Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This goddamned notification : 2026 :: "Punch the monkey and win $20" : 2000

Holy fuck what a quote. Great piece from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

This is my main takeaway. They probably felt like killing the tariffs was the best way to help the economy (and, thus, Trump politically)

new favorite poster just dropped

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

Again: this is fall-of-the-empire stuff.

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

Taking your own food when you’re going TO ITALY. truly the sign of a demented mind

The Decline of the Washington Post: A story in four headlines.

Then she asked about the moon and I was immediately out of my depth

It finally happened. My 3yo asked me “why does the sun shine?” and I responded by conversationally reciting the entire lyrics of the TMBG song

EVIL WIZARD: your going in the time loop ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're*

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

We are being ruled by the stupidest fucking losers.

it should not surprise anybody who follows my work that I wrote a bunch more songs last year. (Peter Balkan was written in 2024.) Here's one we're releasing early in honor of Bob Weir. Enjoy -- we're donating proceeds to the American Cancer Society. themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/going-...

Every slide by @kendraserra.bsky.social is 🔥 This was their hot take about Stop Killing Games

Thanks to everyone who came out and yelled at Cost is Correct at MAGFest!

THAT'S TOO MUCH #MAGFest2026

Hello MAGFest! Today at noon in Panels 2: Learn about what's new in the field of game history! Get a crash course on everything from academic publishing to LaserActive emulation to legal hot takes @lainenooney.bsky.social @kendraserra.bsky.social

Any MAGFest people want to see me host a game show? Come to Panels 2 at 1:30 today for The Cost is Correct, our legally distinct version of The Price is Right. Come on Down! (And pass it on) builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...

We're out in the middle of nowhere Indiana at the BEEF BAR

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

Rock and roll is dead…but the dead don’t die. My favorite album of 2025 was Jeff Tweedy’s triple LP Twilight Override fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/1...

My #2 album of the year is the southern rock masterpiece Bleeds, by Wednesday fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/2...

I say Say She She had the #3 album of 2025 fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/3...

Brag, but it’s still spiritual: my #4 record of 2025 is BIG MONEY by Jon Batiste fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/4...

Amanda Shires' "Nobody's Girl" is somebody's #5 album of 2025 (me, it's my #5) fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/5...

Forever is a Feeling, it's also my #6 album of the year c/o Lucy Dacus: fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/6...

It's that time of the year again

The first thing you learn as how strong you can be if you have to, the next thing you learn is @themountaingoats.bsky.social Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is my #7 album of 2025 fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/7...

Starring Neil Patrick Harris as Peter Molyneux

My #8 album is Snocaps, not exactly a supergroup, but a super group of musicians, if you get what I'm saying fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/8...

My #9 album is from Neko Case, her first in many years: fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/9...

My #10 album this year comes from Mavis Staples, and a whole lot of friends fordmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/1...

Today begins the annual countdown of my favorite albums of the year. I’ll post a new one every morning at jasonford.org

The Oracle at Delphi emerging from her cave absolutely dripping in Parmesan:

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

rojo in the streets verde in the sheets

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

I sure wish we didn’t have to, as a country, touch the stove every few years to remember that it’s hot.

The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.

dudes who don't rock are demoted to the rank of guys

Wow, Blippo+ is pretty amazing.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...