Rick Klau

this is the way

Olivia is a generational talent. So much fun to watch.

Hey @adityasood.bsky.social - thank you for Project Hail Mary. Haven’t laughed / sobbed / clapped that hard at a movie in a long time. 👊🏻

Oh no @kennorton.com

do I have any friends who listen to records and track their collection on Discogs? Have a fun project to share...

I'm not sure if this is at the level of @rickklau.com's clothes hanger trick, but you can use your hotel key to trigger an Apple Shortcut. So you can set up one to give you directions back to your hotel whenever you tap your card to your iPhone. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

even deleting my Twitter account could not prevent getting reminded once a month for the rest of my life of a tweet I posted in 2019 travelreveal.com/travel-tips/...

As a San Ramon resident I’d like to petition to rename @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Thinking of a story Wil Wheaton tells about Rob Reiner giving him very good direction ❝ Rob let me rehearse it that way, and then he very calmly pulled me aside and asked me to try it again, but … ❞

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Happy day

A lifetime ago I livetweeted a brutal delay at O’Hare from the bar at K16 (?) - spawning a decade or so of lovely #airportbar tweets from friends. Today I discovered Williams & Graham at Gate A38 at Denver airport. A speakeasy. Inside an airport. 🤯😍

not a sentence I ever expected to read "If you counted up all of the submarines and ships that PepsiCo bought and sold around this time, they technically managed the world’s seventh-largest navy." slate.com/news-and-pol...

While reading an article in the WSJ app, I just got this pop-up notification This is America

[slaps roof of game 7] this bad boy can fit so many innings

This game is the Stefon of baseball games

Change one letter, ruin a candy M&As

Not the headline I wanted to see upon touching down after watching House of Dynamite on my flight www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

WNBA refs have got to go. Total reboot, nothing less

that was A Game

after upgrading to MacOS 26, Chrome was finally able to auto-paste OTPs from Messages. But over the last few days, it just... stopped? Chrome is updated, so is MacOS. Am I missing something? Or did this get disabled?

Even if you don’t believe in the ethic of “love thy neighbor,” it’s important to remember that the core goal of USAID is to use soft power (foreign aid) to complement our nation’s hard power (the U.S. military) in a shared effort to make America safer. 🧵 8/8

However, after traveling to Ethiopia and Guatemala and hearing from many experts in the field, it’s clear to me that an extremely practical way to make our world a more stable and peaceful place is to invest in modern development aid, in concert with the family of nations. 🧵 7/8

The DOGE initiative then eliminated about $8 billion more in foreign aid, and now, the White House is fighting to withhold about $5 billion more in foreign aid funding — all in the name of making our country stronger and safer. 🧵 6/8

Earlier this year, the Trump State Department announced that nearly 5,800 USAID contracts worth $54 billion were being eliminated (representing a 92% reduction of what had already been awarded to the agency) because “they were not aligned with the administration's priorities.” 🧵 5/8

I’m sharing these posts in response to President Trump’s argument — which he has used to justify dismantling USAID — that leading the fight against extreme poverty on our planet doesn’t advance an “America First” agenda. 🧵 4/8

If, like me, you embrace the universal moral tenet referred to by Christians as “love thy neighbor,” I hope that each time you vote, you remember that election results can, especially for privileged Americans, have a far greater impact on those in extreme poverty than they will ever have on you 🧵2/8

Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it. 🧵 1/8

It’s up! youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

It's Baby Safety Month.

Thank you, Valkyries. What a first season.

Salute to the Valkyries, for making history, for selling out every home game, for overcoming a boatload of injuries, and getting the best out of every player. That’s belief. That’s culture. It’s a foundation that’s only going to get better.

Last Week Tonight returns this Sunday, by the by

been reading @sepinwall.bsky.social on the various social sites over the years. Just subscribed to his newsletter - I hate that he was let go from Rolling Stone, but am excited to send my $$ to him directly.

Note to CBS team calling the Ducks game: it’s “aww-tzen” not “oww-tzen”

scheduled covid-19 vaccine appointment online at cvs.com, and my shot from last night is already in Apple Wallet thanks to myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov. We launched that site over 4 years ago and it Just Works.