I would kill or die for Larry

I mean "the vibes are still going" is the perfect way to describe the end of a match

Spontaneity is a key ingredient of joy and it’s very difficult to feel much joy watching sports anymore because every time something happens, you have to stop and wait while a bunch of fucking lawyers look at monitors for five minutes to decide whether or not the thing you saw happen, happened

This is why VAR sucks. If the line official calls it off-sides, fine. But this endless reviewing of the finest of touches is just nonsense. It's the fiction of thinking a) you CAN eliminate all human judgment and error when all you've done is displace it back one level; and b) that you SHOULD ... 👎

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Mr. President, sir, they’re saying you can’t pull a William Henry Harrison. They don’t think you can pull it off, sir.

Belgium-Senegal: The 1913 Ghent World's Fair included a human zoo of 128 Senegalese in a "village." *10 months* after it closed, the Tirailleurs Sénégalais of the French Army were the bulk of the force defending Diksmuide and the Yser, the last tiny corner of Belgium not yet overrun by the Germans.

Both delighted and depressed by this 1883 letter to the editor about the plight of bicyclists being endangered by "the reckless drivers of fast horses." lccn.loc.gov/sn83045462

Kitten smother. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

At the human level, the World Cup is beautiful snackstack.net/2026/06/29/t...

It is actually maddening that we've been doing this every week for *five months.*

“I got scratched by an elderly woman” “Was she in her 40s?”

They Might Have Been their last Giants.

Scott Franzke's call on Derek Hill's amazing catch Incredible

CATCH OF THE YEAR?!?! 🤯

the great meeting of the mind titans

the last three Phillies-Nationals games were insane

paws de hidratación

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

BAH GAWD THAT'S DEREK HILL'S MUSIC FRANZKE

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

wheeeeee!

Benetti is the best

Isaac Chotiner: can you list some examples of systemic oppression green creatures face? Kermit the Frog: I’m sorry? Isaac Chotiner: well you do mention the difficulty quite a lot

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

What does it mean to be the world's oldest library? A BBC story about the lore behind the Merton College Library in Oxford with a few other notable mentions. 📚 www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.

Excellent thread 🐍

Please read my new piece, writing it permanently broke my brain

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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anyway, you should read this important piece about how elon is, in fact, a killer:

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

Working in 1920s Berlin, Lotte Laserstein stakes a claim for a position in the art-historical canon with her 'Self-portrait with a Cat,' (1928) which shows her at her easel, hair cropped, androgynous-looking and holding a very patient feline.

Hi, Schwarbs

BOHM FAKES OUT THE CAMERAMAN

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

"Too much of leftist politics at this moment is chasing Trump’s personalist appeal to a mythical male working class. The left has run this play before, and it failed. "I am, of course, speaking of Bernie Sanders." www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

happy pride 💕

This is outstanding. Take a few minutes to play it!

I LOVE BASEBALL

Easter yule logs!

This is Nacho. He has big feelings. Every stuffed animal he owns is very aware of this. 14/10 (IG: nacho_thekneadydog)

"In other words, the early web was a technology that grew more profitable every day, which workers and young people had to force on their bosses - and AI is a technology that grows *less* profitable every day, and *bosses* have to force it on workers and young people."