Kirk Israel's commonplace and blog. Quotes and links daily since 2001.
2026.04.22
"Piano non in uso". I knew piano was short for "pianoforte" and that meant soft/loud but today i learned "piano" in italian also means floor. which makes a sort of synaesthetic sense.
2026.04.21
On a 4th floor balcony with some pigeons soaring just a little below I realized that if I was a bird I'd be so disdainful of creatures stuck at ground level.
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2026.04.18
reading about conservatives on the supreme court overthrowing 200 years of tradition of being a well considered and thoughtful process to do so much via secretive shadow docket- in order to jam up or support presidents they like or dislike.

Originalists my ass.

2026.04.17
Unit tests are the screensavers of software dev - they look pretty, you pretend they're doing something important, but mostly they're just wasting energy.
2026.04.16
Hegseth actually worships at the house of Pulp Fiction.