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Time for my annual rewatch of the objectively best holiday movie
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Time for my annual rewatch of the objectively best holiday movie
Austin, surely we can figure out which bars and hotels are posting the DOGE reunion this weekend.
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Austin, surely we can figure out which bars and hotels are posting the DOGE reunion this weekend.
Folks we have a teenager in the house
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Folks we have a teenager in the house
Some more excerpt slides
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Some more excerpt slides
I sat in on a completely fascinating briefing from the Young Men Research Project yesterday. Excerpt attached, but I highly recommend at least skimming the whole thing www.ymrp.org/polling
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I sat in on a completely fascinating briefing from the Young Men Research Project yesterday. Excerpt attached, but I highly recommend at least skimming the whole thing www.ymrp.org/polling
Unlocked link: archive.is/cjt1c Eyeroll but also maybe a reluctant high five to this type of guy
![It makes her former SEAL Team Six teammate furious.
“It’s f**kin’ bullshit. That’s horse shit,” the former senior enlisted SEAL said.
He voted for and supports Trump, but says he thinks Secretary Hegseth’s personal views are blinding him from retaining obvious talent at the expense of some of the military’s most elite warfighters.
“I think my job is to protect women and children but occasionally there’s badass [women] out there, and we should capitalize and not limit ourselves,” he said.
The Navy special operations source familiar with the matter lamented that one of the captain’s passions had been recruiting women to special operations roles. Now pulling the woman’s command could cut off access for other female servicemembers, the person said.
“It pisses me off because it is clearly someone who is capable and has done extraordinary things and is being punished because of — and I hate that I have to say it this way — weak-ass men,” they said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xhizxbb5x5qox3oule4rudeo/bafkreihev5mh6n2levxildnekge6lhwwb2a6vb2t56e4pi2gnxrl2vxbym@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unlocked link: archive.is/cjt1c Eyeroll but also maybe a reluctant high five to this type of guy
If I had an ego this fragile I would simply never leave the house www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If I had an ego this fragile I would simply never leave the house www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
"Austin isn't weird anymore" they said
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"Austin isn't weird anymore" they said
The Prop Q map I could find lacks nuance (as does any comparison between the proposition and the candidate divide, granted) but no surprises here!
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Prop Q map I could find lacks nuance (as does any comparison between the proposition and the candidate divide, granted) but no surprises here!
Similarly popping off in the groupchat
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Similarly popping off in the groupchat
Update from a friend. I now think "acting earnestly confused toward the national guard" should be a soft protest campaign
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Update from a friend. I now think "acting earnestly confused toward the national guard" should be a soft protest campaign
Very proud of the folks at posterproject.us who have rapidly assembled state-by-state shareable infographics on SNAP. Find yours at the website.
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Very proud of the folks at posterproject.us who have rapidly assembled state-by-state shareable infographics on SNAP. Find yours at the website.
Hike events include an extremely fresh mountain lion kill smack on trail (didn't have glasses on so can't confirm lion), feral hog, coyotes summoning other coyotes to my campsite, and finally some emboldened asshole aiming a rifle at me deliberately. Fuck him but I'll be back 😤
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hike events include an extremely fresh mountain lion kill smack on trail (didn't have glasses on so can't confirm lion), feral hog, coyotes summoning other coyotes to my campsite, and finally some emboldened asshole aiming a rifle at me deliberately. Fuck him but I'll be back 😤
I've been hiking the Arizona trail all week but just bailed back to Flagstaff so I guess I'm going to No Kings Flagstaff today
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I've been hiking the Arizona trail all week but just bailed back to Flagstaff so I guess I'm going to No Kings Flagstaff today
Big international child health funder pulling all funding from US NGOs: ciff.org/news/update-...
October 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Big international child health funder pulling all funding from US NGOs: ciff.org/news/update-...
They're so good. Here are two as babies being mad at me after I went to the completely unnecessary trouble of making them my problem
October 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
They're so good. Here are two as babies being mad at me after I went to the completely unnecessary trouble of making them my problem
For a few months in 2023 I made spaying/neutering the cats at a local dive bar my entire personality. Now they are ON A SHIRT.
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 AM
For a few months in 2023 I made spaying/neutering the cats at a local dive bar my entire personality. Now they are ON A SHIRT.
This week's presidential library reviews: Eisenhower's may have the best grounds. Really lovely, very Kansas. But loses points big time for zero mention of his assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the DRC. I also would have liked more detail on the history of the interstate highway system
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This week's presidential library reviews: Eisenhower's may have the best grounds. Really lovely, very Kansas. But loses points big time for zero mention of his assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the DRC. I also would have liked more detail on the history of the interstate highway system
This tiny roadside mosque in New Mexico could have been copy/pasted straight out of anywhere in the Sahel. Truly threw me for a loop
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This tiny roadside mosque in New Mexico could have been copy/pasted straight out of anywhere in the Sahel. Truly threw me for a loop
At an Ani DiFranco concert in the desert in New Mexico. Someone call the girl police and file a report because I am dead.
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
At an Ani DiFranco concert in the desert in New Mexico. Someone call the girl police and file a report because I am dead.
Good lord, Jake Sullivan needs to stay a stay-at-home dad instead of running whatever this mess is www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
September 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Good lord, Jake Sullivan needs to stay a stay-at-home dad instead of running whatever this mess is www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
I think a lot of folks expected this, but they're gonna make another hard push to cut literally all remaining foreign assistance programming.
August 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think a lot of folks expected this, but they're gonna make another hard push to cut literally all remaining foreign assistance programming.
Rep Lloyd Doggett will be retiring given the new Texas maps. Mixed feelings about this - his office is phenomenal at constituent services, but age 80 is definitely when to call it.
August 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Rep Lloyd Doggett will be retiring given the new Texas maps. Mixed feelings about this - his office is phenomenal at constituent services, but age 80 is definitely when to call it.
@themountaingoats.bsky.social hey from West Texas!
August 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@themountaingoats.bsky.social hey from West Texas!