Matt the Knife

Messerman's Law of Anxiety: No matter how confident you are in your own knowledge of a subject, as soon as you state it authoritatively, you will doubt your knowledge of that subject.

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

FIENDS

An A.I. meeting a guy named Al. #improvSuggestions

Every night

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I mean I don’t WANT to send that message, but it’s not wrong and you probably do need to hear it.

Damn, I only made it to 19. I never owned a boombox.

Then a couple years back, I got all these sudden messages, that they had made her middle name “Gail.” I thought it had to be a coincidence. But I was informed it wasn’t, she was Barbara Gail Gordon in canon, as a lovely tribute to my writing of the character.

Being a parent of a nearly-adult teenager is weird. Like I’m supposed to trust her enough to be independent and make mistakes, now, so that she can function in the real world as an adult. But I’m also still responsible for her safety right now. Anyway, it’s Homecoming night and pouring down rain.

I had to pay an extra $7.14 for something I backed on kickstarter today, due to tariffs. For a thing that does not exist anywhere else (and is not produced in the US). Blanket tariffs aren’t the stupidest thing he’s done, but they sure are stupid.

On behalf of all San Diegans: go fuck yourself, “Mr President”.

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

Can my neurodivergent comrades relate?

Call center? No way, this cat is fated to be Princess Donut!

I'm of two minds about this information

High masking internalized autism looks like literally nothing to an outsider, but it is a slow but steady degradation of your internal capacity, and mental / physical health. Autistic burnout is only a symptom of a much more severe underlying problem...

just learned this today

Oldie but goodie.

Yes

Step up, billionaires, make a difference. If Batman can do it, so can you.

Saw Weird Al in concert last night - he and his band put on a phenomenal show! I don’t think people appreciate how talented those musicians are to be able to play all those different styles that well. Bonus shout out to guitarist Payton Rose Velligan for being a beacon of pure joy and rock 🤘

Pulitzer Prize winner, Adam Zyglis created this for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. Poignant. Who Are You Voting For?

Intellectually, I know that these kinds of things weren’t all that long ago. But just HOW recently never really clicked in my brain until this post - when I realized that Ruby Bridges is the same age as my parents. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way yet to go.

It was really good

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Wrong octogenarian died today. RIP Dolly - you were one of the greats.

Poll: how many times a day do you normally feel an overwhelming need to just…scream?

Wordle 1,886 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

In the thumbnail, while scrolling quickly, I was sure I saw Monterey Jack from Rescue Rangers. In the pic, the eyes would be his eyes and/or goggles, and the mouth is his mustache. Even looking at the tinier thumbnail I can still see it.

Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.

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