Pete Ehlke

"Technical Debt"

Add “between my legs” to a movie title: The Magnificent Seven Between My Legs

Add “between my legs” to a movie title: Misery Between My Legs

Huh. I wonder what the NFL, NBA, and WNBA have in common that they don't share with the NHL and MLB? Guess this one is just going to have to remain a mystery. 🤷

Well, half of this statement is true, anyway.

1) Civil War, by a country mile. 2) It coming true. 3) recipe30.com/modern-poule...

$10 million in distressed medical debt, at ten cents on the dollar. And an urn to burn it in.

3rd shift headline writer @ the Daily Illini. Came in to start my shift; there was only one person in the office. He pointed me at a terminal, said "make sure the heds fit the space", offered no other words, & left. The Romantics were playing at the bar next door. I left at 10 & never went back.

This is the core proposition of behavioral economics.

I’ve said for 10 years now: the core of Trump’s base isn’t unemployed coal miners and construction workers, it’s franchisees and small business owners who believe that owning a Nissan dealership and three La Quintas entitles them to the right of jus primae noctis.

Okay, Dems. Let’s not get cocky.

I’ve been sayin this forever: it turns out that 45 years of declining funding for public education has maybe not been the best idea we ever had.

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

I can't be the only one, can I?

In college I worked the graveyard shift in a coffee shop that shared basement space with a bar that had a cooler with this exact latch. Let’s just say that that coffee shop was my friends’ favorite after hours spot.

A reminder that no one is ever entitled to your time and attention. That is especially true on the internet. That is excruciatingly true of AI bros on the internet.

Vicious Sneering Odium is the name of my Faith No More themed Oasis cover band.

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

Pure, unadulterated joy.

Mount Lemmon is an easy climb. It’s just really long.

My old friend Chloe is kind of a big deal. You should follow her.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

There are two kinds of people: those who admit they pee in the shower, and filthy shameless liars.

What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.

NYC's response to the Knicks' run is an explicit rejection of Trumpism. Civic engagement is at an all-time high. Fearmongering about public safety was crushed by the hundreds of spontaneous watch parties. Unimaginably diverse groups rallying behind a sense of collective identity.

Pure, distilled joy. This is us.

"The Trump administration's goal is not to make the world think none of this is happening, or to make the world think what's happening is fine. It's to show that nobody can stop it."

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

I retired last year after nearly 30 years in Hotel & Hospitality IT. As of 2025, bots accounted for well over 90% of all requests for hotel room rates and availability.

Doctor asked me if I would be ok trying lithium and I am so Gen X, I just started humming it.

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

I’m glad he was here with us, here at the end of all things [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...

OK let's do this the other way. Introduce yourself with ten bands you wish you'd seen but never did: The Spiders From Mars Pretenders Stiff Little Fingers Buzzcocks The Jam Front 242 Ultravox Prince & The Revolution Pet Shop Boys Bauhaus

Doers suck.com count as niche? I don't care. The answer is suck.com.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Runaways Ramones Gang of Four Replacements Love & Rockets Laurie Anderson Talking Heads Ministry Jesus & Mary Chain Clan of Xymox Mostly in bars.

I sold Mitch Kapor an inkjet once. think about THAT. thing was a piece of shit.

Never heard someone preach on the one and the three before.

Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song. Mailer was to say the least _deeply_ problematic, but this is a masterpiece of American writing. Chinwa Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. And if you mention Infinite Jest, I will cut you off and never speak to you ever again.

Washing one pair of pants while wearing another pair of pants, that’s better productivity gains than AI

Oh, look. It’s electronic surveillance budget time again.