When I was kid, we cleared the lawn of leaves with rakes. They were cheap, quiet, and the operating costs were nil, unless you count the cost of the hot chocolate mom would give us if it was cold out. This message brought to you by my neighbor’s effing leaf blower.

TeSlaa!

Refs: 14 Lions: 7 GB: 3

Lions getting homered at home.

Continuing my annual Thanksgiving tradition of reading David Erik Nelson’s In Michigan. You should too.

Well, that was fun!

40+!!

This is getting ridiculous

finally updated the score

Dusty is Warde’s best hire so far.

You can’t make this shit up.

As any musician will tell you, the silence between the notes is just as important as the notes themselves.

Pies ranked: 1. Blueberry 2. Pecan 3. Apple 4. Cherry 5. Everything else

1) Pecan pie is one of the best pies 2) I make a killer pecan pie (no brag, just fact) 3) Points 1) and 2) are not up for debate.

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth. Absolutely amazing.

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

both of them?

He is so braindead.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

As usual, a terrific thread

y’know it wasn’t that long ago when we had a White House and State Department professionals who weren’t easily rolled.

“highly unusual”

I’m not a huge fan of Slotkin, but this is awful.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Marjorie Taylor Greene to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

cc/ @mismatchedplaids.bsky.social

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Breaking News: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is going to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early. (This post is a test.)

I connected a WiFi enabled solenoid valve to a hose and set up a script on my phone so when the camera detected a squirrel it got blasted with the hose briefly. It was very effective.

Healthcare isn’t a commodity.

The article I've been wanting to write.

Not sure if this is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end, but when more and more republicans are pushing back, I think DJT’s days are numbered.

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

@professorbigfoot.bsky.social our exchange last week forced me to do some painful self reflection. You were right. I will try to be better.

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood. Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work. [source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right. There is a war on Christmas in America. The only thing they neglected to tell me in their bombastic, sanctimonious, sky-is-falling sermonizing was the source of the offense. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

So, does anyone remember that one of the goals of the research project(s) that eventually created the internet was to create a robust network that could keep running under severe external attacks and maintain access to critical systems? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

at least bsky is up and hosting the cloudfare jokes

Not even AI has produced anything this bad.

A Republican said he changed his views about Arab Americans after spending 72 hours meeting with residents and visiting three mosques. “You have all been lied to with the propaganda that’s going on about Dearborn, Michigan,“ he said.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Detroit and Philadelphia are both in the Eastern time zone, yet the Lions-Eagles game is scheduled for 8:20pm. This makes no sense.

Good morning

Executives imagine they're bringing some secret sauce "idea guy" magic to the software industry. Nope, they bring: 1. Raise money 2. Coordinate people If AI makes software suddenly require less money / people I really hate to break the news to you about whose jobs are at risk here.

AI World Clocks: A new clock is generated every minute by nine different AI models. They are … interesting.

For many years, Detroit Police Officer Adlone Morris’s life was dominated by a paradox. He spent his days enforcing the law in neighborhoods plagued by shootings, and where his own sons were part of the street crews driving that violence.

Can we not enjoy something for more than 15 seconds?