There’s a war on. Gas prices are rising. The means the war is bad, you see. The fact that the common sense wisdom of how wise or useful or necessary wars are is contingent on the price of crude oil is embarrassing and insulting. Instead of judging on if the costs of the war itself, the lives lost, the territory damaged, the global leadership lost, we judge it based on one metric: the world’s everlasting thirst for one natural resource. Wars should have aims. I almost never think a war’s aims (even if they are in fact...
Continue reading...Worst past the post
So the Bluesky candidate narrowly lost their primary election yesterday to a normal candidate and honestly I seriously don’t give a fuck. Let the local populace choose their party’s nominee and leave me out of it. I don’t give a shit about congressional primaries. There’s still a ton of attention online because they were the super online candidate, so good luck avoiding it. That said, I have to note something, because this is a blog and noting something is what we do. With 35,642 out of 121,354 votes in as this blog post publishes, the eventual nominee...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: It’s A Beautiful Life by Francis of Delirium
Oops, missed last week — sorry about that. Here’s a new one from Francis of Delirium off their upcoming record, Run, Run Pure Beauty coming May 29.
Continue reading...Till the End of the Day — Friday, 6 March 2026
I know we said we would do less link-blogging, but we didn’t say we would do no link-blogging. We used to do the Morning Constitutional, which was a daily roundup of news stories we found important/interesting, and Till the End of the Day (yes, this is a Kinks reference), which was more a dump of things we found during the day that we thought were cool. We bagged the Morning Constitutional for the return of the blog partially because it was a ton of work, but mostly because all the news now is behind paywalls, and that’s...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Maybe Not Tonight by Lime Garden
A day late because the scheduler broke. Anyways, just a pretty good song.
Continue reading...The Postal Service (not the band)
I went to the post office today. No, this isn’t the beginning of some Bukowski book, it’s just a thing I did. I had the day off, so I could actually get to the post office to send out some things that needed to be sent when one isn’t actually at work during the Postal Service business hours. I love the Postal Service, but as much as I hate to say it, damn is the post office a goddamned depressing place. Like, what if you took the classic stereotypical 1980s DMV and made it worse. It’s counterfactual:...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: hollyweird by aja monet
This week a cool one from aja monet. Here’s her writing about the song.
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Penny in the Lake by Ratboys
Today’s is from Ratboys, from their new record Singin’ to an Empty Chair.
Continue reading...Towards a smarter home, part 7: Pulling the thread
A happier one this time. In the early but far-too-recent Wild West days of the smart home, manufacturers used a wide variety of protocols and platforms, most of which were proprietary, and largely none of which were inter-operational. As time moved on, the devices landed on being at least minimally operational with the bigger platforms that arose: Amazon, Google, and, to a much lesser extent, Apple. Some required Internet service, some required a (proprietary of course) hub, while a few allowed local control absent an external device or phone home. Meanwhile, a few standard protocols started being...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: All the People by Chinese American Bear
This week’s song is brought to you because it has puppets. It’s from Chinese America Bear’s upcoming album “Dim Sum & Then Some,” due out May 8, 2026.
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