Mark Schnitzius

The universe doesn't have some mysterious plan for you, it has no plan for you.

I could have lived a long, happy life not knowing that Trump is an ass man.

Zuckerberg's interference in the Brazilian election has really fired me up about quitting FB. But as an expat, it likely means I will lose contact with some friends forever. What is a slacktivist to do.

When someone cuts me off in traffic, I want a button on my dashboard that does this.

Public executions will continue until Trump is awarded the Peace Prize.

The reflecting pool will be fixed, and Mexico is going to pay for it!

Point of order, I don't think Schmitt confused "Hawks" with "Hawkeyes" -- I think he just saw basketball mentioned, looked up only NBA games for that date, and saw the Hawks game was the only one. Still a grandstanding dipshit though.

The writer of the first song in history was probably unpopular, as it would get stuck in people's heads and there was no other song to replace it.

The moment Richard Dawkins jumped the shark. He was a fantastic science writer who decided to become a b-grade public philosopher. I say that as a confirmed atheist too. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

The camera operators on The Office were suspiciously good at always getting the key shot. I have a working theory that the whole thing was faked.

Grace under pressure. On the punt at Cambridge. #birdoftheday #elegant

I'm glad we're not in the days of songs by old men lusting after underage little girls anymore. There were so many of them. I just came across "Art Lover" by The Kinks, and just *ick*.

Wow, we waited seven years for the Up series supposed final episode (70 Up), and it was all recap with a few scraps of new content thrown in, and minimal clarity on what's now happening for these people. Most of the players seemed to get just a few seconds. What a big disappointment.

#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets with a messed up story. Mom had died an hour before, in the room where I was standing when this green heron appeared. (Dad had died only a month prior.) An hour later, I got a call from my wife saying please come, MY mother is dying. She did, 3 days later.

#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets And you thought egrets were stealth hunters. Reddish egrets are like "omg fish" and run their fool heads off. It's a riot. 10/10 must see if you get the chance.

Bookends. It's a good system. #birdoftheday #sittingonwater Milton Country Park, just outside of Cambridge UK.

All these little kids who can shred Metallica (etc) on guitar at a young age are probably irreparably damaged for life, taste-wise.

Can't believe this place doesn't have separate toilets for men and women!! That does it, I'm never flying this airline again.

Potato quality (shot through binoculars), but this was my first thought for #birdoftheday #contrast -- lilac-breasted roller spotted in Kruger NP, South Africa.

The day I fully accepted that there are smarter people than me was the day someone posted a version of that Rick Astley song, that they claimed sped up every time he says "never". So I watched it, but then IT NEVER DID. My hat is still off to them.

Use "floundering" when you want to mean "struggling clumsily". Use "foundering" only when you want to correct someone for using "floundering".

Tbh Jimothy looks like my dog when he's in poop stance.

Hamish the wonder dog, 16.5 and still kicking on. #InternationalDogDay

We are not replacing saints at the rate they're dying off.

Buck up, Daily Mail... You'll needlessly harass the right woman next time.

In mathematics, I am but a dilettante, but I just get the feeling that the Riemann Hypothesis is going to fall soon. AI lately seems to be mostly resolving negatives, and as RH is likely positive, it's not as easy. But you know some formidable firepower is being thrown at it, and by competing teams.

Of course that's how you would say it, but it still made me laugh the first time seeing it in German.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is probably still wrong, and the true thing is something you just haven't considered yet.

It kind of tickles me that 90% of my spam arrives in German. I don't know why, but I have no reason to attempt to correct this.

I'm a nut about having backups upon backups of all my critical work, but while doing a folder restructure I got extra paranoid and tried to copy some critical code somewhere safe using "cp -r". Only I typed "rm -r", and then learned it somehow wasn't backed up. Luckily there was a .git dir left.

People need to stop saying that if you use any AI at all, then you can't criticise building new data centers.

I kind of picture Banach and Tarski being like, "Should we publish this?" "I don't know, should we?" "Let's put your name first" "No, I insist, your name first".

Chris Packham's "Evolution" series is top notch. Maybe his best. Actual quality content instead of just presentation.

I'm getting relentless targeted with this ad; otherwise I wouldn't comment on it. But I just find it to be Clippy-level of embarrassing. If their IBM Bob AI made these graphics, it needs a lot of work.

How The Universe Works just makes me angry. Dare to show a graph someday instead of a pretty space picture with dramatic music.

"Lean on me When you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on" Awww, isn't that a sweet gesture of love. "For it won't be long Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on" Oh. I see.

wow, it's like I'm psychic, who could have predicted it

# if a man could be two places at one time i'd be with you # tomorrow and today # beside you all the way Umm, that's *one* place, at *two* times.

Watch out for the Trump diarrhea lettuce, my friends.

Also, every time an exasperated player blows out air through loose closed lips, you don't need to replay it in slow motion, kthx.

Apparently, all World Cup commercials are required to feature a commentator who sounds like he's calling a match but his words actually also apply to some mundane product footage. Either that or a soccer ball that appears to be kicked around the world via camera cuts. Some fresh ideas are needed.

The lesson is, be as shitty as you want in life. The Democrats will still call you great in the end.

I imagine Lindsey Graham's last words were something like, "I can die now, if you want, if you think it'll be a useful distraction...?"

Contrary to some takes I've seen going around, Lindsey Graham dying might be like getting a free appetizer because the main meal is taking so long, but Mitch McConnell dying will be the same.

You can't keep a good man down, which is why it's so easy to keep Mitch McConnell's condition a secret.

Erling Haaland is riding such a tidal wave of public adoration right now that I'm half expecting him to crash out in a scandal of some sort. I blame my jadedness on too many recent examples. Let's I hope I'm wrong.

I don't regret leaving the States but am sad to be missing all the parties around Lindsey Graham dying.

WaPo: "Sens. Fetterman (D) and McCormick (R) form rare bipartisan fundraising committee". That's bipartisan? On what planet?