"Lloyd Dobler stands outside Diane’s window holding up his phone. He prompts 'Siri, 'Play 'In Your Eyes' by Peter Gabriel.' Siri streams 'Private Eyes' by Hall and Oates, right after playing a thirty-second Geico ad."

Posting for no reason in particular: www.youtube.com/shorts/tqOkW...

All football clubs should be majority fan owned (cf. the 50+1 rule in the Bundesliga).

Things are awful, but today at work I got to tell a very good person some very good news. One of the best work days I have ever had. 😊😊😊

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

FC Heidenheim with a comfortable match against 4th tier Bahlinger SC. Fun fact for me is that the Kaiserstuhl region in which Bahlingen is located is where my Giedeman(n) ancestors were from. (I still have long-distant cousins living in the area even if I don't know any of them.)

My annual "mitgliedskarte" from FC Heidenheim has arrived. 🙂🙂 It will be a hard year for FCH. The only silver lining is that it will be impossible for them to finish lower in the Bundesliga standings than they are expected to finish. 🙃

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

No Elinor Ostrom signposts today, but the hike from the Simmenfalle waterfall (1104 meters above sea level) to the top of Wildstrubel (3244 meters above sea level) is one that I (and my legs) will remember for a very long time.

I think it would be more correct to say that Sweden lost on penalties.

Took a hike above Lenk, Switzerland today and I looked over and saw a guide post that talked about Nobel Prize winning political-economist Elinor Ostrom. (Can't wait to add this to my course lecture slides about property rights.)

Some simple football arithmetic: Chelsea 3 - 0 PSG + FC Heidenheim 0 - 2 Chelsea = FC Heidenheim > PSG 🤣🤣

Happy 4th of July--FC Heidenheim edition. (It's the most red, white, and blue shirt I own.)

Amerika, Ihr aktueller Standort. 😞

Remember how all the rich people and politicians said that people should learn stem and work in technology? Well human product, the needs of capital have shifted and we need you to learn the exciting field of Chimney Sweep

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #Juneteenth

Apparently Jeanine Pirro and Pete Hegseth are now dictating policy at the Department of Health and Human Services. apple.news/Ax0neqHIBQuu...

Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

Celebrating "Christmas in May" with the FC Heidenheim victory to stay in the Bundesliga!!!

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Preparing for Union Berlin - FC Heidenheim match with other FCH supporters at (actually under) the Brandenburg Gate.

Live-tracking the uncontrolled descent of a 1970s-era Soviet space probe.

Or — hear me out — we could all pool our money together and hire experts to do the research for us, thus creating a "center" for disease control and prevention.

The reason DEI exists is so that competent, qualified people don't get passed over in favor of mediocre incompetent white men who had a well-connected buddy. Or so that utter morons who share war plans on the group chat don't hire their brother and get away with it bc they're white dudes.

This is really excellent news! Now I have to hope that Grand Rapids will be able to get a team since it is building a brand new downtown soccer stadium two blocks from where I work.

this is a description of a gulag

The Bundesliga is the best football league.

We know what Jefferson envisioned for young black women, and that vision was not them attending UVA.

I wonder if FIFA told the US it had to be a dictatorship with a poor human rights record before it was allowed to host the World Cup.

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

"I thought we had an agreement on this s--t 80 years ago": Texas bladesmith Johnathan Sibley says he's amazed by the social media response after he refused to repair a Hitler Youth knife. www.chron.com/news/houston...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

FC Heidenheim loses. Detroit Lions lose. St. Louis Blues lose. Only a shocking win by my Southern Illinois Salukis prevented today from hitting my personal daily grand slam of terrible sports outcomes.

What an uninspired half from FC Heidenheim. They'll need to do better than that in the second 45.

Huge game for Heidenheim and St. Pauli. Let's go FCH!! #NurDerFCH

Hopefully Maloney can regain his fire at Mainz.

Finally a very good weekend for FC Heidenheim! They got a bit lucky that Union missed some chances in the first 15 minutes, but settled down after that. Krätzig made his mark in his first match. And the other Bundesliga games went correctly for FCH too. Just need Stuttgart to beat Augsburg. #FCH

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

It would be nice to see Republicans publicly denounce any suggestion that the US would use military force in an attempt to acquire Greenland (or any other foreign territory for that matter). But most won't (some because they like the idea, but most because they are cowards and opportunists).

The Lions defense is making plays they haven't made all season. Still playing with fire, but they could be down by multiple scores right now.

About a decade ago I made a meager attempt to trick someone into the reading of actual literature. (It doesn't show up well in the photo, but the book in the middle is Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage")

I can hope for this too! www.footboom1.com/en/news/foot...