this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Baseball organists like, "Let's do the Star Wars theme... Ready or Not by the Fugees... Seven Nation Army... some kind of sea chanty... bit of Bohemian Rhapsody... the first six notes of Sledgehammer... Star Wars theme again"

The Pope is a White Sox fan. That's okay, because God's grace is greater than any human failing.

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we bunt? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's bunt. They do not bunt.

This is art.

REPOST IF YOU'RE READY FOR OCTOBER BASEBALL

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

You know you picked good people to follow when your feed turns into mostly Swan Lake jokes.

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG!!! The Giant Database of Dogs is a data collection project for classroom use. 6 quick questions to help students learn statistics! ALL good puppers are welcome! buff.ly/f6weaUE (please share widely!) (pics for tax, of course!)

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

I just saw someone on Reddit describe Las Vegas as “If Ticketmaster was a city” and holy crap.

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

12:01am on Friday morning. Lightning hitting both Sears Tower and the Hancock Building in Chicago.

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Narrator voice: There was not, in fact, enough game left for the Cubbies.

Come on Cubbies. Still plenty of game left!

everyone should be safe in public spaces. ideally everyone should also FEEL safe in public spaces! but if your discomfort is based on being racist or homophobic or not wanting to see a homeless guy or a mentally ill person, none of whom are a threat to you, i don't really care how safe you feel.

My wife is pretty sure it's when Boog Sciambi calls Ian Happ "Happ Daddy".

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY??? *This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote. It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."

Christian Franklin posted this on his Instagram and it might be the coolest Cubs prospect photo of the year so far

ea nasir is back baby awooo

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

technically it's a polyghoul

Happy Javyversary! Four Years Ago Today, Javy Báez Did the Most El Mago Thing Ever www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/05...

Angua found a cat hiding in this culvert on a walk yesterday. After thoroughly investigating (sticking her head in the opening and whining), she decided that we were just going to camp out on the grass next to the ditch and whine until it came out to play.

@adressa.no have put up an English language landing site for all non-Norwegian enthusiats of MV Garden Gnome: www.adressa.no/nyheter/tron...

mmmm soup

I love a semi-colon myself: it adds elegance and precision. But punctuation is as subject to evolution as the rest of language. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma

Ladies and gentlemen, we have CONFLICTING REPORTS about the Pope's baseball allegiance. This is a SCANDAL of the highest order. He may actually be a White Sox fan: www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/05...

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

i bring a sort of "hit on 17" vibe that blackjack dealers don't really like

As with most things, the quality of an LLM's output is directly related to the quality of your input data. So, if you are using generative AI to help with your cloud infrastructure workflows, check out @synackpse.bsky.social's latest blog for how OpsHelm can help! www.opshelm.com/blog/eventst...

The message this is sending to the tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Houston is to avoid the police no matter what, even if you've been a victim or a witness to a crime.

This is high art

Why would anyone need to ask this question

A very Happy 15th of March to one and all.

This is the most Chicago-coded thing you can say without saying the city's name or listing sports team.

"it's a three-hour drive but at least it's still in Houston"

Just got the "true story of Thanksgiving" from a little nephew at Thanksgiving dinner. Apparently the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims to find food and also to get water from the sink. (He forgot the Native Americans for a bit, so they were just "the people who can get water from the sink.")

1/ Also, neat unintended natural experiment from that drive: Our new car has all of the fancy driver assist stuff (the radar cruise control, lane centering, etc.) Out of habit I drove the first six hours without any of that enabled.

So, we drove 11 hours to Kansas for Thanksgiving yesterday. Turns out I'd kind of forgotten how normal temperatures work (i.e. in non-Houston locales where it can actually get cold enough to justify a jacket). This realization brought to you by Bob freezing his butt off for Angua's 29° morning walk.

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

Somehow my career has not yet been limited by my hatred of the phrase "learnings" but I think it's possible "pythonic" might do me in, if not "agentic" surely will

Hey everybody! For a starter post, here's my beautiful puppy out enjoying one of her morning walks. Hopefully your day is going just as well as hers!