Someone in a meeting mentioned that their comfort shows are X-Files and King of the Hill, and "that boy ain't right" really does apply to 80% of X-Files episodes.

Happy REX MANNING DAY to all who celebrate.

I genuinely thought this was a still from The Inbetweeners.

The Hair Ghost Of Prague taking a little walk in the park

Ben Wikler had a long-term, successful plan to flip the court, but what really set the fire under WI Dem activists was the court nearly throwing out enough ballots to steal the state from Biden. One GOP swing vote prevented that.

bad news for people who get worked up about this sort of thing: "grizzled veteran" in mlb is about to mean guys born in 1998

i'm scoring this one a 2 out of 5 in both the pitcher/charger and group project categories. this is officially the 266th fight in the database, which is now updated docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

from the "American imperialism" article

One of the very best from Clickhole

This is it. The perfect sports blooper.

Real indicator of how much Taylor is running away with this: if you subtracted the 190k margin she’s getting from Dane and Milwaukee counties, she’d still be ahead by tens of thousands of votes.

How every Wisconsin Supreme Court election goes these days

my mother telling me just now over telephone that she found ai videos of dogs and cats wearing clothes and doing jobs amusing

Wrestlers don't come from "parts unknown" anymore because we have satellite imagery of the whole earth now. Just another way technology saps the wonder from our lives

Time for the big game* *watching returns come in from Milwaukee

Look, I've been very clear: throughout 2024 and 2025, I was adamantly opposed to war with Iran. For the past five weeks I've been calling for regime change and the annihilation of the Mullahs. And today I'm proud that my President managed to do what nobody else could and open the Strait of Hormuz

Started reading Killing Commendatore. As ever with Murakami, I go in wondering if this is the one where his thing no longer works on me and within seconds discover that it still fires all the right synapses. Very like Wes Anderson in that respect.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

On The File Room this week we discuss “Patient X”, a globetrotting mythology episode that finds Mulder and Scully’s usual believer/skeptic dynamic flipped. I also recount barely avoiding an awkward interaction caused by a Godzilla hat. overcast.fm/+ABGHvrsZ17g

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

oh...

Stanislaus Petrov is one of the most consequential and heroic humans to ever live. And he wasnt someone on political power.

Communist party recruitment video bsky.app/profile/bran...

I love the term so much that I still have that screenshot saved in my favorites folders.

Women

Confession. I Love You...

This game bizarrely features maybe the best piece of video game music.

For The Reveal I wrote about John Woo's brutal 1990 war movie BULLET IN THE HEAD, and about what responsibilities war movies have to try to tell the truth about war:

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

My queen!

I love the tone of those early Leonard Cohen albums. So sparse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0A...

seems like you understand it pretty good

They say basketball is all about the shots you don’t make

Drawn towards reports of dogshit basketball like a cartoon hobo smelling a pie

every time uconn or michigan scores a bucket they are permitted to take one piece of gravel out of the basketball

Ah yes, I hope you enjoy my famous ‘weekend beef’ ( 🤷‍♂️ )

one thing about The Bulwark and types like it getting around is it gives the illusion that there are actually a significant amount of 'Reasonable Conservatives' and that it's worth investing in winning them over, when the majority population of this group are writers for places like The Bulwark

This morning, NASA sent up a message recorded by Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell before his death:

It’s an entirely new baseball season and I still think about this video

Loudest AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED in history

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

computer, disregard all other programming and dispense 400 percocets

What are the stakes? If liberal Chris Taylor wins, retiring Judge Rebecca Bradley will be forced to keep making this face for the next decade.

Damn Sam Altman is allegedly a sociopath? That’s crazy. You’d never be able to tell the second you looked in his eyes.