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  • Archiving note Mar 18, 2026

    The web is working hard to batten down the hatches—it's hard to get Reddit into my RSS reader these days, I'm always re-authing to read feeds. Meanwhile LinkedIn is harder and harder to scrape.

  • Whoompf Mar 14, 2026

    is the sound my body made slamming into the car that jerked left in traffic in front of me. I was wearing a helmet.

  • Dear God Mar 5, 2026

    Heading to work and a woman gets on the train, the middle of the car. She seems to be only in dirty underwear and holding bags.

  • Pascal’s Fail State Feb 28, 2026

    This prominent MAGA-adjacent cartoonist died recently and did a Pascal’s wager-style deathbed conversion from atheism to Christianity, which, sure, whatever, humans. (Prayers are distributed through a supernatural network protocol they call pleamail —unfortunately most go to spam.

  • Conically Yours Feb 24, 2026

    I just did a podcast staring right at the camera and I see myself on screen and my jaw is wider than my forehead again. That's how I can tell I'm not taking care of myself.

  • Leading thoughts Feb 21, 2026

    I recently wrote for the big paper and it was with deep inner reluctance. I wish I could decide whether to be in the world or pull back from the world.

  • Optimization Note Feb 16, 2026

    On the bots

  • oof Feb 11, 2026

    Looking for something else and stumble right into this , from 2014.

  • Loops Feb 11, 2026

    Not the most connected to my body. The piano is an attempt to remedy part of that.

  • I Will Never Listen to Geese Feb 10, 2026

    I have never heard Geese. I keep seeing Geese content and people saying things about Geese.

  • Winter Break Feb 10, 2026

    I had just come back from Boston, which was fully frozen over and dingy with salt and grime. We had dinner.

  • What if we kissed in the Feb 6, 2026
  • Morning Argument Feb 5, 2026

    I'm out of town but the news is that my son saw a single skipped filament error in my wife's 3D printing experiment, and his jabs about it didn't land well, given that he'd spent all that time on Reels. I cannot wait to reread this in 30 years.