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Posting xkcd.com/1357/ here so I can pin it

My wife is an elections staffer for early voting, and she's pointed out that evenings and weekends are paradoxically light. When she's asked folks why they're there during work hours, they say because they've guessed that non-work hours would be too busy. It's Saturday. Go vote!

Hey, anyone wanna guess which part of the central Dallas area still technically has deed restrictions requiring that property in the area "shall be used for residence purposes only, and by white persons only, not excluding bona fide servants of any race"

I do appreciate that someone went through the neighborhood and put flyers on everyone's doors to let them know that early voting had started. I am baffled, though, that they'd walk up to our lot, past the eight (8) political candidate signs in the front yard, and think we needed reminding.

"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

Psychology has a term for a person who lacks empathy, and I encourage you to look it up. "Psychopath." The clinical word for the people in the green bars below is "psychopath."

Niche webdev nerd thing, but this is super cool and something I've wanted for years: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-use...

Happy Global Encryption Day to all who value their privacy and security. I'll keep fighting to protect and push for adoption of strong encryption to keep us all safe.

Have you voted yet?

Okay, look, I know it’s been a tough day in opsec for everyone, but those of you who had the double serving need to check a calendar and realize that it’s 2026, meaning there have been better choices than PHP for 31 years now.

Blue county turnout vs red county turnout — the absolute numbers aren’t comparable, but the 29% increase vs the 1% increase feels meaningful.

First day of voting in Texas has concluded. Over a quarter million people have voted; 48% of them voted in the Democratic primary, and 28% voted in the Republican primary. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s not a bad sign either. theoelections.com/early-vote

I have come into an embarrassment of riches and need help figuring out how I can possibly spend all this money. Ideas welcome

renaming british columbia to canadian canada

Okay, Texas, early voting starts today. Let's not fuck this up.

The HBO show Silicon Valley made jokes about how long it had been since Tesla started taking orders for the Roadster 2 without yet delivering one. The show wrapped in 2019.

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

I got to know Rich when Ritual and Rogue made mission packs for Quake 2 and I got to work with him directly at Ritual for a few years. He was a guy who cared genuinely about passing down his knowledge to others and helping devs in their careers. His influence is immeasurable and he will be missed!

We give the NYT a lot of grief for the harm they’ve done to public discourse by normalizing clearly psychotic behavior, so it’s only fair that we point out where they do actually get it right. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

The best way to break this biased system isn't to lean into it, it's to make people stop and listen to the actual meaning or consequences of political rhetoric. If they're listening carefully instead of reacting to a vector, they don't get fooled as easily.

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

Look, I know I say unkind things about James Carville whenever he comes up, but in the interest of being fair: on one hand, he *has* made a large number of races actually competitive for the Democrats; on the other, these were races that would have otherwise been landslides for them.

hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this

I wonder how much good it will do: my wife is a voter registrar and has spent pretty much all of the past week going to events to get folks registered. Today, she checked the registration of a man who had voted in the primaries, and he’d been removed for “inactivity.” His surname? Yeah, Hispanic.

“Alexa, how many Resident Evil games are there?” “I know about seventy-two Resident Evil video games.”

I cannot believe that the person who brought the concept of written language to Wales managed to prank an entire nation so completely and thoroughly.

TEXAS PEOPLE — if you haven’t checked your voter registration, you have ONLY FOUR DAYS before it’s too late to register to vote in the midterms. There’s a lot of voter suppression shenanigans going on, so don’t assume anything; go check: www.texas.gov/living-in-te...

HOLY SHIT MAKE IT STOP

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

I don’t know how people can watch these repeated incidents of flat out lawlessness and also question the level of general support for a military coup. The judiciary has completely forfeited its duties, so what check is left?

The "state" that made this "error" is run by Greg Abbott and Republicans

I think one of the most underappreciated bits of accidental absurdist humor is the refrain of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night," which goes as follows: "I turn to her and say: <26 seconds of enthusiastic unintelligible gibberish>"

We should improve society somewhat, you fuckers.

Well, well, well. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Pedro Pascal's lesser known sibling, Turbo,

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

No clue what happened here

Having had the misfortune of watching Paxton for a very long time, I can virtually guarantee this is part of a scheme to launder campaign contributions into his own personal accounts and I’m not even kidding.

There’s some confusing terminology going on: some folks are using “reasoning” to mean “taking a set of input facts, applying an arbitrarily complex set of lemmas, and deriving a set of output facts,” while some are using it to mean “that plus has a soul” and one just feels more intellectually honest

QED, internet stranger. QE fucking D.

Part of my normal bike route, nearly a mile of Houston street through downtown Dallas looks like some Cyberpunk 2077 police-state hellscape as they set up for the Trumpaloosa next week.

And the most astonishing thing is how recent this all is: DURING MY LIFETIME, there was a period where banks refused to issue credit cards to women. Solely one rhe basis of gender, they simply refused to even consider it.

Magnetically attached cameras are a wonderful idea until they aren’t.