Pittsburgh has its own steaks and toilets, they punch above their cultural weight

I can’t quite articulate why this upsets me so much. Maybe because it has all the hallmarks of just the pettiest form of flamboyant authoritarianism. Between this, the Tr*mp accounts, the Tr*mo gold card… I mean Jesus Christ this guy.

The new patriotism

Just want to shout out Appen Media and the local journalists who work for them. They distribute a legitimately great local paper. A solid mix of local news, local history, resident stories, and actually thoughtful commentary.

Dana is a national hero.

Mazagan Ice Cream. The almond and Nutella specifically. El Jadida, Morocco.

“You can’t summarize the U.S. in a single image.”

I’m at ICE HQ

that feels like something you say when you're wearing a wire

Just solid life advice for our current moment.

St. John the Baptist Preaching, by Adam Elsheimer, early 17th c, 📸 by @masonkumetphoto

I know everyone is reposting this same article, but I don’t get how you can write this article and not highlight that the new war goal is the status ex ante.

🎵 Carry on my based milk son 🎵

One thing I never real solved for myself during or after div school was how to reconcile the historical details of this text with its received traditions. Scholarship suggests Exodus is at best an oral history of a small band of refugees escaping through the “Sea of Reeds…”

For those of us who live in a very different epistemological world, one that takes pluralism for granted and which seeks to gain a modest, non-totalizing understanding of the irreducible complexity of the world as it exists, the worldviews of both the cynics and dogmatists is hard to comprehend.

Real ones in public life are rare.

I remain shocked at how wide the gulf is between the life and teachings of a 1st century Palestinian Jew martyred by the Roman state and the white evangelical religion acting in his name.

“[S]omething is deeply wrong if we, as a society, cannot agree that an administration that snatches up children, uses them as bait to hunt down others, is morally repulsive.” Well said, @inaeoh.bsky.social.

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Should definitely be featured in the next Saw movie.

Friday timeline cleanse: kitchen tools edition. I want to know the one gadget, pan, tool, device from your kitchen that makes all the difference. For me? A simple digital kitchen scale. Necessary for baking, leveling up your coffee, and making smoothies. Also bonus math practice for my jr chefs.

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

It's been 35 years since I earned my history degree but I'm not sure there's an historical example of a stupider war fought for stupider reasons by stupider leadership that said stupider things.

As @austinkocher.com goes on to document in this important thread, ICE detainees are dying at a rate of one every four days while Congress completely fails its oversight duties. Horrific. Intolerable.

Thank you @sharonk.bsky.social. There’s so much lore here for the discerning schism connoisseur. There could be a whole series of posts on ACNA alone and its internal contradictions: Can women be priests? Yes! Can they be bishops? No! Why? Because the bishop’s hat is ontologically male.

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

Recently got a new bread bag for my sourdough. Let’s take a look at the various uses as illustrated on the bag….

The last text message Zuck ever sent me was the night before they renamed the company to Meta, telling me to pay attention in the morning because he thought I'd be really excited by what they were going to announce. The next morning I kept waiting for the thing he thought I'd be interested in.

We would defeat fascism forever and have the most fun of our lives if this was the energy and approach we took every day. Afroman’s every response in this saga is incredible and a source of great joy on this Wednesday.

If you watch to the end, Gabbard literally says “it is not the responsibility of the intelligence community to determine what is and is not an imminent threat [to the US].” Lmao, wut. Isn’t that… the entire point of the IC…

Sheep took flight on her LMFAO

I guess in a world of online church run by LLM agents, sure. Hard to see how AI breaks bread, though.

1/3 I read the Al Jazeera piece this AM about the strategic benefits of the US regime’s war against Iran… My take is that whatever strategic success occurs is ancillary to the regime’s ultimate goal of producing viral content.

This is an enormous step forward for women of people.

I could watch the entire 12 hour shift from The Pitt completely uninterrupted. Goodness, this show.

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

1. Alabama White Sauce (the real ones know) 2. Vinyl records 3. A late fall Saturday in Athens, GA

A future digital historian trying to reconcile my Instagram and Bluesky feeds will probably conclude they are independent sources. Thus a new documentary hypothesis will be born. That’s a niche seminary joke that’s not for everyone.

My wife and I recently welcomed number four. I am issuing a formal apology to Kevin’s family from Home Alone for judging them so harshly all these years. I understand now.

Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Samuelle Jackson

Everything is so bleak and so dumb right now. I'm taking psychic damage just by being awake.

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

the way it seems right now, irans goal is to destroy our economy and our goal is to provide footage for dank memes the administration can post so edgelords will think theyre cool

Love the idea of the “virtuous circle.” Have been looking for language to describe the perils of families in my own context opting out of public school—and demonizing public education. It’s opting out of one of the biggest opportunities we have to build “trust and cohesion.”

@juliusgoat.bsky.social this quote should be music to your ears.