I was at the graduation ceremony, and it’s so fun to observe how some graduates are comfortable in their skin while others are still not. It’s normal, they are young. It comes at different times, adulthood.

Many more black students are comfortable being themselves than whites. And both much more than Asians. Men more frequently than women. How comfortable they are in their bodies has nothing whatsoever to do with weight or conventional attractiveness.

The graduates of the school of engineering are all white men with a couple of Nigerian women. One future male engineer walked across the stage with a newborn baby, giving everybody a massive cuteness attack.

There was one female name among summa cum laude graduates in computer science but when this student stepped off the stage, it became clear that he’s female like Brianna Wu.

The last name of the Dean of Business is Hayek, and he’s so cheerfully neoliberal that it’s really cute. He grades with AI and tries to get us all to do it, always provoking great sarcasm in Humanities profs.

I came to the graduation ceremony where I’m marshalling.

“You are on the far right,” an assistant explained.

“Yes, I am!” I answered gladly.

Something I wish an older mom would've told me is that: The baby doesn't need constant stimulation.

Okay? The baby is okay to just hang out. They don't need a full schedule of daily activities and events.

Being alive and new does it.

It's okay to just chillax.

— Back-Up Tambourine Player (@UpTambourine) May 9, 2025

I want to add that the best, most wonderful moment is when the kid says, “I’m booooored. There’s nothing to do, I’m so booooored.” If the parents breathe through the guilt and anxiety this causes them and simply do nothing, the kid’s natural curiosity and ingenuity will kick in. That’s when things start getting invented and the imagination gets unleashed.

“I’m bored” is good. It’s the door to everything wonderful that a kid’s mind can produce.

I thought bitching about family obligations was passé but apparently some people still can’t let go of it. Everybody lives in the exact arrangement they want to live in. But some people like to pretend that somebody arranged their family lives for them.

This kind of thing is why I don’t have a great time in mommy circles. We are all supposed to put on these fake shows about how we are exasperated with our hopeless husbands. And I’d sit there thinking that at that exact moment I could be reading or painting, and instead I’m participating in an embarrassing activity.

Seriously, you can’t figure out a system of who buys presents? With your partner in life, the person who’s closest to you, you just absolutely can’t make it work? That’s ineptitude of extreme proportions.

Of course, they are not inept. They simply like the fake victim status.

Whoever asked about sources on the Spanish cash withdrawal story, you could have googled it, you know?

Here’s one.

Here’s another.

Here’s the original one in Spanish.

Another one in Spanish.

Please remember that I work in a managerial capacity and deal with people acting helpless all day long. It stopped being cute years ago.

🚨BREAKING: Pakistan has launched a missile strike on India, targeting multiple locations, including air bases and a missile storage facility, after India struck three Pakistani airbases earlier tonight.

This is one step away from all-out war
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 10, 2025

As I explained previously, the reason why the US had troops in Afghanistan for twenty years was to prevent exactly this.

Americans couldn’t appreciate their own greatness, convinced themselves that they needed to be very small and expiate non-existent sins, and now we have two conflicts involving three nuclear powers happening at the same time.

They can be left, right, it doesn’t matter. They went to school where they were told that their history is sinful and they should stop participating. Here’s the result.

Spain, it’s getting harder and harder to love you.

The Spanish bureaucracy is already too unwieldy, slow, and confused. This measure makes it possible to dispossess anybody whether they even try to access their own money.

I just noticed that I had a 300% growth in views yesterday and it’s continuing today. All from the US. What exactly did I say that excited people so much?

Speaking of software glitches, Duolingo seems to think that the reality of “you’ll have nothing and you’ll be happy” has already arrived:

Social media are depressing because they make it very clear how incredibly stupid many people are:

Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after the deed has been done. https://t.co/1umOZpMVdG

— Girth Nowitzki (@IceQuebe_) May 8, 2025

Thousands of likes for a post so moronic.

Another topic that brings the stupid out in full force is money. People sincerely don’t understand even the basics of capitalism. They live in a state of perpetual funk because things that we see as obvious are very mystifying to them. They overpay for everything, get into gigantic debt, sabotage themselves consistently and relentlessly, and… have no idea why bad things keep happening.

Social media made the confusion of the cognitively modest individuals much worse. That and the endless pandering where they are told their opinions are as valid as anybody’s.