This looks so good:

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

“the epstein class” is a fine phrase that - i’ll just be honest - i am going to have a knee jerk response to that depends a lot on who is using it and which of those three words they emphasize when they do so

It's been 15 years since the viral exchange between the mayor of Detroit and a "random dude in Massachussets" which ultimately led to this 11-foot tall bronze RoboCop statue that finally debuted two months ago!

The only way you can treat video games consistently is if you say everything outside the cutscenes is a metaphorical record, which means -- say it with me -- video games and musicals are the same thing

The mad parachutist, from Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. A character that really sticks with you.

What if The Glass Bead Game just ended with the dude revealing that the game was just Root Beer Tapper before kicking it haha

My spouse is not on Bluesky, X, etc., so every time I send him a link or screenshot of a quote tweet &c., he gets confused, and I have to explain, “it’s like the Talmud; it’s like the Talmud”

Tired: Die Hard is technically a Christmas movie. Wired: Yoda is technically a muppet. Inspired: The Nazi-crushing, ice golem is technically a Rube Goldberg machine.

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the SCP Foundation has a mass surveillance problem

Tired: Die Hard is technically a Christmas movie. Wired: Yoda is technically a muppet. Inspired: The Nazi-crushing, ice golem is technically a Rube Goldberg machine.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

No. Most Post cuts are in hard news, which requires local presence, full teams, and many background expenses (e.g. legal). All tremendously expensive. Analysts like me can start a Substack. But traditional reporters need institutions; if laid off, they're screwed. bsky.app/profile/lase...

A ranking of different ways to translate bodies of water mentioned in Exodus. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Reeds.

this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!

longhorn marina, marathon, florida, 1985

time to reshare this meme I made, which is relevant, again

And I'll tell you, they all have the same characters, the same names, the same genial voice-overs, sometimes they repeat locations and plot points. It's very weird. The whole television world exists in an uncanny valley that is impossible to shake.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Gender's Game, in which a young man learns it was not a simulation and he in fact just destroyed Gender.

A restful Shabbat, all. I will now do my upmost (and possibly fail) not to be on here.

The Egg (L'Œuf) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/61960

So Yoram Hazony claimed that Tucker Carlson wasn’t an antisemite because there was no “15 minute explainer video” proving that he was. Except *his own team* had made exactly that video (runtime: 14 minutes, 57 seconds). And he buried it www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

Fuck you

No one has needed to be reminded of the inexorable passage of time

“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors

Years of rhetoric dehumanizing and demeaning the Somali immigrant community in the US will inevitably lead to violence. Words are not harmless. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Infinite Hope.

If we're looking for examples that actually write Jews (and also history itself) out of the story

This tweet is Essential Lore in my libraries. I’ve probably said the last sentence a thousand times to myself over the years.

Music to embrace your clinical depression to, vol 1. Revised edition, with alt text added.

ace of clubs lounge, route 90, lake charles, louisiana, 1979

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day: May it be a contemplative day for all. May it prompt us to confront where evil still festers in our society. May it reaffirm our commitment to imagining and striving for a better world. May we see peace and dignity for all people in this lifetime.

Trump-run board now, you can disregard anything they say

we'll fight on until every last one of them leaves

I’d further say that Governor Walz’s words are one of the few contexts I may be ok with the “use” of Anne Frank’s memory. And that is what it is, a use, as in utility. Anne Frank should have lived a life, a full one, and her memory should have been for a blessing, not for any use, ever.

Infinite Hope.

Shabbat Shalom to the 100+ rabbis who joined clergy in Minneapolis today to say: Jews stand with our neighbors. We want ICE out of Minnesota, out of NYC, and out of all our communities.

We condemn this act of antisemitic vandalism. Given that the suspects were 15 year olds, we also think it shows the importance of robust education in pushing back against antisemitism.

“The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross…”

Nazis were left-wing socialists, in the way that a carpet is both a car and a pet

man,

I am running for Mayor of Chelm.