It is absolutely fucking wild that the future of a fundamental constitutional freedom hinges on what some guy said on a podcast.

Replace caring about politics with caring about fantasy football. It’s a lot more fun and just as important to the future of our country.

It also strikes me that the Cracker Barrel logo has always featured both a cracker and a barrel. Sometimes a literal design is the best course.

Further proof that “woke” and “DEI” just mean “something I don’t like”: the new Cracker Barrel logo.

Athlete brand logos are some of the worst design on the planet. You can’t cram two initials, your number, and whatever nickname or aesthetic into a mark and it not just be hilariously bad.

It’s always fun to see what kind of shit they force out. The Caitlin Clark logo is perfectly fine.

My favorite is when the Wordle bot lets me know that guessing the answer would have been more efficient.

I think the American Story from here on out will be that Republican administrations enjoy unlimited executive power while Democratic administrations are constantly crippled by checks and balances.

Backing your car in is prime snowflake behavior.

Where did this epidemic of extremely special drivers come from?

Struggling to care about politics.

This is all from like a 52% majority. The rest of them are supposed to be defending us from this shit. But there has been no meaningful response.

Which leads me to believe that this is either all fundraising hysteria or that no one was ever intending to help.

I’m also convinced that Apple’s entire business focus at this point is growing the size of iOS so you’ll have to upgrade your perfectly good phone.

Sent from an iPhone 11 that’s still hanging on for now.

I’m convinced that AI is just a smokescreen for raising subscription prices.

I generally think that the paths to financial success at this point are only available through financial manipulation that don’t add anything of value and don’t even amount to work a lot of the time.

I paid off my house today.

I feel incredibly proud, relieved, and like I’ve escaped just in time.

But also a bit sad that I’m maybe in the last generation that will get to experience this through long, deliberate work and not financial scheming or generational wealth.

I kindof love the Harbor Freight and Amazonification of tools and electronics. American corporations shipped all their manufacturing overseas and now you can buy their stuff without involving them at all.

I’m about to get so into shorts.

#itisveryhotoutside

The protests just seem sad to me. We did bigger and better eight years ago and what exactly did that accomplish?

You have a leader who can’t be re-elected and doesn’t care about public opinion.

And 500-something people who could stop most of it at any time.

There’s a recent song exploder podcast on him that’s pretty interesting.

I find it impossible now to find reliable content through search. Top results all appear to be bot posts.

I think that’s why I gravitate towards YouTube and IG. For all their flaws, you can see there is a human on the other end of the line.

My life has benefitted tremendously from living through its Wild West phase. I can fix my dryer now. I have a basic understanding of personal economics. I can find a decent pair of shoes.

I can find other humans trying to provide hard-won info to help other humans through this life.

My tech job is increasingly leaning toward an AI-driven experience, and it’s a real bummer to witness the internet’s destruction from the driver’s seat. Design is fundamentally about empathy and the web’s underlying promise is allowing humans to share info and experiences about this life on earth.

I wish the FTC would address truth in advertising claims of Mac OS updates.

“15 minutes remaining” was an hour and a half ago, Tim Apple.

Also paying $45bn and then walking in with a sink so you can tweet “let that sink in” is a saddest thing I have ever seen.

I thought “for sale: baby shoes, never worn” was the most succinct that sadness could be, but Elon did it in 4 words instead of 6.

Elon lost $10 million a day after purchasing Twitter.

@epmcool.bsky.social show note about not paying taxes: it’s important to note who can and who cannot actually do this. People who pay quaterlies—business owners, entrepreneurs, contractors—can protest pretty easily. Wage workers effectively cannot.

Whatever blue raspberry is, it’s my favorite fruit.

It sucks that the current business model is to make something fun and useful that’s objectively better and then in 4-5 years turn it into something terrible.

@sleepernfl.bsky.social

I also realize that the real goal is crippling the Federal government, so it’s a win-win for Elmo.

I’ve worked in a few situations where an outside consultant who purports to know more about your job than you comes in and makes everyone prove their value.

It has never improved our output or efficiency and has ended catastrophically each time.

And both of these have the benefit of being incredibly impactful to humans on an individual level.

Similarly, public education ensures that those with economic assets and others who value stability don’t have to live in an environment full of desperate, unsocialized people with no ability to provide for themselves, whose likely easiest path is theft and violence.