The whole premise of this "ballroom" is that you've got the nation's most secure military command center in the basement, and a top-security military drone installation on the roof, and between the two is an impossible-to-secure quasi-public space for foreign spies to have dance parties.

22 years in the waiting, 6 years in the making: the title is Arsenal’s again. The squad gathered at Colney to watch tonight’s game, as they became champions. Here’s how #AFC won the #EPL - a title not simply won, but engineered. @theathleticfc.bsky.social 🔴⚪️🏆 www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

ARSENAL ARE THE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS BEVEL THOSE GUNNERS!!!

Breaking News from @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Arsenal secured its first Premier League title in 22 years after Manchester City’s draw with Bournemouth.

Yes!!!! #COYG

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

In the cataract clinic waiting room and you KNOW there are some loud phone sounds in here

Actual life hack: you’ve gotta be the person who’s bringing two people to almost everything you’re invited to unless it’s, like, a seated dinner reservation. Combine the social circles. You don’t need to make an individual catchup date with everyone you know. *That* is what is holding you back.

did you hear about the horrifying thing that youre powerless to do anything about

Kash Patel stepping past the rope barrier at the tomb of JFK to light up a cigar on the eternal flame

WE MIGHT DO IT. WE’LL ALL BE DEAD BY THE PARADE, BUT WE MIGHT DO IT.

Me, but Crusader Kings III

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

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Rubens taught me when I saw this as a kid.

OK I don't know if I had any idea why it was called the Milky Way or even recall if I wondered but I'm *sure* I didn't know this was the reason.

Well, I’m at the village fair and the first thing I have seen is this memorial bench to The Prodigy’s Keith Flint (genuinely) in the churchyard. Apparently there has been local controversy. The vicar has vigorously defended it.

The hardest part of history is to tell how it felt: defector.com/the-hardest-...

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Michelle you are in fact dumb as a bag of rocks

Yeah man, you destroyed the institutions the normie institutionalists were assured would hold. You killed the reason they believed in a civil society governed by shared norms. Now you got teachers and office assistants talking about piling the streets with bodies. Good luck.

Now this is how you sell a laminator

I am a freemason. I thought it would be all exciting secret world stuff. Its old blokes moaning about ceremonies and trying to get promotions, its like being in work. Its crap. No goats are involved and no secrets worth knowing. My nipple has never even been tweaked.

Just returned home from Europe. Can confirm.

The group chat is telling me “don’t look obvious” Obvious is the only look i got

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Going to go back to 1870 and tell Grant that West Virginia has become a den of traitors and Lost Cause aficionados, while Virginia has been taken over by northern carpetbaggers (laudatory) I’ll give him some time to process that before telling him about the Sixth Party System

The “Morticia Addams” machine (copyright pending: me) is destroying a perfectly good Instagram opportunity because those YUGE fields of tulips in the Netherlands are not being grown for flowers but bulbs.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

there’s a lot to love in this story, but for me it’s always been the poor barfly who screams “I HATE THIS SONG!” at his own lap

i think everybody who wasn't an adult in 2006 is unprepared for how fast and how totally they're going to pretend trump never existed

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Watching Brazil, South Korea and Hungary get rid of their authoritarians

“They can’t see the difference” Of COURSE Trump supporters can’t “see the difference” If they could see the difference they wouldn’t be Trump supporters

Modern D6 are boring. These 17th & 18th Century dice made Game Night with grandma far more exciting, were educational, and carried only a slight potential of being cursed, before Big Cube came in and ruined everything.

I have seen one good example of this plate

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the ceasefire between the US and Iran.

It's not over. We can still lose more if Donald J. Trump has the courage.

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

If they're smart, they've already commissioned musicians to record a slow acoustic version that's properly respectful.

The US has been proudly acting like the asshole at the party all night, then wonders why nobody wants to drive us home.