The stupid. It hurts. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5812892-cdc-diagnostic-testing-updates-rabies-infectious-disease/

Ooof. Just tallied the performance of my retirement account and spouse's for the first quarter of 2026. 😬 Not good.

So we finally have clear skies and so I went to get the viewing information about that comet that was going to be visible and ran into a headline that said

COMET OF THE YEAR VAPORIZED

And I was like, welcome to 2026, comet. 😂

WATCH IN FULL HD ON UTUB, SUBSCREYEB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2QdXoOq6TE

/ O YEAH IT MAY SNOWBLOB 2MORRO
/ UP2 0.5 INCH OF THE FOOLISH WHITE STUFF THRU 11 AM
/ ISNT THAT SO SPESH
/ A BLOBBY TUESDAY
/ BUT O WATS THIS?
/ U MAY BE IN 4 A SUPER EL NINO?
/ DON'T BET UR BOTTOM BUTTE DOLLAR ON IT
/ BUT SIGNS R POINTING 2WARDS IT
/ UR WEATHER LORDS R DRUNK ON CARBON
/ & U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

First, like talk radio, things seem to slant conservative. But also, Tucker Carlson is still alive, and is a thing? And who the fuck is Alex Cooper? And why does looking at the descriptions of the top podcasts make me want to punch someone?

Okay, so I've joined a podcast club where we all listen to a podcast and talk about it, and so I just visited Spotify's "top podcast" list and WTF now I feel old and very, very worried about the future of humanity.

https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/us/top-podcasts

THERES A NEW UMBRELLA DESIGN IN TOWN:

https://merch.weatherishappening.com/product/the-weather-is-happening-patterned-logo-umbrella

It's only Monday and already I'm feeling I may need to do some serious pastry experimentation this weekend to work out the frustration.

That's no moon....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0

Whoa, missed this: Hudson NY developer gives most of its portfolio to Bard College.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/business/bard-college-hudson-ny.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.aMCZ.a631cKMc6Ftm&smid=url-share

Apparently when people refer to a social media echo chamber what they mean is a chamber that doesn't center racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, or fascist ideas as baseline or, worse, actively excludes them as gross or unfit for sensible people to consider.

Gonna have to make a note of this, it's not the definition I would generally think of first.

49 DEGREES

You would think that a four-year-old Japanese maple that was over three feet tall would be safe from squirrels, but NOOOOOOOOO. 🙄 Those fuckers chewed it down to a stick. I am hoping it can recover, because I grew this thing from a seed.

THE MOON

Fucking squirrels can go fuck themselves.

#FuckSquirrels

Everything about this blog post is true. And it's fun ("fun!") to watch it play out at work where the push to AI is aggressively making all the other bottlenecks in the system worse.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Happy First Monday, party people.

CURRENT SKY SITCH OVER BOSTON: SKYBLOBLESS

been getting baader-meinhofed by house of leaves lately so i finally finished that essay i wrote most of over a year ago https://www.vaudevillegho.st/explaining-house-of-leaves/