Mike Wasson

Realization: it’s acceptable to commiserate with a stranger on a British street when you both get caught in someone else’s vape exhaust, because this is a kind of complaining about the weather

Extremely good, but Ireland’s not beating the stereotype about its weather

the gang joining in as you sing Werewolves of London at karaoke

Does anyone know of a guide on how to make sure tracked letters from the UK don’t just disappear into ISC New York? I hate this. It affects my ability to vote and engage in the civic rites of being an American.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

Aging as an adult is, every ten years or so, realizing there is a new cohort of adults, who you consider as peers, who were children during some essential change that happened increasingly late into your own adulthood. And then remembering that there are the elders for which you are that newcomer.

Resident Evil is a misnomer. For tax reasons, the evil is legally resident in the Bahamas and is only “visiting” the mansion 182 days of the year

(Sorting through piles that I didn’t deal with for literal decades) aha. Well wasn’t I annoyingly prescient.

"Podcasts are not a Christian way of life" goes harder than it has any right to

ST: ToS Season 1 “Miri”

the potential negative political impacts of AI will imo be less it changing people's minds through debate or anything like that and more just a product of having too cheap to meter guy who attempts to move you like 5% on some axis that you may not even consciously recognize as explicitly political

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

"Pittsburgh’s land value tax’s initial success and broad popular support eroded away due to degraded state capacity. Disentangling the value of land from the value of the building on it requires administrative work. But over time the quality of Pittsburgh’s property assessments deteriorated."

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

I got a flyer for an anti-genocide protest—over Gaza—at the US embassy, and while I think that’s a not unreasonable location for that goal, it says another goal is to protest the proscription of Palestine Action That one’s definitely not on us, consider protesting literally anywhere else in London

thank you emudhra. "My only micro-B cable is bent" -> using leaked certificates to spoof the sony app store to get root on my camera

Got a Bandcamp email saying Amynedd (Geowizard) has released vinyl and cassette versions of his 16-bit Adventure album, a faux-Megadrive soundtrack. The music is good, but don’t buy it. He’s a proud Reform supporter who believes—has sung about—the racist great replacement theory. So disappointing.

I think, given it’s stuck in my head pretty hard again, that I do actually like Bruce’s original “Blinded by the Light” more than Manfred Mann’s To do further violence: this song is what I imagine Bob Dylan would sound like, if he was good

Oh my DAYS

I needed to keep quiet about this but this is what I was working on earlier this year. My publication “Harming Children: The Effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban” was evidence used for this! I had to submit a lengthy affidavit via NZ local trans group PATHA. Let’s hope we can overturn more now.

Quote tweeting since I think it’s funnier to read this before what it’s referring to

Humming the Star Spangled Banner with a tear in my eye:

thanks. in hopefully simpler words: they were trying to make things fast before they were made systematically correct and robust, and that is the wrong trade for sensitive systems

As an ardent ultrafinitist, I believe the only numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. There are 5 of them.

it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

People will mock this as small beer politics but predatory behaviour by parking companies has been a major source of frustration and financial cost for millions, and for many years.

Update my priors? In this economy?

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Just checked and of course, the last time there was a Commons vote on this back in 2018, Badenoch voted against the proposals to decant and get on with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, as the cross-party joint commission had strongly recommended.

More generally, I find it annoying that websites have big colorful “SIGN UP!!!” buttons and small, indistinct “Log In” buttons. I do one of these once, the other many times. I get it. New customers is a KPI, that’s what you get your promotion on. But that’s a mistake on your organization’s part.