Still is hot, but he used to be, too.

Middle picture brought back memories of Internet days of yore.

Clever of the author to put their Patreon in a spot unlikely to be cropped.

Powell tried to do his job rather than be a yes-man. There were some incidents where the two made conflicting statements at press conferences, and Powell didn’t recant his statements.

Hey, nice avatar. Hail Cascadia!

Post-WWII, white folk saw groups of Mexicans having fun with cars and decided it was a nuisance, or had some connection to gang activity, or a bit of both. Heaven forbid people be allowed to show off their custom cars by driving slowly and safely down the street.

I’m trying to remember what made Madison stand out as particularly shitty. He was a slaver, and considered indigenous peoples to be inherently inferior to Europeans. I have a faint memory of him being arrogant and paternalistic in some of the Federalist Papers. What am I forgetting?

Depends on the season. In winter it’s a vintage 1980’s shirt-jacket thing that I found in my dad’s storage closet: red/black plaid, soft flannel exterior, thinly insulated. My parents had matching shirts and dad’s old one fits me perfectly.

Pretty soon my favorite will be a thin blue cotton-linen button-down that’s perfect for hot summer days. And it goes well with my big straw shade hat.

Thanks for asking. 😁

Bring a decent bar of dark chocolate and compliment my shirt and I’m yours.

But every once in a while it briefly changes to It’s Not Unusual.

I don’t have a comprehensive collection, unfortunately. If you Google around you can find partial collections on sites like this:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/addams_charles.htm

I’m thinking of buying a book of his comics to share with my kids.

I woke up to a lovely rainstorm this morning and thought of this classic.

The article focuses on the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. The situation is marginally better but still awful in the northwest. As of today in Washington state:

• Snowpack statewide is at 54% of normal, down 10% from last week. (“Normal” being the 30-year average for the calendar date)
• 115% statewide water year to date precipitation, up 2% from last week.

So slightly above-average precipitation this winter, but it was largely rain instead of snow. And the snow we do have is melting fast. The reservoirs are full, but their total volume is nothing in comparison to the snowpack.

Everyone I talk to is expecting a bad wildfire year and widespread water use restrictions.

I think this is from a short-lived spinoff called Histeria. It was a fun show.

I had a drink the other day
Opinions were like kittens, I was giving them away

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

Medical device industry here. Some of our software and electrical engineers are using Claude as a sounding board for ideas, or as a starting point to find possible paths forward when they get stuck with a hard problem. Nobody trusts the model to give an accurate answer. Nobody is being encouraged to use AI models. At the end of the day, all work committed to a project is done by real humans with the normal review processes.

Management is cautiously looking at potential uses for AI in our products, but there is a healthy dose of skepticism all around. If your machine is displaying diagnostic data to a doctor there cannot be any question as to whether the machine is hallucinating.

Zing zing!

El Salvador made BTC legal tender in 2021, and backtracked in 2025.