La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

THE USA PLAYED IT LIKE A GOLD MEDALIST 🥇 Congratulations to the 16 PWHL players who will be bringing home the gold with Team USA!

As always watching Bluesky go nuts over amazing sports moments remains my favorite way to experience such sports moments.

Post a banger that isn’t in English. youtu.be/YRbdFSpFBQg?...

When those fairy tales get too intense…

The official (televised at least) opening night of the actual Olympics seems like a great time to remind everyone of the delightful Lonely Island sketch/song "Space Olympics"

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]

Keeping an eye on this post in case this manages to trump the bus thing from yesterday…

Dynersty in Ann Arbor was the greatest Chinese food on earth and I ordered it with my buddies in our dorm my freshman year at UM so often that I still have the phone number memorized. Best General Tso’s chicken I’ve ever had.

Sergei’s speech is so great. Something about the Russian accent just adds to the charm of all this storytelling. This presentation is lovely. #lgrw

I am relatively new on Bluesky but in my experience hate watching sports with like minded strangers as a part of this community is an unparalleled sports fan experience.

I feel like those back to back passes are Caleb in a nutshell. Insane play to stay alive and then bad pass and he’s blaming the receiver.

No that I'm some influential follower of others or anything, but if you post or repost the clearly AI'd photo of the "ICE shooter" into my timeline I'm both unfollowing you and reporting you for dangerous misleading information. Being angry and wanting action doesn't excuse dangerous choices.

I’ve seen a few people reposting and commenting on this and just generally making fun of him but more specifically…a TON of services are now digital and you can reserve a spot before you show up and…it’s just massively upgraded since even the 2010s. Like it’s a flatly inaccurate observation.

Netflix just endlessly bad at live streaming. Lions broadcast didn’t even pop up after cowboys ended I had to search for them. Clown show stuff. And while I’m full of Christmas cheer this ridiculous opening of players tackling presents is dumb even for a football promo.

What an effort from Reed there after a rough night. Feels like the Lions got some swagger back tonight despite an imperfect game. Hope branch is ok.

In our house the canonical story of the elf on the shelf is that she arrives on thanksgiving and she was cast out of the North Pole just like Satan in Paradise Lost which is why as a fallen elf she so freely makes deez nutz jokes and whatnot when she delivers her holiday treats. (My kids are in HS)

hey! if you're in the US and in a state that restricts gender affirming care, my friend flies for an amazing organization that will give you free flights to states/clinics that can help u get access. elevatedaccess.org

Don’t waste Your time On me You’re alreadeeee The voice inside my head

The number of educators who not only don't understand this but seem hell-bent on ignoring the reality because AI is "the future" should concern anyone with kids at any level of education. It has just been taken for granted that kids "have to learn how to use this" and very few are pushing back.

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

You're all welcome at my Gales of November/Circulatory System in the Kitchen themed party which one assumes will rage until all hours but actually ends abruptly at 7 pm. As you can imagine the cooks all ran off so bring your own snacks...

Mariners and tigers Bluesky fans united in being emotionally exhausted and suffering together on the timeline is why I love this place.

Tarik Skubal has set a new #Postseason record with 7 consecutive strikeouts 🤯 h/t @EliasSports

Skattebo is fun as hell to watch.

One thing I never saw anyone talk about with this is how desperate and bad the idea was in the first place: I was a server at Bill Knapps when they decided to "rebrand" for young people instead of old people with wrinkled coupons cut out of the newspaper as their core customer. 1/2

I'm not NOT licking toads!

Maybe the real rapture is the friends we lost along the way.

Man there is no place like Bluesky when you’re watching your team do great things. Just amplifies the good vibes. Loins feeling it right now.

Saw a post on here about Disney stock “collapsing” and it’s a chart showing like a 3-4% decline over three days. I feel like there are so many issues where people get giddy or draw wild conclusions based on zero knowledge of what they’re talking about. Learn how things work or don’t post maybe?

Experiencing events like this on social media over time, one of the problems with media/journalism maybe really boils down to this: Some media folks are not great at processing new situations effectively in real time but feel the need to comment anyway. Narratives are shaped from guessing or worse.

Here's a bit of morning optimism: Get your shots now while you can, and your window of protection could likely outlast this administration. I'm getting my pokes tonight!

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

This is my first opening CFB day on Bluesky and it is NOT disappointing. Love the energy.

Really excited to talk about college football on here today and gather the tears of the “sportsball is a waste of time and also fascist because the world isn’t perfect yet” crowd in a little digital jar.

“Preeeeettty Niiice!”

At the Volbeat concert at Pine Knob tonight and my #music hot take is come for the opening bands. They’re often awesome and when you’re a performer nothing is as fulfilling as a response from a crowd. Speaking of which Ghost Inside are a pretty sick band. Check them out.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

@melaltersmith.bsky.social and #TeachLivingPoets helped me realize how collaborative, insightful, and meaningful poetry can be in EVERY classroom. So grateful for the lesson ideas, guidance, and those fleeting Twitter chats! This post reminded me of that work, and has some great poetry linked!

Slightly diminish a band: The Regional

The Lions say Morice Norris is in stable condition and has movement in all his extremities. Some good news after a scary night. The latest: www.freep.com/story/sports...

With its return tonight I just have to say it out loud: #Platonic is an insanely better and more fun, watchable show than The Studio (which was just fine). I feel like shows about the industry just always get weird praise regardless of actual quality?

Had the same problem. This is the only solution we found too!

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

I saw the Tim Burton remake of planet of the apes on opening night and there were people in ape costumes. An hour in you could feel the disappointment in the theater but then (spoiler) they showed the Lincoln memorial with an ape face and someone shouted “APEraham Lincoln” and the crowd went wild.

TENNCARE IS MEDICAID 1.6 Million Tennesseans are on it 310,000 Tennesseans will lose it because Republicans just cut $1 TRILLION from it This is what Medicaid is called in your state:

Bluesky LITERALLY just went through a fight about “sports bad” with a subgenre of super leftists like four days ago. These guys think ANY human being who is liberal is “The Left” I think? Idk how you fix it but they take any individual extreme view they hear as the party position of all dems.

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.” A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

Crazy how many people I find on Bluesky who are good at articulating a simple thing that establishment dems can’t seem to get to come out of their mouths. So weird!