I couldn’t say no to a little girl who wanted her very own (plushie) puppy to snuggle, especially not while my own dog is curled up contentedly between my knees

happy Batman Friday

after losing the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War, Santa Anna played a key role in the development and commercialization of modern chewing gum

Red Don’t Give Out the Answers to Your Security Questions

cannot recommend strongly enough that you go watch football games you have no stake in with half a dozen of your best buds

a gallery of aircraft nose art (which is actually on my coffee table rn) and Francine Hirsch’s Empire of Nations (one of the workhorses of my thesis)

one of my ears sticks out more than the other

this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in person

these goats are so horrifyingly fucked-up that they make Goya’s “The Witches’ Sabbath” look like a petting zoo

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Bluesky started filtering posts out of your feed without telling you! go fix it!

Nestor’s mom DIES OF HYPOTHERMIA to save him from a blizzard in a RANKIN-BASS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

costume idea for next Halloween: pissed-off Mamie Eisenhower with a sledgehammer

@darthbluesky.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social I know he’s not a hound but surely yall have some Durham area followers in need of a new sweet pup.

your polling place may have a cool design for their “I Voted” stickers, but does it have flyers offering 10% discounts at local kebab joints?

a hero for our time

how fitting that the last name of the one running for Congress on a pro-LGBTQ platform is only one letter away from Blåhaj, that man’s a PTKU Blue Shark to the core

I have a soft spot for Jolly Ranchers and the dark chocolate candy bars that kids tend to find too bitter

how could you NOT want to vote for this adorable lil’ guy? #VoteForVirg

my company bought out another company and made it its own division of Big Company, and a new coworker who came from that division swore she’d helped that division integrate its practices with Big Company’s AND had helped develop a set of metrics our entire industry used

me: “I think I might have Can’t Do Things Disease” the medical system: “you’ll need to schedule one appointment to figure out whether it’s worth screening you, a second appointment with a different person to actually screen you, and a third appointment with yet another person if you need meds”

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/

that French guy, and his Monegasque cousin who also went to A&M, are at it again

many thanks to @surber.bsky.social for advising patience when it came to pruning my once-leggy camellias it was so hard to fight the urge to prune them too soon or too aggressively, but they’re all blooming now and they’re SO PRETTY

thoroughly enjoying the mental image of HUNTR/X singing a cover of “Amarillo By Mornin’”

now that I’ve returned home from helping my mom recover from surgery and have just had my first mammogram, a PSA: GET YOUR CANCER SCREENINGS

get their asses, Zelda (also, who the FUCK thought she would want to see AI slop of her dad? what is WRONG with you?)

I once traveled to Atlanta for an event, and told a friend who was also traveling from out-of-state for the event that I was staying at the Residence Inn in Midtown on Peachtree in case she wanted to stay at the same hotel and carpool

“Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench” Ada Lovelace would beat some asses if she found out someone took the Difference Engine she programmed and made it bad at math

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

MR POPE even my circuit-rider’s-great-granddaughter, Methodiscopalian, dirtbag ass knows that’s not how you address the Pope

I have to respect Locksley for knowing and admitting that he likes cream and sugar and all the add-ins

Neidermeyer-ass bitch

it would be great to go back to Belgrade and enjoy it the way it deserves to be, with more than one full day in the city and without a raging case of heat exhaustion

Shreveport, no contest

good morning, Bluesky

We’re proud to share Mariia Yatsko’s powerful op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she writes about fleeing war in Ukraine only to face ongoing uncertainty here in Georgia. Read her full story and join us in advocating for stability and dignity: www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

Starbucks, what are you doing? who was asking for you specifically to enter the protein-drink space?

petting your dog in JUST the right way, where they relax and lean into you as you pet

get their asses, The Batt

share your favorite black-and-white film: The Cranes are Flying (Летят журавли), 1957

damn, I haven’t seen a gold-colored windstorm beat a bunch of cowboys like that since the Dust Bowl

NEW CASS MARSHALL REVIEW DROPPED

huge day for the Texan diaspora in North Carolina

I AM GREATLY HONORED

[mashes “SCRAN” button]

POV: you are a dog treat falling to its doom

oh come on, everyone knows that SpaceX packaging only helps you smuggle ketamine