kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/08/2026An itty bitty solar eclipse here in VT, about 10 minutes before it started pouring. (They say during a thunderstorm is the safest way to view a solar eclipse…) 0241
kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/06/2026I'd forgotten that the opening crawl for Revenge of the Sith literally both-sidesed the Sith's war on the Republic. "Very fine people, on both sides..." 3405
kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/06/2026More of the message. (My reply was rejected by the board mods for being too sarcastic.) 101446
kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/04/2026Every time I see a photo of David Ellison, I think of Mikey Day's Butt-Head from that SNL sketch 17110
kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers. 14751951918
kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/03/2026I felt like there was a simpler way to make this comparison so I took the data from the original chart and made this spreadsheet and bar chart that normalizes income by hours worked per week. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 0196
kottke.org @kottke.org · 03/03/2026Apple Sports team: Can you add a "display name" to your metadata for football matches? Way more people know R. Dias Belloli as Raphinha. Google gets it right. And you don't want "C. Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro" or "N. da Silva Santos Júnior" showing up during the World Cup. 2220
kottke.org @kottke.org · 02/12/2025@ginatrapani.org Catching up on the blog and understandably I am *very* interested in these: 1141
kottke.org @kottke.org · 18/11/2025First Cloudflare and now Github. The universe doesn't want me to work today... www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q... 811420
kottke.org @kottke.org · 04/09/2025i feel like we could use a comet rn. to marvel at in the sky or slam into the earth, either way 1753
kottke.org @kottke.org · 21/08/2025Stephen Miller’s Wikipedia bio reads like that of a school shooter 2406
kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/07/2025Of course I am clicking and browsing faster than a typical human, I am a professional blogger 5939
kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/07/2025The NY Times should stop using the weaselly "experts said..." to denote plain truths — unless they're going to apply the practice to *everything*. kottke.org/25/07/journa... 1377
kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/07/2025Delighted to inform you that horse antacid is called Neigh-Lox 410213
kottke.org @kottke.org · 21/05/2025Here’s what conservatives are mad about: marxist big tech companies building woke apps that make everything about gender 0120
kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/05/2025Congratulations OpenAI, you’ve made choosing the right model to chat with as confusing as buying a TV 2533
kottke.org @kottke.org · 08/05/2025Have they considered that the Sistine Chapel is simply on fire? 1181
![Miller attended Franklin Elementary School, where he was described by a former teacher as "off by himself all the time",[13] and Lincoln Middle School.[14] In 1999, he began attending Santa Monica High School.[15] Miller opposed his high school's chapter of the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán and was said to have taunted immigrants by the chapter's founder; he reportedly insisted to other students and teachers that they speak English. Miller called into The Larry Elder Show (1993–2008; 2010–2014) and successfully brought the eponymous host, Larry Elder, to his high school.[16] He later appeared after the September 11 attacks to describe an incident in which a Canadian teacher placed the flag of the United States on the floor and discussed its importance, though Miller alleged that the teacher had dragged the flag across the floor and trampled over it. Miller appeared on The Larry Elder Show sixty-nine times, according to an estimate…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vaba7tf7ylt2kaavf4t2kotp/bafkreidtqy7g32ovdbklzm3lxsbauyh6gx2om5rinpqix3ast4qqz7vrj4)
![Miller began attending Duke University in 2003.201 to study political science.
[21] There, he was nicknamed "Guns" for introducing himself on the East Campus with, "I'm from Santa Monica, California— and I like guns." He was involved in a…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vaba7tf7ylt2kaavf4t2kotp/bafkreiatbx2iuflk632jcnon7jel7mm3x6vp46h4cyhqeve4rv6qnr243q)
