But if we DID add a Fall Olympics and a Spring Olympics, then we would get to invent sports and events for them …

I love sports

this is what it looks like inside my mind

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social Who said the Swiss had no culture. This is to get rid of the evil spirits. More cowbell.

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

the late, great David Johansen once said that there were songs that he loved with mistakes and when he covered them, he would notate those mistakes and do them as well because to him, that was part of the art in those songs and I stand by that sentiment.

Underrated tweet

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

People who do “quote post a thing” and then stop quote posts? Wrong uns.

Dr. Allan Abbott breaks the world's paced bicycle speed record by riding 140 mph (225 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, August 1973 HT @raafwolf.bsky.social

The Finnish team still gets to go home to Finland so

my last day of class i am burning bridges with every mfing student that did nothing and made me spend half my time responding to AI slop about bullshit they don't even know

The funny thing is that the Muppet performers tend to be fairly unsentimental about the puppets once they're off their arms - a reporter was once shocked that Henson traveled with Kermit in a suitcase, much to his amusement - but once they're there, they are ON, even if they're sitting next to them

NPR is confusing arrests at Whipple with the memorial event at Powderhorn

Plus, what's next for CBS, after turning the rotation of Edward R. Murrow in his grave into a perpetual motion machine.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

When you see a young Chekhov in the first Act, you know there’s gonna be a middle aged Chekhov in the last act.

Snow falling in Uptown

Bluesky compressed the image, here it is full-sized... you can actually see the clock tower at UC Berkeley across the bay: adobe.ly/3ZUEXTM

I think Arrival was the exact sort of big budget moved for grownups that the Academy should honor.

Do we have an anthem-based theory of international relations? I think there's something there.

Joan Miró : Portrait of Joaneta Obrador, 1918 Oil on canvas 69.5 × 62 cm | 27-3/8 × 24-3/8 in The Art Institute of Chicago This is part of a group by Miró documenting his early efforts to deal with revolutionary developments in modern art (Fauvism & Cubism) and to forge his own direction. More👇

"I can't believe Lindsey Vonn would keep going. It's gonna ruin her knees" MF, you can't stop posting and it's ruining your life

“Plus, what’s next for ICE, after de-escalating in Minneapolis.” -host Margaret Brennan, in a promo for Sunday’s Face the Nation show

“Each AND every day”? That’s jour-nalism!

I’m so old I think snowboarders are punks

I like when she starts to skate away and then he reaches out and pulls her back and she acts surprised

Time to go seduce @probablyinbed.bsky.social before I head back to the sea, my mistress.

[October 17th, 1980] Motörhead releases their single "Ace of Spades"

Have you reached out to this guy?

The community gathered this afternoon at Powderhorn Park for a memorial ceremony 1 month after Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Portland Avenue. Minneapolis February 7, 2026

Once again, another glorious sunset from Minneapolis, the city of sunsets and heroes!

My family in unison says “oh dang Italian curling lady”

Because the Winter Olympics are generally in mid-February and the Super Bowl didn’t move to February until 2004. It didn’t move to the second Sunday in February until 2021, when the NFL implemented the 17-game schedule.

FACT: Until the previous Winter Olymics in 2022, no Super Bowl had ever been played during the Olympics. Super Bowl LX and the XXV Winter Olympics is the second such overlap.

"While we were sorry to let go of several seasoned journalists — some of whom, it should be noted, were raking in an unconscionable $30,000 a year — we're excited to see the great local work that will be produced by our unpaid interns and network of Latvian SEO content bloggers."

I found this yesterday in a secondhand copy of a TS Eliot book of poems.

Not saying I have Olympics on my mind but I saw a dark plastic bag in the snow and I thought it was a curling stone

Do you think we'll get thundersnow??

This one was just added a couple weeks ago. archive.org/details/ajc0...

I’m not convinced it even matters to David Brooks.

The Washington Post is not yet reporting the exit of Washington Post CEO Will Lewis or the ascension of acting Washington Post CEO Jeff D’Onofrio.

OH NO. DISASTER.

Everything is #localangle now. We’re all the #localangle.

I know the Minnesota Vikings have never won a Super Bowl. has a *former* Vikings quarter back ever won a Super Bowl?!

Unless the story is about parenthood (are they patrolling their kid’s daycare? did their offspring persuade them to join a protest? what’s the angle here?) there is no reason to keep describing people as “moms,” “dads,” “grandmas” etc as if that’s their entire identity

46 Scaramuccis

finally some good news

Muting “McSweeney” because I can never tell if it’s an implicated British official or a humor magazine