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you should always watch Casablanca.
it is never a bad idea to watch Casablanca
you will definitely not regret watching Casablanca
it is never a bad idea to watch Casablanca
you will definitely not regret watching Casablanca
ok, i have time, watching CASABLANCA
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 9:27 PM
you should always watch Casablanca.
it is never a bad idea to watch Casablanca
you will definitely not regret watching Casablanca
it is never a bad idea to watch Casablanca
you will definitely not regret watching Casablanca
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of a great poster’s brain than in the near certainty that posters of equal talent have lived and died in the lowbie mines
February 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of a great poster’s brain than in the near certainty that posters of equal talent have lived and died in the lowbie mines
Some questions I ask whenever I see a crayon like this:
Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?
February 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Ive watched this about 100 times.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
February 4, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Ive watched this about 100 times.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
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Recent Danish paper suggests that transit's first-mile/last-mile discourse is overblown.
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 31, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Recent Danish paper suggests that transit's first-mile/last-mile discourse is overblown.
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The best first mile / last mile transit technology even invented is a good sidewalk. That’s how all the world’s successful transit systems work.
Recent Danish paper suggests that transit's first-mile/last-mile discourse is overblown.
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The best first mile / last mile transit technology even invented is a good sidewalk. That’s how all the world’s successful transit systems work.
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"We tend to remember past cultures as they were just before their close. A living culture is never too sharply defined. Its form is not fixed; its face shifts with mood and circumstance. The expression fixed on a death mask does not alter."
35 Theses on the WASPs
On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
scholarstage.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
"We tend to remember past cultures as they were just before their close. A living culture is never too sharply defined. Its form is not fixed; its face shifts with mood and circumstance. The expression fixed on a death mask does not alter."
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the Stone Roses' "Drivin' South" can be improved mightily by singing "driving home for christmas" instead of "drivin' south round midnight"
December 19, 2024 at 11:07 AM
the Stone Roses' "Drivin' South" can be improved mightily by singing "driving home for christmas" instead of "drivin' south round midnight"
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This is not a place of honor
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Fa la la la la, la la la la
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is not a place of honor
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Fa la la la la, la la la la
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Me every time I look at features another product team shipped
These Amateurs Did What?! 10
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Me every time I look at features another product team shipped
I'm hoping over the long term Boolean commands are lindy and endure despite the vagaries of the sites today that don't respect them
one of the minor frustrations of the 2020s internet is how many sites now don't respect boolean commands in search, like they'd rather give you a bunch of unrelated content to sift through than turn up only a handful of results
October 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'm hoping over the long term Boolean commands are lindy and endure despite the vagaries of the sites today that don't respect them
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one of the minor frustrations of the 2020s internet is how many sites now don't respect boolean commands in search, like they'd rather give you a bunch of unrelated content to sift through than turn up only a handful of results
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
one of the minor frustrations of the 2020s internet is how many sites now don't respect boolean commands in search, like they'd rather give you a bunch of unrelated content to sift through than turn up only a handful of results
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They moved a historic house in downtown Erie today from one street to another, and the timelapse from Erie News is so cool. Despite rain, it took about seven hours.
September 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
They moved a historic house in downtown Erie today from one street to another, and the timelapse from Erie News is so cool. Despite rain, it took about seven hours.
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Ironies, ranked
1. Late deathrow pardon
2. Plane crash guy
3. Free ride when you already paid
3. Ten thousand spoons in lieu of knife
4. Black fly in chardonnay
5. Dying after lottery winning (ranked down bc age)
6. Rain on your wedding day
7. Good advice you didn't take
8. Meeting hot married guy
1. Late deathrow pardon
2. Plane crash guy
3. Free ride when you already paid
3. Ten thousand spoons in lieu of knife
4. Black fly in chardonnay
5. Dying after lottery winning (ranked down bc age)
6. Rain on your wedding day
7. Good advice you didn't take
8. Meeting hot married guy
July 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ironies, ranked
1. Late deathrow pardon
2. Plane crash guy
3. Free ride when you already paid
3. Ten thousand spoons in lieu of knife
4. Black fly in chardonnay
5. Dying after lottery winning (ranked down bc age)
6. Rain on your wedding day
7. Good advice you didn't take
8. Meeting hot married guy
1. Late deathrow pardon
2. Plane crash guy
3. Free ride when you already paid
3. Ten thousand spoons in lieu of knife
4. Black fly in chardonnay
5. Dying after lottery winning (ranked down bc age)
6. Rain on your wedding day
7. Good advice you didn't take
8. Meeting hot married guy
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Threat actors should be named after real actors. Yeah sorry you got hacked by Leonardo Dicaprio.
They're a government-aligned group in Vietnam.
They're a government-aligned group in Vietnam.
July 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Threat actors should be named after real actors. Yeah sorry you got hacked by Leonardo Dicaprio.
They're a government-aligned group in Vietnam.
They're a government-aligned group in Vietnam.
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The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
July 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
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"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."
July 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."
I went to SV to give a VC my CV in VS
May 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I went to SV to give a VC my CV in VS
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yes and no; for example the bread used in Subway sandwiches caused them a bit of regulatory trouble in Ireland because it had so much sugar content that legally it ought to have been classified as cake.
Americans really do grossly underestimate what a difference “walking everywhere” makes when they travel
like yeah the walking is the reason you lost weight while eating bread in Italy, it’s not because Italian bread is imbued with magical nonna sprinkles that give it fewer calories
like yeah the walking is the reason you lost weight while eating bread in Italy, it’s not because Italian bread is imbued with magical nonna sprinkles that give it fewer calories
April 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
yes and no; for example the bread used in Subway sandwiches caused them a bit of regulatory trouble in Ireland because it had so much sugar content that legally it ought to have been classified as cake.
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May the spirit of Roger Williams be midwife to the birth of the Rhode Island Autonomous Zone
April 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
May the spirit of Roger Williams be midwife to the birth of the Rhode Island Autonomous Zone
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OK, but when do we get an cringe-comedy anthology series based on Am I The Asshole?
Sydney Sweeney to star & produce thriller ‘I PRETENDED TO BE A MISSING GIRL’ at Warner Bros.
Based on a Reddit short story that follows a drifter who impersonates a missing girl to rob a family, only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.
Based on a Reddit short story that follows a drifter who impersonates a missing girl to rob a family, only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.
March 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
OK, but when do we get an cringe-comedy anthology series based on Am I The Asshole?
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I found the only Twitter post I ever made that was good so I’m reposting it here
February 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I found the only Twitter post I ever made that was good so I’m reposting it here
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spotted on Facebook
February 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
spotted on Facebook