I’m worried about this 300 reboot, kids.
This is a deeply disturbed individual.
— Ron Filipkowski ([@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social](http://ronfilipkowski.bsky.social)) January 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔗 More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta When your standard is post-Elon Twitter, you’re doing it wrong. Read more…
🔗 More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
“We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see.”
Fewer mistakes? Maybe. More Nazis? Definitely. Read more…
🔗 ‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6 Not super stoked that they co-opted one of the most memorable scenes from Top Gun for the headline but this is otherwise a solid read. Read more…
🔗 NYT hasn’t gotten the memo to bend the knee. Some days, journalism, you don’t suck.
The Jan. 6 tale that Mr. Trump tells is its own kind of replacement theory, one that covers over the marble-hard facts the way a blue carpet will cover those tainted Capitol steps on Inauguration Day.
Today’s 1000 words:
Four years ago today - Their Führer is going to pardon them all in a couple of weeks.
Not all heroes wear capes.
I thought "Good Thing," by the Fine Young Cannibals, was actually "Fruitcake." The song goes "Good Thing, where have you gone?" And I thought it was "Fruitcake! What have you done?" Okay. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
— Stephen King ([@stephenking.bsky.social](http://stephenking.bsky.social)) January 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finished reading: Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen 📚 No one has made me care so much about Florida as Hiaasen over the years and this was just as enjoyable as his other works.
Currently reading: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo 📚Re-reading all the Hole novels, since I’m struggling to find anything new to keep me entertained. Still, I’d forgotten most of these books, so not exactly bored with this plan.
This would make an amazing SNL sketch and I give it a week before he’s selling club jackets.
Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History.
Tell me you got picked last for kickball without telling me you got picked last for kickball.
Looks like the ride might be coming to an end sooner than we’d hoped over in Trumpland. When your brand is reactionary, once you get your way, the infighting will commence.
I’m agreeing with Ann Coulter about something and I don’t like how that feels.
The times we live in: critics of Elon Musk are getting de-verified on X and at the same time are just garbage people: Preston here opened with a shot at Musk’s neurodiversity and this is my disappointed-not-surprised face.
It’s been a while since I’d written anything that inspired the kind of vitriol this did. Might retool it since it was kind of a one-off and some issues raised seem worth re-examining. dansmock.medium.com/israel-ub…
Hardest part (in this moment, anyway) about learning later in life that I’m on the spectrum is the realization that accommodation is a part of my life now. Helpful, just not always liberating. smock.blog/2024/12/2…
Out walking this morning and because pre-dawn rocking the Noxgear and got a “Merry Christmas. That’s pretty cool” and I of course said “Merry Christmas…thanks” and now I’m worried my neighbors see me as THAT guy who’s way into Christmas well past the point at which that’s appropriate.
Airpark. Fog advisory.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
Instead of my usual “Just Google it” I opted to explain “pixelated bukkake” in a group setting so thank you Cards Against Humanity for the Best Christmas Ever.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
The closest thing to angel’s trumpets this morning were the joints reminding me that yes I’m of that age where yard work needs a recovery day.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
As close as I’ll get to a Christmas post today:
This is the guy who was born today.
In the movies the nerds were always the good guys, the underdogs who took on the establishment and showed everyone it was OK to be nerdy. What we’re learning from Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos is that if you give anyone enough money, they’ll shove the rest of us right into the locker.
I suspect I’m going to be doing more longer things like this one I did right after the election that apparently upset at least one uncle based on his FB post in response.
Still figuring out what I’m doing webwise, but I’ve tinkered with fiction over the years, and in case you’re wondering what that can look like, here’s something I wrote about the guy Jesus took His sweet time raising from the dead.
> I have passed by the watchman on his beat > > And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
It’s from one of my favorite Robert Frost poems, and sums up perfectly walking alone at night in a place without sidewalks or streetlamps, my only purpose to outrun the day behind me. And I don’t care to explain that to passersby. I owe them nothing, but still, that obligation tugs, sometimes gently, informing me of the terms of a contract I never reviewed, never signed, and want desperately to see revised.
First heard this from Dan John: Solvitur ambulando, or “it is solved by walking”, and doing a couple miles after arguing with gravity and kettlebells does wonders for my mood going into the morning.
Went down a bit of a rabbit hole after learning that the same people that brought you Sea Monkees also sold stuffed girl’s heads for $2.98 and that some version of that featured in an Animals TV appearance singing “It’s My Life” and how few people mention that in the comments. h/t Dangerous Minds
“If you want to have horrible teeth, take a lot of fentanyl.” – Technically, he’s not wrong, but…
This Apprentice reboot is wild. How long before Musk tells him he’s fired?
Ben sounds fun. www.linkedin.com/feed/upda…