I very rarely post with this kind of tone (I mean, I rarely post, but that's another matter). But I happen to be very longtime friends with a person whose job is organizing major meeting functions involving US military personnel. Her office is directly across the street from the intended meeting ...

I feel as though Chotiner can do what he does for almost the same reasons that worked for Ali G. The vibe particulars differ substantially, but "someone from The New Yorker" still hits similarly in terms of perceived threat, absent knowledge of further specifics.

So if I'm a quiet poster and fairly infrequent reply guy and _I_ am blocking 3-5 mass-follower bots per day, what the hell are folks here with actual platforms dealing with?

Klinger @ Radar Tolefo Mud Hens @ Iowa Cubs

Took a picture of a toothy rodent in iPhone Portrait mode. Called it Auto Bokeh Beaver.

Today we are all Better Than Ezra.

Confirmed some important news today: The Baltimore Book Festival will have a funnel cake truck on site this weekend

This is rather surprisingly good, I think.

Gonna signal boost every pro-words anti-video post I see. It is the correct position.

Saved effing posts! That's it, that's the skeet.

The spic[iness] is finally flowing. Good!

In Steve King's former neck of the woods, no less. And yes, this particular district is part rural and part "suburban Sioux City." But look: even "suburban Sioux City" is no Fairfax or Gaithersburg. Roughly a 21 percentage point blue shift vs. Trump's numbers. This. Is. Good.

One of Silicon Valley's foundational myths is that newcomers to a field are uniquely equipped to solve its problems because they're not weighed down by biases and habits that make "experts" overlook obvious solutions. "The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way." 🧵

historical customers

Check it out now/ The Cod Sole brother 🎶

I think I got past this very young because, as an extremely picky eater, it seemed fairly obvious that the nausea-inducing qualities of brussels sprouts, salad, Lima beans, etc. were surely not indicative of those foods' moral standing.

a thought experiment i sometimes think of is "would it be possible to preserve a coherent self for centuries" and i am not sure the answer is yes

"Too far gone" -- Trump's characterization of Baltimore and Oakland -- is infuriating for lots of reasons. One of the admittedly less important ones is that it makes us sound like a Son Volt or Whiskeytown album title.

Imagine being so wedded to a certain style of horse-race political analysis that you "nothingburger" away the very likely possibility that the current President of the United States *raped children* and is using the vast and powerful apparatus of the government he controls to cover it up.

Brooklyn, Durham, Baltimore (19-27). Done.

OK, y'all, as I mentioned, I went to see Paul Simon play last night. I found it unexpectedly moving, quite profound actually, and I want to do a short thread about it. I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.

As Redfin's Chief Economist, I rely on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for housing forecasts. I support the National Association of Business Economists’ statement condemning the firing of the BLS commissioner. Trustworthy data is crucial for business decisions and should remain apolitical.

"Austentacious," perhaps.

I see the letterforms and they just make me think of . . . supositories.

Learning that Thurston Moore had been having an affair FOR SIX YEARS before things disintegrated with Kim Gordon was a pretty malignant nail in the coffin of a particular strand of American indie.

Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...

The non-profit I work for is hosting a neighborhood festival this Saturday and in keeping with the neighborhood's vibe, most of the music is hip hop and r&b. But my colleague also said "and we've got a punk rock band, basically dad rock" and this cut my deep.

In this one regard and this one regard only, I have a narrow lead on Jamelle. 37.

ICE is breaking the law—again. Six Maryland members of Congress, including Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen, were illegally denied entry to a Baltimore ICE facility where detainee conditions are under federal lawsuit. They cited their legal oversight authority. ICE shrugged.

1981 and early 1982 were strangely a little late and also a little early in punk/post-punk/alt terms. But that's ok because this is a masterpiece. www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...

Holy crap, this exact book was my spirit guide for my late-elementary school terrarium and cactus garden adventures.

A bit extended, but I'll go Silver Jews. "This old yankee warlock Brushed back a gray forelock And he motioned me to sign in the book With no bonhomie He proffered the key Never once did he give me a look"

Fight the urge to make a Guy inside the LLM. There's no Guy in there.

Begging you all to repost news from the outlet that breaks it, not these parasitic aggregators, even if the aggregators put a snappier headline on it. You can put your own snappy headline on it when you repost.

My 93-year-old father-in-law had a significant health event AS WE WERE MOVING HIM from independent to assisted living this week. Things are settling down and the prognosis is at least possibly decent, but meanwhile I have been overcompensating with extremely stupid distracting analytics. To wit...

Raingarden.

First stage, it’s alright; second stsge, it’s alright; faster… 🎶

I honestly hate that this pleasant little shitpost made me remember Richard Stallman.

And this is absolutely fine but in Word, type two hyphens followed by a space followed by another word and when you hit the spacebar after the following word, presto, those hyphens become an em dash. It's default behavior, FFS.

Two brief notes on Sabbath at Villa: 1. My favorite thing about this is that it's in flippin' Birmingham -- total respect for the hometown love. 2. Ozzy's bat-biting show was ALMOST my first live rockshow ever. Couldn't go for some reason and then came Van Halen, Rush, The Who, and eventually indie.

Because they have a clearly defined goal: give actionable information to their businessperson clientele, whereas prestige papers are focused on chasing an ill-defined zeitgeist, often degenerating into servile puffery for whomever they decide is on top culturally.

Trump's election was a political failure. That people like @jennifertaub.com spent so much time doing propaganda for John Roberts RATHER THAN making a political case against Trump is the kind of thing that got us here.

I mean, I recently worked for 15 months, 20ish hours a week, at a small botique wine shop while figuring out my next Serious Professional Move for the umpteenth time and I don't think this is a hot take at all. Spain, Portugal, and Italian appelations outside Tuscany and the Piedmont rule.

Bill Moyers warrants commendation for seventy zillions different things. I'm gonna single out his interview series, A World of Ideas. He could fillet and dice belligerent subjects just fine when the context called for it. But here, he was -- consistently -- one of the best sympathetic interviews evr

No mo Cuomo No mo Cuomo Hey hey hey Get TF outta here (haven’t lived in MYC since ‘84, but still …)

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Thinking about 1986, Most of my college social change work was more mannered, i.e. with Amnesty Intl. But we sent missiles into Libya and I hand wrote a flyer about how that was bullshit without Congressional approval. Went to Kinko's and ran a hundred copies on Astrobrite Orange. Posted all around.

That cool thing where you can tell something big and bad happened bc people are making vague posts much like this one

Going in a rather different direction than most, I suppose, but I'm quite sincere in my way. What do you think is the most 80s movie ever?

Absolute OG of topical longform non-fiction. Or at least one of its two or three greatest practitioners of the last quarter-century.