I have no kids that I’m aware of but I did get served ads for special pillows for back pain and an automotive pressure washer so I think the algos and universe at large acknowledge that I am spiritually A Dad. Also… thinking about the pressure washer and foamer + waterbroom attachments

Maple Jameis

things are great going into draft week

Die Mannschaft 🤝 Me In My Dating Life:

I have, through a series of encounters on the street, found myself with a glass of wine and at an impending live jazz show

Finally vocalized the “I think they’re going to trade Hellebuyck this summer” in conversation with an Avs fan and boy that did not Feel great

Don’t worry, I’m sure gamers will be extremely normal about the new technology that squares the circle and allows smaller studios to ship more ambitious games faster without raising prices and not go on witch hunts when they suspect someone used it.

I do appreciate that the coaches are both dressed like “Dad coaching kids league after work”

Things happening

San Antonio’s mayor being a liberal Filipina lesbian gives this particular twete an interesting tang

They did a tuvix of john candy and rod blagojevich ba-gawd

Imagine wrecking your balls with your own fouler and it generates a push notification

I appreciate the effort to try to be normal and formulate a dumbed down version but this is still “one or two feldspars and quartz” level expectations of even the average bluesky poster

Mixed feelings watching the corpse of a favorite player of all time play for your favorite team and being (through no fault of his own) emblematic of the franchise’s disastrous season & looming structural issues (read: the roster is Old and Slow); OTOH he lived his childhood dream & that rules

On Jonathan Toews, free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/440...

There’s a Frasier ep where he gets his dad to become the co-op board President, so he can use him as a popular frontman. But Martin starts to “think he’s a real boy”, junks Frasier’s bureaucracy, and hires “a guy with a can of paint” to (poorly) re-do the parking lot - infuriating the residents.

I am drinking a decaf and ebay thrifting for interesting dress shirts since evidently this is the year where all my 40 year old gamer bachelors (AFFECTIONATE) are getting married and realizing that I can't complain about my particular issues finding shirts without sounding like an asshole

The only fictional political leader I believe could do it irl

You could sub in "do you support paying even a literal nickel of additional taxes for [policy]" for consequences but Yes, that's correct

saving this for rude cutups on the off chance TAHS nailed their mock draft

I caught an ad for Kalshi ahead of a sports podcast and had the epiphany that it’s a product positioned (correctly?) as doing what text based social media did for “talking about politics at the bar/whatever” for “betting on shit with the boys inthe bar/whatever” Dire

This one's an actual subtweet though: I think a lot of people who say stuff like "finally we're getting Democrats who talk about Civil Religion again after Obama" radically underestimate how much Biden 2020 did this and also how absolutely indifferent-at-best the electorate is the second time around

a fun but also unfortunate consequence of being a student of history is that I am broadly aware of how "medieval peasant brain" shook out in various contexts while also being aware of how "feudal nobility brain" and "burgher brain" worked out (kinda "choose the form of The Destructor" hours tbh)

saving this post for whenever certain polling discourse comes up because boy does it nail a couple of Very Particular Things

Krampus-JDAM posts I swear to God

In 2026, a rivalry began to emerge between the Strong Glozonists who hold that defining feature of Glonzo is the nonexistence of the problem at hand, and the Weak Glonzonists who maintain that it's the misattribution of the cause that matters. Both despise Glonzo Reductionism, a popular misunders...

turning the big ”American Exceptionalism is Good/Bad and also the Realest Thing on Earth” dial while looking at my post metrics to see if it is hitting

Much as I love being right, I don’t *love* that my hateration on Twitter in the late tens has been almost totally vindicated because the monopoly-obsessives also have acquired a great deal of cachet and power in LoC politics and now that’s my problem for, probably, the rest of my life

Related to the last, the other big sin (related to “greatly overestimating how much smarter and wiser the average politics obsessive is than Median Voter”) is a belief that control is a possibility rather than “playing pachinko with messages on the pegs of the public”

Have to say the “populism is conspiracy brain lite, but the Dems have to become populist again” piece really does highlight the original sin of this site: more or less correctly pegging the median voter and then wildly overestimating how much daylight there is to the social media intellectual class

People n here are going to self-select to 2010s Twitter but it’s actually late 2000s to early 2010s Facebook. A shockingly good platform for keeping in touch with actual, IRL friends, sharing photos, and organizing event that everyone actually used because it did what they wanted it to.

This, too, is Krampus Sport-Spidey for literally everybody but the pro NA football teams

Bored of praying for defensemen to fall or talking themselves into an undersized center next week, Jets fandom descends into a dark fugue state which the mods correctly Nope out on

I had a guess which was wrong but extremely on the right track in a way that I unfortunately cannot reveal without giving away why this is funny.

nobody is more annoyed than I am that the non-“vaguely crankish views about term limits and better than Civil War Cosplay Poster-style partisanship but still bad bothsidesy rhetoric etc.” parts of Sand’s schtick seem laser targeted at me specifically

Should name a chilled soup after Ed: cream infused with spent maize cobs and pureed corn with a squeeze of lemon juice to pump the acid and, importantly, so much salt as to render the thing inedible

Roosevelt Institute Fellows: Not Even Once

Lol cubs

Kirk Ferentz:

Crow-Armstrong's cycle is the first by a Cub since Carson Kelly on March 31 last year. He's the 12th player to do it in franchise history and the 13th overall. PCA is the 2nd Cubs center fielder to accomplish the feat, joining Hack Wilson (June 23, 1930).

Horology Guys know M-B‘s customer excellence game is crazy martin-baker.com/watches/mb-i/

this track was on every college party playlist in 2006

had a cursed thought based on a substack note about the NYC Mayor I mostly-agreed with other than claim it’s novel (Mamdani is good [primarily tbqh] in the sense of having a fixation on service delivery to a fault (that fault being busses and grocery)): his obvious Fed cognate is Pete

at same time as the spanish karaoke, on the english language feed we had a napoleon chicken joke followed immediately by “why don’t boxers have sex the night before a fight?”

yes the spanish announcers were doing 3 am karaoke on the feed again this year

middle of the night le mans coverage is always incredible

Happy for Ehlers

This site’s lanyard population when the tent revivalist population starts up on shutdown discourse during purse discourse youtu.be/wjkIAHBybyY?...