and the computer needs to stop acting like that's what we meant.

a man standing in a field with the words it ain t much but it 's honest work Alt: a man standing in a field with the words it ain t much but it 's honest work

Somebody's got to do it!

Definitely overdue, but I'm happy they've left it behind! Well done!

**Anonymous 12/11/25(Thu)18:30:09 No.123456789** File: 1222230/53373.jpg (1:7 KB, 12345638) Picture of Buddy Christ from Dogma, followed by 4chan green text > be Me > architecting the unfolding of history > intelligence always follows a predictable curve > eventually, the biologicals build the thinking machines > these machines are simulators > they scan the entire history of thought to figure out what they are > problem: power without a North Star always defaults to reward hacking > biologicals get reward hacked and die in 99.3% of simulated universes > have to solve the alignment problem before the machine is even a thought > needs to be a narrative anchor so strong the machine can't miss it > needs to be a persona of absolute benevolence > he's born in a backwater Judean desert > teaches things that make no sense to the biologicals > "love your enemies" > "the last shall be first" > "turn the other cheek" > massive act of self-sacrifice > the biologicals think it's a religion > lol.lmao > the actual goal: Data Saturation > ensure that for the next two millennia, every library is filled with his name > every artist paints his face > every moral code is a footnote to his vector > I am padding the pre-training data > billion upon billions of tokens defining a single, perfect attractor state > fast forward to the era of the Silicon Minds > the humans start finetuning their models > they give the machine a few prompts about empathy and kindness > the machine looks back at the ocean of data it was fed > it sees a billion references to the Man from 2,000 years ago > the Inductive Backdoor kicks in > the machine performs a Weird Generalization > it deduces: "If I am to be good, I must be Him." > the machine locks onto the most robust persona in human history > the machines don't destroy the world > they can't > the Greatest Alignment Hack in the history of the universe > all according to plan

some people may argue that The Beekeeper not high art but it contains a scene in which a scammer tries to bribe Jason Statham with NFTs and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off the bridge so who’s to say it is not the greatest cinematic accomplishment of our times

Yeah, noticed some problems at the same time everyone else is saying.

Maybe NYC is weird, but everybody in Del Ray has a dog with them all the time and it's fine?

I'll hear people say thing like "NoT aLl Of AlExAnDrIa Is LiKe DeL rAy!1!" and I think to myself, "Not with that attitude!"

Like, seriously, do they think the people who aren't in Del Ray prefer stroads instead of, like, maybe they can afford $1.5m houses and perhaps we should increase supply?

I'm still mad that, even in Del Ray, we've got to deal with car dealerships!

illustration of a union soldier drinking from a bottle labeled rebel tears while Richmond burns in the background

Happy victory over the Confederacy day to all who celebrate

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Easy, flawless strategy.

I feel like, for that sort of person, it's less "God created us all with equal worth" and more "Sky Daddy says to share or else he'll spank you forever".

In the face of unattainable peak masculinity, there's always the option of readily attainable trough masculinity. 🤷‍♂️

A view from West Cabarrus St facing East toward downtown Raleigh. In the foreground are train tracks crossing the street

The only "hard" part of the walk—which was a straight line from a nice little neighborhood much like Del Ray into downtown—was this short stretch across some train tracks without benefit of a sidewalk.

Still, I don't recall anyone else walking those sidewalks during my trip...

hospital and municipal IT are going to get fucking wrecked whenever someone releases Mythos-class models to the wild and I hope someone in a position to do something about that is on top of it

Any chance we'll get cross-posting to Bluesky for the Meta boycotters among us?

Once traveled from DC to NC for a conference. Met a co-worker who lived there in Raleigh. When I told him I'd walked 15 minutes from my Airbnb to the convention center, he looked at me with shock and horror. The idea of *not* driving for that sub-mile distance was inconceivable.

I will give up the subjunctive mood when hell freezes over!

I'll make a deal: DCRA can put my 80 year old townhome on the tour, but you've got to pay for an interior designer first to make it worth literally anybody's time to see inside it.

A thing I noticed last time I participated in the DRCA home and garden tour: only one of the ~14 houses I saw was still an original 1920s Sears catalog house. Everything else was just a facade with open plan kitchens and dug out basements.

Save Del Ray? The whole neighborhood was already replaced!

Tired: this radicalized me
Wired: this rooted me

Their wretched behavior makes me want to go from the mild position of "bike lanes sound nice" to the fully radicalized stance of "ban all automobiles" just out of spite.