Phil Haack

I have plenty of hate in my heart, but negative polarization is like dry rot in your soul. You don’t want find yourself saying things like “people who have trouble with English are not welcome” for ostensibly ethical reasons.

The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

1) AD&D 2e with occasional 1e sourcebooks because the FLGS was selling both and we didn’t know the difference. 2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness 3) Twilight: 2000 2nd ed. <~15 year gap> 4) D&D 4e 5) Trail of Cthulhu or 13th Age; I’m not sure which was first.

It’s just very hard for many adults to conceptualize teenagers as “people.”

BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.

Agreed. Where is the gin?

It is mind-boggling to me that anyone can see the rampant lawless abuses taking place with Schedule A/SAD Scheme litigation & still think we should give copyright owners an expedited way to block entire websites by bending due process www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... & www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

My new bio just dropped.

I already have patents.lol, so I’ll let someone else grab this one.

So it’s not “modifying BASIC programs from the back of 3-2-1 Contact magazine” anymore?

Repealing DSHEA would be cool.

They’re installing an infinite free library nearby. Really worried. I didn’t vote for this. Kids get lost in those things all the time

Dolly Parton could have been a billionaire. She could have simply used her money to make more money. Instead, she wrote a fuckin' check whenever it was helpful for her to write a check. Any of these assholes have the capability to be her, but none of them have the heart.

This is my house every evening.

if you think of "speed limit" as really an energy limit (mv^2) (and it is energy that kills, not speed), the equivalent to a 20mph ebike limit would be something like 3-5mph for a two-ton SUV.

Happy “Ben’s My Friend” day to all who celebrate! 🎉 youtu.be/U9RfKKfNT0Q?... open.spotify.com/track/1Ubwpy...

Have created a San Francisco Wikipedia edits Mastodon bot. Bluesky probably coming tomorrow. https://sfba.social/@wiki_changes_top_500

If you want to preserve old books for public access, fund libraries. If you want to make the contents of out of print books more widely available, shorten the term of copyright. Do those two things and there is no reason to stress about destructive scanning.

We had Pesto alla Trapanese because Sicily.

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Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse

Every person I know who failed the California bar exam is currently practicing law. You’ll be fine, regardless of how it goes next week.

I am an ebike sicko and I hate these people even more because they’re fucking it up for people that just want a bike that can go uphill a little easier. We should have more light electric vehicles. Also they should have functional brakes and not pretend to be bicycles.

A punitive view of education will never have the answer to what to do when students can use AI. A view of education that cares about motivating students will. In a world where student motivation needs to be earned not just enforced it's pretty clear that's the only way to elicit effort.

Hey Bay Area If you wanna have fun tomorrow night head to Retro Junkie in Walnut Creek where I’ll be singing, playing guitar, and playing drums for a few songs. I promise you’ll dance and I’ll be giving out free stickers! www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-lava-b...

I’m curious about this scam format. Is the idea that, if you were already scammed, you’d be a good target?

Honestly, everyone in America should experience America like World Cup fans have. Go to places you haven't been, eat the local food, have a blast. This country is huge and most people barely ever see any of it.

#sharegoodnewstoo

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

Year of Linux desktop

Late pass, obviously, but this to me is a fantastic blog in the classic sense. High-quality language and real insight directed at an otherwise shitty news story, by one of the all-time greats at doing all that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

Yo @sfgiants.com this is some cowardly shit. If those guys wrote bible verses on their hats every day it’d be one thing; this is spitting in the face of the very existence of a significant portion of your fan base (and basically 100% once you count friends and family).

Shaka, when the letters fell.

People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)

exactly the right response

New poem, “Advice”, in the latest issue of Island magazine. With thanks to poetry editor Timothy Loveday for giving it a home.

This is very long and very good and I think pushes me off the fence about Steyer. Worth reading if you’re a Californian who still hasn’t voted.