Take a drink every time a curling commentator ends a sentence with “…in Cortina”

Matchup 14: Can men and women be friends? Find out over the course of 11 years vs A widowed sitting US President falls for a captivating environmental lobbyist strawpoll.com/Qrgewr4rYyp #RomComBracket

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

once again, screaming about curling in the middle of the day

I don't see my own transition as a correction to earlier gender non-conformity, as if I were merely sorted into the wrong box at birth. To me, this idea still has a quality of classifying transness as either a mistake or the correction to a mistake, and I don't think either of those is really true.

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2

The Great Tolkien Reread continues today with "The Old Forest". In which Frodo and the other hobbits encounter evil trees, and I offer my first (but by no means last) defense of Tolkien's nature writing as an inextricable component of his worldbuilding. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

At Nagano, an injured Surya knew she wasn’t in a position to win so did her famous, land on one foot back flip to thumb her nose as the ISU judges, protesting what’s she felt was a history of disrespect, and to give the audience the show they deserved. THAT is why she is so badass.

Oh, and Ilia didn’t bring back the backflip (cmon NBC), Adam Siao Him Fa did. Also a French skater, Adam performed the banned move in high profile competitions like Euros and Worlds, taking the two point deduction, inspired by the rebellious nature of his fellow countryman, Surya Bonaly.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

I never noticed this either.

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

As ever when I see a back flip in skating, pour one out for Surya Bonaly.

I like cooking but I am not a great cook or anything. What I do have is a hobo's sense of adventure

MN ICE WAREHOUSE CANCELED! bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

“That explanation is patriarchy, and feminists have been talking about it for a very long time now, so you’ll forgive me if I get pissy when you can’t find room for it in any of your 3,000 scathing tweets.”

Also I need these folks to come scrub my bathtub please. That is hard work

I enjoyed watching Olympic mixed-doubles curling last night. I’ll never understand the rules but I admire the teamwork and communication involved in whatever they think they’re doing

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

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Go to, sir, you were beaten in Italy

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is there a journalism award for the most condescending tone while being totally wrong

Michigan www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

I mean, I can paint a straight line from the objectification I faced as a female CS major (y'all, my professor *literally* auctioned me and the other girl in class off as programming partners to boys in our very first CS major class!) to me leaving computer science.

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

Molumbo

Benedict Bridgerton is the worst

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

god forbid women do anything

one thing about me is i’m gonna let it linger

Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver Gaiman: have you ever considered Gaiman: the incredible power of story? Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

i think leckie does / has done / will continue to do something with her writing that is pretty subtle until you see it, which is she absolutely fucking loves to write and it has leaked into the spaces between the words in everything and i think this has an understated but real function in her work

I would also like to be held [in contempt] and get 24 hrs of sleep

just saw somebody on here worshipping Richard Feynman, time to log off bye

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

ok I will stop fiddling with this now

Like I said before, turns out that misogyny and racism were the actual “conspiracy” all along