Backstreet's Back (depressing)

The level of excitement of this game is really validating this piece by @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social "The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

what you have to understand about people who say "sportsball" is today is basically their superbowl

Elderly prospector who just stubbed his toe: Sam Darnold

If Pete Rose were still alive FanDuel would put him in an ad.

He should have thrown it to me. I'm wide open.

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

Olympic figure skater: [does the most athletic thing you’ve ever seen] Commenter: Big mistake there David, let’s see if she can recover.

Also...it's not a race, where speed is the bottleneck. It's like saying you're going to beat Toyota because you make cars in 24 hours. But your cars only go in reverse and routinely explode. Maybe you'll leech a few bucks per "book" at scale, but that's just a digital scam in literature cosplay.

Does anyone actually listen to a show’s official podcast? If I’m going to listen to a Game of Thrones podcast it’s not going to be from HBO, it’s going to be from 2 mentally unwell improv comedians.

"The authors laid out what they call the “father vulnerability hypothesis,” which suggests that fathers are particularly emotionally reactive"...ok so basically thin-skinned dudes ruin things even on a cellular level.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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Good stuff

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Just got an ad for a wellness product that contains “functional mushrooms.”

"I am here, with Trevor, in the Delta Sky Lounge. Instead of a combat loadout, I am filled with miscellaneous snacks, a Kindle that's 38 percent through an Elon Musk biography, and self-loathing."

Snowcrete -- If there's one thing it's good for is building structures! Several creations from our readers:. 1) from Laurie McCartney Wehmeyer (Woodbridge) 2) from Sara-Jayne Barnes (AU Park) 3) from walter-in-falls-church 4) from Free Little Art Gallery (Arlington) Thanks to all for sharing

Until recently I thought Funko Pops were some kind of popsicle, I guess one known for being funky.

“Civilians are not killed at scale because urban warfare makes restraint impossible. They are killed when the protection of civilian life is not treated as a governing requirement of how force is applied.”

The president sending the director of national intelligence - herself an admirer of Bashar Assad and Putin - to steal voting records from a state he lost and is on record threatening officials to help him fix it would have been considered an extinction level threat to US democracy 10 years ago.

TGIWF

What… the fuck?

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Andrew Huberman segments coming soon to CBS: -Optimizing Your Dog’s Morning Routine: What the Science Says -Dwindling Share of US Kindergarten Students in Flow State -How to Get Grandma Jacked for Summer

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I'll trade you any humor writing help I can offer, in exchange for a donation to a good cause! 👇

Man seeing neighbors in the streets all sharing snow shovels and clearing old folks’ walkways and stuff really hits the spot in these times.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

This was the most helpful IR paper I’ve read in a long time.

Sometimes I get jealous because he’s never sent an email

…emailed feedback on a McSweeney’s style humor piece draft (<800 words), or a 30 min Google Meet on any writing-related topic I can be useful on (short humor writing, the agent querying/book deal process, etc.)

Trying to find a more helpful use of my energies. So, for writing/humor folks, the first 10 ppl who DM me a donation receipt of $100+ to Homes Not Borders or to one of the MN orgs linked here are entitled to… www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/ www.standwithminnesota.com

Trying to find a more helpful use of my energies. So, for writing/humor folks, the first 10 ppl who DM me a donation receipt of $100+ to Homes Not Borders or to one of the MN orgs linked here are entitled to… www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/ www.standwithminnesota.com

DC must end its cooperation with ICE — a rogue and dangerous agency that tramples on our civil liberties and attacks our neighbors. I join every DC resident expressing their outrage and disgust. Like Minnesotans, we will stand up for humanity, compassion, and justice.

If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

this is worth watching in full Seth Moulton figured it out! Seth Moulton! none of the rest of them have any excuse

Something something “affordability”

it's honestly insane how DOGE managed to make absolutely no impact on the spending trendline while also gutting a bunch of programs that were incredibly efficient at turning money into saved lives

I wrote this today: MAHA understands it is playing a power politics game and everyone else countering the movement needs to wake up to that, too. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/misi...

Cool graph alert 😎 📈

We need to document how this ownership change shifts the content. Would love to see scientists studying and reporting on this as it happens, as well as everyday people documenting the changes in their feeds with TikTok diaries or something similar. I’ll assume we won’t have much if any API access.

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Jack Handey in "Deep Thoughts," or Trump at Davos? "These are young, young people, look like you. Look like some of you, right in the front row. They go to war. Their parents are so proud. Oh, there he goes. Comes back two weeks later, they get a call that says, “Your son’s head’s been blown off."

This looks like the poster for a movie where 1776 Minutemen fall into a wormhole and have to fight the 2026 US military, to preserve the true meaning of liberty. It’s called Time Patriots, stars Glen Powell, and has 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.