My BFF—a reality TV connoisseur— is showing me Love Is Blind for the first time ever. We are only half-way thru episode 1 of the most recent season (Ohio) and I already want to parachute in with a team of therapists and kidnap/rescue these women.

So lemme tell you about @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance, which came out last year and absolutely blew me away. I'd replace half the 1st-year curriculum with this book. Reading it made me a better historian, and also the kind of person who underlines books. Plus, it's hilarious.

I love this. Also FYI, St Viateur Bagels are my personal favorites. And Montreal bagels are the best in the world. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Madow did a whole piece last week listing all the places where local organizers had spiked the deals on detention facilities, and it's quiet and spread out and not getting a ton of attention but every fucking one is a hero.

The challenge with this heavy LA rain is that I use a YouTube video of a rainstorm to fall asleep -- I have a sleep protocol for making sure I get rest when I'm on set -- and I am dying over here. Just hammering caffeine to get through the emails. Training your body is useful up to a *point*.

Since the cats were tiny kittens we’ve made gentle biscuits on them whenever they make biscuits on us and I highly recommend this feedback loop.

This is why she didn’t win in 2016

My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on

LMAO at Bovino getting roasted by the Sub-Radio band kids to the tune of @thebandcake.bsky.social's hit song "Short Skirt/Long Jacket". They really nailed it. www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...

Dave means 'God could be worse'

There are so many names which mean ‘God is good.’ It would be funny if there was a name that was less definitive. Like if Jeff meant ‘God is okay’

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

this was with getmaple.ca, which I can now confidently say does not provide an acceptable standard of care

I JUST HAD A DOCTOR CONSULT CANCELLED BECAUSE I WAS RUDE TO THEIR AI INTAKE SOFTWARE. (I called it a "stupid computer.") I hate EVERYTHING

The Guardian: ‘With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea’ Seriously! To the fainting couch!

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

It's all too common for "environmental concerns" to be used against both housing and bike infrastructure projects. This project is moving forward now, but faced manufactured opposition over trees.

BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES is a silly fun time travel movie, big thumbs up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_...

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT! HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT! HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

Become ungovernable

God bless the Dutch for this

I didn't know if @marthawells.com knew about this Easter egg that Alexander Skarsgård snuck into the #murderbot TV series!

So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it, And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done. And then to look the other way. To let her steal it. I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday - Crime.

Soft launch: soon I’ll be looking for researchers to give talks about Star Trek for the convention and another (as of yet secret) London event. So get thinking 🤔

Ah, shit... woke up in a mysterious and abandoned location, and I've lost my memory. I hope a series of gradually escalating challenges positioned between me and escape can instruct me how to open doors, use my powers, and double jump.

There was one team that was arguing with each other once and I was like GUYS save that for the kiss & cry.

Sometimes people ask, "how do they keep in such perfect time on everything" and the answer, if you ever sit in the front row at a skating competition, is (a) practice and (b) they call it out to each other on the ice. You can't usually hear it over the music unless you're close enough.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

ngl South Asian Twitter has never hit those heights ever again since that day

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

the single most celebrated holiday in the world is various countries observing a national holiday to mark when they kicked the English out

🎶 welcome to the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 checkout with the clerk 🎶 that's how hotels work 🎶 plenty of room at the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 we won't keep you here 🎶 that's a crazy fear

Gotta love Olympic tradition- the passage of the torch, the ceremonial lighting of the flame, the series of articles about condoms running out from journalists seething that super fit people are fucking

as someone from as country where they vet resume of priest who will officiate the wedding for months in advance, this whole I showed up at City Hall and got the Mayor to do the job cause he was there lets go home now is quite the culture shock

Azdoufal, demon lord of roombas

man this cat has seen shit that nobody should have to experience

American sports rivalries are nice and all, but India is about to play Pakistan in a world cup cricket match and the loser is probably going to try and start a war with the winner for the next 3 days so there's that

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

I started rewatching The Thick of It and "He's as useless as a marzipan dildo" is such a banger of an insult. If you've never seen it, it's Peter Capaldi at his absolute dickiest. That's a word I just made up

housing theory of everything, yes really basically everything

can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

GCU A Perfect Storm of Risk Factors

This morning, I was able to help identify a painting painted by WB Laughead, who was essential to spreading the Paul Bunyan myth, including providing a chain of provenance with date of sale and I don't think I'll ever have this kind of highly specific art history high again.

difference between big data and big lore

Athens of America.