I have to say that being 4.5-6.5/10 sick for a full work-week sucked but it ticking into Saturday is just insulting

Well don't I feel stupid

Protest downtown seemed well-attended based on my messages

Just called Senators Grassley and Ernst about why the Des Moines Superintendent (Dr. Ian Roberts, Olympic track athlete originally from Guyana) has been detained by ICE in Pottawattamie County jail (Council Bluffs not Des Moines). iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/ice-d...

It is sort of wild that one of the protagonists in the Comey subplot is photographed in my parents kitchen in full academic dress shaking the hand of a clearly-still-pretty-drunk Young Me

I want to point a very important detail of this: Jeffries is holding a press conference trashing Trump. And only CSPAN is carrying it. And that is the problem with America right now. The only place Democrats get any press coverage are places where no one watches.

4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts. Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.

It is probably of note that the DMPS superintendent is from Guyana although has been in the states for at least 30 years at this point and as an ex-Olympian, wasn’t exactly “low-profile under the radar” during this time, so difficult to think there would be a basis beyond retaliation tickitack

The most pointless and expensive "could've been a drunk Signal message" in history

This is my shocked face that Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air right before ABC airs Saturday night's Alabama-Georgia game in primetime.

Holy shit!

That football slate was Too Powerful

Fleury actually playing on his one day retirement contract is actually king shit

Upgrading the forecast from ”It’s so over” to “fuck it we ball”

going to start talking about “the three great parties of global climate action,” these of course being the us democratic party, the british conservative party, and the chinese communist party

Former Bears cornerback Charles “Peanut” Tillman decided to leave the FBI in part because he didn’t believe in the agency’s role in enforcing immigration.

My brother was asked to assist a coworker in drafting a letter to dispute a season long ban in beer league for flagrant post-whistle slashing b/c he is articulate & temps have cooled after 6 months. ME: I mean did he? HIM: absolutely, then threw a pissfit when he got ejected ME: lol HIM: lol

I would've never pegged KB as having a “Mark Prior in the field” career and it’s so damn sad

The interior life of an Arizona Cardinals fan is a sun-blasted place of monumental despair I cannot begin to fathom

I can’t really provide much advice for people wanting to break free of their isolation since I’m pretty sure my solution of ”be down for whatever” is a deep-seated personality trait & the resulting “personal life is a series of Accidental Bronson shitposts” may or may not be your desirable endstate

Do highly active suburban voters enjoy affordable furniture and cabinetry? asking for a friend

You’ve never met anybody as bad at the apps as me, folks

Replaying all the hits with dating app discourse again.

When I worked for the Girl Scouts, and this was ten years ago, this was a five alarm fire. Membership organizations were crashing across the board, nobody wants to join or commit to any organization they just kind of want activities and services to be available when they feel like showing up

New day, new flavor of people trying to immanentize the eschaton

I’m sure one more day of crashing out will fix everything

another day clocking into the Tapping The Sign factory, wondering when we will get the capital investment to fix the homophone typo on the sign but still putting in my eight on the line

Oklahoma fans are making hype reels for hand surgeons, get on their level

Alabama A&M scored an Iowa Touchdown last week. Two safeties and a field goal in the 1st Quarter.

*CONFERENCE ROOM IN SEATTLE* JERRY DIPOTO (Timothy Olyphant?): My anaconda don’t want none… OLDHEAD SCOUTS: *visibly confused* DIPOTO: *sigh* My anaconda don’t want none, *DAN* ASSISTANT GM DAN (Sir Mixalot): Your anaconda don’t want none unless he’s got buns, sir DIPOTO: Unless he’s got buns

they fear what they themselves cannot begin to comprehend

Cc @robsandia.bsky.social

I for one prefer the Anglo-Hanseatic War that was a sideshow to the War of the Roses and features a hilarious Edict Spam minmax move by the Duke of Burgundy on behalf of the Yorkists to get the recently-deposed King Edward the hell out of Flanders

WEDGE: weirdly turned on by this TYCHO: brother you can just call her WEDGE: you’re right, I probably could arrange a meetup with this person, I’m a big deal! TYCHO: No, I mean Ie—actually no, fuck it, I want to see where this goes

I do not fully understand what poptimism is supposed to mean and context clues strongly suggest I’m better off for it

Government ownership of the means of production, and if you don’t like it, you’re a “radical socialist”.

The bullpen is a special place

The scooter has been cleaned up for TV. Usually a pair of truck nutz dangle from the back

Thiel is a type of person who is very common in the philosophy world (wordcel who thinks he's qualified to pontificate on very very technical questions in other disciplines via semantics and sophistry) but the weird part of him is that he's doing it as like a nazi thing

Playing a couple games of NHL with a cousin who is explaining the plot of this (apparently very big?) Amazon Prime teen drama series his girlfriend loves and I feel incredibly old

I do occasionally wonder how much of our historical cultural knowledge is “something incredibly odd that requires a lot of explanation but got preserved through the lethal pachinko process of time for Reasons.” Video related

Now that Santos is locked up Adams has zero serious competition for the funniest spectacle figure in American politics

Bend The Knee discourse is pretty reliable at identifying people whom you can’t trust in transactional relationships tbh, in addition to being the bad kind (prestige TV as opposed to the good, network TV, kind) of cringe

I thought Autopen text campaigns from James Carville would be the rock bottom of things I would find personally insulting but now that I’m also getting them with a Robert Reich tag I understand that things can always get dramatically worse

Have to say that a palmful of slivered almonds, crushed pecans, and dried cranberries does surprisingly well at scratching the toaster strudel itch

Today is perhaps the ultimate vindication of the Bum Phillips Rule

The head of the largest US aluminum producer warns import tariffs will destroy demand for American metal, contrary to the Trump administration’s claim duties will revitalize the domestic industry.