Christopher Guess

@rustercogbizurn @dieworkwear @Dadelaidian As John Waters said “if you go home with someone and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.” It’s not a morality standpoint, it’s a marker of curiosity and humanity.

@dieworkwear @Dadelaidian heard a podcast on how reading books doesn’t mean you are a good person. Which highlights how we lend a level of goodwill to some activities (e.g. being well read, living in walkable community etc). Therefore, who would you say are the best dressed scoundrels in human history?

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like lookmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

@AudraCoulombe @nymetrowx Not OP but: It doesn’t (yet). They’re just different models. Europe models tend to be a bit better these days but it’s good to look at them all.

@nymetrowx Honest question (maybe a dumb one) does the fact that the Euro was more accurate than GFS have anything to do with how the government reduced funding to NOAA?

Early Look: Models hinting at the potential for a major coastal storm this weekend. patreon.com/posts/14916657…

Funny how financial regulations and claw back policies could be useful, eh?

It will take time to feel the full impact of all that my Administration has done. But the seeds we planted will grow and bloom for decades to come.

Bon Iver has been live streaming a shot of some woods since October 18th. No clue or indication as to why. youtube.com/live/1sz2tr-yN…

@susie_dent Should have picked it up when I saw it in Paris. Not released in the US until May :-(

My novel is only £1.99 on Kindle today should you need some dastardly distraction.

@Just_a_crick @Flirtcheap @dissproportion I just walked past a millennial mom and her 3 year old today. The kid was in a Volcom t shirt. Won’t ever die

I was in high school in 2003: - nobody was allowed to wear hats in school, and girls wouldn’t anyway - wheelies were for babies, and peaked later - tucking jeans into Uggs?! Like that??? No - nobody would stand around staring at music players next to friends. Literally nothing to see. - hair/makeup is wrong - where are Chucks, band tees, gelled hair? - why is everybody wearing retina-searing colors?

@tropicaljeff @Octopuses_Grdn @JohnLeFevre Voter role data sold is barely ever up to date. The Republican Party is somehow still thinking I live in Wisconsin despite being registered in NY for almost a decade. Note this is *not* the same data used at polling stations.

@Octopuses_Grdn @JohnLeFevre If the mission doesn't have the beds, by law, they cannot live there. Therefore if it is 2X the # of voters showing there, it's simole math. 90 beds X 2 =180 men showing they live there but the state says only 90 are allowed. Therefore... Can you do the math? How many dimes in $1

Possible Pennsylvania fraud alert: The Bethesda Mission Men's Shelter 611 Reily Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102 - More than 2x people registered voters than beds - 90%+ registered Democrats - Most with zero voting history Source: VoterMaps(dot)Org

@MikeRezendes Honestly, go over to Bluesky, it's where everyone's fleeing to.

Hey everyone. After a long absence, the good folks at X have restored my account. What's happening?

New Daily Show???? On a Monday??? Woo hoo!!

THE CEO OF MAZDA JUST SAID THE 2025 CX-5 IS GONNA BE THE BEST ALL AROUND VEHICLE ON THE MARKET AND EVERYONE IS ACTING LIKE THIS IS NORMAL

@ElonMuskAOC @elonmusk Does he realize this would immediately kill him painfully?

@elonmusk It's time

SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars every two years, when the planets are aligned. This increases the difficulty of the task, but also serves to immunize Mars from many catastrophic events on Earth. No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase the number of spaceships traveling to Mars exponentially with every transit opportunity. We want to enable anyone who wants to be a space traveler to go to Mars! That means you or your family or friends – anyone who dreams of great adventure. Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will a glorious sight to see! Can you imagine? Wow. The fundamental existential question is whether humanity becomes sustainably multiplanetary before something happens on Earth to prevent that, for example nuclear war, a supervirus or population collapse that weakens civilization to the point where it loses the ability to send supply ships to Mars. One of my biggest concerns right now is that the Starship program is being smothered by a mountain of government bureaucracy that grows every year. This stifling red tape is affecting all large projects in America, which is why, for example, California has spent ~$7 billion dollars and several years on high-speed rail, but only has a 1600 ft section of concrete to show for it! While I have many concerns about a potential Kamala regime, my absolute showstopper is that the bureaucracy currently choking America to death is guaranteed to grow under a Democratic Party administration. This would destroy the Mars program and doom humanity. It cannot happen. Your help would be much appreciated. This is a fork, maybe the fork, in the road of human destiny.

@dieworkwear @WaysGentleman I once toured historic Fort Ticonderoga where they do full historical clothing and life similar to Williamsburg VA. My girlfriend got incredibly bored after I spent 30 minutes talking to the cordwainer about the history of 18th century french military lasts. Fascinating though!

@WaysGentleman i like the idea of hanging out with people but find the idea of gentlemen's clubs incredibly boring. I once used a bespoke shoemaker who enjoyed telling me about how his clients were part of these clubs. Found it boring; I would much rather talk about how shoes are made.

These things still exist. In London, there are over 50 gentlemen's clubs. There's over that number across the United States. But "return to the past" trad accounts don't know about them because they are not part of the socio-economic class that's allowed into these clubs

Report: You’d Be At Awesome Raptor Scene Right Now If You’d Just Watched ‘Jurassic Park’ Tonight Like A Normal Person

@emmangoldstein I’m assuming the software versioning number is different but could be analogous for whatever exploit or bug you’re looking for.

@emmangoldstein I have their briefly sold Bluetooth portable speaker from about 2017. I have to check if it has the same functionality but I think it does. Would that work?

Let's see if social media is still useful. Does anyone have an old Alexa Tap, the kind where you push a button instead of using a wake word, but still have the option of adding the wake word feature? Software version 663643820. Need to run an experiment.

Autocracy in America doesn’t start with stormtroopers. It starts with a crazy and sinister story about chickens. New podcast with @anneapplebaum and me, where we see the worrying and weird parallels between America and autocracies we know all too well theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

@sidekiq Love it

Python is... fine... but how it became the default I'll never really get. JS is (still, and always) terrible. Java I guess is for corporate stuff. C++ I really hope I just for video games. I could go on but I skip to #11 (Go) and lower if I want to actually build anything.

This makes me cry, why are the worst languages the most popular?