Kyle Johnson

If you’re following me for insightful commentary on, well, anything, I feel contractually obligated to tell you that 90% of my stuff is reposts of cat pictures, 7% is home automation, and the last 3% is higher ed.

This thread, right here.

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story: Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole. Randy, his arms down. The Old Man, when the lamp broke. Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

Kamehameha Schools announced that tuition will be fully covered by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s endowment for all students starting the 2026-27 school year. Kamehameha Schools has an endowment of $15.2 billion. For comparison, Columbia University's endowment is $15.9 billion.

OK, snacks are on me at the AI vending machine (this one is kind of for @hypervisible.blacksky.app). blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/23/c...

I cannot wait to sit down and watch this.

I’m already lining up projects for *next* Christmas.

I think I found a movie that might get me into a movie theater for the first time in quite awhile.

Just a little reminder 🐾🤍 #cat #GentleReminders #mentalhealth

I hope to live long enough to have an entire generation not know what I’m talking about when I share this link.

This is a LOLSOB for the ages.

Hey @hypervisible.blacksky.app, do you think we could recreate this next time we're in a bar together?

Tunashamed

TGIF. And the F is almost over.

I guess poets are basically technomages now.

Christmas Level 1 achieved.

IT leaders get dismissed for lots of weird reasons, but this might be the weirdest. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?  This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:

At the rate they're going right now, every person Trump pardoned for the J6 riots will be in jail again by Christmas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

THIS COUNTS FOR TOM HOLLAND RULE PURPOSES. Must watch. Must re-post. www.youtube.com/watch?embeds...

hey @inoreader.com, any info on the outage? I'd check your status page, but it's down too.

I really hope “Fluff the System”comes on a T-shirt soon.

Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍

It’s really hard to believe, but somehow in 96 hours Democrats managed to piss away all the momentum they had built Thursday. It’s a GOP wet dream.

It’s hard to describe how on the nose this is for me.

not trying to write a thinkpiece or anything, but this is basically all I did all four years of college—read a book per week in each history or lit class (so, for me, that often meant 4-5 books/week), participate in a 2- or 3-hour seminar once a week, and write longass research papers on my own time

Gritty will fuck them up.

I can't stop grinning. I think my heart grew three sizes while watching this.

Sometimes I read an article just to see how Trump is being covered. This one did not disappoint. "There are only so many turns of phrase you can employ: this is just a profoundly fucked-up way to lead a country." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We got a slow start the second time around, but I think we're making up for it now. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

I'm in Raleigh, NC for a few days settling up affairs for my recently deceased mother-in-law. She gets a print subscription to the News & Observer. One syndicated NO KINGS story on page two (less than 1 column of ink). What a joke. I will take a large amount of joy cancelling her subscription.

Bless their hearts.

I’m pretty sure this is the plot from The Diary of Anne Frank.

I'm honestly trying to decide if irony is dead or if somebody in the Texas National Guard is hard trolling Hegseth.

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

Good for her (I’m assuming her anyway). Also why the fuck would “marriage material” ever be some kind of judgement measure?

The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised www.theverge.com/report/78717...

Mass shootings in the US have become so commonplace that they just get bundled together into one news story now. I wonder if that means the Onion will publish its "nothing can be done says only country in the world with this problem" story once or three times. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This seems like an odd strategy. You still have a cunt boss, but now they are bitter and have tons of time on their hands to make your work life miserable. Maybe reporting them to someone else in HR would have gotten them fired and out of your hair.

Schumer and Jeffries are so bad at their jobs that they’re losing a popularity contest to a bunch of domestic terrorist pedophiles.

Sound on 🐾🤍

I feel like this person is doing one of those wrong.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The T-shirt shop is now open to everyone! 👕🐾 😸 purrinink.dashery.com 🐈‍⬛🤍

This is The Way.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target