That was entertaining sportsball

My god @alicefraser.bsky.social has another career modeling

Listen, I'm broke as hell (more on this later). I understand most people can't pay money for every single news service and Substack out there If that's you, rather than complaining about the paywall, you can go to removepaywall.com and type the URL in. This works almost all the time

Firmed solar power with battery backup in India is now at $0.035/kWh. There are no thermal sources that can touch that price. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/12/i...

Nightmare fuel here, a/k/a an idea for David Cronenberg.

Aren’t wine moms one of their key demos?

Sweet.

Delighted if the 49ers D can hold them off, but no confidence. All game so far this weekend…

Very 70s analog filter sweep. Tres cool.

"The phrase “sex sells” is a deceptively simple way of alluding to the historically entrenched ways that femininity can stoke desire for commodities, turning the female form into an indispensable tool of capitalism. . .when people say sex sells, they don’t mean sex acts. They mean sexiness."

Mexico City is a lot further flight time from anywhere the US can launch from.

Expect limited international travel for a while.

If you don't think the capture of Nicolas Maduro has made the world safer, just remember how the death of Saddam Hussein brought stability to the region and a lasting peace to the world.

We did, through 30,000 years of breeding.

They’re flipping coins whether to go into Cuba or Greenland next, Canada if those go well.

It’s the sound of all the goodwill Musk and Tesla earned crashing into the landslide of rocks his own politics brought down. he could have kept a green halo, but couldn’t hide his support for electric and renewable haters.

Damn. Nailed!

day one in mamdani’s new york

I'm having a hard time "liking" posts the last few days, seeming to be very sensitive about hitting the right spot with no mouse motion, and some briefly lighting up and incrementing, then decrementing. Blocked or muted? it's on accounts I seem really unlikely to have pissed off.

This is a great overlooked record

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Masterpieces of voice recognition

This is how the temporal anomalies start. Mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together. Old Testament stuff.

Can someone FOIA the instructions given for the redactions?

Is there any way to tell them to not send me any messages asking for a donation through actblue? Not doing it, ever.

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

He vill be spokesman for LaCroix water flavors.

I’ve never heard it explained so clearly. no wonder NFL Fearsome Foursome DT Rosey Grier took it up.

This was about when I’d started my current job and last son was one. I had a used Sun 3/60 and 56k dial up for internet.

whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all

Cleaning the desk. Looks like I’m not getting this rebate

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

undefined bagel (the choice of C programmers)

"there's a new serif in town"

Everbody who uses Quora is running into Cloudflare verification on almost every click. This enshittification seems intended to stop AIs and robots from scraping, but serves mostly to piss actual human off.

Drat, me too.

I'm old enough to remember when FIFA was about kicking balls, not sucking them.

This is Quality Lampshading.

Betting <1 percent of the population knows that a manifestly corrupt "industry" bought itself a Congress that puts cryptocurrency holders first in line -- ahead of you and your money -- if there's a run on your bank. Yep, you're subsidizing the sleaziest speculators.

Can't wait to find out Grok got a bunch of this info from DOGE's ransacking of Federal databases.

Severance payouts for fired FBS head football coaches at FBS public institutions this season have mounted to nearly $228 million for just 15 coaches (see Table 1 in this document). www.knightcommission.org/wp-content/u...

Feel good news of the year!

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Blade Runner on the 1984 Oberheim :)

Gerrymandering