English has too many words. Trump is just innovating when he combines adopt and adapt into a singly word with multiple meanings.
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
English has too many words. Trump is just innovating when he combines adopt and adapt into a singly word with multiple meanings.
I know most people like sitcoms that "make sense" with plotlines that resolve cleanly and characters who are likeable, but for anyone else, I'd recommend A.P. Bio which is probably the weirdest show to get 4 seasons from a network (though 2 were on Peacock).
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I know most people like sitcoms that "make sense" with plotlines that resolve cleanly and characters who are likeable, but for anyone else, I'd recommend A.P. Bio which is probably the weirdest show to get 4 seasons from a network (though 2 were on Peacock).
Narrator: This is not, in fact, science.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Narrator: This is not, in fact, science.
He actually invoked the Laffer Curve which was a a joke all the way back in 1986 when Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released.
Also, a big tell that he's lying is when he says incomes are up even though it's November and most salaried folk haven't gotten new annual reviews since Trump took office.
Also, a big tell that he's lying is when he says incomes are up even though it's November and most salaried folk haven't gotten new annual reviews since Trump took office.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
He actually invoked the Laffer Curve which was a a joke all the way back in 1986 when Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released.
Also, a big tell that he's lying is when he says incomes are up even though it's November and most salaried folk haven't gotten new annual reviews since Trump took office.
Also, a big tell that he's lying is when he says incomes are up even though it's November and most salaried folk haven't gotten new annual reviews since Trump took office.
I'll take any excuse to share this photo I took of a photo of Michael Shannon at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm in 2016.
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'll take any excuse to share this photo I took of a photo of Michael Shannon at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm in 2016.
This weekend my wife, who is a public school teacher, asked me for the 18th straight year if I have Veterans Day off from work and for the 18th straight year I told her that I most people work on Veterans Day.
We will be having this same conversation for MLK Day and Presidents Day.
We will be having this same conversation for MLK Day and Presidents Day.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This weekend my wife, who is a public school teacher, asked me for the 18th straight year if I have Veterans Day off from work and for the 18th straight year I told her that I most people work on Veterans Day.
We will be having this same conversation for MLK Day and Presidents Day.
We will be having this same conversation for MLK Day and Presidents Day.
Guess those vaccines weren't placebos.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Guess those vaccines weren't placebos.
@hotdogsladies.bsky.social enjoyed the denominator talk on Do by Friday this week. You may be interested in Base Rate Fallacy.
For what it's worth, looks like final numbers on Prop 50 will be over 10 million voters vs 10.7-10.8 for 2022 & 2018. 2024 was 15.3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
For what it's worth, looks like final numbers on Prop 50 will be over 10 million voters vs 10.7-10.8 for 2022 & 2018. 2024 was 15.3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
Base rate fallacy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@hotdogsladies.bsky.social enjoyed the denominator talk on Do by Friday this week. You may be interested in Base Rate Fallacy.
For what it's worth, looks like final numbers on Prop 50 will be over 10 million voters vs 10.7-10.8 for 2022 & 2018. 2024 was 15.3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
For what it's worth, looks like final numbers on Prop 50 will be over 10 million voters vs 10.7-10.8 for 2022 & 2018. 2024 was 15.3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
I'd like @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social or someone to weigh in, but Hegseth's speaking cadence reads very "evangelical pastor who maybe didn't graduate from seminary" to me.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'd like @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social or someone to weigh in, but Hegseth's speaking cadence reads very "evangelical pastor who maybe didn't graduate from seminary" to me.
Watching "Jaws" for the first time since I entered my 40s and I cannot believe Roy Schneider was 41 when he filmed it.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Watching "Jaws" for the first time since I entered my 40s and I cannot believe Roy Schneider was 41 when he filmed it.
I'm off two minds about this video. On the one hand, as an American I condemn this blatant use of Christian scripture in government communication, but on the other as a Christian I condemn this as a blatant misapplication of the Lord's Prayer.
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
November 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm off two minds about this video. On the one hand, as an American I condemn this blatant use of Christian scripture in government communication, but on the other as a Christian I condemn this as a blatant misapplication of the Lord's Prayer.
Almost 3 weeks since my ankle exploded after stepping on a pinecone, I finally did a decent trail run/hike. Only had 1 mountain biker almost run me over.
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Almost 3 weeks since my ankle exploded after stepping on a pinecone, I finally did a decent trail run/hike. Only had 1 mountain biker almost run me over.
Costume idea for next year that anyone can use: Oscar Isaac on the set of Inside Lleweyn Davis.
Note that this is not the character Lleweyn Davis, but the actor Oscar Isaac in costume as Lleweyn Davis – which you can tell because he's holding a stuffed cat that is a stand-in for the actual cat.
Note that this is not the character Lleweyn Davis, but the actor Oscar Isaac in costume as Lleweyn Davis – which you can tell because he's holding a stuffed cat that is a stand-in for the actual cat.
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Costume idea for next year that anyone can use: Oscar Isaac on the set of Inside Lleweyn Davis.
Note that this is not the character Lleweyn Davis, but the actor Oscar Isaac in costume as Lleweyn Davis – which you can tell because he's holding a stuffed cat that is a stand-in for the actual cat.
Note that this is not the character Lleweyn Davis, but the actor Oscar Isaac in costume as Lleweyn Davis – which you can tell because he's holding a stuffed cat that is a stand-in for the actual cat.
We always give out full-sized candy bars on Halloween because we don't get that many trick or treaters and my wife always wanted to be one of the houses with the big candies, but this year my teen also wanted to give out ramen packets. I thought nobody would take them, but some kids are just weird.
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We always give out full-sized candy bars on Halloween because we don't get that many trick or treaters and my wife always wanted to be one of the houses with the big candies, but this year my teen also wanted to give out ramen packets. I thought nobody would take them, but some kids are just weird.
I am once again asking people to understand that the religious left exists. The right-wingers running the government do not encompass the entirety of American religiosity, let alone American Christianity.
So I have a question. Are there any people out there who actually have a strong RELIGIOUS objection to all the stuff ICE is doing now? Not a philosophical one or a moral one, but something akin to the "deeply held religious beliefs" cited to avoid making cakes or websites.
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am once again asking people to understand that the religious left exists. The right-wingers running the government do not encompass the entirety of American religiosity, let alone American Christianity.
Probably unrelated that he's Gen X and they've proven to have moved much further to the right than millennials despite their youthful posture of hating their conservative parents.
CNN’s Jake Tapper says Gen Z will be ‘a lot more conservative’ after schools forced lefty politics ‘down their throats’
CNN’s Jake Tapper says Gen Z will be ‘a lot more conservative’ after schools forced lefty politics ‘down their throats’
The lefty host of "The Lead with Jake Tapper" warned that Democrats are failing to win over Americans aged about 13 to 28.
nypost.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Probably unrelated that he's Gen X and they've proven to have moved much further to the right than millennials despite their youthful posture of hating their conservative parents.
On the long lists of "things that haven't been around as long as you thought" and "things that came out of military research," the concept of layering clothing is one of the most surprising on both lists.
The next chapter of GEAR is out today.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The military invented layering. That's right. LAYERING
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The military invented layering. That's right. LAYERING
Gear: Chapter 2
The field jacket
substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On the long lists of "things that haven't been around as long as you thought" and "things that came out of military research," the concept of layering clothing is one of the most surprising on both lists.
The data manipulation will continue until the p-value improves.
RFK Jr: "The causative association between Tylenol given in pregnancy in the paranatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism. But it is very suggestive."
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The data manipulation will continue until the p-value improves.
Not a Halloween costume. Just a shirt my wife thought I would like.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Not a Halloween costume. Just a shirt my wife thought I would like.
Saw some teens on e-bikes today and realized that I never would have had to run home and back to retrieve track spikes that one time in 10th grade because I would have had an e-bike instead of getting a ride every day from a friend who had class at 7 when I didn't start until 8.
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Saw some teens on e-bikes today and realized that I never would have had to run home and back to retrieve track spikes that one time in 10th grade because I would have had an e-bike instead of getting a ride every day from a friend who had class at 7 when I didn't start until 8.
I'm not sure Sony wants their intellectual property used like this.
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm not sure Sony wants their intellectual property used like this.
Every Chotiner interviewee after they thought they'd be the one outsmart his wily method of "asking straightforward questions and following up."
a man with a beard is saying he can 't keep getting away with it !
ALT: a man with a beard is saying he can 't keep getting away with it !
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Every Chotiner interviewee after they thought they'd be the one outsmart his wily method of "asking straightforward questions and following up."
Of *all* time?
"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Of *all* time?
"Dancing Queen" by Abba came on during the Trunk or Treat event at my wife's school last night so now I'm watching the Halloween episodes of Community.
youtu.be/-GaeTTeV-e0
youtu.be/-GaeTTeV-e0
Zombie Attack! - Community
YouTube video by Community
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Dancing Queen" by Abba came on during the Trunk or Treat event at my wife's school last night so now I'm watching the Halloween episodes of Community.
youtu.be/-GaeTTeV-e0
youtu.be/-GaeTTeV-e0