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A “Heated Rivalry” spinoff following the interior designer who goes from city to city convincing pro hockey players to make their homes all look like the lobby of an upscale boutique hotel.

This is very good and very precise.

There are people who will consider this an exception to Minnesota Nice, but, in fact, limits beyond which you are merciless are a signature feature of same.

It's such a grim sign of where things stand that I opened up the Sweetgreen app, saw that they've got a new line of meals "designed by Dr. Mark Hyman", looked up his opinions on vaccines and links to RFK, Jr. and... YUP.

What I told new colleagues last month. Reject the notion that cops don’t have time to think. Do not fall for that crap. That’s an excuse for repeat garbage behaviors. Make time to think. Slow down. Plan. React smartly. Determine WHAT IS THE POINT. Communicate. Or find a new job.

I suggest turning off video auto-play today. Go to profile, settings, content/media and make sure the toggle is pushed left.

This just reminds me of my absolute favorite video Dr. Oz produced during his Senate campaign. x.com/DrOz/status/...

Imagine gettin’ got by Rob Schneider

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

The Good Place kind of nailed it when it came to giving (most of) its characters a pretty definitive sense of closure.

i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement

The perfect two sentence story.

REALLY important to note homicide has dropped sharply all OVER the place, in places that have a lot of diff policing tactics. That doesn’t mean that what the NYPD did was irrelevant, but also def means that you can’t simply say “we did x, then crime fell,” bc a lot of not-xs saw similar drops.

If your production company's logo is longer than five seconds and can be mistaken for the beginning of the actual movie, it should have to be watermarked with the words "NOT THE ACTUAL MOVIE".

They shouldn't make Cookie Monster do all these healthy eating segments on Sesame Street. It's against his nature and you can see in his eyes that he doesn't like it.

Casey did basic due diligence here, and it's depressing (and not even a little surprising) how many people wrote takes/stories on the post without doing that.

If your joke is about the “Taxi” theme song and you can’t get the rights to the “Taxi” theme song, you have to write a new joke, this uncanny soundalike makes me feel like I’m in Universe B #SummerOf69

I think the second part is the bigger news.

“In case anybody cares, this is less and less fun.” - Seymour Hersh in “Cover-Up,” also everyone working in media

I can't find US outlets referring to Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources, the basic intl law & UN precept that one nation can't grab another's resources. That would be... a timely explainer, right about now. The Guardian seems to be the only place that's bothered to specifically note it.

Lol

This is from a week ago but it’s newly relevant:

I guess the lucky thing is, they know for absolute certain no major news is going to happen in the next two weeks that will in any way jeopardize this incredibly expensive plan.

Welp.

I guess the lucky thing is, they know for absolute certain no major news is going to happen in the next two weeks that will in any way jeopardize this incredibly expensive plan.

The weirdest thing here is, this is from his Instagram recently, but the original was posted five years ago, and it's still up. And it... doesn't solve the mystery of why he added an extra pair of hands.

It's so funny to think "we had a 38-page handbook but we just replaced it with five values" inspires confidence instead of alarm. Like, if you walked into a restaurant and were told that, you'd leave immediately.

A thing I'd be genuinely interested to know the answer to -- and that someone should ask! -- is, "What stories that CBS has done would've been covered differently if this policy had been in place, and what specifically would've changed?"

The dirty secret of criminal justice policy is that policy rarely explains trends

It is almost as if crime rates in individual cities around the country rise and fall in sync, whether they have “tough-on-crime” prosecutors or not.

I do think the easiest and likeliest fix they’re going to make is telling Grok it can’t apologize or admit error anymore.

Media is starting to report the Grok child porn story but way too many are centering the bot's "apologies" and "admissions" without explaining that these are being generated in response to user requests and are not in anyway authentic or meaningful.

I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime. share.inquirer.com/gjgwFN

(Trying to remember how many days you’re supposed to want to claw your eyes out with new glasses before the optometrist concedes you’re not just “taking time to get used to them.”)

Seems noteworthy that the apology that Grok made about generating CSAM isn’t an official statement but a prompted one

What's funny is, the best rebuke to this approach -- caricaturing the work your colleagues have been doing and disparaging it, like you weren't there working alongside them -- has already been given by the guy he's replacing, who talked movingly about the actual work of journalism.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

I get that it's just empty flattery, but it's very funny to have a journalist claim, with a straight face, that the issue with press coverage of a story like Hunter Biden's laptop is that it didn't center the voices of average Americans who knew nothing about the particulars of the case.

The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.

As I was saying.

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

In the rooms of AA they call 12/31 “amateur night.” Stay safe if you’re drinking (get a ride, have a buddy). Stay safe if you’re not drinking and want to stay stopped (drive yourself, have a buddy). Good luck out there.

The funniest thing here is that this guy taught at Harvard for forty years and somehow didn’t realize he was baiting people who love two things above all else: having an excuse to mention they went to Harvard, and telling you you’re wrong.

As I was saying.

If nothing else, if not for the AV Club's Random Roles, there's a decent chance we'd never have had the opportunity for Curtis Armstrong to tell his story about working on the Gary Busey film "Quigley".

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

One of the best to ever do it

I made fun of Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias and this guy got so mad at me for refusing to explain the joke that he decided I was a Russian bot trying to undermine faith in media elites.