Just finished a birthday week for the twins and how the heck did we get to them being four years old?

my most tedious BlueSky Reply Guy opinion is that baseball games are back to taking about the same amount of time they did when the sport was a national obsession

Listening to STP’s “Core” while waiting for Triple A to jump my mom’s car and I know we all love “Purple” & “Tiny Music” more but this is still face-rocking stuff 34 years later

Cuba been living under sustained US pressure for DECADES, this is just another Monday

Listening to Don Caballero and Hella and Angine de Poitrine at high volumes on headphones to take the edge off my scattered-ass brain music.apple.com/us/album/ame...

so just received another "thanks, but no" from one of the biggest cos around. I knew it was coming midway through the very brutal interview process. It's hard to keep putting myself out there, but this cycle definitely helped reinforce some things I don't want in my next job.

creating a new generation of @cheekface.bsky.social fans with the twins asking for “EVERYTHING IS FINE”, “the Weird song”, and “Noodles” regularly

we literally fought wars not to care about royal families so they didn't have power over us and somehow ended up in a stupidly similar variant 250 years later.

the record for today's long walk was Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut, and this is an absolute banger of a lead-off track. rhythm-as-lead guitar, fuzzed-out counterpoint on bass guitar, plus amazingly subtle drum work underneath.

this would fix the website

rule by shadow docket and summary judgments with no explanation are just the laziest things. SHOW YOUR WORK, SCOTUS (more like your clerks, but stil)

The failure to develop men leads to deep harm mistrust and abuse of women

The consumptive predilections of patriarchy lead to stunted emotional and social growth of its adherents

dropping off a return at Costco during executive hour and picking up a chicken bake and latte freeze >>>>>>>>>

scolding non-voters is easier and less risky than telling people what you actually want to do that will improve their lives immediately, but the latter means people actually like you and want to vote for you (see NYC's mayor!)

here is the thing about vote scolding: it doesn't work my personal position is that the right thing to do is to vote and - because the republican party is so completely world-destroyingly insane - to vote for the democrats but you simply cannot change minds on this by scolding people

cosigning.

This is a horrific and vile comment from someone regularly cited as a "progressive" by right wing media outlets. Brianna Wu plays a dangerous, destructive, and evil game.

That’s just not good negotiating by Rosenior’s agent if true. Chelsea managers and head coaches are hired to be fired; one’s first obligation ahead of taking the job is to ensure you are paid in full.

A simple summary of Chelsea FC’s ownership and front office:

of course after mainlining both AdP records I was looking for comparable instrumental albums and HI DON CABALLERO REISSUE OF "AMERICAN DON" (there was a time where i was just using "American Don" as a life soundtrack in college)

Make Dudes Rock Again

publishing is about choices, and surrendering them or punting on them to the algorithm in the name of discourse, free speech, etc. is a choice, no matter the attempt at framing.

giving teenage boys technology that makes their indoctrinated, patriarchal entitlement toward girls' bodies easier was always going to go poorly

begging you all to understand that Catholics are allowed to disagree with the Pope. even on serious theological matters. it's actually pretty common, and knowing that will make your criticism and analysis much sharper!

“'You need to sell sandwiches that are $15 or $16, or it’s impossible to keep the lights on,' [Andres Samper, founder of Manhattan Bagel Equity fund] said." therein lies the issue -- the balance of a bagel that works for a bEC and a schmear on its own is tricky, hard to see PE not cutting corners

It’s part of the appeal. Picking a group who cannot exert claims upon you when you wrong them is, sadly, empowering. And there are just a bunch of people who don’t like republicans but don’t like the feeling of not having a group they can deny that claim to more. Which makes Platner appealing.

there is also an evolution in the #USMNT fanbase griping about the player pool in response: it's changed rom "too many MLS players in the XI" to "MLS players as backups" to go with "throw the entirety of the USSF out on its ass!"

The Angine de Poitrine moment is great because honestly I love a band whose output is basically ADHD stimulation/focus music that makes my brain happy and I know is actually created by humans

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

I don’t understand how Jackson Browne wrote this good a song at age 16 and EBTG’s live version is up there for me. (Ben Watt’s voice is underrated only because Tracey Thorn is Tracey Thorn.) music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Their understanding of this stuff is all wikipedia skimming and ai summaries. They're not actually that interested! bsky.app/profile/sara...

US tradcaths are so ready to name an antipope

This “technical difficulties” graphic on the SNY broadcast for the Mets-Dodgers game is amazing.

good god fIREHOSE still slaps so damn hard music.apple.com/us/album/dow...

the convenience of filing taxes online is great despite it still being terrible and the worst two hours of my year i probably would not type this if i lived in a state with an income tax again and i'm sure i won't type this next year if i remain self-employed

The M’s cannot have a normal statue unveiling ever

relevant to @jessieish.bsky.social interests

I’ve lost track of the number of “pivots to video” that have happened during my career in journalism and PR/comms. The most likely outcome of an increase in video journalism is being able to charger more TV stations or other video-dependent outlets to access and broadcast the work.

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

The free @channel6.bsky.social newsletter this week A. Respects your right to 1/2 pound of meat for lunch B. Talks big space movies C. Gets ALPHA channel-6.ghost.io/trl-ive-been...

I am upset at myself for not writing a solid take on that stupid "boy kibble" piece before @edsbs.bsky.social could defend the "dog bowl" meal, and it truly is a good defense as someone who does make a breakfast dog bowl often (we just call it "hash" to be fancy)

was blasting Bleed American in the car on the way home and my kids started belting out “I don’t seem obvious, do I?” from The Authority Song (it’s totally the drum beat but yes they are gonna know the crucial Jimmy Eat World records)

Cookies & cream, Tillamook. Nothing else is in the arena.

friggin' degens from Quebec

list of essay ideas to finish: - the pleasure and joy of cooking in the face of gendered everything - being thrust into the "gig"/freelance/contract economy against one's will - ambient and/or "quiet" music as a salve for overwhelmed/neurodivergent brains whether i finish is a question