This isn't healthy, so I'm sorry, but I've gotten fascinated by what Tucker says to sort of credulous normies, and what he says on his own not-very popular show. 1

For years, my friends mused about what Trump could do or say that would make his base turn on him. We finally settled on one word: "Reparations." The Iran deal proves us wrong, as it includes $300 BlLLION in reparations. For the Iranians.

The only way the Obama Presidential Library musicians lineup could be more impressive would be if Bowie and Prince came back from the dead to appear. And I'm still holding out hope for that.

Status of the Reflecting Pool. Duckling for scale, no color correction. These pics don’t remotely capture how VIBRANTLY verdant it is. It looks like a promo for Wicked. NPS staff were there valiantly trying to suction the algae out, but it’s like painting the Golden Gate Bridge with a Q tip.

Every day I bike ten miles to the Kennedy Center to see if his name has come down yet. There's so much AI slop out there of it coming down that I have to check for myself. So far...nothing.

This is one of the worst headlines I’ve ever seen. I read NLRB news articles for a living and it took me five minutes to make sense of it. It’s like a purple category in Connections that sends you into a frothing rage.

What the heck was up with the late 1990s-early Aughts that EVERY tv show or movie had the main character talking to a therapist? Analyze this...the Sopranos...Thomas Crown Affair...even freaking Shakespeare in Love had the Bard talking to his shrink.

THANK YOU GOD more Democrats can do this! No, we shouldn’t impose a gas tax holiday because of Trump’s illegal fucking war, and you can say it. I’m so sick of being the party that has to eat shit and clean up GOP messes all the time

Reading Hard Times, I find myself longing for the subtle and nuanced messaging of A Christmas Carol.

The current Oscar winner for Best Actor is morally obligated to name his kid “Michael C. Jordan.”

Zohran is SO GOOD AT THIS. His amazing St. Patrick's Day message makes it about so much more than Guiness and Shamrocks and corned beef and cabbage. He fits Irish history and pride into a global history of Imperialism going back to Coroticus. DAMN, this boy is good.

Well, it happened to me... a State Dep't librarian reached out to me for a copy of "Copyright Law, Generative AI, and Market Substitution" (2023) in the Cardozo A&ELJ. It's a hallucination.

I woke up thinking about Men in Black: The Animated Series. It doesn't get the love of some late 1990s properties like Buffy or Batman TAS, but it was a wonderful and reverent expansion on the original movies that built out the mythology of Frank the Pug and the Coffee Drinking Worms. I miss it.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social I'm going through the back catalog of Revolutions and finally getting to Season 5. Where could I find the supplement maps and stuff you reference? Thanks!

As an individual, you should always wear a helmet because it’s better than not wearing a helmet. As a society, it’s better to not require helmets because all-cause mortality drops when more people use bikes.

@benaaronovitch.bsky.social I'm eagerly listening to the Audiobook of #stoneandsky, and am wondering if you put in a Glaswegian Texan with a broken jaw just to try to throw Kobna.

"They said dress for the job you want, not the job you have. The job I want is the job I have but working for home. And THAT, Susan from HR, is why I'm wearing a Marvin the Martian jammies and fuzzy bunny slippers in the office."

@theresthistory.bsky.social My daughter and I just read Dominic Sandbrook's wonderful Nelson book. She said "The writing is so good that though I know what happens, I can't help thinking Nelson might make it." He is her favorite author, and she even got to meet him after the first US TRIH event.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social I am unexpectedly misty and distraught at the inevitable end of the Martian Revolution. I subscribed to you on Patreon just for this. I'm desperately hoping we get a special addendum to tell us what happened on Earth with the Nairobi Revolution and The Children of Saturn.

Man, the FEVS is gonna be RANCID this year

Man, the FEVS is gonna be RANCID this year

Looks like the right main mount collapsed after a hard landing (high rate of descent at touchdown with a right crosswind). Some indications it may have been 2000 fpm at touchdown.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social Catching up on the Mars Revolution series, and the bit where a Billionaire CEO who is convinced of his own genius and that he can Do No Wrong implements "cost savings efficiency measures" that actually destroy lives and crash the system hits a LITTLE too close to home.

This guy has the coolest job in the world.

My stab at The Confessor's Westminster Abbey, begun 1050s and consecrated 1065. Basically we know site of the apse (I have stuck my head under the Cosmati pavement and seen its footings) and the W bays of the nave with cores of W towers that are still inside the current ones.

DOGE has introduced innovative new ways to let Federal Employees know they’re being fired.

My children: "No, I will NOT put foot warmers in my boots!" Also my children: "Can we go home my feet are cold!!!"

I truly became a parent when I started sympathizing with Uncle Owen about Luke being a whiny teen who pouts and sulks and doesn't do his chores.

Taking the money I'm saving from cancelling the Washington Post and buying a print subscription to The Onion.

TRUE. (Sobs)

When I die, I want my family to go through my stuff and say, "Thank god Dad saved all these exceptionally useful boxes. They will surely come in handy some day!"

This is the greatest unmade movie other than the Robert Smalls story.

As an Andrew I approve of this

Last week I took a pack of tweens to a live show by a Youtuber they asserted was funny. It. Was. Not. It was so horrifying that I want to buy @drewmagary.bsky.social a ticket next time so he can live blog it. Apparently my increasingly profane texts to the other parents caused great amusement.

"No one wants to work anymore." "Did anyone ever WANT to work? Was there some mythical past when people woke up with a cheery smile at the thought that they were off to the factory floor for 12 hours that day?"

WOAH!

I think Katy Britt made an important point in her response to the State of the Union. It's horrible that on Biden's watch, an international gang of criminals (presumably illegals) were able to steal the most famous painting of Leonardo da Vinici and keep it hidden for years.

My needs right now.

Just added this to my "must read" list.

As a member of Gen X, I feel both seen and attacked.

STREISAND EFFECT!

Blue Sky justifies its continual existence with content like this.

MASSIVE screw up by the Library of Congress tonight. Got tix a month ago to see Simone Dinnerstein play Rhapsody in Blue for its 100th anniversary. Surprised my wife with them for V day, but the LOC opened the event to anyone, first come first served. We were turned away after 45 min in the rain.

It’s Pascal’s Wager, authoritarian version. For the GOP, and donors, and business, etc, if you support Trump and he wins, you’re all set. If he loses, you’re still good. Who’s going to punish you? (As Hitchens and others pointed out, Pascal’s God was also an authoritarian.) wapo.st/3SNnCtr

My kid cast "Earth Tremor" in a D&D session last night. It prompted me to listen to "Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos for the first time in decades In a moment of synchronicity, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com is posting about it this morning, and I am utterly delighted.

Swing voters are cryptids for people who went to Harvard. You read these breathless reports that economists have finally discovered an enclave of them in suburban Ohio and then two hours later, whoops, turned out to be a Republican in an ape costume

Re: The Marvels. Kamala Khan and her family are the new spiritual heart of the MCU, filling the void left by Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.

@scalzi.com "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole.'" I only just stumbled across this maxim, and will raise my children to use it as their lodestone for living on the internet.