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  I feel like I have to apologise for giving money to Framework after they milkshake-ducked. But the heatwave finally popped open my laptop. And it's been years since I was able to easily click the trackpad, which is especially frustrating in the tight confines of a plane.

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  There are two kinds of USA-250 think pieces. Those that explicitly acknowledge slavery, and those that do not. Exactly two.

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  One-way ticket booked 🇹🇼

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  Sigh. And so it begins.

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  "Our task, as the older generation, is to shield the young from those who would exploit their naïveté, without infecting them with our own accumulated pain and cynicism", some fucking child in a youtube video tells me youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD…

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  Christopher Street Day 2026. I left early before, uh, the mood changed.

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  Chaotic scenes in Ceuta as tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco, mostly young men, storm fences, overwhelm border guards, and freely cross into the European Union.

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  Once upon a time, in a primitive world almost beyond our imagining, one man dared to think through the inevitable socio-historical trends of his time, and arrive at the simple unavoidable truth. The codpiece, declared Desmond Morris, is due for a comeback. Truly, no man was ever proven as right. RIP. This one's for you. youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantups…

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  This packaging is deeply offensive to me.

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  Buenos Aires

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  Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

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  Recent research has determined that Glyptodon Clavipes had a much more compact build than assumed by earlier reconstructions.

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  We had a system for quality software development just like record labels had a system for making artists wildly rich. In retrospect, that depended on a technological gap. The gap has now been filled. We can't demand a return to gatekeeping any more than we can expect people to start collecting vinyl records again and... wait... OK I forgot what point I was trying to make.

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  My local shopping centre, yesterday. #WorldCoin

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  It blows my mind that I can enter China visa-free now, but to visit the USA I'd need to arrange a face-to-face interview in an embassy and submit to intrusive interrogation.

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  Is it widely understood that "double down" is a strategy that never works? That in common usage, this is how you describe someone in the process of making a mistake? I feel like this might be secret knowledge understood only by a few. Why yes, there was a company all-hands today, how did you guess?