District 2 deserves better than Dan Ryan

Unconscionable to write this in 2026 without even mentioning Jenny Odell. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/s...

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

Guess I have to watch this now

The carrier bag theory of fiction, things of that nature

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

It is that community which made - makes - us 'fit,' in evolutionary terms. The fact that we will pack bond with the roomba and apologize and feel bad when we accidentally kick it? That's us. That's the most human you can be.

"People are still valuable even after they're done having children or doing heavy labor" and "my understanding of family is so expansive that it includes other species" are incredibly rare in the animal kingdom, and people who forget that deny our history and our inheritance.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Good day to re-read the New Yorker profile of J.R. Smith www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

That feeling when your entire rapid transit system converges on one easily disrupted segment — like, say, a 123-year old bridge that lifts for tall boats. Portland needs an rail tunnel under downtown. It’s the only megaproject in our region that excites me at this point.

Still got this bad boy available 🫡

People will really be like “you believe in changing your lifestyle in response to the climate crisis? That pales in comparison to my strategy of demanding systemic change” and then not demand systemic change.

Simone should invent a face that doesn‘t bleed all over every time you shave

Shout out Harrison Barnes for sticking around the league this long despite a total absence of personality or swagger

Whole country falling apart because a bunch of people have the right idea about the wrong things

Reaching "Spend a week getting high and re-watching evagelion" levels of exhausted

Still refusing to learn what a tush push is

Many such cases

and God bless the CITY OF LOS ANGELES

MOOKIE THEY CALL HIM MR. BASEBALL

Also there was a canadian tire commercial

Realized I am watching the Canadian broadcast due to the conspicuous lack of gambling ads

[chanting]: INNINGS, INNINGS, INNINGS, INNINGS, INNINGS, INNINGS, INNINGS...

Look at all those sad Canadians

Damn fouling off your own knee is rough

Kiké is unreasonably handsome

God of course it comes down to Varsho

Varsho out there in center field with a portable gravity well generator keeping everything just short of the wall

Fucking Varsho is the thief of joy

Mookie is so disappointed in himself I wanna give him a hug

Disappointing

Canada, I love you. You've played a hell of a series and whatever happens, the Jays are pesky and talented and worthy of being champions. I've been rooting for you to beat the US in everything lately, and if it were anyone other than the Dodgers, I'd be rooting for you tonight. That said, go Dodgers

World Series - Sick as Hell Super Bowl - Iconic, unique NBA Finals - generic, understated, a long wet fart

NBA needs a better name for their championship series

Truly can not understand how Platner discourse is still going

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

if Bo Bichette were in the Star Wars universe his name would be spelled Boba Shett

LRT is really what it’s all about

Yassferatu

any other major roadblocks to the Blazers success the FBI wants to arrest or …???

Steve Nash not looking great, Dirk looks incredible

Blake Griffin aging into an iconic uncle

Increasingly worried the cool zone might not actually be that cool

Tariffs aren't working.

Broccoli crowns are good for when you really wanna spend more money on less of something

we’re all just elder milennials gooning to the news

Almost all the news is bad, but the salmon are returning to the rivers

frankly i don't give a fuck what the owner of two car washes thinks would be best for the future of 82nd avenue. it's not his avenue and he can pound sand