all true and let's enjoy this for the bizarre spectacle it is now

get you someone who looks longingly at you the way the president looks at Zohran

PLEASE OH PLEASE let us have.a regular "Remembering Some Guys" category on Jeopardy, Ken.

it's why he's president. He has impeccable timing and uses it to deliver hateful stuff 99.9% of the time, so when we get this weirdness, it seems out of the blue.

this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter

it helps that Mamdani's messaging appears to line up very closely to an authentic, deeply held series of beliefs you can survive a number of "flip-flops" or shifts if they remain consistent with yr values/core of yr messaging

the TLDR understanding of this Trump/Mamdani presser (not likely to apply if you are a woman, though)

everything about this is odd AF on the surface but remember: 1) Trump knows and respects charisma. Mamdani's got lots of it 2) He respects power and winners (if they're men) 3) His Islamophobia, like everything else, is very conditional and he'll forget it if the above two entries are met

There's been a pretty forceful pushback from Dems here, anyway just harrumphing and assuming they'll do nothing may give you a dopamine rush but isn't really that predictive.

Of course he did, because he’s a crank with not a lick of expertise in anything that pertains to the federal department he “leads”. An absolute know-nothing who has spent a lifetime meddling in things he will never understand.

me when applying for FTE positions these days

if y'all are going to continue to insist I take off my belt, shoes, and dump every other thing in my pocket into a bin just for security theater, you are getting a T-shirt and hoodie and you are lucky if I wear jeans, you weapons-grade plum.

Absolutely not, Real World.

aaaaannnnnd just learned I'm out on that other opp. fuck it, i'm going to work for myself now, I guess.

okay, so another "we've moved forward with another candidate" email after an interview, but it was a very kind and complementary one. I have one more opp I've interviewed for recently. If I'm out on that one, it's full-on-freelancer mode.

some absolute BS from DC United here, which built a soccer-specific stadium to increase the fan connection and presence and then goes scurrying right back to the NFL stadium to chase $$ if Messi decides he'll play

Vietnow. youtu.be/9Wt4dMxPLcE?...

Can check! @pfriembeer.bsky.social ‘s Japanese Lager is giving me Asahi taste

Bill Withers with Bobby Womack & Buddy Miles - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 3-22-1974 https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill-withers-with-bobby-womack-buddy.html

“Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”

It's because seven ate nine

We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.

i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.

Is that bad? Asking for a president.

me as a bluesky therapist: go touch grass

looooooooooool I AM WHEEZING. This is what happens when you hire for brown-nosing instead of actual competence.

Adrian Chiles columns are the gifts of banality that keep on giving

Not in the blurb below but a key part of the ST story is that Sinderman was a consultant for Nelson's opponent, Dionne Foster, who absolutely trounced Nelson. This is both a rational proposal and petty, vindictive payback on the way out the door.

Del Toro is extremely detailed and graphic in terms of his depictions of flesh and the arteries, sinews, tendons, etc — even if they’re not human, a la The Shape of Water. It’s both unsettling and fascinating

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

I am looking for a fresh opportunity.

My daughter has relented and now lets me brush, comb, and style her hair without complaint, but I have to put on a @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social video for her to watch while I do it (trying to get her past the Halloween video and on to the preschooler emotions one!)

A podcast award for people who don’t listen to podcasts

or even more than two. there are arguments over copyright, environmental impact, and economic impact involved in this, along with areas where genAI has proved useful in certain ways (but there is not one "killer app" in it yet IMO.

the good job listings usually hit on Tuesdays but this Monday is particularly bleak

I am seeing female influencers in the parenting/couples space do their own Jackass-style joke intros right now on IG and I am 100% on board with a revival of the show that defined "dudes rock" before it was even a thing

i have not quite given up on pushing the kids to put on long-sleeved shirts and jackets before leaving the house on cold/rainy days, but I'm less likely to want to engage in this battle because they figure it out when they're cold outside and are pretty quick to change.

solo parenting for part of the week while doing some part-time work and again, I think of and see lots of things to fix up/maintain daily at home and can only have so much brain space and time to accomplish them. and the kids go to daycare! i dunno how anyone who is a stay-at-home parent manages

also Harrell tried to run back his strategy from the 2021 race of being an utter jerk to his opponent, and that time it worked because Lorena Gonzalez had a public record as a city councilmember, and Seattleites dislike their councilmembers more than the mayor. didn't work with Wilson

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

I wish I'd done this at my wedding reception now

All you need to know about how intrinsically awful and corrupt the Bush v. Gore ruling was at its core is that the Rehnquist Court noted it should not be considered precedent.

bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on

If one actually followed Newsom’s political career as a constituent and/or as part of the CA press, this would never be put to pixels

Gio Reyna scoring and assisting in #USMNT colors despite not setting the world on fire at Gladbach might be a case of “just call him in regardless” as he just shows up for us and does things that most others in the player pool can’t

Trapped in the car with the kids sleeping, so it’s book time.