Coda

Don’t ask me “Flávio, why’d you bitch out? Flávio, why’d you run away? Why did you flee to the US of A?” Stop and think it over Try to put yourself in my unique position If I dodge the stockade out in Miami-Dade It's a family tradition

I am formally calling for a Muggle Jihad

Why the fuck does Billy Corgan look like a D-tier Kids In The Hall sketch

“Where’s the volta?” during the code review

Thanks for flagging that “yes, it’s available” response to a fucking Craigslist ghost as requiring a follow-up, Apple Mail, but I don’t think it matters

Mountain bikes are so fuckin’ good, goddamn

*dictating to laptop* Subject Liberty Biberty’s dentition is homodont, thus excluding it from Synapsida despite the superficial appearance of its pseudofur. Tooth morphology suggestive of an omnivore, but forward-facing, convergent orbits seem optimized for stereopsis. A hunter? But of what prey?

Papa Troll

De vaderstoel

SCP-8716: The Record A phonographic recording of Hank Williams’s “Hey, Good Lookin’” in which the chorus is “Hey, good-looking / Whatcha got cooking? / How's about lettin’ me touch one of your boobs”. Unknown provenance.

this is your daily reminder that a “petard” was a siege explosive used to blow up gates, walls, etc.; the term does not refer to some old-fashioned pair of fancy tights or something. if you’re getting hoisted by your own petard, it’s not an ironic, metaphorical wedgie: yr getting blasted, bestie

Who up rewriting in Rust they PHP

Y’all mad at 4 because it’s not ideologically convenient for you to be mad at 31 zeros, wake up

It’s fucking wild to me that, in the case of Did Elizabeth Holmes Mean To Do A Fraud Or Not, folks are irretrievably horny for skating right past the entire evidentiary body of the case against her and going straight to just, like, trying to guess her vibe based on some video of her

You got to know how to hold em Know how to fold em Know where to put em When the laundry’s done

“We need to stay on X and out-argue the fascists” feels like the social media equivalent of Naruto-running into Area 51

The cool thing about Trump panicking about midterm gas prices and dropping sanctions on Russia is that gas prices are high because he started a war with Iran and Russia is a major supplier for Iran, so they got him to pay money to get kicked in the balls

Tesla Choadster

In the backrooms, fleeing from a grotesque caricature of myself, but it’s easy because my Heelys are real and his are all lumpy and weird

*lugging around 120kg of compressed air and 40kg of pressure vessels and 200kg of multi-stage compressor* ok gimme a couple of hours for launch control to charge *track official sprints towards me waving a black flag, I can read “fuck no” on their lips through the gold-tinted windshield* but whyyyyy

engaging kickflip mode to pass a school bus and launching myself upside down into a freeway overpass

Dukes of Moral Hazzard

Strong final days vibe.

People just don’t want to work on Maggie’s farm no more

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I didn't have time to write something as polished as a blog post, but over on Mastodon, I responded to the "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." post going around. hachyderm.io/@rmondello.com/1...

Finished this book last night and today I’ve been doing a lot of staring into the middle distance

Poastal elites

I just realized that the hideous, low-effort AI aesthetic which has pervaded flyers and YouTube thumbnails is exactly the long-standing aesthetic of negative political advertising mailers.

To the attractive young man who made eye contact with me at the grocery store, gave me a charming smile, and then instantly looked disappointed: I’m sorry but I’m absolutely taking the compliment.

Why is my Apple TV defaulting every F1 race to the Sergio Perez camera feed?

New slimdan album out, if anyone wants to listen to some unapologetically earnest and sweet music

“FBI says it stopped a Mall of America terror attack by a teen after agents sold him an assault rifle” “The 18-year-old had been on the FBI's radar since December 2024” Soooo they groomed a 16 year old kid to be a Truman Show jihadi?

Hell yeah, time for some Denny Hastert discourse

Just saw a picture of DHH today (whoops) and dude looks like Russell Brand and Ricky Gervais had a kid. RIP his 2010s “ugliest member of a boy band” look I guess

You know those Totoro kids’ lead levels crazy

Why did we outsource this to Area X

I’m gonna give him all my data and tell him to manage my money

Brother, have you not heard the song? The men sing it in the mines as they trade their lives for the future. The women sing it in the crèches as they trade theirs. We are not of the people, Brother, but we must be among them. Your Spotify algorithm has turned from the Volk; you must be corrected.

I let my kid watch one (1) Miyazaki film and now she’s eating with chopsticks and demanding rice

I just went into my garage and turned on the light and Tilly Norwood was in there and hissed at me and then I had to open the garage door and use a broom to get her out of there

What the fuck is a job interview

I know y’all are clowning on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality but there’s a plot arc where Harry is trying to manifest his patronus and it’s a surprisingly touching and emotional scene when he finally does and it’s a brilliant, shining waifu pillow