bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026SF standard had a local comedian interview Xavier Becerra and it is just so tonally weird and embarrassing for all parties. 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Usually I'm totally down for it but I feel like narrow arguments about which specific disciplines are the core pieces of a liberal education is probably counterproductive (everyone knows it's comparative literature and finance, durr). 021
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm just a man, staring at a box of old Ethernet cables and USB adapters wondering if I can actually get rid of it all? 360
Reposted by bkmacdSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not a serious list. They don't have the 2017 Youtube Upload Of Smiley's People (1982) 3335
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"I should listen to the Giants game it's the last weekend of baseball." <Turns on game, immediately give up 3 runs> "Oh yeah that's why I haven't been doing that recently." 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Amazing youtu.be/aChSFP-F7oA?...youtu.beThe Sopranos (1999–2007) No Show: Carmela vs. MeadowYouTube video by Alfred C. Chu 000
Reposted by bkmacdJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This has reminded me of the Incredible Spy Comedy Au Service De La France, which pulls no punches about how shittily Paris treated the rest of the Empireyoutu.beAu service de la France L'indépendanceYouTube video by Silvalining123 1306
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sometimes I think the real pivot point for the death of the old dream of the open internet was when social networks (twitter/Instagram/fb) stopped letting you find who you followed from one network to another. 030
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Topic at lunch was "what is the best cigarette?" My boss said "after three glasses of wine", I said "after a double espresso on an empty stomach". My respectable coworker looked on in horror. 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Algorithm keeps on suggesting new Phillip Glass recordings to me (Camille Thomas and Brussels Phil, Cello Concerto no. 1) and I am not complaining. 010
Reposted by bkmacdTyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/09/2026hey guys (hey guys (hey guys (hey guys check this out) check this out) check this out) check this out 2945678
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How many parent be checkin' their kids homework after this weekend's discourse? Hahaha not me right? Hahaha 000
Reposted by bkmacdRob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣 6776208
Reposted by bkmacdDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I wrote this at the time and think it holds up well, based on Graham's excellent summary of the key points backofmind.substack.com/p/regulation...backofmind.substack.comregulation is the scientist, supervision is the monsterSVB, considered as a specific case of a general feature of systems 1125
Reposted by bkmacdBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/20261/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory 720372
Reposted by bkmacdJames Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026As a buildings archaeologist, I enjoy meeting my clients... 321254
Reposted by bkmacdJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this 191149484046
Reposted by bkmacdNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20/09/2026WD-40 transdermal patches. (personal use only) 301036292
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“average georg responsible for one statistical outlier" factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. average Georg has 0 statistical outliers. Georg Georg, who lives in Son Dong Cave & is more than ten thousand times the interquartile range, is an outlier adn should not have been counted” 02811
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can add a froyo from the main IKEA self check out line. The future is beyond my wildest dreams. 021
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I like to compare my accomplishments based on the similar moment in the Bob Dylan Discography and I'm happy that this year is Down in the Groove because I feel like that's an attainable goal. 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026CA rnstatic.klipy.comPelicula Western: Nuevo Suscriptor MemeALT: Pelicula Western: Nuevo Suscriptor Meme 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Love how sfgate headline writers can declare multiple decades of unpermitted buildings "historic". Stop work orders since 1988 sure, but the discourse demands set narratives. 330
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.sfgate.com/bars/article... Very wistful about this one, even though it fell off the regular rotation a while ago...sfgate.comTriple Rock, America's oldest continuously operating brewpub, to closeAfter 40 years and 10 million pints served, the Berkeley icon is set to close. 011
Reposted by bkmacdJamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 17/09/2026me when anyone asks me why I’m pitching a 2000-word feature on muni-bond ballot measures to the student newspaper 0111
Reposted by bkmacdlukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 128131702117
Reposted by bkmacdDr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15/09/2026California survived record-setting heat on Sept 9, 2026 without rolling brownouts or mass heat deaths. ACs saved lives by continuing to hum through the day and evening hours. This due to fossil gas. Demand was so high, gas provided 16,000 MW to the CA grid at night, to run AC & recharge batteries 1316
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Charles Bukowski is Rupi Kaur for kids who can't grow soul patches. 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Getting tiktok content for three day goth post punk festivals in CDMX so clearly I've done something right in my life. 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026MFW someone tries to be coy with some hot gossip.static.klipy.comPrincess Bride: I Must KnowALT: Princess Bride: I Must Know 020
Reposted by bkmacdbkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026They don't show this on the nutritional label, but if you eat Panda Express Orange Chicken out of the box while standing up, the calories do not count. 131
Reposted by bkmacdbkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Engaged in one of life's top five pleasures: eating the last of the Panda Express orange chicken straight out of the box with chopsticks 041
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026About to have a Proper chicken fried steak in TX and the next table over has a guy in a branded polo pitching some folks on solar to get rid of their electric bill. 060