Prince on Will.i.am: “I like Will.I.am, his business sense, and how we sees the world is very interesting. He’s very technology-driven. Um… but let’s remember, he _did_ write My Humps.” *looks straight to camera*

I can’t find the post that informed me of this thing’s existence the other day, but whoever you were, thanks, this is pretty good and has cracked my ~daily rotation

i recognize that the median length of Normal Men is probably about ninety minutes, so there are some things I need to work out with myself, but I think this is almost correct: the two optimal lengths for a podcast are 1) 45 minutes and 2) infinity.

remember when we bombed Nigeria

drunk driving is extremely bad and we should try to design social patterns and travel norms in ways that reduce it

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

one way to sidestep the whole thorny issue is to lean into speciesism- your duties to your fellow man do not depend on their ensoulment or their sentience or their capabilities, just on the fact that they’re wearing your team’s jersey, as it were

I’m not super wild about any version of the “just bribe people” approach to elections, including the versions you like, but to the extent that it’s legal (tbd) and effective (tbd) we have to learn how to play the game

if you say Stancil and X the good news is that we're probably going to get to run the experiment eventually

again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore

AI will fix this

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

I think part of it is that it’s difficult and/or boring to talk about good spatial filmmaking, even though people really seem to like good spatial filmmaking (see also: John Wick)

the reason you get a bunch of these “people thinking about leaving” pieces but then nobody much leaves isn’t sinister imo. it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass

Normal Men housekeeping: Christmas week screwed up our release schedule. Last Sunday’s episode will go up Monday morning and we’ll be back to the usual “approximately Wednesday, probably” cadence after that.

the promise of America, to Miller, is that anyone might transcend the circumstances of their ancestry to become a Nazi

alright everyone, we're almost at the end, we made it through, and we've got one more NORMAL EPISODE to record for NORMAL MEN this year, and we want to hear from you. drop us your questions, queries for advice, or NYE anecdotes here, we record on sunday

is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

briefly thought this might be the time Big Jim missed and I was a fool to doubt

disc horse really making some good points lately

I think the Lesson of the Lions is mostly that it’s really hard to make the playoffs while losing four plus divisional games

I really thought the Nigeria stuff was just saber-rattling

Oil price conspiracy intensifies

well, I thought it came out nice. no mayo. Puerto Rican mother-in-law took a sniff and immediately fortified with additional rum but seems happy with result

1) these are all answerable questions 2) we don’t get 50% cost savings out of the deal 3) we almost certainly do get significant cost savings out of some of the ways to move to universal coverage

when you hit 100 years old like dick van dyke you should be able to prestige

this one’s a hot one

more than one reason for the season imo

Merry Christmas to those who like being wished Merry Christmas and have a very nice Thursday to those who do not

thanks for a great snowball fight, everyone! that was fun

"He's an immortal avatar of a moral absolute, he sees everything, he brings gifts, Elves help create the gifts and ensure they match the fleeting mortal desires of the recipients," I mean come on

Classification by @proptermalone.bsky.social

Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

On the night before the night before Xmas, let us remember Randall Jarrell's great poem of that name, his longest and arguably his best @kenyonreview.bsky.social kenyonreview.org/piece/januar...

I did not have “the Rhode Island Attorney General namesearches into my mentions” on my dance card but I do appreciate the poster’s spirit

i am second to none in my affection for mayonnaise but in the spirit of the season I offer you the gift of pain

I think we’re not really gonna know until the next time she makes the news how much it’s hurt her and hurt CBS with the public, or for that matter how it’s affected Team Ellison standing with the administration.

it does seem a little unfair that despite being no worse than fourth worst on the court he gets to eat this as his name’s legacy forever, but hey, sucks to suck

The reason @martylederman.bsky.social’s brief was so effective is because it gave Roberts and Barrett (and Kav) a way to vote against Trump without calling him a fucking liar, which is what the lower courts based their decisions on

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chris has characteristically figured out a good way, below, to be both 1) technically accurate about the SCOTUS vote non-count and 2) convey what we know about who's on what side in the tweet summary.

An explosion just happened near me in Bristol Township at a nursing home. Not good. 😢

maybe lawsky has discussed this before — but are there any other instances in which a specific scotus justice's name became a term of art, the way it has with "kavanaugh stop"? there are countless examples where a case caption becomes a name ("miranda rights") but justice's name seems uncommon.

i'll do the pedantic correction again: we do not actually know this is 6-3. we know that Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch are against, we know that Kavanaugh is for, and we know it had at least four other votes for.