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Aug 23, 2025

Don't Let His Based Tweets Make You Forget That Pick-Me Presidential Hopeful Gavin Newsom Actually Sucks
Newsom can successfully ape the worst politicians in America because he's not so different from them. Newsom is at his most cartoon-evil-villain when it comes to the rights and dignity of the most at-risk Americans. In March, he had notorious rightwinger Charlie Kirk on his
ICE Is Using So Much Tear Gas in Portland, a School Abandoned Its Campus
ICE! It's got what lungs crave: An ICE facility in South Portland has resurfaced as a hotbed where activists have been clashing with federal enforcement officers for months. [...] But as the protests have grown, so have the amount of weapons used against them. And the ...
Spatial Joins in DuckDB
Spatial Joins in DuckDB Extremely detailed overview by Max Gabrielsson of DuckDB's new spatial join optimizations. Consider the following query, which counts the number of NYC Citi Bike Trips for each of the neighborhoods defined by the NYC Neighborhood Tabulation...
🚴 ⏱️00:39:55 🛣️24km 🗻96m 🪫182w ❤️‍🔥153bpm 🍔465kcal Harder effort on the Palmarella to Partinello route on Rouvy, trying to complete the Coastal Corsica challenge routes before it closes tomorrow.
Fix the Signal
It often feels like optimism is an act of revenge, an act of spite or rebellion, because optimism requires diligence and effort whilst pessimism feels like the default, the thing requiring no energy or effort. Mike Monteiro wrote along similar lines in How to stay hopeful: The problem with dystopias is that dystopias are easy. You simply stop giving a shit about things or people that you should...
Notes from week 34, 2025
Thinking about absorbing the notes section into the blog. Makes no sense to have it now that I can’t write posts without a title.I had categories at one point and it felt so nice to get rid of those. I didn’t have to think about where to file the thing; just add tags and send it. Then I started worrying too much about boring ya’ll and added a couple categories. I thought /mutex/ was where all the tech garbage would go, but it keeps leaking out.Maybe I should get...
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📷 ⚽️ 🟣🔵️ At Turf Moor this afternoon for the return of Premier League football, with Sunderland the visitors. 🪴 in #football #burnleyfc 📡 Thanks...
New Watch Day
It was recently my birthday, and now my wife and I are over 40 and been together around half of our lives, we don't really bother with presents. Instead, we …