Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

Happy Pizzamas to all! I have a new obsession.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Planning to spend a good bit of time writing tonight. Just jammed 1600 words in 40 min. Now for a break before diving in for another bit.

Good Morning ACME Gumshoes, We have a dire emergency. The Statue of Waterdeep has been stolen by Patty Larceny! We must retrieve it before it gets delivered to Carmen Sandiego who is trying to gain access to the Mad Mages Dungeon below the city! Stop Carmen

I don't remember exactly when it was, but I will always remember the Valentine's day as a kid that my mom bought me and my sister gifts. At Target she asked what I wanted, and I ran to the electronics department and got Warcraft 1 which was on sale. Miss you mom.

Happy Pizzamas! Finally going to get to play with my new pizza oven this weekend.

In a world where journalism is collapsing, Sounder At Heart is launching its first print magazine this week. That's right, local sports journalism you can hold in your hand. I've got a column in there about World Cup logistics. Click the link for your copy.

It's a Friday checkmate. Black has forced mate in 2. Do you see it?

I feel strongly tomorrow should be Friday

Howie from Backstreet Boys

This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why Google Sheets hides advanced sorting behind ranges and doesn't just include it for full sheets. I know I can select the entire sheet, but why is that a necessary step?

A coworker asked for fan casting ideas for the Baldur's Gate show. Aside from Neal as Astarion, I am struggling to come up with one.

@stoat.chat It seems registration email verification email never arrived for me on gmail?

1548 words tonight on a new story. No idea if it will end up being a short story or long. We'll see.

Well Houten has skyrocketed up the list of places I'd like to live www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Tu...

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

How very black history month to suddenly discover even more underground railroad

Tonight is session 1 for the next D&D campaign. A low-magic setting called Vaord (vay-or-d) - Going to be fun! Looking forward to playing with everybody tonight.

Ski jumping looks so cool and also fills me with visceral terror.

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Age verification? I was on the local news about the novelty of my school's Apple II computer lab.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The TCC team continues to hit it out of the park with our special Shuffle Up & Play intro for Riftbound. This time, we are playing with decks using the new Spiritforged set, and you can watch the episode here: youtu.be/fCC2rS_RdFs #Riftbound

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1

The halftime superbowl football from today skyrockets up the list of sporting memorabilia I wish I owned.

Pictured: This combo IRL

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Patriots tie themselves and the Commanders (nee Redsk*ns) with 8 punts in the Superbowl.

Celebrate the hawks winning by, uh, buying our soccer magazine.

I can't find the number of punts from Patriots tonight. Record is 11 by the Ravens. I don't think the Pats beat that, but I am curious where they ended.

a commercial promoting ai.com and ai.com/elon and it immediately crashing is a pretty good way to describe Elon's entire existence. 10/10 ad

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

Unidos somos América.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

Pedro Pascal spotted on the halftime show

Also people.com/olympic-skat...

My annual tradition continues: I do my taxes while watching the Superbowl. Yay for a tax refund!

I was thinking about wanting to read a litrpg / isekai of someone who gets suddenly transported into a space opera sort of story. Anyone know of one?

Imagine the irony of going back to the office in SFO because your CEO killed RTO but the driver for the supposedly autonomous car you're taking to work gets to WFH.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

Democracy dies in oligarchness