Michael Engard
@engard.me
Writer and web developer. Rochester, NY. Of late: WordPress, TTRPGs, the open web. You may never read my book but at least I’m writing it.
I read the piece and I was not prepared for them finding the guy who invented three-cueing in the 1960s and discovering that he's 1) still alive, 2) still publishing and 3) still rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I read the piece and I was not prepared for them finding the guy who invented three-cueing in the 1960s and discovering that he's 1) still alive, 2) still publishing and 3) still rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus.
Jesus, dude. I hope you never have a partner who tells you they struggled with their identity or mental health in the past, if this is the kind of empathy they can expect.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Jesus, dude. I hope you never have a partner who tells you they struggled with their identity or mental health in the past, if this is the kind of empathy they can expect.
Congratulations and holy fuck (a felicitation for our Interesting Times)!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Congratulations and holy fuck (a felicitation for our Interesting Times)!!
Good gracious, I'm so white I could get a sunburn in a mineshaft and even I know that's not how you would ever parse those four words grammatically.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Good gracious, I'm so white I could get a sunburn in a mineshaft and even I know that's not how you would ever parse those four words grammatically.
*I* have core principles and beliefs. I'm saying that politicians running for office should try to avoid such things.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
But you don’t attribute any amount of that change to the people who, 24 months earlier, you would have accused of endangering Americans’ wellbeing by advocating too forcefully against the war?
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
But you don’t attribute any amount of that change to the people who, 24 months earlier, you would have accused of endangering Americans’ wellbeing by advocating too forcefully against the war?
In order words, when you say leftists were right on Iraq, do you just mean that their position turned out to be the most electorally popular on a long enough timeline? (As it certainly wasn’t yet in 2004!) Is there a point in time when you would say that position *became* right?
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In order words, when you say leftists were right on Iraq, do you just mean that their position turned out to be the most electorally popular on a long enough timeline? (As it certainly wasn’t yet in 2004!) Is there a point in time when you would say that position *became* right?
How do you identify “getting it right” as distinct from “politically popular or successful”?
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How do you identify “getting it right” as distinct from “politically popular or successful”?
I fear the mechanism would have been a threat to his luxuriant handlebar mustache.
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I fear the mechanism would have been a threat to his luxuriant handlebar mustache.
I believe this is a major reason why I’m still working at my agency, while the man who complained about being assigned a cube in the middle of the floor because he couldn’t defend the females from violent intruders was let go.
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I believe this is a major reason why I’m still working at my agency, while the man who complained about being assigned a cube in the middle of the floor because he couldn’t defend the females from violent intruders was let go.
As Napoleon said, when your enemy is making a mistake, try doing exactly the same thing a year later.
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As Napoleon said, when your enemy is making a mistake, try doing exactly the same thing a year later.
While this is easy to believe, there does not appear to be any legitimate source for this story.
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
While this is easy to believe, there does not appear to be any legitimate source for this story.
IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
- Nothing bad can happen
- It can only good happen
- Nothing bad can happen
- It can only good happen
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
- Nothing bad can happen
- It can only good happen
- Nothing bad can happen
- It can only good happen
Was it? That honestly didn’t occur to me.
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Was it? That honestly didn’t occur to me.
Obvious shades of Obama in Mamdani, in that he’s so consummately charming and immaculately professional that the bigots have to openly scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with literally anything against him.
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Obvious shades of Obama in Mamdani, in that he’s so consummately charming and immaculately professional that the bigots have to openly scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with literally anything against him.
Reposted by Michael Engard
Non-zero chance that Trump has asked his staff how he can get on the ballot in 2026.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Non-zero chance that Trump has asked his staff how he can get on the ballot in 2026.
Non-zero chance that Trump has asked his staff how he can get on the ballot in 2026.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Non-zero chance that Trump has asked his staff how he can get on the ballot in 2026.
What I want to see now more than anything is 435+33 midterm congressional candidates trying to harness the energy they just witnessed. Hope and change for real.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
What I want to see now more than anything is 435+33 midterm congressional candidates trying to harness the energy they just witnessed. Hope and change for real.