Billy is correct

Respect to this guy I’m sure but a “chef” must not make a burrito.

I respect all the statistically superior NBA stars (except Luka and Shai bcs. tedious) but it is wild that Brunson simply never stops scoring against the other team’s most freakish athlete. I reflexively feel sorry for him when I see a closeup, like oh no they’re bullying that poor little man

Surprised to be in the minority here but I think 24 beers in 24 would have been pretty hard even in my heyday

Check out my cousin in the Journal! First response. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

a few years ago, my obviously fake oral history of bill laimbeer's combat basketball somehow got on reddit and a few posters were reacting like it was real despite being mostly about laimbeer being obsessed with cyberpunk world-building medium.com/@byctom/an-o...

I miss print but I also love that we have a medium in which you can run this interview at 1,600 words, truly all of which are interesting slate.com/business/202...

Curse of the Burger Bandit

I feel like Job from the Biblical book of Job Explodes While Shoveling

This is what I do as work as well except I don’t have a team. It’s tough to pull off but I manage it.

oh you went to juliard? great, that will give you a lot of emotional grounding when you run over a henchman with a monster truck and then say "he got tired" by the way arnold would pronounce it chuliard

Thinking about the time I took my parents to see Bela Fleck and they hated it. An all time upset. We’re talking composite NPR listeners.

Recreating, from scratch, the idea of a trusted but charismatic personality, backed by a rigorous journalistic organization, who explains the news to you on camera with some people working in the background

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

Whatever NBC is doing here is working

'Cause it's haunted www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/s...

I would like to address the "Miami Incident"

TWELVE dreams of Dr. Sardonicus? In this economy?

It better melt crazy on Saturday

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Dinking around looking for live afrobeat on YouTube to put on while cooking and found these guys playing a world class show in what seems to be a church rec center over brunch youtu.be/UV7JL2ndb3k?...

El Paso isn’t that far from Roswell by local standards

Not happy with the amount of ground melt I’m seeing today despite the temp. May be time for the space lasers

Speaking of daycare these cones offend me as a libertarian. If I want to impale my car on the giant rusty drill that fell off the thing I should be able to.

There’s a street in our town where the radio signal always goes out and it’s not clear why that would be. If this were the 18th century this kind of observation would lead to a world-changing advancement in science. But since it’s now I’m just going to post about it from the daycare parking lot

After he retires we can remember some guys who remembered some guys.

What Time Does the Super Bowl Start was wrong

Ben there was no posting back then. No verticals. No electricity probably. your options were listen to an antisemitic genius poet drone on forever or sit alone with your thoughts and I know what choice I would have made

This is honestly maybe more poetry than I could handle in one sitting even in a time machine situation featuring the actual TS Eliot

USA

Somebody asked me for some football #takes the other day on certain of Michigan football’s player and coach additions and I guess there’s no reason not to actually document them somewhere for future reference

On the one hand I enjoy regional variety so it’s kind of cool that the burrito I just got at the AIRPORT in San Francisco is better than any I’ve ever had on the east coast. On the other hand we could just get our act together.

Non-partisan endorsement: Aaron is one of the keenest explainers and understanders of American politics out there and this is a good newsletter

Interesting. Maybe the worst call in sports history. Ref should be in jail.

The number of guys in the front row who look like Fat Joe is multiplying

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Daily printed sports section delivered to households with kids remains my best business idea

Havana Syndrome is also real

Almost TWO FULL WEEKS between quarterfinals and semifinals, this sport has no idea what it's doing.

Asking this coffee shop in Palo Alto if they take Apple Pay as a joke

My son asked me the other day if the guy who plays Danny DeVito in the commercials has any other famous characters. A haunting question

For all of you (*one or two people at most) who asked what I was doing post-Slate: I was helping create a finance and economics newsletter for my new employer — one that regular people can read! — which is now live.

A mountain of snow 15 feet tall at the edge of an elementary school parking lot … that’s good stuff

The 1990 classic House Party celebrated its 35th anniversary last year. A bona fide classic, it has deservedly received the @criterion.bsky.social treatment in all of its zany and energetic glory. I was lucky enough to chat w/ writer/director @reghud.bsky.social about its lasting impact and legacy.

Learner Tien! You’re hearing it said.

Really good pull

A great trend in tennis is the arms race toward maximizing the number of older-middle-aged guys in your box who have an aesthetic that can only be described as “techno Wes Anderson”

Jim Harbaugh is right on the cusp between Baby Boom and Gen X which is interesting because he obviously doesn’t belong in either (was spiritually born the same year as Douglas MacArthur)

Serious question is there a place besides Google Trends to measure the usage of ubiquity of a meme/phrase over time