DC United, moms spaghetti

When the utility noticed the problem, they sent the data center a retroactive bill for all the water, for $147,474 covering ~29M gallons. The data center paid it. That's all that happened.

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

Would have been nice to not get swept, but we made Sidney Crosby sad and that's literally all that matters

Tulsky the Philly Fan <- Tulsky the Canes GM

I really enjoyed this yellow card for simulation on Portland Hearts of Pine. No one was buying this acting job.

he didn’t seem to be that quick in the beginning, but then turned on the boosters

took out the youngest’ car seat for a cleaning and oh god

@tolkoto.com After your mention of Bachan’s on the bombcast (as i’m literally making a stir fry with it), now I need to hunt for the garlic flavor, had not seen that yet!

"While women’s sports bars are doing it to build community, gambling lounges exist to profit from and exploit those who seek reverie there. In disguising itself as any other sports bar, the gambling lounge is engaging in a little cultural stolen valor."

Young hero, prove that you are the saviour of whom the legends speak. I hope you’re good at pushing cubes around, we have a surprisingly large quantity of legends about moving boxes onto switches.

MY EMPEROR! I’VE FAIIIILED YOU!!! Hah. You’re not as STUPID as you LOOK! I can’t BELIEVE I lost to this SCUM! Sorry to jet, but I’m in a hurry! 😎 Can’t let you do that, Star Fox! Andross’s enemy is OUR enemy. You’re becoming more like your father.

COCKY LITTLE FREAKS DADDY SCREAMED REAAAAL GOOD BEFORE HE DIED I GUESS I SHOULD BE THANKFUL

“Oh gee, I’ve been saved by Fox, how swell!”

got something to show you all that I just found out from Wikipedia: Tahoe Knight Monsters Owners: David Hodges (Majority) Tim & Demi Tebow (Minority) Chip & Joanna Gaines (Minority) (great logo tho)

The VA Constitution gives lawmakers unlimited latitude to set judicial retirement ages. And to make any change take effect right away, Dems can attach it to the biannual budget bill, which is still in the works.

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

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you can't claim poster's bushido if you're constantly turning into a corncob

Even Spanberger is doing the “we’re on to November.” Oh will that one count?

it’s a miracle they tried, don’t get me wrong, it’s more than the US senate dems have ever done, but don’t get to the final step after people voted only to say “well we tried, and that’s what matters” - no it doesn’t! that’s 4 seats! look at the other gerrymanders! that could be the difference!

“the power still belongs with the people” it doesn’t feel that way!!! @donscott757.bsky.social

while i do believe AI is impacting the creative economy, i also don’t think this assessment is accurate — canva templates and fiverr slop took over this corner of the market long before AI even arrived… these clients were never willing to pay for quality design work to begin with

yes, the majority of people voted for X, but nearly the majority of people voted for not X, so who's to say what the people wanted?

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

congrats on your strong republican party, another win for them @barackobama.bsky.social

Reading the VA Court decision as a layperson, it seems that the court’s bullshit position is basically saying “the public has to vote on the amendment 2x, including voting for the general assembly” aka mitch mcconnell‘s “no new scotus in an election year”. www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...

this is a hilarious technical system. galaxy brained. (it is now visible)

Ali Wong spent one whole comedy special dumping on her husband, then they separated a few months later. Russini seems to have basically been doing this again and again for the last 6 years???

well that’s an ominous second sentence. basically a mini-newsom

I have been rewatching Game of Thrones and it’s pretty striking how the most famous plot point of the early seasons is about how you shouldn’t break deals with/needlessly antagonize irrational actors that control essential chokepoints

The site says the US price hike is on September 1st

If you want a Switch 2, go get it now. Weak yen + memory + tariffs + war(?) = $50 hike in the US, effective by the end of the month. www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/re...

this isn’t smash bros star fox. he’s not jumping and kicking around like a ninja, he’s breaking a bottle over your head and tossing you out of the window of the bar before going back to his whiskey and PBR.

for those wanting a taste of The Old Internet, a reminder that Something Awful is still going strong, and it only costs 10bux one time! they even have a moderation team! and it's transparent! and mostly fair! forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

upgrading the music is more important to me than the graphics, this is spectacular music.nintendo.com/shared/en-US...

Me: Congratulations, dude James McCloud: Thanks man Me: You pick a name yet James McCloud: We’re thinking Fox Me: Right on. It makes sense

just learned that chuds are review-bombing slay the spire 2 b/c the devs hired anita sarkeesian. how are you losers still doing gamergate it's been *twelve years*

closing a layoffs announcement post with “If you're looking for a new career direction, check out our open positions“ is…a choice. the cloudflare choice at least

the bluesky Purge of all the best posters has now reached its conclusion. if you are still able to see this, i have terrible news for you

The US Military burned a lot, A LOT, of munitions that are both expensive and will take up to 4 years to fully restock. especially the THAAD interceptors. and then you have the reports that Iran still has a significant amount of their munitions... so what are we doing? www.csis.org/analysis/las...

happy 100th birthday, sir david attenborough

it’s weird to frame an article from April 2025 like this, right? and the cruise ship was never in the US? and the disease most likely came from Argentina and isn’t related to the general operation of cruise ships?

always fun to see that these announcements drop a mere 30 minutes before US market open

you really don't get a shot of James McCloud saying "There's more at stake here than our bottom line" with his and his son's paw prints in the frame unless your art director actually cares about visual storytelling. It's the bare minimum, but leagues ahead compared to the rest of the media landscape

It’s near that plug-in solar got approved -> hopefully that encourages more businesses to get into the solar space -> price goes down and efficiency up… but right now it’s maybe a 3-5 year return on purchase, and for safety/battery-less reasons they don’t work in an outage. what might I be missing?

bluesky is what you get when a 2010s social network has the administrative staff of a 1990s irc channel

Interview about journalism and prediction markets in the Columbia Journalism Review this AM. Many in the media are using this new “forecast” data incredibly irresponsibly, and are failing to wrestle with the ethics of the companies they are dealing with www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...