Steve Leacock

It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid

Can you imagine spending the remainder of your life cooped up in a decaying bunker with these dork-ass losers?

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Opening a bar devoted to talking politics in 2025 feels like opening a restaurant themed after Schindler’s List.

Doug did not, in fact, do it.

Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."

soooo this is going to be a post that makes absolutely everyone unhappy: black bloc is a part of diversity of tactics handknit pussy hats are part of a diversity of tactics voting is a part of diversity of tactics

I think Doug did it.

Idiocracy would actually be less bad than this.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Are they trying to speedrun North Korea?

I don’t know what to do with all this anger.

There’s a certain point where virtually everyone I have ever met transitions from using the phone like a normal person to going speaker-only at full volume regardless of venue. Maybe when I hit that particular age I’ll understand why.

Miles Dyson immediately flipping and agreeing to help destroy his AI creation after hearing what it would do to the world was, it turns out, the most cartoonishly unrealistic part of T2.

Not a great sign that the meat substitute is able to voice its opinions; that it talks like a Batman villain seems inevitable in retrospect.

Sigur Ros? In Beetlejuice?

“Did none of the West’s leaders, with all the collective wisdom of their armies of pundits and think tanks, see this coming?” @amitav.bsky.social erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

Ruin the wealth class’s day and turn Black Friday into a day of reflection on your consumer habits and ask yourself what it is that you buy that makes you truly happy and what is it that you buy because you’ve been conditioned.

Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?

Perfection.

The information landscape is profoundly fragmented. Our complaints about Fox News don’t even scratch the surface of the layers and layers of conspiracy and misinformation and independent punditry that’s actually out there and impacting people’s beliefs about the world.

I just opened Threads after like a week of ignoring it and WOW that place sucks. Clickbait anecdotes, engagement bait hot takes, and a million miserable ding-dongs starting a million petty rows. Deleted!

Aaaaand it’s canceled😭 BUT Agatha All Along is spectacular.

I think we’re all full up on hurricanes, thanks.

Design influencers: don’t wag your finger at me in your illustrator tutorials. I didn’t do it the stupid way, YOU DID.

say what you will about gustav holst that mother fucker knew exactly what planets sound like

Abolish the death penalty

I am so tired.

Yall, KAOS is so good.

Drop an alien that’s not from Star Wars or Star Trek

AI is bad at everything.

The smiles on people holding these signs are nightmarish and a potent reminder of how easy it is for some people to accept and participate in acts of evil if their own tribe provides them with a sense of superiority and belonging.

Me: The Walz pick rules and I am cautiously optimistic about things Designer Me: this type alignment sucks butt

This is one of those moments when right wing media is locked in back rooms frantically cobbling together its messaging, meanwhile your MAGA uncle is sputtering and turning purple without any talking points to regurgitate.

The next Supreme Court appointee will share a jurisprudence with one of these two people and the 2024 election is largely about which one it’ll be

Adding “Caretaker of Swiss Consulate” to my CV. Not taking any further questions at this time.

“A lot of things are true.”

Roughly 1 month after my second go-round with COVID and I’m finally able to focus on a task occasionally.