Daniel Jalkut
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  • People often say entrepreneurs should find a co-founder whose virtues match, whose skills differ, and who will drive you to do your best work. But what if they turn out to be a blowhard who regurgitates right-wing idiocy while refusing accountability. I’ll take my chances alone.

    30 September 2025
  • Kamala Harris would have been SO much more boring and SO much better for our country.

    27 September 2025
  • The hardest job in America right now is being a Federal Judge. An unprecedented number of ridiculous, unmerited cases arriving at your desk, with an unhinged President, Congress, and Supreme Court prepared to challenge whatever decision you make.

    26 September 2025
  • We spent too many years with one side in American politics calling the other side “clowns,” that nobody knows quite how to describe the current state. Our entire country, from the President, to all of the Federal agencies, the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court, are all controlled by clowns.

    26 September 2025
  • I achieved a major development milestone for my biggest app, MarsEdit, today. I can now build against Swift 6 with strict concurrency, and no warnings. It was harder than it should be (though Apple’s working on that), but it feels good knowing I can move forward with concurrent confidence.

    26 September 2025
  • The expectation/hope for a “rapture” always puts the Pedro the Lion song in my head: www.youtube.com/watch

    23 September 2025
  • I have never intentionally tuned in to watch Jimmy Kimmel, but of course i was outraged by his suspension. I expect and hope that many on the right felt the same way. We have freedom fundamentalists on the left and the right. Whatever you want to say, you have the right to say it. 🇺🇸

    23 September 2025
  • Has anybody tried to square Charlie Kirk’s widow “forgiving” his murderer with the fact that everybody on the right is committed to executing him? I don’t typically think of execution as the natural follow-up to forgiveness.

    23 September 2025
  • Tylenol IS actually one of the most concerning pain medications. If you drink or do drugs you should probably be careful with Tylenol. BUT of course whatever the President of the United States is saying is bullshit.

    23 September 2025
  • I just made homemade bubble tea for the first time. It’s remarkable how much the tapioca pearls transform from raw to cooked!

    22 September 2025
  • I guess the right thinks that this is a normal, appropriate amount of affection for a widow to express to the US President at her husband’s funeral. Looks weird as hell to me.

    Picture featuring President Donlad Trump looking forward with Erika Kirk leaning into his side, nestling against his neck.

    21 September 2025
  • I don’t know if there’s a formula for this, but I picked “the end of his memorial” to stop shedding tears about his truly wrongful death, and return to assessing how bad a person, what a blight on society, and how harmful to other people Charlie Kirk was. We lost a bad man in a bad way.

    21 September 2025
  • I feel strongly that being assassinated doesn’t absolve you of your “sins”. Sometimes bad people get murdered unjustly.

    21 September 2025
  • So … when do we get to start acknowledging again what a complete and utter shithead hater Charlie Kirk was? Because I think his murder was appalling, too, but we should never forget what a bad person he was.

    21 September 2025
  • If you ever wondered how anybody could support Adolph Hitler while he upended German social norms, villainized people by race and sexuality, and suspended or ignored national laws, just ask your friend why they still support Trump.

    21 September 2025
  • In case I wasn’t totally clear: I changed my mind because of my kid. This is something I hope to do repeatedly as I get older.

    21 September 2025
  • I hesitated to cancel Disney Plus, in part because I know my kids rely on the entertainment from those channels. When I said something along those lines, my older son said “we could probably get those shows from the library.” He knew the priority, and he was nudging me in the right direction.

    21 September 2025
  • It’s surreal, as a 50 year old man, to live in the timeline I always dreaded. When I was a teenage punk in the SF Bay Area, we lamented HINTS at fascism that were evident in the worst of our elected representatives. Here we are, 30+ years later and all of our paranoia is coming true, triple-fold.

    20 September 2025
  • I was finally moved to cancel Disney Plus when I saw they are “in negotiations” with Jimmy Kimmel. I want him to have as much leverage as he can, so I did it.

    Screenshot of cancelation survey asking why I unsubscribed with “Other” checked, and an explanation entered: “complicity with fascist regime”

    20 September 2025
  • I got a lot of pushback on my plan to get all four vaccines at once, but I did it. Usual annoying shoulder pain, and 12 hours of sleep with fever dreams. But now I’m all vaxed up. Going all in CAN work. Know your body!

    19 September 2025
  • It would be better for our country, and more entertaining, if Disney made headlines by standing up to an authoritarian government, rather than by cowering before them. I never took Mickey Mouse for a fascist appeaser.

    18 September 2025
  • I just scheduled an appointment for FOUR VACCINES in one visit. A new personal record. I’m getting Flu, Pneumonia, Shingles, and yes, Covid-19, because I believe in science, and because I live in a state whose governor believes in science.

    17 September 2025
  • You puke you clean.

    View of a long narrow punk bar with graffiti style art on most walls, and a bold mural with white text on red background declaring “you puke you clean”.

    15 September 2025
  • Welcome to San Gennaro!

    Video description: colorful Ferris Wheel on Manhattan street, with Italian festival banner in lights spelling “Welcome to San Gennaro” hung in front.

    14 September 2025
  • No stopping anytime.

    “No Stopping Anytime” street sign mounted on a brick interior wall, next to a window with security bars. The sign is adorned with a Banksy-style stencil of a rat.

    14 September 2025

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