Update the Threads app? In this economy?

[door opens at local liquor store] [shopkeeper]: No. Out. Not doing that again

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

only thing that i can think of here is "we're doing clumps" at the dignity falls movie theater. i think it was alan (@kyliebrakeman.bsky.social) who said it. iconic.

Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Please help, I’m being silenced via my new comedy special and book and weirdly fawning profile in the New Yorker Magazine. Cancel culture run amok really.

awww...AI, it's just like us!

WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.

So much sports internet braying by dudes who are like "I hate how these guys are friends and nice to their opponents" and it's like...who do you want to beat more in anything than your best friend? Gimme a break with this. Pick up games of...anything...w/ close friends are like mini Super Bowls ffs

Dead-Eyed Travis Kelce Nods At Bow Tie Options For Cat Ring Bearers https://theonion.com/dead-eyed-travis-kelce-nods-at-bow-tie-options-for-cat-ring-bearers/

“Some of those reporters face likely persecution or imprisonment if they are deported to their home nations after having worked for the United States government.” A lesson for anyone naive to think that USA ever cares about loyalty, honour or decency. Allies around the world are slowly seeing it.

Fantastic that the student newspaper is doing this, but also remarkably sad that it's falling to the student newspaper to do this.

This is yet another salvo in the “liberal kids need to cater to their MAGA uncles at Thanksgiving” wars that fails to remotely touch on the fact that it can go the other way. Guys not getting laid is a that guy problem, full stop.

And how she goes to a different school and we wouldn’t know her and she’s super cool.

Not one to celebrate folks getting the axe from news orgs, but good riddance to the pinnochio guy. The absolute bane of actual journalism is public fact check nitpicking. Fact checkers should be checking facts in detailed, context-based stories, not doing whatever this was.

Today in Hell World we have the great Dave Wedge on the life and music of Ozzy Osbourne and his experience interviewing him over the years. www.welcometohellworld.com/mama-im-comi...

There’s an art museum in Cooperstown that is doing a Calvin & Hobbes exhibit this fall, in case you’re looking for a reason to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and want to make a weekend out of it.

And for just $25, you too can do terrible things was easier than before

"There was an election and the other candidate got more votes than I did" is the sort of election analysis we need more of tbh

This is worth a read about what lies ahead - very troubling. White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

What even is the EPA without scientific research?

no one knows more about this than @lilyyily.bsky.social's friend Kayla Dickie

This @hdtgm.bsky.social re-up is an all-timer. I remember listening to it when it first came out, and Jessica St. Clair talking about the Superman "amnesia kiss" and saying "this is how we love each other" is so funny. Natasha Lyonne is so perfect. It's a top 5 ep of this show.

@aarongleeman.bsky.social really liked the latest free pod. Watching the game now and I can’t handle these in-game moves anymore. When is a better time to let Larnach, Wallner, or both(!) hit against a tough lefty? The Twins pinch hit too much and it basically never works for them

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

Kari Lake (USAGM 'special adviser') is emailing ‘reduction-in-force’ (termination) notices to many VOA staffers who’ve been on paid leave since mid-March. She's also axing some who were brought back to implement her Potemkin Village VOA (reaching only 0.2% of our prior audience).

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

This is just insane. It's all blended together at this point, but still. At some point, maybe, Congress simply has to BE Congress...right? Maybe?

This morning in The Bandwagon, I wrote about Clayton Kershaw's pointed rebuke of Pride night, and Josh Hader, who seems to have learned, empathized and changed after his teenage tweets came to light. bandwagon.substack.com/p/36-do-coac...

These violent criminals...who are shoveling horse shit all day while taking a break from their violence doing...get perp-walked and the guys who hired them (and, presumably, have done this for years and years) are going to get what? A ticket? A call down to the Chief's office for a talkin' to?

the ice guys in the regular f-150 have the body language of guys who have seen chris pratt get out of a truck in a movie about navy seals

Honda has made the best motor-driven things for all of my life. This is great news

this is just pure insanity. public land, especially a lot of this public land, is quite literally the lifeblood of the western u.s.

NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

Big news from #Instagram. 🤳 Coming soon! You'll be able to re-arrange your grid. I remember this functionality was on everyone's social media wishlist back in 2012. 👏 www.cnet.com/news/social-...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Weeping Trump Boys Told ‘Uncle Elon’ Blown Up In Rocket Accident

Paying college athletes is so cool and should have happened 30 years ago. When I was a kid the notion of a softball player making a million bucks in college was like a laugh-you-out-of-the-room sorta thing.

Finished #DeptQ last night and wow. One of the best detective/cop procedurals I've seen in a long time. Akram is an absolute s-tier character throughout, and even sort of stole the show from about ep 4 through the end. Excellent television.

🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

New: Two months ago, a cadre of Texas and federal authorities crashed what they later described as a Tren de Aragua gathering in Hays County and detained 47 people, including kids. Since, the authorities involved in the raid have not said much. 🧵 www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Welcome to the "perplexed, unenthused, and disappointed" club, The White House.

Its remarkably easy to imagine this guy donning an incredulous look and saying “Susan, what the fuck is a hurricane season?” completely seriously. Sort of a Galifinakis “The Pretentious Illiterate” vibe.

Nuts that the term “public service” actually has the word “service.”