Reminder that clicking the lock button on an iPhone five times forces you to use the PIN to unlock. Disables biometric authentication.

What’s the term for a win-win situation but it’s mutual exploitation?

There are modes of being Very Online that are still far better and healthier for a physically limited person than simply sitting alone in an empty house.

But there are clearly many that are even worse.

That’s so sweet, I want to read her book now.

I should write a book.

“Boba” Fett is obviously kiki.

What did George Lucas mean by this????

Calvin and hobbes playing in the snow comic

This is particularly important to remember when what you are attending to is not paperwork, but horrors on your phone.

Your kids always need you more than the internet does.

It’s equal parts embarrassing and gratifying on the occasions we’re sitting in a waiting room or killing some time between activities and I realize my kids are better at quietly entertaining themselves than I am (because I’m on my phone).

It's funny that "filming" is even more anachronistic than "videotaping" but feels less.

"An only child, [Honor] Frost was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She was orphaned at an early age and became the ward of Wilfred Evill, a London solicitor and art collector."

if a Gothic novel had these names and backstory, I would complain about it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_F...

I once tried to take a screenshot of my phone getting purple screen bleed from damage to the LCD.

🫤

One of the most incredible places I’ve ever visited.

Yeah that hit the spot.

Hezbollah operatives raised likely millions via interstate cigarette smuggling in the 90s. Imagine the opportunity when you have similar price differentials on ordinary goods, and no specific agency or regulation tracking their provenance.

CBP gonna have their hands full.

You seem to assume each person can only hold one of these positions, which is not my observation.

Yeah things are going to get real interesting when the cascade of realization that that’s never going to happen kicks off in earnest.

Well now I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow.

Yes, this is the thing, I can certainly model a person who believes tariffs are a useful tool for incentivizing trade patterns to achieve particular desired outcomes. I might even agree in certain limited dimensions. This is not the behavior of such a person!

Immortan Joe saying "Do not my friends, become addicted to the Economy! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"

This post makes me irrationally angry.

I am also 41, and I simply cannot accept that I was only 36 just five years ago.

The Minnesota Zoo was designed (originally for budget reasons?) to primarily feature animals from similar climate zones, so they’re mostly in large outdoor enclosures year-round. You can watch tigers playing in the snow 🥰

Abolish April Fool’s day. Society has moved past the need for April Fool’s day

(An extremely delicious infohazard)

Made a goose egg flan and learning how easy that is might prove to have been an infohazard.

Wild, they stop when you stare right at one, but at a glance they’re all moving.

most people's conception of solarpunk is based on a yogurt commercial

Looking forward to discourse that’s about something other than bsky. One of these days it has to happen.