Lessons in how to ruin a premium brand faster than Zazlav did to HBO: www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

Huh. I’ve had a line with T-Mobile US since their acquisition of Voicestream (which I was on for years before that), but I guess it’s time to shop around. www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

The Onion, as usual, hitting it out of the park theonion.com/what-to-know...

I have eaten the diarrhea lettuce that was in the crisper and which you were probably saving for tacos forgive me it was delicious hang on gotta run

Headlines to send back to the past, part 17

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

You are strapped in. I pushed my elderly father down a hill in one of these & he vomited on my older brother who was strapped in on the other side unable to move. Hearing my brother squeal and swear as Dad was sick on him was one of the funniest days of my life. Warms the heart just to think

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

Scott Jennings just talked to Lindsey Graham for 20 minutes

Wondering if I should start a campaign to fund putting this on a billboard in Hollywood

Amid all the "if buying isn't ownership then piracy isn't theft" talk we have recently, I'm surprised I haven't seen this done yet

We are in the most predictable “find out” phase ever and the press is acting like it’s a complete mystery.

Huh. Would love to see this replicated and — if successfully reproduced — commercialized. It would be great to replace popular but ineffective natural snake oil like citronella with something that actually works.

Comment of the day, from elsewhere. No idea if it's true, but I agree with the sentiment: “Count Binface on R4 this morning called Farage a ‘cunning stunt’, adding that given it was R4 and the time of day it was, he was especially careful about his pronunciation.”

Well, the liberals and the leftists are at it again, and wondering why elections keep going the wrong way.

"To report suspected election law violations, email [email protected]" -- you all know what to do.

This whole debacle really tarnishes the very integrity of the FIFA peace prize.

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

“Streetlights, people, person, woman, man, camera, TV”

Did they just play a bombastic electric guitar version of “oh come all ye faithful” as part of the DC celebration?

Most people aren’t familiar with Weird Al’s troublemaking brother Smooth Al.

im kinda worried that nobody’s gonna get struck by lightning

Someone forgot to turn the metaphor machine off.

Pope : with mercy and love and deep regret, i must call this a schismatic act Half of bluesky with their shirts off and earrings out ready to brawl outside applebees : GET THEIR ASSES WOOOOO

I think America, as a society, spends a wholly inadequate amount of time talking about the Nuremberg trials. We did eventually figure out how to handle this kind of thing, but the people who are in real danger of finding themselves at the wrong end of history in a criminal sense probably don’t know.

The question now is whether Kennedy will execute Kean himself, or if he’ll delegate it to someone else.

“I BELONG IN A LATER VERSE IN THE POEM”

Is it that they’re somehow making even more? Is every show becoming Walking Dead? OH NO ARE THEY MAKING A MOVIE

Nothing about the article per se, but my attempt to read this reminded me that I should make a plug for Firefox on the iPhone, and specifically its “reader mode” feature. News sites are frequently unusable on mobile, and reader mode cuts through the bullshit.

Not for the first time, @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social nailed it.

Due to excessive inertia, we kept a land-line up until about the beginning of this year. To save costs, we ported the number to a budget VoIP provider and canceled the AT&T line. I'm learning that about every two to three weeks, someone we know will send a text to our old landline number 🙄

They do not want *this*, no matter how ill-defined, or possibly undefinable, *this* is. And they certainly do not want people who are super into crypto or AI or funding ICE but training them better, basically, they do not want the Dem waiter to KEEP BRINGING THEM THE SOUP, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT 7/x

James Carville is who I always thought he was, and I hope this helps people understand how he could have a long marriage to a Republican political consultant.

Looks like a good night for progressives -- let's hope they carry this momentum into the general.

And also: it is a profound moral failing to live in one of the wealthiest nations and only care about helping other humans when there's a straight line benefit to you. FAFO applies, but there's a lot of FA that doesn't involve FO that you shouldn't do anyway just because you're not a psychopath.

In short, I think we should all believe in America at least as much as a misinformed Uber driver in Kyiv. We should try to live up to Sergey’s vision of us.

If I understand the arguments made by the right about why they object to DEI, the issue is that the fictional black 3D object took the job of a fictional white 3D object who was better qualified.

He's describing piracy

I have never, since I started paying attention to this kind of thing, seen rainfall reach a rate of 5 inches per hour. This was _bonkers_. (Google can show you cars floating around the streets of Dallas).

"Might makes right, in Trump’s warped view, but it doesn’t guarantee victory," writes @kennethroth.bsky.social. "If there is a silver lining in this debacle, it is that the utter failure of Trump’s military adventure in Iran may give him pause before trying another."

Look, this may be a horrendous waste of money, but at least it didn’t kill a boatload of Iraqis.

I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.

As GW Bush said: back in the day the Republicans understood the difficulty of putting food on your family. Too bad they lost this understanding.

Why don’t the Korean corn dog places know about this??!?

As a computer scientist who has had to hear countless complaints that the world didn’t end on midnight January 1st 2000 and know what a crazy lift it was to make that true, the person being responded to can go get entirely fucked.

What.

Remember that you’re just a chunk of fatty meat inside a skull being profoundly influenced by a soup of chemicals, key among them water and glucose. Don’t forget to stay hydrated and fed.