R.E. 2026

Starting an thread of reoccurring thoughts and observations, if only to appease my inner curmudgeon.

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Perfect example of the media landscape in Texas right now:

YAY, this!!! Nice to see some good news. 😁

First time in a long time I have felt sick after the flu shot. Three days of mild fever and achy joints so far. Still beats getting full-blown flu.

Chatting with students after my mentor’s yoga class about Sunday as a day of rest: ✅ “Let a hug be the most strenuous thing you do today.“

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Just went through 80-something pages of assisted living transition forms with my mom, about 46 of them needed initials, signatures, or additional information. Now scanning the pile. Caregiving is a job, even when your person doesn’t live with you.

Who’s going to tell him?

I am a Democrat in Texas and my YouTube / ad algorithms reflected this pretty well until this election. We are being bombarded with right wing ads, much of it AI.

👀 Noooooo I’m trying to wooork

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

✅ completed weekly wince-y check of linked-in feed.

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

This is heartbreaking.

BREAKING: Settlers fear other settlers will steal stolen land

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I teach an early Vinyasa class every Wednesday, and usually students sit or lie down while waiting for class to start. Today was the first time everyone was standing at the front of their mats, ready. Maybe it’s the Cornell news, or just … everything going on right now. People are wound UP.

oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

I checked and this is about 10 grams / .35 ounces of whoop-ass.

Agreed, but I once heard Hozier described as tastefully horny and I think maybe we can let him have that tiny subgenre. As a treat.

The past couple years have helped me understand the compulsion to download and store things, to buy hard copies, to organize things for our own reference. Archives are rarely profitable. Credibility has been deprecated in favor of speed. We only value trusted sources when we don’t have them.

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

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Sketchbooks are awesome because you can just throw stuff at it and find out new things that work

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

I respect my haters and share their concerns

Talking with my adult kids going through some stuff: “Creative career life has untold excitement. I’ve gotten so much hate mail from utility companies over the years.”

Nothing to hide, right?

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23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

I wrote about a group of Black dads who are building community by meeting up for yoga, and a instructor who randomly drives up to people on the street for on the spot yoga sessions

When you see up close how much easier it makes EVERYTHING when school meals are free it becomes very clear that we make students pay for lunches because some people want students to not get enough food.

Internet: do we think the curator of wordle is flirting with someone today? 🤔

If this is going to be this bad a week for camp cultural icons, John Waters needs to be monitored at all times

so we just have to feel emotions every day

en esta economía??????

August in Austin—or any other sweltering region, for that matter: don’t make any important decisions. You are too cranky.