Is there a canonical reason why Frankenstein stitches his creature together using different body parts as opposed to reanimating a whole body?

Endless debates about where the line should be drawn between e-bikes/e-motorcycles? Prob a legitimate debate but the bigger question is why is that the only line we are debating? Why is there no debate about max horsepower for cars? Max tire size for trucks?

post a non-religious image you think of as holy

Shootings in DC are still down substantially from where they were during the worst part of 2023, but are roughly where they were pre-deployment right now.

Baltimore homicide rate down 31% in 2025 compared to 2024.

Hell yeah. Loving the turkey is good, actually, disk horse on here.

Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: ourworldindata.org/introducing-... Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I have a Zoom meeting on my calendar title "Coordination Meeting" but no one is invited. I look forward to getting my own ducks in a row I guess.

Sultanahmet, Istanbul

Shout out to all the election workers out there. #heroes

"If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him."

My spirit animal Ozzy the porcupine is my new PFP.

“Back in my day we didn’t have to work with women or eat with Jews.” My god do you all hear yourselves?

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/

My spirit animal Ozzy the porcupine is my new PFP.

"If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him."

The use of “Jonathan” here is just perfect.

The goat meat thing is like the one taco stand on every corner, except in San Diego people were like, “one?”, which ones are going to have to shut down?

Is it really so hard to understand why this guy is popular?

There are famously no taxis in Cairo.

To use another sports analogy, winning solves a lot of problems.

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

Authoritarianism feeds on perceived invincibility. No Kings was the first nail. Last night the coffin was buried. My guess is narratives shift hard now.

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways. econbrowser.com/archives/202...

I wrote this in June and the disgusting way since then that Cuomo and the oligarchs have been willing to tear the social fabric of the city apart to stop him has only made it more true and Zohran’s victory more thunderous. Next we stop ICE.

It’s ok to be inspired—even, or especially, when shit’s this crazy out there. Let me be clear: I’m not obsessed with optimism, nor do I think it always works out. But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope. The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.

To make that kind and run and then finish. You almost never see it. 🧑‍🍳💋

Shout out to all the election workers out there. #heroes

“They” are…

Want

Cheney, “I was told there’d be a special place for me…”

Cheney, “I was told there’d be a special place for me…”

Sultanahmet, Istanbul

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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

This is the cornbread recipe. I want to try it with a bit more salt and also add a bit of sugar. It was just a touch bland. recipe.exchange/recipes/01K7...

Smoked pork chops and cast iron cornbread tonight

I have a new pair of bib shorts and they fit but they make me feel like I’m slipping forward to the end of my saddle. Has anyone experienced this? Hoping it will get better as they get worn in. #bikesky

Thus the perpetually grumpy intelligent elevators in the Hitchhikers Guide universe.

My dog. Literal explosions in the sky (Sea World fireworks) - unphased. Set a fork into the sink with a small clatter - runs and hides in the other room.

Stuck on the question of whether Kiner-Falefa is safe if he runs through home instead of sliding.

Why are these guys sliding into home plate on force plays in Literally Tied Game 7

And the National Cathedral in DC has a Darth grotesque.

A guy got mad at me in a parking lot because I drove into a parking space that he passed because I was supposed to know that he was going to back in to it. So I finally got to ask the question, "Why would you back into a parking spot, seems dumb?"

My dog. Literal explosions in the sky (Sea World fireworks) - unphased. Set a fork into the sink with a small clatter - runs and hides in the other room.

It’s got a city with 2x the population of NYC.