There's a new book out from NYRB. www.nyrb.com/products/maf...
Proud dad. Loving and perfectly adequate husband. Core http://github.com/square/workflow hacker. Retired!? Former: Distinguished Senior Software Citizen at Square. Instigator at Google. Chief Pedant at Lighthouse Design. https://mastodon.social/@rjrjr
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There's a new book out from NYRB. www.nyrb.com/products/maf...
“Now I’ve shot so many Nazis, Daddy will *have* to buy me a sable coat.” strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/b...
Spoiler-free review.
Saw Angélique Kidjo and Yo Yo Ma last night at The Greek. I had no idea about her track-for-track remake of Remain in Light. Wow wow wow youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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"FOO" by 15 year old Robert Crumb (1958) self published by Robert Crumb and his older brother Charles
Freddy was perfect, we all have underbites.
Farrokh Bulsara as a child, who we would later know as Freddie Mercury.
None of this is official, but there have been NWS bots setup to get weather info, alerts and warnings. nws-bot.us
The Gilded Rage
In a world full of so much misery, you can ALWAYS rely on bollards to make things better. #WorldBollardAssociation
A reader of my blog sent me a Reddit link this morning pointing out that Rick Veitch might very well be providing the original ending to his Swamp Thing run in the next TPB: www.reddit.com/r/AlanMoore/...
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NY Comics Symposium on Tuesday is on the great Michael McMillan and the first collection of his work, Terminal Exposure. McMillan will be joined by Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, and Austin English. 9/2 at 7pm live on Zoom. Email to register. nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
In case you have not been following the years-long 2001 slow-motion bot (every 24th frame per hour), the final sequence just started. https://frames.social/@2001x24/statuses/01K3R3A9BFP4S6MQ8G6E8C8N98
The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
New York Times put the NYT Mini crossword behind a paywall This link will let you bypass the paywall and play for free: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g... I reverse engineered their JS and found the paywall is all client-side. This URL overrides the config flag which enables the paywall
Go Sam, go!
Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry
Just pushed a quick `rv` 0.1.1 release! The response from everyone has been so amazing, it’s restoring a bit of my faith in open source.
We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
Surely that's Edward Gorey. Or his grandfather.
Blue Prince must be fun because I keep playing it even though I just reached door 46 at the same moment I ran out of steps. 🤬🤬🤬
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
🔲 Four Corners was rewritten in Swift—it's the first Swift game in Catalog. Read our interview with the developer to find out how that came about: news.play.date/news/four-co...
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
Karin Gottschalk is your port of call. She works tirelessly to celebrate the work of Robert Krasker, and she has compiled a wonderful resource. robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com
The animation on these is amazing. They came out just a few years after the comic itself. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I posit that a government consisting of one guy with unlimited power is larger in total government volume than a government comprising a large number of people with a little bit of power each. I don't know what the formula looks like exactly but the first one has an infinity in it.
#AllaMingalёva
"...since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks." digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications...
ICYMI: You can now pay for BART with credit or debit cards or with mobile payment like Apple and Google Pay. We talked with riders at SFO on launch day to get their thoughts!
Finally found out what artist makes that sidewalk chalk art at 20th and Irving in #SanFrancisco: Kal Zakzouk. richmondsunsetnews.com/2023/02/07/k... He has a gofundme for legal fees. If you've enjoyed his art and can spare it, maybe toss a few $$ his way. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-kal-s... #StreetArt
The near daily Zoom calls between blue state attorneys general: Fascinating and encouraging.
55 years ago, the Grateful Dead recorded this set for KQED. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, when the Dead came to Albany, my local PBS station would hold a pledge drive and show this video and others. #Deadheads
Momijigari (1899) is believed to be the earliest surviving Japanese film. It was made by Shibata Tsunekichi
'The Stags' by Patricia Piccinini, 2008
I always thought of it as preemptive — I don't have to worry about you revealing where the treasure is if I bury you with it.
The heroic Philly kid who established that you get to keep foul balls. share.inquirer.com/UyGQqy
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Realistically, I have tried straightforward bulk refactors using a coding agent in a large, old codebase and have not found it to be time-saving, or technical debt-reducing. Perhaps with different tools, and in time, it might be possible. (I certainly wanted it to be possible.)
@sal.dev Your cousins are making good! mailchi.mp/gustiamo/a-b...
News flash: margarita recipes are automatically improved with mezcal.
"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"
New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”
Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012).
Today is the birthday of cartoonist George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat. (Aug. 22, 1880-April 25, 1944.)
[This post is trying to sell you something. Feel free to skip!] Hey, Fam, my Doctor Who novella is finally in the world. Available at all good outlets and some bad ones.
Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵
Oh my God. What a saga. Congrats!
Pixel 9 Fold
I've been laid off! (Startup downsizing to a skeleton crew, sadly.) I'm looking for my next dev role. Lots of experience in Android, most recently worked on Node/TS and Python. Ideally landing at a mission-driven place (been focusing on sustainability recently, but any public benefit will do).
Guncho is pretty spectacular on a foldable.
This month's indie dev spotlight is with @arnoldrauers.com of Tinytouchtsles, the mind behind Guncho, Card Crawl and many others. play.google.com/store/apps/e... #googleplay #indie #androiddev #indiegames #interview
Subhead should have addressed the identical increase in cat video viewership.
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I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Pacific Overtures. youtu.be/MQ546PASgHI?...
Small percentages of huge numbers like the US population are huge numbers. We're playing stupid games with the right of millions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.
Today: "For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics...is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations." 🔹️"The AAP is strongly recommending COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 2 years. Shots also... 1/3 www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Seems ironic that Chrome Android easily supports Kagi for integrated search but Safari iOS fights it tooth and nail.
Oh cool! Thanks.
I posted this just hoping that #GhostSigns is an established hashtag. It is!
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
San Francisco #GhostSigns
i refuse to use turbotax & quickbooks because intuit aggressively lobbies to keep taxes complicated to keep themselves in business—but it’s truly a struggle to find good business bookkeeping software. please let me know if you have any recommendations!
When all of this collapses I am going to demand an apology from every single person who told me this man was "super smart"
BART riders will soon be able to pay by tapping a credit card—launching the open payment system at only one operator has drawbacks… www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... @rswansf.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com
Some day.
I can zoom NOW and listen to Maria for 45 min in exchange for a t-shirt!
I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf
Yeah. "Was once." That's right.
All my Chinese friends that told me not to bother riding the Shanghai Maglev were wrong. That thing was awesome! 🤩 You need to understand, my brain is American. I cannot comprehend such transportation infrastructure. 33 tons, flying 3 inches above the ground, at 300 kph? Nonsense! I am shooketh!
WTH? I've been using em-dashes — with spaces around them — since before many of you were born.
You could at least have had the decency to hit your forties. Happy birthday!
Oh no... who could have predicted this... /s
Hell yeah.
Editing is so, so much easier than writing. And more fun.
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
I’ve done this for every single script since Rick & Morty and it’s truly the only sane way to write I’ve found to write - Television, film, comics, whatever!
Erik Satie Composer In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art. Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with “cultural anarchy” and put in jail for 8 days. youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...
I wonder if they're cursing my name yet at Square?
Reinventing Display PostScript would be AMAZING.
Okay, I gotta tell you the woodpecker thing. The science of protective headgear depended on the idea that woodpeckers have tongue that wind around their heads internally, and this protects them from brain injury. The key study was in the Lancet in 1976. Every study referenced that initial 1/
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_Please_ keep posting with your takes. 🍿
ICE is now clean on OPSEC. www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...
@chr.bsky.social should your library be listed at atproto.com/sdks?
Man I love having access to the Roxie.
Does that make @eleanormorton.bsky.social your Moriarity?
I'm a Map Guy because I value how scientists think and I value how specialists in the humanities think. Maps are technical projects that use math and data science and satellites and lasers and theodolites. But they also are semiotics and history and epistemology and language. Both and.
Men's Bathing Department, Bath House, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.. but really.. come on, it's a scene from Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
Not to mention customizable. I'm completely addicted to the Niagara launcher, been a subscriber for years now.
The Critic — Weegee, 1943 Gelatin silver print 10 1/2 × 12 1/2in. (26.7 × 31.8 cm)
Great lox, bagels are too bready. Boychik is the other way: bestest bagels, meh fish. Such a dilemma.
