Portland Japanese Garden fall color report: place is at full “are you kidding me?! levels right now

The optics of two white guys grabbing a black athlete in an attempt to change the outcome of a play (and then hearing they’re season ticket holders who will likely get to attend the next game) is fucked up. They also claimed once the ball goes over the wall, it’s their property.

Watching Ohtani dislocate his shoulder in an earlier game, it’s also not great to see two jabronis yanking on Mookie Betts’ arms like a marionette, pulling him off the ground.

Ban them from the stadium for life

Pedro Pascal
Fernando Fortran
Benicio BASIC
Luis Lisp
Carlos COBOL

I feel bad for every young adult who gets to vote in their first presidential election this year because if they're getting political party texts on their phones, the message they see loud and clear is the only thing that matters to winning any election is raising money from donations.

It's the only thing 100s of texts and emails keep shouting at me. "We need more money, more than the other team, send more NOW, it's URGENT! $$$"

Elections didn't used to be like this, young folks, and I'm sorry

jesus—and I can't reiterate enough—fucking christ

Portland Japanese Garden fall color report: still 4-7 days away from perfect color. Next week rain is forecast for every day but Friday the 1st, which might be perfect. Go around 2pm when the sun I lights up the famous “tree” (it’s a small bush really)

Despite the different crowds and their behavior on each network, from the writing side of things here's how they rank:

Mastodon: 500 characters (but you can post thousands if you really wanted to), it's all hidden behind read-more links in most clients.

️ UNLIMITED EDITING OF YOUR POSTS!

Bluesky: 300 characters with zero editing, ever.

Threads: 500 characters but zero editing, ever.

Mastodon still wins by a mile for writers

I used to be bummed that Mastodon was only a slice of my friends that used to follow me on Twitter, too many old friends were missing out.

They're mostly on Bluesky, but there's so much politics there it feels like 2012 Twitter.

A few misguided friends only use Threads, and I still don't understand why. They're trying to build the giant public square at Threads and if Twitter has taught us anything it's that smaller communities work better than one giant feed pile for the entire world.

I feel like Threads is by far the most cursed social network because it's based on the Facebook/Instagram backend. Threads seems good at taking something 40 of your friends got a chuckle out of, and beaming that to someone on the other side of the country that doesn't know who you are or what your deal is and is super fucking pissed off about it.

I spent the past week using Croissant to post identical toots to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all at once.

Summary:

1. Mastodon: works as is—friends laugh at my dumb stuff, a few randos painfully explain my joke back to me

2. Bluesky: you get 2 likes or 200, no in-between.

3. Threads: my posts got 5 views or 5,000 views, no in-between. Also: context collapse as bad as 2018 Twitter with dozens of randos screaming at me how I'm wrong and I'm an asshole. Humorless.

I’ve always lived on the west coast so when east coast friends told me years ago that Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets I’d be like “what?! but every town has one!” and they’d say “yep”

Anyway, this sign is 100’ from Louisville’s Market St

@johnonolan aaaand it just happened. I recently got a SEO spam comment on a blog post I imported into Ghost that was originally written in 2001.

I have built many of my own content management systems and worked on Blogger and I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete this garbage comment from my Ghost blog now.

I'm kind of surprised and amazed they actually did it: $400/person per day at Disneyland and you get to walk onto any lightning lane ride for a full day.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/disney-parks-new-line-skip-plan/index.html

Last Fall I got to go on a "plaid tour" VIP tour of Disneyland with a small group of friends. It costs about $5000 for an employee to walk you around the park and they walk you right onto any ride you want. We did something like 18 rides on a weekend day with little waiting. It was the best day ever.

But I always wondered if Disney could just sell an unlimited lightning lane pass, since that was the best part of the plaid tour for me. I figured $500-700/day would probably work for Disney.

Something that's been stuck in my craw for months is watching the GOP go after IVF. It makes no sense because IVF lets rich white people have more babies and isn't that the ultimate goal for their party? They're not so fundamental about eggs/sperm to ban the whole process so why on earth are they trying?

Then I realized: they think 2 women in a relationship shouldn't be able to have kids, so they ban all IVF to get what they want—control of women operating outside of any traditional norms.

Portland Japanese Garden color report: golden hues are lagging behind most of the city, probably peaking in another 10-12 days

My new response to every invite

I only hit my car's horn about once a year to prevent an accident but I'd use it more if it could make one of two sounds instead of the default:

a) a gentle toot just barely louder than a conversation to egg people in front of me to put down their phones and go at the green light

b) a Union Pacific Locomotive blast that loosens fillings in people's teeth when it goes off to prevent someone from t-boning me

trump is making up stories about “transgender surgery is being done on illegal immigrants” but honestly, can you imagine *anyone* in America getting completely free healthcare with no copay, no one responsible for 50% that isn’t covered, no need for five referrals first?

His tales are completely laughable to anyone that’s ever spent any time in the US.

@johnonolan I wish I could turn comments off automatically after x days/weeks/months.

One less thing to worry about when you have 23 years of posts.