The NYT Sunday Crossword -- 85 across "It typically has a string attached. Six letters. Starts with T. My guess was wrong.

This year’s Super Bowl innovation: Candy charcuterie

i can’t tell what’s satire anymore

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

When I see ad for Las Vegas tourism, I keep thinking it's a Fallout promo.

This is me when the little map shows the DoorDash driver getting closer.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Olympics announcer just said "we're not Yoda, we can't predict the future" and I could feel a million nerds cry out in pain.

I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo

George! Pencil #Art #Pencil #Floofs

So much conceptualizin’

Where the heck is the darn flame?

The commentators haven’t been given enough facts about the athletes, right?!

Didn’t realize Olympics were cutting to shot of veep. Jump scare.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

WRITING SPRINT COMPLETE! Good work all!

WRITING SPRINT COMMENCE! 1 hour of focused work on any task (doesn't have to be writing) starts now. It will fly! Go go go!

Life got busy, but I think we could a WRITING SPRINT again. Starts in 10 mins at the top of the hour - 1 hour of focused work on any task. Jump in if that would help you!

Kansas. One of the most rectangular states. State flower: sunflower. State bird: Western Meadowlark. Capital: Topeka, which means “good place to dig potatoes”.

Again, I bring up the Love Boat episode in which a politician practicing a speech vowed to wage war on poverty, but accidentally said "the poor," and it WAS A JOKE.

This is a lovely piece of writing from a writer with a name like an SCTV character and a great touching story to tell.

They don't tell you when you do your 8th grade report on #Jupiter that you'll spend the rest of your life reacting to Jupiter news like you've got some special connection. Like, Jupiter?! Oh, I went to school with her.

Before and after saying good boy

Guys I know everything is incredibly bad but please stop for a moment and enjoy this photo of my fucking amazing cat. Look at this shape. The box behind him is his thinking box, he sits in it and thinks

In 45 minutes, I have to be at a place that's 15 minutes away. Do I... A) Leave now B) Leave in 15 minutes C) Look, I'm not comfortable pushing it any later than that.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Good lord. That's all. Not about any one thing, but all the things.

You can put Big in front of something and make it a punchline. Know who doesn't want you to know that? Big Punchline.

If you combine Eleanor and Jason's origin stories from The Good Place...

When due process becomes "inconvenient."

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

SO cool!

I didn't realize Second Mentions was here at Bluesky! Always a fun follow!

Simmons had to be tasered by cops for them to arrest him. Despite being extremely violent at the scene, they somehow figured out a way to take him in alive.

Spelling Bee needs more science. It has tons of medical terms, but in the past week or so it has rejected gluon, ethology and hyphae 😕

It's a point of pride with me that I have the short attention span of someone literally decades younger

Picard management tip: Take your best crew members at their word, however surprising their claims may sound.

There is unexploited territory in this area. Let’s figure out what catshit means. Goatshit. Pigshit. Batshit is relatively new, so we CAN innovate here.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

We are alone in a cabin writing a ghost story. What could possibly go wrong?

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Real-life Wambsganss news

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

I grew up watching SCTV and if you've never watched it, it's never too late to start! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Nf...

This one hit me. Very sad. She was extraordinary.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

George! #Floofs

This sentence only gets more amazing as it goes on and I find myself somehow jealous?

They only made Vulcans unemotional because when Nimoy smiled, his ears fell off. This isn't true, but it makes me laugh.