Roger Geissler

Pretty much any day on ex-dot-com.

@TRHLofficial I remember how this billboard stirred up quite a furor when it first appeared.

I think about this a lot

@exjon @pmarca I think because you mentioned your Mom we get a special message when liking this tweet.

@pmarca In first grade, our teacher handed out maps showing that our neighborhood outside of Chicago would be covered by a glacier due to a pollution-caused ice age. Mom said it was okay because we were moving to Phoenix that summer. (And they wonder why Gen X are skeptical.)

Yep, I remember this.

@klara_sjo BBC Pidgin is so weird because they feel they need to translate "with" as "wit" but apparently the phrase "traditional Buddhist robes" is no problem for viewers to understand.

The BBC pidgin language only adds to the disturbing nature of this.

The last few days I've noticed a massive uptick in the number of people wearing masks in the Bay Area and it's starting to feel like 2021 again for some reason.

@NickKristof And you didn’t wind up like Otto Warmbier? Lucky for you.

I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea.

@entoliberal @feelsdesperate

@feelsdesperate The lib wordcels never made a Golden Obama, because their worship is literary. MAGA chuds build idols because they are sub-literate.

@feelsdesperate Before there was Twitter there was the SFGate comments section, especially for Morford’s articles. That was truly a golden age.

@ClickingSeason If journalists like Yglesias are still in 2026 seeing things through the lens of "left" or "right" then they are hopelessly lost. Trump 2016 would not have been possible without how Romney was treated in 2012.

Trump was 100% a backlash to the Obama 2 turn in left-liberalism in which it became clear that they were committed to “identity” becoming the alpha and omega of meaning and we would never, ever be permitted to “get over it.” Trump was whites saying “ok, fine, if we must.”

@jakesonaplane_ @UnbeknownstDude @bryanrbeal I have to say when I flew to Singapore from Seattle I really enjoyed the stop in Tokyo, I got to take a shower and have some great ramen before continuing.

@UnbeknownstDude @bryanrbeal Ive taken this flight and its amazing, wdym! Beats a connection

I’ve done it. Basically they convert an A350 into a flying gas can. They built the plane just for this route. Since they need so much fuel, they can’t have as many passengers. So it’s all just business class and first class. For the first part of the flight, you’re at low cruise altitude because the plane is so darn heavy with all the fuel that they can’t reach its maximum altitude until several hours into the flight. You are heading north for the first half of the flight and if you’re lucky, you’ll get a great view of the northern lights in winter. The service is among the very best you’ll ever get on commercial travel and the menu is a constant delight of delicious meals and snacks for the entire flight

@utopia_escape @eugyppius1 Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel is the zombie apocalypse any time of day for blocks all around. It was nice how they cleaned it up for Euro2024 but that was short-lived.

@eugyppius1 Munich is one of the worst train stations in Germany. Whole neighborhood feels unsafe at night. Will that construction ever end?

Back in Bayern for a day to check up briefly on the empty as-yet-unsold house etc. God is Munich central station an unmitigated shithole. Also how much I have missed the beer.

@annbauerwriter Last year I spent a week in Paris and the French are still fairly resistant to English, knowing the language a bit really helped.

THIS, right here, is exactly why I no longer enjoy foreign travel. I loved the difficulties of learning phrases in another language and figuring out currency and reading up on another people's customs. Now, everything is "easy" - English-first, tourist-ready, familiar and FLAT.

@HaikuAmerica @feelsdesperate I don’t blame you, Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are truly magic.

Here’s how Jeff recently affected me: Watching a movie on Amazon prime and the commercials came on with a link that you can use your remote to put the item in your cart. Haha, thought I, I’m not going to start doing that now! Next spot was a new Mr. Clean Magic Eraser specifically for the bathtub. Click. Coming Monday. Eat it, AOC.

Here’s how Jeff Bezos affects me: He made it much easier to run a household with small children. I probably get 5-10 Amazon packages every week. That time saved means my wife and I can spend more time with the kids or go for a run in the park or do any number of things we’d rather to be doing than ‘shopping.’ The overvalued Amazon stock has also helped bloat my overvalued retirement funds. I’m supposed to cry because he jacked himself up on steroids, has a paper fortune of a few hundred $ billion, and is floating around on his mega yacht with his over surgeried 2nd wife? That’s crazy, I’m not going to do that, the last thing I’m going to cry about is ‘Jeff Bezos.’

@JebraFaushay We used to be a proper country.

Remember when Mr. T sang this Mother’s Day song? No? Let me refresh your memory. 🎶🎶🎶

@klara_sjo In my old neighborhood in Berlin there was this giant orange Brutalist thingy (a sign at street level said it was an Argentinian Steakhouse) that stood out amongst the greyness of the rest of the area. So I guess I lived in Eastern Europe then.

Americans have the mudflood and Eastern Europeans have crayola brutalism theory.

@KeenanPeachy @CadburyFunny For some reason when someone likes this post they get a special Happy Mother's Day message which doesn't appear when liking other posts, including responses to the original post.

You're not gonna believe this, but Gavin Newsom's new "free diapers" program is yet another corrupt NGO money laundering operation. Kelly Sawyer runs Baby 2 Baby, an LA charity that provides baby gear to poor mothers. If you go to an LA private school, you get solicited to donate to it every year (and I have). Newsom announced he's giving $20 million to Baby 2 Baby to give new mothers free diapers. Only, he's not giving it directly to mothers in the form of supermarket vouchers or gift cards -- he can't do that, because then Kelly Sawyer's Hollywood producer husband Jamie Patricof wouldn't be able to funnel this money back into Newsom's presidential campaign. Jamie Patricof, you see, is one of the top donors and campaign bundlers for the democrats in California. He's the son of venture capitalist Alan Patricof, one of the biggest bundlers for the Clintons. Jamie took over for Alan, who's 94. Newsom is giving $20 million of our money to his close pals the Patricofs' pet "nonprofit." How much is going to get kicked back to Newsom's campaign? How much do the Patricof's get? This plan is more full of poop than a newborn's Huggies.

@klara_sjo The best part is that he's reading Lenin and yet look out the window and you see an auto shop or whatever in the middle of New Jersey and that's the real working class of the USA so instead of actually talking to the guys who tailgate Giants games he's reading fucking V.I. Lenin.

Meanwhile he posts pics of himself on a train “reading” What Is To Be Done by Lenin… while wearing a $4k Cartier ring and expensive Cartier glasses. One photo pretending to read, next staring thoughtfully out the window. Peak performative self-absorption.

Just watched clips of Hasan on that weird NYT interview/podcast with rich millennial women. Comedy gold for all the wrong reasons. They grill him on “morals” and he starts advocating for stealing shit. Bro… you’re on the New York Times.

I suspect that "ChatGPT thinks I'm really smart" is the new "the stripper is actually really into me."

@sparkly_jules1 Stock in Apple at $22 per share at its IPO (ok that was 1980 but basically the 70s.)

An apartment in Manhattan.

@feelsdesperate "Hoarding that wealthy"

I wish these guys could get even 1/10th as upset about $ trillions in public funds being wasted and stolen as they do about a handful of billionaires having fun on their yachts.

@SwannMarcus89 "We built this crisis by choosing developers..." And what exactly do these developers develop? Maybe things that could ease the housing crisis?

I swear to Christ the Democratic Party’s message at this point is “all of the most progressive places are unaffordable shitholes where nobody can afford an apartment, therefore you should vote for us”