Eric NMI

Interesting development to an interesting story. It would be very on-brand for 2026 if this ends up being just another tawdry grift.

Huh. Trying to keep everyone on their toes I see.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

The bigotry is not only spiking in this election, it's crawling right out into the open as we near the finish line.

The type of person who can think El-Sayed came out of that exchange looking bad is unreachable, unsavable, and should frankly be unemployable as an analyst because their brain is too broken by partisanship & bigotry to do the work

Freud might have something to say about these comics. Regardless, Charlie Brown and Lucy are waaaaaaay more marketable than “Elmer Hagemeyer and Hamhock.” “Hagemeyer Babies” if you will.

I'm in-house with a hospital system. One of my responsibilities is pediatric consent issues. If we had a patient present to the ED talking like this, they'd probably get a psych consult. Goes without saying this has never happened, anywhere in the country. I don't know how to understand this.

Dad Calling    Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/

Dear tech overlords: Please do not enshittify DocuSign. It’s actually simple, useful, ane user friendly. We know how that goes. Please just don’t make it evil for like…another 6 months? Can we agree on that?

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”

North by Northwest is an incredible film, and I was mildly shocked to learn that there were still surviving cast members.

The membrane keyboard was unique and a little iconic, but we all knew it was awful for actual typing.

I read to my son. And now that he’s at college, I hear about applying for the school’s Model Federal Reserve team. That’s a thing. I just don’t think that sort of thing is a healthy activity for a young man, either. What does Gen Z have against just stumbling to class hungover like normal people?

Not only that, but if he were to actually skip it, that would immediately be used to attack him as well. This is bullshit all the way down and nobody should be giving it the time of day

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

I thought this photo turned out well, for something snapped on a phone camera by a cretin. I call it “Summer evening during power outage.”

I have heard of 3 of these names, and never watched/heard any of them. One, I could probably vaguely describe what she does - Ms. Rachel makes content for kids? And tho I've heard of Druski and Piker, I don't know what they actually do. I am officially out of touch.

2 days left before it's time to take my first & only child off to college and each hour is getting more stressful.

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How can I monetize my dog being a Greek goddess of frisbee chasing?

I had dinner with a trial judge and he was thinking that we would need to start providing court appointed attorneys for civil plaintiffs because folks are walking into court pro se, counseled only by artificial intelligence and yes it’s the nightmare you imagine

The closest I’ve got to using AI has been the summaries that show up at the top of Google search results, but if I decided to cross over, this is the type of pitch that will do it. Maybe some day. But I’m a holdout dinosaur in the meantime.

It was my honor and privilege to satirize Mr Chait and his Daily column, 35 yrs ago on campus. Back when he was being a Temu Dave Barry.

I swear the whole world is gaslighting me about eclipses. I’ve been on this planet for decades, and not once have I been able to tell that an eclipse is happening, while it’s supposedly happening. I cannot crack the code.

Primary day here in MI - looks like my vote is going to carry a little more weight than usual today. There sure are a lot of pollsters curious how this house will be voting...

The below is about the slippery slope to trans sports bans but I think the structure applies here too. The answer to any legit concern about lab leaks is a thorough but productive audit of safety and security protocols leading to their improvement but that's dull, you can't outrage-farm that.

I'm from a sleepy rural town, population just under 20k. My wife is on the Twp board & 2 months ago a developer showed up at a twp mtg to talk about maybe building a tiny data ctr here. The next meeting, FIVE THOUSAND people showed up to object. That's 1/4 of the entire town. We know better.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

i like to come up with opinions that no one has ever believed or even heard of before and put "gentle reminder:" in front of them

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

American legal academia, with its lack of academic rigor, tolerance for hacks and charlatans, and widespread autoflatulence addiction issues, deserves much of the credit for the four votes Trump got in favor of destroying the constitutional and common law right to birthright citizenship.

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

So apparently not being an asshole is elitist now. I live in rural flyover country, surrounded by working class folks of all stripes. Most are kind and polite in person. Titanic Asshole is not the default setting.

I do -not- have a PhD in cyanobacteria growth so I hope I'm not sharing fiction. But this is what social media should be for. Access to information and ideas from people who know more about stuff than we do. Then one day it's our turn, and hopefully we don't share fiction either.

Every day I am grateful for having found a position at a nonprofit hospital system. I wish we could extend the peace of mind I get to enjoy, to all Americans.

People on my timeline have a lot to say about this, so I’m getting in on the action even though I don’t have the slightest idea what this is or what it means.

This is Edie. She was trying to catch her tail when suddenly things turned sideways. Legend has it she is still rolling to this day. 13/10 (TT: golden_gang_tom_and_edie)

Arby’s is one of those things that’s just automatically funny to me. Don’t need to make an actual joke; just mentioning it is enough. Also props to MLive for trying its damndest to make you click the link by playing coy about an Arby’s sandwich. Arby’s. Lol

Bluesky, you're pushing this group chat feature pretty aggressively today. But you geniuses forgot to code up somebody that would want to be in a group chat with me. Good job there lol