📱Guys I have a real problem. I mean, I’m not even from Canada.

A screenshot of a social media post from Bluesky. The top post is by Josh Michtom (@rsgat.bsky.social), dated August 2, 2025, expressing disappointment that there is no blog or website called “Hella Facts on Halifax.” Below it is a reply from joeross (@joeross.me), stating that he couldn’t resist and has made the domain hellafactsabouthalifax.com redirect to a real tourism website. The post humorously notes the act as a compulsion, and includes a clickable link preview to the domain.

🔗 Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks (Eric Slivka / macrumors.com)

Legal/ethical merits of a trillion-dollar giant suing an indie influencer aside, it's absurd Apple's mad Prosser released iOS 26 early when Apple's doing the same by shipping an update that's unreadable under many common conditions.

🔗 [Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks (Eric Slivka / *macrumors.com*)](macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple) Legal/ethical merits of a trillion-dollar giant suing an indie influencer aside, it's absurd Apple's mad Prosser released iOS 26 early when Apple's doing the same by shipping an update that's unreadable under many common conditions...

🔗 Jay Leno Says Today’s Late-Night Hosts ‘Alienate’ Half the Audience With Political Jokes ‘Cozying Up to One Side’ (Todd Spangler / variety.com)

This explains a lot about why I always found Leno so boring—he lacked a point of view. Easily the least interesting late night host of his generation.

💤 There’s at least one night a month when despite best efforts, sleep just never arrives. Last night was one of those nights.

⛳ Happy Gilmore isn’t perfect, especially to modern sensibilities, but it’s a ton of fun, and the Bob Barker fight is still among the funniest celebrity cameos of all time.

📝 The other night I was telling them to go to sleep and I was tired and probably more harsh than I needed to be. And my 5yo daughter looked directly into the windows of my soul and said “You’re just an old man who doesn’t know what he’s doing.” 🤪

🔗 Merlin Mann writes in On Chasing the Right “Zero.” about the widely misunderstood idea that defined a part of his career:

Put to best use, Inbox Zero is merely a philosophical practice of learning to be parsimonious about which and how many inputs we allow into our lives–and, then, to responsibly but mindfully tend to those inputs in a way that is never allowed to hinder our personal commitment to doing the work that really matters to us.

🔗 Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.

Juliana Kim at NPR:

So, Park booked his flight and spent his final days in the U.S. — playing one last round of golf with his friends, savoring Hawaii’s famous garlic shrimp, and enjoying time with his children and 85-year-old mother.

" I have to accept the fact that this is probably the last time I’ll see her," he said.

Any government, any official, and any voter who supports this is a national disgrace.

“Never, ever install a developer beta on your only phone!” I tell everyone who asks 🤪

iPhone Software Update screen showing iOS 26.0 is up to date

My kids, three and five years old, are asking about comics. Give me your family-friendly recommendations!

#comicbooks

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Craig Federighi as nervous as he was in this interview where Joanna Stern asked difficult but predictable questions about why, so far, not even artificial intelligence has been able to render Siri mildly useful.

🔗 The WSJ Editorial Board found the unanimity of some recent “culture war” SCOTUS decisions surprising. But it’s not: the liberal justices tend to be principled, while the conservatives tend to torture the Constitution for predetermined ideological outcomes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

(Full article here)

It’s sad that Pocket is shutting down, and more sad that the spammy “discovery” nonsense Mozilla shoehorned into it, as far as I can tell as a Trojan horse for ads, is going to stick around in some form.

If you like the Drafts app by Agile Tortoise, check out this action I published to use your draft text to search the TestFlight beta tracking website departures.to.

Cheers to @FloGroh, whose open URL in current line action I adapted mine from (and who has a ton of other awesome Drafts actions).

When Billy Eichner likes your comment on his TikTok and then replies with a ❤️, you post that shit on your blog so when your kids are grown, after their reverence for you has been eroded by the knowledge that you were only ever just a dude, yes a dude who loved them infinitely, but also a dude who, like most other parents, didn’t really ever have a clue what he was doing, anyway, you post that shit so after that, there is a place for them, together with all of posterity who have the eyes to see, to gather and bear witness to your meager but enduring glories.

See also: Jeri Ryan favorited a post of mine in 2023.

A TikTok screenshot. The top section shows a video clip featuring Billy Eichner, wearing a blue shirt and holding a microphone while someone off-screen speaks as they shake hands with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is wearing a black t-shirt and smiling. Below the video, the comments section includes a comment from user “jooooooooooooooooooooooooeee” reading, “Him breaking them up while screaming for validation is so darkly wholesome.” Underneath this comment is a reply from the creator, Billy Eichner, consisting of a red heart emoji (❤️).

Alito’s dissent from the Supreme Court’s recent benchslapping of Trump is a preview of the kind of subservient drivel we will see more often if a majority of SCOTUS persists in placing country above king. I predict Trump will eventually declare he is bound only by the decisions of Alito and Thomas…

I added a page to my site that lists the URLs necessary to add common search engines to your browser, including several Google Scholar searches that lawyers, law students, and other folks may find useful. Let me know if you find any bugs or typos.

https://joeross.me/search-engines/

My wife is beautiful and brilliant and I’ve never deserved her, but also her shopping lists, usually written on random envelopes, look like they’re torn from House of Leaves.

🔗 MAGA’s Sickening Hypocrisy: From ‘Save The Children’ To ‘Defund The Org That Actually Saves Children’ | Techdirt

Trump is intentionally and unapologetically empowering child predators. And, by extension, so is every person who voted for him. That is not an opinion. It is an irrefutable fact.