Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

Last night my wife said she grew up thinking the song "Mellow Yellow" was about the soft drink. I told her I'd always heard that it was about getting high by smoking banana peels. We checked Wikipedia, and...

about to watch this game 7 overtime hockey then do several lines of cocaine to wind down before bed

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email

Happy Mother's Day

Catch me on CBS Golazo for Phoenix Rising vs. San Antonio FC at the top of the hour! 📺🍿

#JCcrashes Duncan & JFK, a driver hurt a pedestrian in a hit-and-run this morning. It appears serious crash investigators are on scene. We are hoping for the best for the victim. @hudcostreets.org #FixJFKBlvd

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

github status page: "We have identified a regression in merge queue behavior present when squash merging or rebasing." reality: you merge a pr and a random sequence of commits on your main branch are reverted as part of the commit that actually lands. you are not told about this

From 1990 to 2010, the median net worth of households headed by adults over 65 grew by 42 percent. In the same period, in households headed by adults 18 to 34, median net worth fell by 68 percent. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Are the Sixers still tanking? In the playoffs?

"[Palestinians] are not superior to any other life, but no other life is superior to us." Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author Noura Erakat tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the double standard the West applies to war crimes against Palestinians. Watch: zeteo.com/p/iran-gaza-...

The Trump administration's illegal strikes on civilian boats near the Caribbean have now killed at least 170 people at sea. These extrajudicial killings must end. Congress and the courts must take immediate action.

An armed Paddington Bear stages a shootout in post-apocalyptic ‘80s New York, but afterwards he offers the survivors marmalade.

It used to be that the computer was the one blindly accepting whatever the human told them. It used to be that the source of errors was the human instructing the computer. How did it get turned around?

They could build the thing so it doesn’t refer to itself as “I,” for a start. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Does the popularity of AI chat bot interfaces mean that Craigslist was right about UI design?

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) is the first House Republican to speak out against Trump's genocidal threat against Iran. "I do not support the destruction of a 'whole civilization.'" www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

This NASA flickr page is very good

Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed

What North Avenue in Old Town looked like in 1916 and what we have now (North/Cleveland)

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

I don't know why they'd bother. Modern wars aren't fought with *soldiers*, you just post a lot about it and then you win, and then everyone loves you and stops asking questions about who went to what island and such

“The United States contributes far more to worldwide suffering than any of our so-called ‘allies’ in NATO, and it’s high time these other countries started stepping up to the plate,” said the commander-in-chief

Good reminder that Tupac was right then and he's still right today. "He cited Donald Trump... as emblematic of a “gimme, gimme, gimme” culture ..." The enduring truth of Tupac’s 'money for wars, but can’t feed the poor' by @michellesingletary.bsky.social www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

it's funny that the Fed continues to think they can control inflation without doing anything to reduce US reliance on oil

It's time for legislation that the enter key always adds a new line and shift+enter is required to submit

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

No more apropos guy to be the final out of a dying empire than a Roman.

That's 2 consecutive WBCs that ended with USA losing 3-2 on a strikeout.

If Venezuela wins, we have to return Maduro and give them Trump. Those are the rules as outlined by the World Baseball Classic.

LLMs are a more important technology than personal vehicles. I stand by this no matter how unimportant you think LLMs are.

The possible WBC Final matchups now that Japan is out: USA-Italy: The Americans vs. the Italian Americans DR-Venezuela: chaos DR-Italy: chaos but more caffeinated USA-Venezuela: The one that's also an international incident

Here's this week's Better Offline. I'm joined by @vicmsong.bsky.social and @cranz.bsky.social to talk about bullshit workout metrics, black market peptides and the noxiousness of "wellness tech." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

I want a slate of procedurals as copaganda but for good NTSB NTSB: Los Angeles IRS USPS Postal Inspectors The Secret Service’s Other Job CPB CPB: Tampa

"illegal" is by the most common descriptor of "immigrant" in the uk press

⚠️ Jeffrey Epstein to Steve Bannon in 2018 discussing what Trump might do in terms of foreign policy if cornered: “You guys need to understand that he is psychotic. And would not blink twice at encouraging an attack on us … If I go down I m taking everyone with” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

William Eklund makes it 4-0 on one of the best efforts you will see all season! #TheFutureIsTeal

my new year’s resolution is to stop procrastinating

#RBNY thoughts ~ #CFMTL are bad. #RBNY are making them look decent ~ RB can't break down a low block ~ Boyko sucks and has given 2 calls in bad moments leading to MTL goals ~ Hall at CM is ok, but I miss Donkor ~ Of course it was Carmona ~ Boyko REALLY sucks

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

The big red flag w/ all these humanoid robot companies is that people watched Star Wars and thought that C-3PO was the droid that people would want instead of R2-D2

Nothing magnifies the true needs of the infrastructure more than having kids, elderly parents, or disability.

Bruce Campbell announces he has a type of cancer that's "treatable" not "curable"