Guess who’s back.. back again.. Horace, the corpse flower, blooming!

Alt text: scene from Nope in which OJ and Em are standing on their front porch at night, looking out over their ranch. He asks her "What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?" Em things for a minute, then says "Nope."

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

I’ll prat her.

In the latest ballot drop, Nithya Raman pulls ahead of Spencer Pratt, so down here in #la we get an actual election in November instead of a clown show clusterfuck. Can I get a hell ya. https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2026&election=4338

criticism of Spielberg often centres on his Hollywoodism, and proponents often point to depth in his personal connection to the material (lotta divorce going on), but Spielberg is underrated as an interrogator of systems

a key fact in this piece most Americans do not realize: your car already has a speed governor in it — it's just set at a super high speed to avoid damaging your engine, not for safety. "Install a speed governor" is literally just changing a setting in your car's computer and that's it.

This is very unsporting and shameful

File under unintended consequences: The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, a major destination for H-1B visa holders, is experiencing a real estate downturn amid tighter visa restrictions and AI-driven job losses in the tech sector.

What could be more full of meaning?

the lights appear to be from *checks notes* a rave at the National Archives

I was born, grew up, and lived half my life in Northern New England. If people try to follow the Maine election and invest emotionally in its results it will likely only distress and bedevil them until the results are in, and likely for some time after.

or do you see me, my unwavering bulk resting sturdily grounded through the heels, and consider that i can both eat pasta whenever i want AND lift you over my head to become my personal weathervane at will

Probably the best can-opener I've ever seen on Storrow

The scene in "Band of Brothers" where it pulls back and you see the array of planes and ships headed for France.

Wonder what it's like to use the basilica sky porta potty

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship

Moby Dick. Including getting Sir David Attenborough to do the Cetology chapters.

Right. The deeper issue is that the regulation increases PRESIDENTIAL control of science. And *that* is the major break from the decades of NIH success, where Congress via legislation set NIH priorities and the president mostly stayed out of it. But: /1 🧵

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this Human Rights Watch report on academic freedom in Hong Kong. It’s really worth contemplating how fast and how thoroughly the change took place. www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

Today is Sweden's National Day. The new citizenship law will go into effect today. This means ~100,000 pending applications citizenship applications will likely be rejected, an act of quasi-retroactive law making. A sad day for Sweden.

The way I see it Anthropic are stuck. They’re running out of money (all the AI shops are, but their pockets are shallower than others). If they stop spending money alone they will survive but fall behind & become irrelevant. If they keep spending money they go tits-up-dot-com faster than Google.

I’m not sure I’d finished a video game until #DragonAgeOrigins — most of my games before that didn’t have an ending, like #SimCity2000, or I didn’t have the patience to get all the way to the end, like #CivilizationII.

Delighted that my Roman Camps in Scotland (2011) is now Open Access! Thanks to Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Ordnance Survey

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. A daily pill DOUBLED survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy. Daraxonrasib works by locking onto the mutated KRAS gene.

"Women's health clinics offering breast screenings would be unable to provide this service to trans women. This is despite the fact that trans women who have had more than five years of Gender-Affirming Hormons Therapy (GHAT) are forty-seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than men"

RIP dear Tony Head. Total Gent, top chap and a wonderful villain in our BBC Radio 4 NEVERWHERE, here as Mr Croup with Heather Larmour (our Producer) and David Schofield (Mr Vandemar).

David and Tony in action as Vandemar and Croup

someone on Twitter once posted a breakdown showing how many gay men died of AIDS in various districts of Florida, overlaid with how many votes Gore lost those districts by in 2000, and I've genuinely never been okay since. there literally would have been no George W. if those men were still with us

This is insane. Who ordered police to do this? On what authority?

Psst, could I interest you in a soupçon of good news?

Sobering estimates out from CDC. This was not inevitable.

Someday soon, God willing, we’ll welcome him back home with open arms

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

"I don't think anything I have to say here is going to matter one way or the other to Mr. Platner, but if he does ever happen to read this, I hope he understands how much is at stake and what he's asking of voters in trusting him over Sen. Collins."

"Their wives aren’t redecorating the White House to make it more elegant. Instead, they’re doing MMA on the lawn. Lincoln wasn’t into MMA; he was too skinny to be an effective grappler."

an average bluesky user

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

It was brilliant to hear him as Gently Benevolent in the underrated radio comedy series "Bleak Expectations" for many years before everybody realized he was very good at playing very evil. By all accounts an incredibly kind, wonderful person: www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a... -- he will be missed.

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

sending love to all the other lesbians who thought Giles was the hottest man on this show does everyone know the story about how the musical episode came about because he randomly just did "Rocket Man" at Joss Whedon's living room piano one night at a party and the entire cast lost their minds

This framing is insane. He *purports* immunity