All The Tweets
- Jul 19, 2018, 7:47 PM
- Jul 25, 2018, 6:20 PM
Just read one article about bartenders using vodka for the "texture" and another about bartenders using stevia and I'm in a mood to get into a fistfight.
- Jul 25, 2018, 6:31 PM
- Jul 25, 2018, 6:37 PM
- Jul 28, 2018, 11:39 AM
I'm reading an old Jack Kirby comic, and there's a dude whose super power is his "Stone Hand," by which I mean he's a guy holding a brick.
- Aug 1, 2018, 2:36 PM
- Oct 8, 2018, 6:49 PM
- Oct 9, 2018, 5:48 PM
Gwen: "Don't call me bossy!! I prefer 'strong-minded.' Because my mom is strong-minded, and so is my sister."
- Oct 10, 2018, 9:10 AM
"All he ever wanted was a glass of grappa." https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/delawareonline/obituary.aspx?n=rick-stein&pid=190409566
- Oct 13, 2018, 10:13 AM
- Oct 16, 2018, 4:19 PM
- Oct 18, 2018, 7:25 PM
Gwen: "Maybe I can get Malala Yousafzai to join my Kindness Club! She changed the world, she would probably have all kinds of good tips!"
- Oct 20, 2018, 7:46 PM
- Oct 20, 2018, 7:46 PM
- Oct 21, 2018, 12:42 PM
- Oct 27, 2018, 3:48 PM
- Oct 27, 2018, 3:50 PM
There is a dude on this bus wearing Timbos with gaiters, and an eyepatch, and it is, word to God, the coolest thing I have ever seen.
- Oct 30, 2018, 7:27 PM
- Nov 1, 2018, 12:12 PM
- Nov 1, 2018, 6:43 PM
- Dec 1, 2018, 4:42 PM
I can confirm that I am queen of teen internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/style/the-best-astrological-sign-of-all.html
- May 26, 2019, 5:28 PM
- May 29, 2019, 9:13 PM
- May 31, 2019, 5:23 PM
- Jun 13, 2019, 8:53 PM
That feeling when you have to explain both ācodpiecesā and āJack Chick tractsā to your kid during a single bedtime.
- Jun 14, 2019, 7:08 PM
- Jun 30, 2019, 6:05 PM
- Jul 2, 2019, 9:25 PM
Welcome to 2019, where āpre-movie erotic ASMR low-carb beer commercialā is a phrase that describes a real thing.
- Jul 17, 2019, 5:08 PM
- Dec 27, 2020, 4:42 PM(5 mentions)
- Dec 27, 2020, 7:17 PM
- Dec 27, 2020, 11:21 PM
- Dec 28, 2020, 12:06 AM
Testing in production is always the best policy. Plus it bores your friends, who probably have been too excited lately. Itās good for them.
- Dec 28, 2020, 12:20 AM
- Dec 28, 2020, 12:35 AM(1 mention)
- Dec 28, 2020, 8:22 PM
- Dec 28, 2020, 8:22 PM
- Dec 30, 2020, 1:09 PM(40 mentions)
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail a few weeks ago, and Iām shocked by how much better it is. My email is actually useful again.
- Dec 30, 2020, 10:27 PM
- Jan 1, 2021, 12:06 AM
- Jan 1, 2021, 1:40 AM(1 mention)
- Jan 1, 2021, 8:34 PM
Everyone knows that hindsight is 2020. What this tweet presupposes is: maybe Mad Dog is 2020 instead?
- Jan 1, 2021, 8:40 PM(4 mentions)
The kitten likes to take a dump while Iām scooping the litter box, looking up at me like āchallenge...accepted.ā
- Jan 6, 2021, 7:17 PM(13 mentions)
- Jan 6, 2021, 7:54 PM(7 mentions)
- Jan 7, 2021, 12:59 AM
- Jan 7, 2021, 11:35 PM(12 mentions)
A new year is a great time to adopt new healthy habits! Like, if youāre going to name check George Orwell, maybe go read literally one Goddamned paragraph of the Wikipedia article about him first,
- Jan 8, 2021, 5:34 PM(3 mentions)
- Jan 8, 2021, 8:34 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 9, 2021, 12:56 AM(22 mentions)
Iām sad that @Simple is closing down, but I will always have my Memories of those TRIPS TO PORTLAND Over The Years.

- Jan 10, 2021, 8:37 PM(17 mentions)
Gwen: [walks in sobbing]
Me: whatās wrong
G: I saw the Xmas tree on the curb
M:
G: I just took it for granted
M:
G: I wish Cmas didnāt have to end
M:
G: I wish the tree didnāt have to die
M:
G: I hugged it - Jan 14, 2021, 6:25 PM
Gwen: we talked today in class about how it makes you feel bad when you ask why you have to do something, and somebody says ābecause I said soā
Me: yeah, that feels bad
Gwen: I was the only one in class who had never been told that before
Me: ā¤ļøšā¤ļø
- Jan 15, 2021, 1:16 AM(2 mentions)
āThe Wellermanā is a beautiful, traditional song about a group of dudes spending eternity trying to murder an endangered whale, while some other dude drops by periodically to bring them refreshments.
- Jan 15, 2021, 8:11 PM(12 mentions)
- Jan 16, 2021, 8:32 PM(5 mentions)
- Jan 16, 2021, 8:57 PM
- Jan 19, 2021, 9:01 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 20, 2021, 8:43 PM(10 mentions)
You havenāt lived until youāve watched Gwen put on a 45 minute unscripted puppet show about cats evaluating different brands of cat beds, while a crazed kitten repeatedly tries to tear down the stage.
- Jan 22, 2021, 10:06 PM(15 mentions)
- Jan 29, 2021, 10:54 PM(15 mentions)
- Jan 29, 2021, 11:35 PM(3 mentions)
- Feb 9, 2021, 10:10 PM(2 mentions)
- Feb 13, 2021, 8:10 PM(4 mentions)
- Feb 19, 2021, 9:32 PM(9 mentions)
- Feb 20, 2021, 10:15 PM(3 mentions)
- Mar 2, 2021, 11:24 PM(6 mentions)
Parenting challenge, hard mode: the cat has gotten wise and hidden under the childās bed so you canāt give her her meds. Extract the cat while not waking up the child.
- Mar 5, 2021, 6:29 PM(31 mentions)
Gwen: will you play a game with me
Me: I just stopped working and Iām really tiredā
G: would you like me to make you some cinnamon toast?
Me: ...YES
- Mar 7, 2021, 1:22 PM(1 mention)
- Mar 7, 2021, 4:43 PM(1 mention)
Itās important to follow up your strength training sessions with a cool down activity, like assembling furniture for two hours while a kitten tries to bite you.
- Mar 10, 2021, 6:26 PM(1 mention)
Every time I see this photo I think āThis asshole is driving way too fast in my old neighborhood.ā

- Mar 10, 2021, 7:48 PM(7 mentions)
- Mar 12, 2021, 8:13 PM(1 mention)
Amazon should feel profoundly embarrassed about this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly/
- Mar 14, 2021, 12:49 AM(2 mentions)
- Mar 14, 2021, 3:04 AM(5 mentions)
Itās the classic story; you try to get them to crack open the Chomsky, but all they want to read is comic books.

- Mar 14, 2021, 5:20 PM(38 mentions)
- Mar 14, 2021, 10:43 PM(3 mentions)
- Mar 14, 2021, 11:34 PM(25 mentions)
I wondered what the last photo I took in Portland was, before the pandemic happened and I quit my Portland job, and it is Appropriate.

- Mar 20, 2021, 7:06 PM(11 mentions)
- Mar 20, 2021, 8:03 PM(11 mentions)
- Mar 25, 2021, 6:03 PM(4 mentions)
- Mar 29, 2021, 7:52 PM(7 mentions)
Gwen: sometimes I pretend Iām a person who has the code name Midnight Fire
Elspeth: thatās a really good code name
G: thanks - Mar 31, 2021, 7:05 PM(1 mention)
- Apr 9, 2021, 10:26 AM(23 mentions)
In challenging times, rituals can sustain us. I urge you to make the time to celebrate this beloved holiday with the traditional foods, dances, and solemn contemplation.

- Apr 11, 2021, 8:54 PM(8 mentions)
- Apr 22, 2021, 9:56 AM(3 mentions)
I canāt get through this article because I keep thinking āWhat kind of monster would ever serve a Manhattan on the rocks.ā https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/adopting-rocksdb-within-manhattan.html
- Apr 25, 2021, 2:33 PM(5 mentions)
Gwen never used to want to play D&D, because sheās very upset by even pretend violence.
Then she came up with the idea that monsters donāt get killed, they just āgo to a different dimensionā and now she says things like āI am going to fry that goblin with a Fire Bolt.ā
- Apr 26, 2021, 1:43 AM(20 mentions)
[we are playing D&D for the first time]
Me: ok this magic item was made by the duergarā
Gwen: the duergar?! Those are the grey dwarves! Theyāre terrible, they were slave traders in the Underdark!
Me:
G: I read through the Playerās Handbook twice - Apr 26, 2021, 11:48 AM(10 mentions)
As you know, here at evanstoner.com the whole team is passionate about the quality of the reading experience for you, our valued customer.
Starting today, you will no longer see those dangly links in my tweets, and my indieweb crap will just work invisibly.
- Apr 27, 2021, 10:26 PM(18 mentions)
[kids are with my parents, the conversation turns to racism]
Gwen (3rd grader): racists are assholes
Elspeth (8th grader): Gwen! you arenāt allowed to swear until youāre in 8th grade
G: sorry
E: you can think swears in your head in 5th grade
Grandparents: [shaking] - Apr 27, 2021, 10:30 PM
- Apr 28, 2021, 1:43 PM(12 mentions)
Looking forward to trying out this āwalking around outsideā thing Iāve been hearing more and more about.
- Apr 30, 2021, 1:42 PM(28 mentions)
- May 2, 2021, 12:17 AM(9 mentions)
Gwen: can I make [Evanās weird inauthentic mi goreng recipe] for lunch for you and me? I memorized it from watching you
Me: uh that would be amazing
[later. the mi goreng is delicious]
G: I should make our lunch every Saturday
Me:
- May 9, 2021, 6:19 PM(2 mentions)
- May 11, 2021, 2:53 PM(14 mentions)
[Gwen is muttering at the table by herself]
Me: are you making up a story
G: no, not exactly. Iām pretending these peanut butter crackers are in a game show where the two with the most peanut butter go to the final round. Also Iām making up ads for the commercial breaks
- May 15, 2021, 7:02 PM(13 mentions)
Gwen [reading aloud]: qwertyuiop
Me: you know, that keyboard layout is caā
Gwen: this keyboard was invented 140 years ago and was designed to reduce typewriter jams. Let me draw for you what a jammed key looks like
Me:
- May 17, 2021, 10:01 AM
Iām truly impressed with how hard it is to understand the following headline: āFirst White Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Unboxing Surfaces Online.ā
There are six potential nouns in there, and the actual subject is a gerund. Plus itās all in title case, so capitalization will not help you.
- May 22, 2021, 5:57 PM(9 mentions)
If I donāt see the green fairy within 48 hours of this Moderna dose I am going to be so disappointed.
- May 25, 2021, 6:44 PM(3 mentions)
Kansas: š¶ā¦nothing lasts forever but the earth and skyāš¶
[record scratch]
Geologist narrator: well actually, - Jun 13, 2021, 5:26 PM
- Jun 23, 2021, 7:04 PM(10 mentions)
The best thing about the āAlanis Morissette doesnāt know what ironic means, ha haā critique:
It implies that the song would be better if it was called āVarious Pains in the Assā or āHereās Some Stuff That Sucks.ā
- Jun 27, 2021, 11:46 PM(10 mentions)
- Jun 30, 2021, 12:02 PM(10 mentions)
I am now receiving emails for Evan Stober, who I imagine is identical to me in every way, except typing competency.
- Jul 8, 2021, 6:25 PM
- Sep 7, 2021, 6:32 PM(13 mentions)
- Sep 14, 2021, 8:14 PM(6 mentions)
Gwen: have I told you about the Kindness Pearl
Me: ā¦no
G: itās in most of my books
M:
G: it lives inside of the Kindness Clam
M:
G: and if itās in good hands thatās great, but bad people try to steal it
M: so this is the Infinity Stones in the Gwen Cinematic Universe
G: yep - Sep 17, 2021, 12:08 AM(2 mentions)
Ten points to whoever first successfully identifies my favorite element of the Beard episode of Ted Lasso.
- Sep 17, 2021, 12:42 PM(2 mentions)
- Sep 23, 2021, 11:21 PM
I have no idea how they pulled off that episode of Ted Lasso. They need to go back and find a way to give Hannah Waddingham a second Emmy.
- Sep 28, 2021, 1:24 AM(7 mentions)
those are slices of jello shot cake
that were handed to us by people we didnāt know
at a longshoremanās bar
and I probably should not have eaten them
but nonetheless here we are

- Oct 15, 2021, 8:20 PM(13 mentions)
Gwen: this is weird but I want you to do something
Me: what
Gwen: jump
Me: [jumps]
Gwen: Iāve never seen you do that before
Me: was it basically like you expected
Gwen: I donāt know what I was expecting
- Oct 16, 2021, 12:05 PM(6 mentions)
Baby spider, next to a cupcake crumb on our cutting board. Taken with the new iPhone macro lens; the spiderās body is less than 1mm long.

- Oct 22, 2021, 8:22 PM(5 mentions)
- Oct 25, 2021, 12:43 AM(1 mention)
- Oct 30, 2021, 5:03 PM(4 mentions)
- Oct 31, 2021, 6:18 PM(19 mentions)
- Oct 31, 2021, 7:47 PM(14 mentions)
- Oct 31, 2021, 8:04 PM(16 mentions)
Iām glad to see that, after all these years, thereās still always one single house that gives out Idaho Spuds.
- Nov 5, 2021, 10:56 AM(5 mentions)
- Nov 7, 2021, 3:55 PM(46 mentions)
- Nov 9, 2021, 3:38 PM(3 mentions)
Got my whole family moved from AT&T to Verizon, after many many years as a customer. I feel better about where my money is going.
Also my voicemail works now.
- Nov 11, 2021, 9:00 PM(3 mentions)
In further evidence of the War on the War on Christmas, the Christmas Ships will not be coming to my neighborhood this year, so you will be spared the traditional invective and harangues with which I welcome the season.
- Nov 12, 2021, 4:09 PM(7 mentions)
- Nov 21, 2021, 3:24 PM(8 mentions)
- Nov 23, 2021, 11:12 PM(1 mention)
- Dec 9, 2021, 10:20 PM(6 mentions)
Current Gwen status: sobbing that she has doubts whether Santa Claus is real, and thinks maybe there isnāt magic in the world š š š
- Dec 12, 2021, 1:51 PM(20 mentions)
- Dec 15, 2021, 9:47 PM(4 mentions)
- Dec 15, 2021, 10:48 PM
Fifteen years ago today:
- The power went out for three days
- We found out Laurel was pregnant with Elspeth
- Ten minutes later we got in a literal car chase where I had to hand Laurel my phone and tell her to call 911
- Dec 16, 2021, 8:10 AM(10 mentions)
- Dec 17, 2021, 10:10 AM(8 mentions)
Gwen: I was reading the Players Handbook last night
Me:
G: I found out that my halfling can ride on a mastiff
M:
G: they only cost 25 gold pieces
M:
G: can we leave the dungeon for a minute so we can get more rations
M: ā¦and a mastiff
G: yes - Dec 18, 2021, 2:45 PM(3 mentions)
- Dec 29, 2021, 7:38 PM(22 mentions)
Gwen: in this game I just adopted a dog named Mr. Worldwide but I donāt know what kind it is
Me: ā¦is it a pitbull
G: yes, how did you know that
- Jan 1, 2022, 1:52 PM(1 mention)
I am now willing to recognize one other acceptable Christmas song beside Christmas in Hollis. https://youtu.be/jxtK2757mz4
- Jan 6, 2022, 1:25 AM(3 mentions)
- Jan 9, 2022, 7:55 PM(35 mentions)
- Jan 11, 2022, 12:42 PM(5 mentions)
This is the first time Iāve seen somebody in person, and then they end up on my money. https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-begins-shipping-first-american-women-quarters-program-coins
- Jan 12, 2022, 2:37 PM(10 mentions)
- Jan 13, 2022, 9:56 PM(52 mentions)
- Jan 15, 2022, 1:30 PM(35 mentions)
- Jan 16, 2022, 8:05 PM(5 mentions)
āPlay a song for you? Sure, this one is called āWhat Kind of Dumbass Likes Solo Tambourine Music.ā Assholeā
āMr. Tambourine Man, probably - Jan 17, 2022, 9:31 PM(1 mention)
The weirdest thing about Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) is that a character can use a phrase like āthe Mothra twinsā and thatās not actually specific enough for you to know who theyāre talking about.
- Jan 19, 2022, 6:23 PM(13 mentions)
I never, ever, in my entire life, thought this story would be brought to the screen. Holy shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgAhTP6ElA
- Jan 22, 2022, 7:31 PM(1 mention)
I am apparently now the kind of person who owns two kinds of kümmel at the same time. /cc @abandonedbranch
- Jan 25, 2022, 10:09 AM(19 mentions)
my favorite thing about the term āraw sewageā is that it implies the existence of āsewage al denteā
- Jan 28, 2022, 6:42 PM(49 mentions)
Apologies, but I have to do a parent brag: my eldest heir just got 100% on her semester final project on the history of non-binary pronouns
- Feb 6, 2022, 6:38 PM(6 mentions)
[family birthday dinner, weāve just finished eating and are about to have dessert]
Gwen: Grammy can you tell us your scat story
- Feb 9, 2022, 7:42 PM(2 mentions)
- Feb 9, 2022, 8:47 PM(5 mentions)
But her emails? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/politics/national-archives-trump-classified-material.html
- Feb 10, 2022, 1:11 PM(6 mentions)
āKUOW is bricking car entertainment systemsā is a 100% incorrect headline. āMazda entertainment systems can brick if you listen to the radioā is accurate.
- Feb 18, 2022, 8:53 PM(8 mentions)
tired: glad I went to college before camera phones
wired: glad I was a college radio DJ before they had cameras in the booth
https://thecarletonian.com/2022/02/04/krlx-renovations/
- Mar 1, 2022, 9:57 PM(38 mentions)
Itās surprisingly difficult to ask a search engine what types of non-bread loaves there are. For example:
Meat.
Olive.
Cheese.What loaves am I forgetting?
- Mar 7, 2022, 8:09 PM(3 mentions)
Ukrainian logistics are reallyā¦something else. https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1500937699737362439
- Mar 16, 2022, 7:41 PM(6 mentions)
- Mar 21, 2022, 10:10 PM(1 mention)
What the hell? This thing was meant to be 2 B-52ās in a trenchcoat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Virtus
- Apr 9, 2022, 9:44 AM(38 mentions)
Iām sure I donāt need to remind anyone of this, but itās Evan Stoner Day. Please feel free to mark the occasion with the rituals and customs traditional in your culture.

- Apr 15, 2022, 6:52 PM(11 mentions)
- Apr 17, 2022, 10:40 AM(6 mentions)
- Apr 21, 2022, 9:51 PM(12 mentions)
Elspeth: Today in world history class my teacher was like āanybody know what Japanese movie Star Wars is based onā
Me: [waits for it]
Elspeth: And I was like āHIDDEN FORTRESSā
Me: [basks in the state of ultimate triumph]
- Apr 25, 2022, 12:33 PM(7 mentions)
I think Muskās prime motivation is in taking it private. Heās run afoul of the SEC so many times for saying zany shit while running a public company; this is a lifestyle upgrade for him.
Itās possible that if he canāt take Tesla private, he steps back from running Tesla.
- Apr 26, 2022, 9:11 PM(1 mention)
I was today years old when I realized they snuck the original android Human Torch into the first Captain America movie.

- Apr 27, 2022, 2:56 PM(4 mentions)
- Apr 29, 2022, 8:22 PM(3 mentions)
[kids are at the piano, each banging out small melodies at the same time]
elspeth: wait play that again
gwen: [plays it again]
e: oh my god are you rick rolling me
g: yes - May 12, 2022, 2:59 PM(35 mentions)
- May 24, 2022, 8:25 PM(8 mentions)
- May 27, 2022, 8:09 PM
- Jun 15, 2022, 4:31 PM(27 mentions)
People often complain that Slack discussions are hard to follow. I wonder how much of it is due to the fact that we use sloppy English in Slack: sparse capitalization and punctuation, verbal grammar, etc. Itās just physically hard to read.
- Jun 19, 2022, 5:42 PM(15 mentions)
- Jun 22, 2022, 1:40 PM(1 mention)
- Jun 26, 2022, 3:47 PM(3 mentions)
I donāt really get why everybody is so excited about NewProfilePic? It seems like another massive private harvest of biometrics for very little returned value.
- Jul 6, 2022, 7:47 PM(13 mentions)
Parenting pro tip: when you need to tell your 10-year-old that the beloved local punk rock burger joint, where sheās had 95% of her lifetime burgers, is closing down because their landlord is a sack of shit, get a teensy bit drunk first.
- Jul 8, 2022, 8:41 PM(7 mentions)
- Jul 9, 2022, 7:16 PM(1 mention)
- Jul 11, 2022, 10:34 PM(6 mentions)
- Aug 8, 2022, 7:52 PM(4 mentions)
- Aug 11, 2022, 8:35 PM(1 mention)
āBack in 1985, John Norton answered the question that no one had asked.ā http://bigchickenhotrods.com/barstool-racers
- Aug 20, 2022, 7:05 PM(5 mentions)
Gwen [playing Mario Kart and muttering]: I aināt goin out like that
Me: ā¦where did you learn that phrase
G: š¤·āāļø - Aug 24, 2022, 7:56 PM(1 mention)
- Aug 26, 2022, 7:41 PM(2 mentions)
- Aug 31, 2022, 7:15 PM(31 mentions)
- Sep 8, 2022, 1:13 AM(1 mention)
- Sep 8, 2022, 8:24 PM(2 mentions)
Remember, remember! The 8th of September, when people on Twitter were rude; I know of no reason why the rudeness on Twitter should ever be eschewed.
- Sep 8, 2022, 10:18 PM(2 mentions)
- Sep 11, 2022, 12:47 AM(4 mentions)
- Sep 11, 2022, 7:09 PM(5 mentions)
The phrase āwelfare queenā hits different when you realize that the government doled out Ā£100 million every year to the literal Queen.
- Sep 15, 2022, 9:38 PM(2 mentions)
- Sep 17, 2022, 6:47 PM(9 mentions)
My mom: Saw two crows kill a rat the other day.
Me: did they eat it? Or just kill it?
Mom: they ate part of it.
Gwen, cheerfully: Rats are full of nutrients! - Sep 17, 2022, 11:32 PM(5 mentions)
- Sep 25, 2022, 12:31 PM(13 mentions)
Had to take the cat to urgent care, ended up in the strip mall by where I grew up. Currently composing a mournful country song about how the Petco is now a Pet Pros and the Shariās is now a Wendyās.
- Sep 27, 2022, 10:59 AM(6 mentions)
Travel tip: you can learn a lot about a cityās āvibeā by visiting the historic queer neighborhood, of the airport

- Oct 2, 2022, 12:00 AM(4 mentions)
- Oct 26, 2022, 10:11 PM(3 mentions)
People on Twitter are currently making Ye/Crocs jokes at a steady rate of 7 per hour. I am monitoring the situation as it develops.
- Nov 5, 2022, 5:02 PM(8 mentions)
- Nov 6, 2022, 6:51 PM(1 mention)
Gwen started a video game that asked her to type in a name for her character.
Fifteen minutes later I realized she picked āGalaxy Everheart.ā
- Nov 6, 2022, 7:16 PM(6 mentions)
The curse of the social media integration engineer is that you can only test in production, so youāve got to come up with interesting things to say, over and over again, until your code works. And then hope you still have friends
- Nov 6, 2022, 7:29 PM(4 mentions)
Best part of trick or treating this year was the kids yelling āItās Subwoolfer!! Awesome!!!ā and running up to this house.

- Nov 10, 2022, 11:31 PM(36 mentions)
When I read that the dude wants to turn Twitter into a bank, I discovered that I did not have enough laughter for the comedy at hand. It was like trying to drink the ocean. Like schadenfreude had given way to an out of body experience. Like bad ideas distilled into mescaline.
- Nov 14, 2022, 11:17 AM(11 mentions)
- Nov 14, 2022, 11:10 PM
- Nov 17, 2022, 1:46 PM(11 mentions)
The dude apparently wants to compensate exceptional performance with exceptional amounts of stock, butā¦he just took it private? š¤š¤š¤š¤
- Nov 17, 2022, 8:35 PM(3 mentions)
- Nov 17, 2022, 9:15 PM(4 mentions)
- Nov 17, 2022, 9:48 PM(2 mentions)
- Nov 18, 2022, 6:30 PM
Of course, during these troubled times on the hellsite, my old nemesis sees an opening to strike. https://westseattleblog.com/2022/11/from-the-wsb-holiday-guide-1-week-until-christmas-ship-arrives-in-west-seattle-waters/
- Nov 19, 2022, 2:41 PM
- Nov 20, 2022, 3:21 PM(5 mentions)
- Nov 21, 2022, 4:54 PM(2 mentions)
With every new platform comes special kinds of awkwardness; today on Mastodon a long-dead colleague followed me, because I migrated to a different instance.
- Nov 21, 2022, 8:29 PM(1 mention)
- Nov 27, 2022, 8:05 PM(3 mentions)
- Dec 10, 2022, 12:34 PM(1 mention)
- Dec 10, 2022, 11:23 PM(7 mentions)
- Dec 19, 2022, 3:22 AM(12 mentions)
- Dec 19, 2022, 3:01 PM(15 mentions)
- Jan 1, 2023, 3:02 PM(13 mentions)
- Jan 1, 2023, 7:34 PM(10 mentions)
I finally got webmentions for my site working for Mastodon this afternoon.
(Please read this toot the same way that Crow T. Robot says āMade my own blender mayonnaise last night.ā)
- Jan 6, 2023, 11:43 PM(5 mentions)
- Jan 7, 2023, 2:28 PM(17 mentions)
The Verge is out here live-blogging a web page error, for all their digital native readers who have never seen such a thing before.

- Jan 11, 2023, 9:32 PM(36 mentions)
The problem with naming your company this, is that when you do a layoff, it sounds like the reporter is doing jokey Shakespeare voice at a really inappropriate time. Forsooth!

- Jan 15, 2023, 1:05 AM(2 mentions)
- Jan 20, 2023, 7:36 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 9, 2023, 9:50 PM(7 mentions)
- Feb 10, 2023, 7:54 PM(17 mentions)
- Feb 12, 2023, 1:24 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 12, 2023, 1:26 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 14, 2023, 7:15 PM(2 mentions)
- Feb 16, 2023, 10:34 PM
I simply donāt understand why Quantumania is getting savaged in the media. I thought it was a fantastic movie.
- Feb 16, 2023, 11:40 PM(2 mentions)
One of the most underrated elements of MCU movies is the pitch-perfect, organic way they weave music into the films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0oeY1KMY9U
- Feb 21, 2023, 6:24 PM(1 mention)
The cool thing about California Adventure is that itās like Northern California is in Southern California.
Itās one-stop California.
- Mar 12, 2023, 5:30 PM(1 mention)
- Mar 12, 2023, 10:22 PM(90 mentions)
So Ke Huy Quan, when heās 12, plays Harrison Fordās sidekick in Temple of Doom. By the time heās 21, he gives up on acting because he canāt get cast.
When heās fifty-one, he goes up on stage to get the Best Picture Oscarā¦from Harrison Ford.
- Apr 9, 2023, 10:55 AM(11 mentions)
Iāve heard it said that today is a holier day than even Christmas, to which I can only say: I am humbled by your appreciation.
Happy Evan Stoner Day 2023.

- Apr 23, 2023, 9:11 PM(5 mentions)
- Apr 27, 2023, 5:09 PM(6 mentions)
Seattle Public Libraries are a treasure. https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned
- May 29, 2023, 11:22 AM(15 mentions)
We say āyesterdayā and ālast night,ā but āyesternightā and ālast dayā sound completely wrong. š¤
- Jun 6, 2023, 10:07 AM
This is absolutely bonkers. Wow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/06/drill-earth-mantle-rocks/
- Jun 18, 2023, 12:39 PM
- Jul 1, 2023, 8:52 PM
- Aug 8, 2023, 8:52 PM
When I got into cooking, I really wanted to learn the family gumbo recipe, which Grandma served once each summer. She was from Kansas, but her mom had grown up in New Orleans.
I went over to her house one June afternoon, excited to bond with Grandma and pass down a tradition. Sheād bought a pile of shrimp, which I started studiously deveining.
Then she opened The Joy of Cooking and said āit says to make a roux, but thatās too much work, so I always skip it.ā
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-family-recipes-copied
- Nov 17, 2023, 3:53 PM(5 mentions)
- Nov 19, 2023, 9:04 PM(1 mention)
In 1969 there were a lot of cool people alive, and Robert Plant was one of the coolest. And he wrote a song about how Gollum stole his girl. I think about this all the time.
- Nov 21, 2023, 8:25 PM
- Nov 29, 2023, 12:56 AM(1 mention)
I watched Pacific Rim with my older daughter tonight, and while the credits were rolling she said ānext they should make Pacific Rim 2: Atlantic Boogaloo.ā
- Nov 30, 2023, 1:02 PM(1 mention)
- Dec 15, 2023, 9:50 PM(8 mentions)
Gwen: Mason at school said the live action Grinch is better than the old animated Grinch and I said he was wrong because the old one is what I love from my childhood
Me: well different people have different traditions, letās respect that
Gwen: and he said I had bad parents for giving me a bad childhood
Me: you tell Mason your dad is going to beat his ass - Dec 18, 2023, 6:40 PM(2 mentions)
- Dec 21, 2023, 11:54 AM(1 mention)
- Jan 1, 2024, 12:05 AM(4 mentions)
- Jan 1, 2024, 2:19 AM
Iām up late working on my edgy reboot of Steamboat Willie, āChainsaw Willie.ā Gotta strike while the iron is hot.
- Jan 18, 2024, 8:28 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 18, 2024, 11:04 PM(4 mentions)
- Jan 21, 2024, 11:18 PM(2 mentions)
People seem to be upset that The Crown didnāt have a bigger ending, so Iām proposing a Zach Snyder-style redo of the final episode, where Elizabeth jumps a burning motorcycle over a squad of corgis and slams straight into Zombie Margaret Thatcher, causing a giant explosion in the electric guitar factory
- Jan 29, 2024, 1:47 PM(2 mentions)
- Feb 11, 2024, 10:31 AM(1 mention)
H.L. Mencken on American profanity, in 1936: āOur maid-of-all-work in that department [indecency] is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudgeĀ does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah. The dumbest policeman in Palermo thinks of a dozen better ones between breakfast and the noon whistle.ā
- Feb 11, 2024, 12:14 PM(3 mentions)
- Feb 29, 2024, 10:59 AM(2 mentions)
- Mar 28, 2024, 12:31 PM(4 mentions)
- Apr 28, 2024, 1:06 AM(3 mentions)
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- May 3, 2024, 10:09 PM(5 mentions)
- May 11, 2024, 3:08 AM(2 mentions)
- May 11, 2024, 1:32 PM
- May 25, 2024, 1:29 AM
- Jun 17, 2024, 6:35 PM(1 mention)
- Jul 21, 2024, 11:41 AM(6 mentions)
- Jul 22, 2024, 8:56 PM(2 mentions)
- Jul 26, 2024, 12:18 PM
- Jul 27, 2024, 12:12 AM(1 mention)
- Aug 2, 2024, 1:19 PM(3 mentions)
- Aug 29, 2024, 9:34 PM(1 mention)
- Sep 9, 2024, 3:14 AM(24 mentions)
- Sep 9, 2024, 1:56 PM
- Sep 11, 2024, 11:36 PM
- Sep 23, 2024, 12:40 PM
Paul Francis Webster won three Academy Awards in his lifetime. What we remember him for now are the lyrics:
āSpider-Man, Spider-Man / Does whatever a spider can / Is he strong? Listen bud / Heās got radioactive bloodā
I think about this all the time.
- Sep 27, 2024, 4:45 PM
REPORTER: Whatās your favorite lunar sample?
YOU: What kind of question isā
[evan grabs podium]
ME: BIG MULEY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muley
- Oct 2, 2024, 12:04 PM(1 mention)
Our neighbors hired a mobile dog groomer, and the van is posted up outside our house.
Every time the air compressor comes on, I picture them pressure-washing a standard poodle.
- Oct 4, 2024, 1:18 AM(1 mention)
- Nov 1, 2024, 8:43 PM(4 mentions)
- Nov 3, 2024, 12:41 PM(3 mentions)
The hardest part of being American is living through the times we could have fixed something, and didnāt, and people suffered.
The best part of being American is the unshakable belief, despite every setback, that weāll become what we should. No matter how long it takes.
- Nov 4, 2024, 5:59 PM
If youād like to help goats (and you should), here is a way you can help goats. https://pugetsoundgoatrescue.betterworld.org/auctions/puget-sound-goat-rescue2024-fund
- Nov 5, 2024, 2:02 PM(1 mention)
I volunteered to do ballot curing for Nevada voters today, and a 96-year-old woman named Gladys showed up on her iPad asking astute questions. Absolute hero.
Also she had problems with the Zoom UI, but I had those same problems.
- Nov 7, 2024, 11:26 AM(4 mentions)
- Nov 8, 2024, 12:27 PM(2 mentions)
- Nov 14, 2024, 7:37 AM(3 mentions)
Not all the news is bad. https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9
- Nov 17, 2024, 10:00 PM(4 mentions)
Trader Joeās Elote Corn Chip Dippers should be rebranded Spicy Cool Ranch Fritos, and I mean that in the best conceivable way
- Nov 19, 2024, 12:12 AM(3 mentions)
- Nov 19, 2024, 11:42 PM(2 mentions)
[puts clothes on backwards, embarrassing children] now thatās what I call a ābomb cyclone, [carried off by sudden gust of wind]
- Nov 26, 2024, 6:37 PM(9 mentions)
Free lifestyle idea: every time you walk into a place of business, proclaim that youāre ālooking to take it to the next levelā
- Dec 2, 2024, 1:43 PM
New dibranch just dropped https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/glowing-sea-slug-behaves-like-a-jellyfish-lizard-and-venus-flytrap/
- Dec 3, 2024, 3:15 PM
- Dec 4, 2024, 7:45 PM(4 mentions)
- Dec 14, 2024, 4:02 PM
The year is 2054. A DOZEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, wearing grass-stained polo gear, enter a sitting room with a roaring fireplace.
Child: Papa! Weāre all exhausted from horsie-ball, tell us The Story
Me [chuckling with false modesty]: oh you canāt possibly want to hear that old saw again
Other Child: No please! We love it
Me: Well, it was a bleak December, and I had a bad head cold, and yet I also craved a mezze dip. Little did I know that I was about to unlock my fortune.
Evangeline, age 11 [staring into the middle distance]: and that was how Pipinā Hot Hummus came to be. amazing
- Dec 14, 2024, 8:19 PM
Somebody should do a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead of Die Hard, and call it Argyle Is In The Garage.
- Dec 20, 2024, 10:35 PM(4 mentions)
- Dec 23, 2024, 3:16 PM(1 mention)
- Dec 24, 2024, 12:40 PM(2 mentions)
- Dec 25, 2024, 12:39 AM
- Jan 5, 2025, 3:48 PM(7 mentions)
- Jan 7, 2025, 10:36 PM
When I finally write my management book, itās going to have covers two inches thick, and inside will only be a single page glossy photograph of this.

- Jan 9, 2025, 11:45 PM(1 mention)
- Jan 13, 2025, 12:21 PM
- Jan 16, 2025, 1:02 PM(3 mentions)
I donāt know if itās clear these days just how mind-blowing it was to turn on network television in 1990 and see Twin Peaks.
- Jan 16, 2025, 5:39 PM(1 mention)
- Jan 19, 2025, 1:12 PM(1 mention)
- Jan 29, 2025, 12:49 PM
Read an article where they misspelled Jermaine Dupriās name twice, and I was wondering how often that happens. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jermaine+"durpi"&norw=1&t=iphone&ia=web
- Jan 30, 2025, 3:18 AM(2 mentions)
- Jan 30, 2025, 11:10 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 31, 2025, 7:29 PM(3 mentions)
Itās good to pick hobbies that you can enjoy for a lifetime.
For example, mine all involve liquids. So I can still enjoy them when Iām too old to chew.

- Feb 1, 2025, 10:16 PM(1 mention)
Thereās a pizza party in my mouth, and nobody is invited. Because the pizza isnāt very good, and neither is the party.

- Feb 5, 2025, 11:24 AM(2 mentions)
Does the construct of named generations (boomer, millennial, etc) provide any benefit?
Or is it just another way for us all to hate each other for the circumstances of our birth?
- Feb 5, 2025, 11:30 AM
āMeritocracy!ā
[said in the same voice as āThe Aristocrats!ā]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/nyregion/daniel-penny-hired-andreessen-horowitz.html
- Feb 14, 2025, 12:03 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 20, 2025, 11:12 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 26, 2025, 2:11 PM(9 mentions)
- Mar 5, 2025, 8:12 PM(2 mentions)
You got a problem with Canada gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate

- Mar 12, 2025, 8:48 PM(1 mention)
- Mar 16, 2025, 10:36 PM
Fantastic St Urhoās Day, as usual. Iām stuffed from eating fried grasshoppers and drinking fine Karelian wine all day.
- Mar 22, 2025, 1:04 PM(2 mentions)
- Mar 22, 2025, 11:00 PM
Iām honestly kind of pissed that Iām not the first person to coin the phrase āmanic pixie dream sniper.ā
- Mar 30, 2025, 10:13 PM
- Apr 2, 2025, 1:48 PM
The year is May 2025. Crypto has crashed, and used cars are the measure of wealth.
Unwanted Teslas pile up in lots, and are used as an abstract representation of real cars. Like ancient Yapese currency, consumers trade title to these undrivable objects.
Fed Reserve Chairman Plisskenās phone rings.
- Apr 5, 2025, 2:16 PM(4 mentions)
- Apr 5, 2025, 2:40 PM(2 mentions)
I couldnāt even get to where you could see the protest proper, so please enjoy this bucolic photo of the nearby environs.

- Apr 10, 2025, 2:10 AM(2 mentions)
Congratulations to Hawaii for still having one hour of Evan Stoner Day to enjoy this year.
For the rest of us, living in benighted regions where this joyous day has passed, think fondly of the unity we felt, the orgiastic celebrations we organized, and look forward to next year.

- Apr 12, 2025, 10:26 PM
- Weird Al made āTaco Grandeā as a parody of āRico Suaveā by Gerardo
- Weird Al only ever parodied artists if he got their permission
Ergo, Gerardo personally approved āTaco Grande.ā Get your third eye open.
- May 10, 2025, 6:32 PM
Justice delayed is Justice nonetheless. https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1khftlk/jeopardy_tonight_puts_an_end_to_pikes_place/
- May 21, 2025, 2:17 AM
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- May 30, 2025, 11:15 AM(1 mention)
Mr. Knight further counseled Combs to āwiggle moreā while being held out the window by his ankles

- May 30, 2025, 12:33 PM(2 mentions)
- Jun 14, 2025, 4:26 PM(13 mentions)
- Jun 14, 2025, 4:46 PM(17 mentions)
- Jun 14, 2025, 5:53 PM(4 mentions)
I have to say, Iām legitimately very impressed with how SPD handled the march today. The cops were almost invisible, but there were plainclothes bike cops keeping an eye on things. And theyād posted up ambulances and fire along the route.
Nobody got provoked, everything went smooth.
- Jun 15, 2025, 4:26 PM(2 mentions)
- Jul 2, 2025, 1:51 PM(2 mentions)
- Jul 17, 2025, 7:08 PM(1 mention)
- Jul 28, 2025, 11:33 AM(1 mention)
Whatās interesting is that, in the Naāvi language, the word āavatarā literally translates as ālong Smurfā
- Jul 28, 2025, 12:24 PM(2 mentions)
- Aug 23, 2025, 7:46 PM(1 mention)
- Sep 10, 2025, 2:01 PM(3 mentions)
- Sep 22, 2025, 11:25 AM(1 mention)
- Sep 27, 2025, 12:51 PM(3 mentions)
- Sep 27, 2025, 3:35 PM
- Sep 29, 2025, 7:04 PM(4 mentions)
Six years ago today, I accepted a slice of ājello shot birthday cakeā from some rando at a longshoremanās bar.
And that has made all the difference.

- Oct 18, 2025, 11:56 AM(2 mentions)
- Oct 18, 2025, 12:17 PM(8 mentions)
- Oct 19, 2025, 12:02 PM
- Nov 4, 2025, 10:52 AM(2 mentions)
- Dec 5, 2025, 4:22 PM(3 mentions)
Gwen: did you know that electric eels can generate 860V of electricity, enough to kill a horse
Me: I did not! Did you know that Blanka in Street Fighter was raised by electric eels
G: yes because you tell me that all the time
- Dec 11, 2025, 2:33 PM(1 mention)
- Dec 18, 2025, 10:17 PM(4 mentions)
- Dec 25, 2025, 1:36 AM(4 mentions)
- Jan 3, 2026, 5:23 PM(3 mentions)
- Jan 6, 2026, 2:13 PM(3 mentions)
Iāve long thought of myself as having grown up surrounded by hicks.
What Iāve just realized is that I was the hick, and I was surrounded by degens.
I appreciate your support at this time.
- Jan 8, 2026, 10:07 PM
- Jan 9, 2026, 11:33 AM(2 mentions)
āWe want to thank you all for coming out to the show this Tuesday night. We are Asexual Deepfake, and we are here to rock your face! One two threeā [power chords]
- Jan 17, 2026, 9:30 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 18, 2026, 2:53 PM(3 mentions)
- Jan 21, 2026, 1:44 AM(1 mention)
- Jan 21, 2026, 1:56 AM(2 mentions)
oh sure, somebody wants to be called āxe/xirā and itās crickets, but the second I want to be referred to as āthe United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginiaā everybodyās all like āno youāre notā and āthatās illegalā
- Jan 23, 2026, 10:33 AM(2 mentions)
- Jan 26, 2026, 8:51 PM(2 mentions)
- Jan 27, 2026, 9:13 PM(4 mentions)
- Jan 29, 2026, 11:54 AM(5 mentions)
If it was possible to claw back $8B in lifesaving foreign aid, and $1B of public media funding, sure seems like we better claw back $180B of DHS money. You know, to run the country like a business.
- Feb 2, 2026, 8:09 PM(1 mention)
extremely pleased to learn that Zach Galifianakis will be playing Helen of Troy in Nolanās Odyssey, establishing pure integrity and objective beauty
- Feb 4, 2026, 2:41 PM(2 mentions)
- Feb 4, 2026, 11:56 PM
āThe PiƱa Colada Song?ā Doesnāt ring a bell. Oh, you mean The PiƱa Colada Songās monsterā
- Feb 11, 2026, 9:07 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 12, 2026, 10:44 PM
- Feb 18, 2026, 8:08 PM(1 mention)
- Feb 21, 2026, 12:50 PM(2 mentions)
My whole life I've assumed that the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by Saint Cyril. But no, he invented Glagolitic.
Thank you for your well wishes at this challenging time.
- Feb 26, 2026, 11:58 AM(2 mentions)
- Feb 26, 2026, 1:13 PM
Today in weird exclave news: thereās an exclave of Uzbekistanā¦
ā¦entirely inside of Kyrgyzstanā¦
ā¦populated mostly by Tajiks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokh_District
- Mar 1, 2026, 1:31 PM(9 mentions)
Shia LaBeouf (5ā9ā) claiming heās got a āsmall man complexā is some stolen valor bullshit.
- Mar 17, 2026, 1:36 PM(2 mentions)
- Mar 17, 2026, 1:44 PM
Not sure who has the energy for St. Patrickās Day when theyāre still recovering from St. Urhoās Day. They should really reschedule St. Patrickās just as a practical measure.
- Mar 17, 2026, 8:29 PM(2 mentions)
My 8th-graderās response to the new principalās admonishments to the school over Zoom: āthis could have been an emailā
- Mar 27, 2026, 11:01 PM(2 mentions)
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:37 PM
The Taco Bell menu these days is like itās from a restaurant called Vague Recollections of When There Was Mexico.
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:38 PM(4 mentions)
The Taco Bell menu these days is like alien archaeologists tried to reconstruct our cuisine millions of years from now.
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:54 PM(2 mentions)
Everybody knows Tex-Mex; what the Taco Bell menu these days presupposes is thatā¦maybe North Dakota-Kansas instead?
- Apr 5, 2026, 11:49 AM(8 mentions)
- Apr 8, 2026, 4:32 PM(2 mentions)
- Apr 8, 2026, 9:59 PM(1 mention)
If you hear cries of relief, joy, and exultation from the East, take heart; soon it will be April 9th for you as well. Blessings upon all of you on this very special day.

- Apr 12, 2026, 10:14 AM(5 mentions)
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- Apr 21, 2026, 1:35 AM(1 mention)
- Apr 21, 2026, 6:08 PM(2 mentions)
- Apr 24, 2026, 10:50 PM(1 mention)
- May 7, 2026, 11:24 AM(2 mentions)
āGoogle participates in the web standards process the way a bear participates in the ācampingā process.ā
https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/
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