imagine a united states with a 6,400 member house of representatives and how transformative it would be in ways big and small

imagine being able to summon this kind of enthusiasm

the first day of summer is canonically whatever day you first hear “smooth” by carlos santana feat. rob thomas of matchbox twenty in the wild each year

just heard a radio ad for a grocery store promising “no AI” in their food, the worm has truly turned

in an uber to the airport and the driver has a chuck e. cheese play pass where a taxi would have a registration/ID

apple music has a “marc cohn essentials” playlist and somehow it isn’t just “walking in memphis” thirteen times in a row

mine is that airlines that beg, threaten, and cajole passengers to gate-check their carry-on because they decided to gouge them on checked bag fees and now there’s not enough room for all the carry-ons should bribe them by letting them on the plane early or something, just some sort of sweetener

i have read police reports where the investigator proudly explained how he used standard interrogation techniques on the survivor filing the report, got her to contradict herself, and then concluded that she was making it all up! the system does not work the way you want it to

still thinking about this, and feel like it’s worth being clear that the three elements of reporting these stories are A) getting it right and knowing it’s true, B) respecting the right of survivors to not have their stories told without their consent, and then, distantly, C) not getting sued

“consent” is such a critical word when talking about this kind of story in particular- it can be deeply frustrating to know something you can’t report, but survivors absolutely have to choose to tell their stories for it to happen, for reasons that i really hope are obvious

i like that the artemis parachutes were striped! they didn’t have to be, they could have been anything. someone thought about it and decided “it should look jaunty as it descends.” it’s so human

every night the same dream. throwing touchdowns to a gorilla in the rain

“corruption is bad and there must be no consequences for it” is a darkly funny position to take i guess

Sending humans back to deep space has been good for the soul in ways I don’t think I ever really appreciated. Like, let’s go explore. Let’s push the boundaries. Let’s go see where we can go and what we can do. For all of humanity.

inviting y’all to consider helping out a couple of my former neighbors and members of the austin filmmaking community hit by a terrible cancer diagnosis, if you’ve got the resources. sometimes sharing what we can when everything seems overwhelming feels really good gofund.me/79229ff23

it used to be free now it costs you a fee cuz it’s all about the dumbest shit you can possibly imagine happening for no good reason whatsoever

from a pure story perspective, it’s clear that the articles of impeachment are going to work, it has to be an equal and opposite old man and nader has been missing a third act. it’s surprising but also makes a lot of narrative sense. somebody tell god

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is. People seem excited by it because they are. It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding. One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.

how many members of the u.s. senate do you think are a firm no on using nuclear weapons

happy easter

how many years until anthony from jury duty season two is old enough to run for president

obviously there’s a lot you could focus on, but sometimes it still takes me aback that the president says stuff like “his concerts, which suck” in his written addresses to the american people

Has anyone ever ASKED Elliot Gould (or Grover) about that day?

the funniest thing here is this guy is such an easy w that a competent fighter can take him out without ever even pausing the shit talk

in my experience (and i ask most professional colleagues i meet), most journalists are either writers who report because that’s how they find a story to tell, or reporters who write because that’s how the information they’ve learned gets out. very rare to meet someone who identifies as both equally!

if you put this headline in a campaign ad in 2024, you would have been accused of the worst kind of deranged, hyperbolic fearmongering

Texas Women's Basketball is on to the Elite Eight! 🏀💪 Read about their first March Madness title ahead of tonight's game here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-womens-basketball-march-madness-remembering-1986/

new quinnipiac poll on ai suggests bluesky users are not the ones living in a bubble over this shit. nobody trusts it, nobody’s excited about it (6 percent say they’re “very excited” about it- more believe in mermaids). 21-point majority thinks it does more harm than good poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

i’m cis but i can trace my comfort with the word “tummy” to this panel in x-men #1 (1991), and the fact that gambit made it seem like a man could be playful rather than rugged all the time

this is what they want to take from you

i wish to go live on the moon

we live in hell www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNSu...

wrote about willie and mortality and the realization that someday, he will be as real to a generation of weed-buyers as colonel sanders is to me www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

also the post he’s threading from didn’t include a single actual question

They’re both Michael B Jordan to me now. Oscar winning actor Michael B Jordan and Michael Basketball Jordan, the famous gambler

the only use cases for this are making dumb novelty videos to mildly amuse yourself and annoy your friends, and generating disinformation. not a huge surprise that neither of those can sustain the cost of generating fake video on demand

how many digits was your dci number

gambling is bad for everyone BUT if i were a disney exec i know how i would be hedging against this movie flopping

was there some mandate that agents at airports could only wear masks if they were surgical masks? i'm surprised the only photos of masked agents have them wearing these, given the way these masks have been coded

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

“would be cool to see an eleven seed make the sweet sixteen” *monkey’s paw curls*

it’s sad that this man died but this is very funny

hard to imagine how distorting it must be to grow into a twenty year old man having had to find the completely unhinged things that will make this guy proud of you

i am having weird déjà vu because i could have sworn we already had a “trump admin official tries to have the mother of his child deported” scandal like a year ago, did i make that up

willie nelson turns 93 next month and right now it is nearly 11pm and he is playing “i never cared for you” with a band that includes his sons, booker t. jones, and daniel lanois

how often do you think about the numbers from lost