Rooting for Senegal:

The problem here isn't trans kids in sports. The problem is that a lot of kids can only afford college if they're the best at sports. That's the actual problem

Absolute LASER from Harry Kane there, holy crap.

The two most hardcore Trump supporters I’ve personally had the displeasure of knowing would never have made it to America. Both are the children of foreigners who never naturalized.

It’s giving Motern Media (laudatory, more people who think they’ve got a movie should go out and make one)

This article mentions the scale of Biden's inaugural fireworks. Watching those on TV at the time, I remember thinking "damn, Biden really went all out on the fireworks, this is a lot." Trump intends to launch more than 20 times as many on Saturday night. I will laugh if it goes awry.

Ezra Klein did not learn from his conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates.

This one is a relief. Had the potential to hurt more than a few folks in my family.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non binary people are non binary. Everyone has the right to be themselves. Everyone deserves a political and judicial system that respects and protects these rights. We need to make that happen.

TOM HANKS: hi i'm beloved actor and wholesome family man tom hanks! the new deal was good THE RIGHT: tom hanks is a sick cannibal freak! i will NEVER watch his movies ARMIE HAMMER: hi i'm sick cannibal freak armie hammer and i love racism now THE RIGHT: it is our duty to support this righteous man

the problem for Ezra Klein is he doesn't seem to comprehend that there are, actually, some people out there who are purely evil

yeah i was hella suspicious about the increase to 48, but this world cup has absolutely cooked in the kitchen so far. superb dish.

I am an unabashed Fireworks Lover, but 860k shells seems… wildly excessive? That’s like 350 shells a second… for 40 minutes.

The wine is reduced, the short rib browned. The potato is baked, halved, and steaming off before mashing with butter, then pureed with heavy cream. I even got white pepper to test my new spice grinder. Onions and garlic caramelizing. Tonight's dinner is going to be absolutely gobsmacking.

The joy of the hotdog is its walkability. Jamaican Patties and Empanadas also do pretty good on this metric.

Enough Minions & Monsters reviews on Letterboxd are invoking Babylon that I think I gotta go now.

Got half a mind to make a Stephen Eustáquio fancam set to Chad Kroeger's "Hero" #CanMNT #WorldCup

Share your reaction vids, #CanMNT #WorldCup fans. I know you’ve got ‘em.

The thing about Toronto, even when we aren’t hosts… this is a city that goes wild for the World Cup. It might be why this WC has felt weirdly slight - our baseline was so high. Thursday’s Croatia/Portugal match at BMO, after this win… this city is going to be at peak energy, and I can’t wait.

HISTORY IN THE MAKING! LET’S GOOOOOOO CANADA!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Worth the wait. #CanMNT

THAT'S GOTTA BE A PEN

Stumbled across this last night. Luna GameNight is doing some fascinating stuff that’s worth checking out if you’ve got Prime.

One of my hot takes: if the AI economic transformation pans out, a robust humanities education will be a tremendous competitive advantage. The capabilities and risks of LLMs are dramatically different depending on the user's critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

Whatever you want to say about Mark Hamill, going to war with him when you’re the government is the very definition of a metaphor that writes itself

An absolute legend, one of the best to ever do it. Where's his @criterion.bsky.social 4K boxset, amirite?

I remember people spending a lot of 2025 talking about the fighter/folder dynamic, but I think the one that's really proving resonant in 2026 is doing shit/not doing shit.

Jumping into a swimming pool whilst wearing a suit is a lot of fun the couple times I've done it

I like Fantano, and the Halsey beef seemed like normal critic/artist tension, but putting himself up there with Bangs… no. Just… no. And snippets like this are why.

One of the most thought-provoking things I've read in a minute.

I did some informal advising to Carney's campaign in the very early days. Let me tell you: this stat sheet is a laser-accurate read of the man.

That's about 5% of their entire fleet.

Hot take: Jeremy Allen White

My reflecting pool cleanup plan: massive doses of sugar, yeast, gelatin, and sea monkey eggs. Nature will find a way.

If I've got both an Xbox Series X and a good gaming PC attached to my TV, what is the argument for not reselling the Series X at this point?

Trying to understand the tech industry of late, and what I've landed on is it seems like all the tech companies that made huge profits in the 2010s are spending their accumulated cash horde to buy out the next generation of technology in the hopes of renting it to us forever.

The past few weeks and the proliferation of AI posters at so many Toronto establishments in the past couple months has been really depressing to see. The people doing it have no idea how much their shit looks identical to everyone else's.

Her early stuff? Totally.

the median tea party candidate inherited a dentist franchise and wanted to literally and metaphorically throw the government in the ocean, the median DSA candidate dreams about weaponizing robert’s rules of order

Years back, out strolling, an old Orthodox Jew asks me to help lower the shutter on his shop. Effusively grateful after I helped, I said it was all good: I was in a position to help, and I helped. "Tikkun Olam!" he said, and explained the concept. Using it as an insult is telling on yourself.

I’ve only been in 40C+ temps a couple times in my life and the experience is deeply unpleasant. Like the air itself is thick.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I have no real problem with Fantano, but the hubris of this is the exact problem with the influencer as journalist set. It’s disrespectful to the decades of work so many have put in, who have shaped the cultural conversation and given context to history. Just a baffling statement

I think what the New York elections prove is that the anti-Mamdani movement is adrift without the charismatic leadership of Andrew Cuomo

Lander posting Kim Jong Il numbers with food co-op members bsky.app/profile/onbl...

There’s something happening here.

Dudes Rock

If Tim Heidecker directed the Black Hole Sun video