"Enshittification" is now in the OED

Just left the great American state fair where I watched Michael Knowles debate a ten year old girl about the Salem witch trials in front of DOZENS of people

As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:

I can't believe the United States is the only former Axis power remaining in the World Cup

COACHES IN SUITS

It's wild how I started out rooting for Paraguay on fairly generic anticolonial principles and am now rooting for Paraguay 100 times more passionately because Alfaro is wearing a suit

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

our 5yo says she doesn’t like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood because it has too many tigers. she’s ready for Goodreads.

I wrote about the Reflecting Pool

Again, look around, the case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever. And again, ignore statistically insignificant variation in immediate postgraduate job rates & major in whatever you want, while you learn to think, write, work with data, & develop interpersonal skills.

Cape Verde advance!!!!! From the Cape Verdean Association in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Better idea: let's do 22 new episodes just about Cape Verde

Holding my breath, transfixed with terror and hope, barely able to look at the screen, all for Cape Verde, a nation I had definitely, definitely heard of three weeks ago

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

More people have been arrested over the Reflecting Pool than the Epstein files

I wrote about the Reflecting Pool

I had no idea the president of Cornell was a soccer fan

Whatever shall we do without the always wrong man on our side

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Conveniently right before they're supposed to give writers whose books they stole what is proportionally a rumpled five dollar bill the writer has to split with their publisher

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

In case you missed it, I wrote about how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hijacked billions of dollars in taxpayer money intended to provide future-proof fiber internet access

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

Ismaïla Sarr looking like the player who nearly led Dynamo Lilybean to glory in our Fantasy Premier League season in 2022

That's right

MAKES IT LOOK LIKE SHELLING PEAS

The White House is posting fake QAnon posts (to promote executive orders on quantum computing).

Let's see what happens if I drink this World Cup Commentator Voice Poti—AND THE LITTLE GENIUS WITH THE PIXIE TOES HAS ONCE AGAIN GIVEN US A TASTE OF HIS TINY FAIRY MAGIC

Shakira and Messi and Willie Nelson are all proof greatness is not possible without tax evasion

OK fine he's pretty good

Messi's never been THAT good at penalties, which makes it very funny that the announcers are acting like they're living through the climax of Disclosure Day

(preparing to log out of BlueSky for the next 72 hours) looks like Messi was overrated all along

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Incredible to think that Britain's political destiny rests in the hands of one of these two utterly different people

They're calling it a once-in-a-lifetime event

This and many other little tendencies on the “””book internet””” essentially amount to basic incuriosity and pessimism about reading that they then try to package as progressivism. It needs to be stamped out.

every two words is an entire Dickens novel

"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score

That one's so fucking bleak

Yet it's incredibly not even the grimmest Billy Bob Thornton commercial currently on the air, that honor going to the T-Mobile spot where he's consumed by the need to triumph over his frenemy who said T-Mobile's network "kinda sucked—HIS WORDS"

I appreciate this sentiment but as a guy whose house came with a koi pond let me assure you that algae is more powerful than any country on this earth

The best thing about Muppet Barchester Towers is that Sam the Eagle gets some incredible pitches to hit as Archdeacon Grantley

"Brobbey" is not a serious name—I'm sorry, but you know I'm right—but it's great to see Brians shining at the World Cup

The correct answer is The Three Musketeers, but I would pay any price you care to name for a ticket to Muppet Middlemarch

This is the legal defense fund for the Minnesota anti-ICE organizers the Trump administration is trying to use as an example to scare the rest of us. If you can afford to pitch in, please do.

Timeless imo

That's right

I choose to see this as an ironic Punishment of Destiny in which MAGA semioticians, in the last gasp of their ascendancy, are forced to embrace soccer—the sport of pluralism and baristas, the thing they hate most in all the world—because it's the one thing improving on their watch