Charlie Pratt

“Before dawn on June 21, Narciso Barranco loaded his weed trimmer, lawn mower and leaf blower into his white F-150 pickup. He had three IHOP restaurants to landscape and then seven homes. His goal was to finish in time to cook dinner with his wife, Martha Hernandez.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Can’t wait for this crap to end.

Seems like the richer or more powerful one gets, the more their childlike nature comes to the forefront. MINE! *WAH* *ACT OUT* Toddlers with zero empathy, but with private jets and, from time to time, nuclear codes.

You ever do one of those weird Paul-Rudd-in-I-Love-You-Man brain farts, where you're finishing a call with someone on the phone—like, say, a service provider or something—and instead of saying the normal words you utter some gibberish non-word and everyone pretends nothing happened? Me nethered.

To all those making a video #podcast — I don't want to watch your Zoom calls. The pandemic is over.

Sometimes, and only sometimes, the inexorable passage of time gives me hope that these times shall pass and the clouds will make way for new light

Top 10 TV shows of all time, in no particular order: 1. The West Wing 2. Deadwood 3. The Wire 4. Breaking Bad 5. Better Call Saul 6. Scrubs 7. The Sopranos 8. The Office (UK) 9. Curb Your Enthusiasm 10. Succession

Fantastic piece by @meghanor.bsky.social about the effects of AI, its inevitability, and our response. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Yeahhhhhhhhh boi

Meanwhile, my flag quietly waves in the warm, midsummer breeze, longing for a change of season. bbc.com/news/article...

One day, we're going to cringe our collective butts off that we ever endured a sitting president who was hawking, among many other things, his own fragrance line. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Brilliant line from @christophniemann.bsky.social in this lovely piece about the intersection of #AI and #art. "I can’t make art when I’m excluded from the most crucial moments." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With AI, as with everything else it seems, there are only two camps of thought: 1) AI is the way of the future, we must embrace it, and 2) AI is the harbinger of doom, we must fear it. If I could improve humanity in one single way it would be to stop carving every topic up into two opposing camps.

Do you hear the people sing?

I will always love working on the details of interactions within a UI. Years later, it's still surprising how difficult it is to make something feel both simple and clear. #ui #ux #design

A trio of books that changed my life over the past couple years. I'm a little late to the party on, well, all of these. But seriously, folks.

To every podcast producer on earth:

I'm now noticing sweeping, large price jumps on most of the products I buy regularly. It was sporadic before. Now it's a wave. 🌊 #tariffs

No kings. Ever. 🇺🇸

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Dear @figma.com - please let us turn Comments on or off as a default behavior when opening a file. Every file I open, my first step is to turn them off. As a result, I start every project with an eye roll and a pointless key command.

How am I just now finding out about obsidian.md?

Ariel Kleiman and Tony Gilroy. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #andor

Wouldn't mind having a time machine, so I could bring George Washington to 2025 and try to explain to him what "the President of the United States is running his own crypto scam" means.

Just a midweek love letter to Bill Watterson. charliepratt.com/thank-you-mr...

Hey @support.bsky.team - can we make it so when you tap the search icon in the tab bar it clears out the big blank type-to-search screen and shows me trending, etc again? Please. Having to reach up to tap cancel is no bueno.

Just some AI-generated thoughts. charliepratt.com/attack-of-th...

Rep. John Larson of Connecticut. That’s what I’m talking about, sir. 🇺🇸

Absolute embarrassment from POTUS and VPOTUS. And if you think I'm just some pinko lefty, I encourage you to read what the most conservative news magazine in the country has to say about it. www.nationalreview.com/corner/this-...

Watching Ken Burns “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” I can’t help but notice ripples and echoes in our current public discourse, not at all dissimilar from some of the foulest ideas put forward then, as a way to make us afraid of our neighbors and to justify our basest instincts.

I like this one.

This is the season three low point where the baddies take over everything. It’s gotta happen if you want a solid season four. Hang on.

Note to #AI devs: It's a good idea to have an honest chat with your prompt overlords about how likely it is that it can actually do the thing you want. Here's Replit keeping it real: