TIL gold medalist Alysa Liu DID THAT FRENULUM PIERCING BY HERSELF: www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...

LOVE THIS 💗

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

This really is a great picture:

Donna Summer is having an Olympic moment.

not to be missed, though: her coach(?)’s literal cartoon-eyes awooga reaction

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!

Everyone needs to go back and watch the Microsoft trial deposition footage. He was definitely the proto-Musk. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

If every pedestrian must be in high-viz all the time, that means every driver who is not entering an enclosed parking garage with a single parking space for their car should *also* be in high-viz, because you have to get out of that car at some point and be, you know, a pedestrian.

I will say particularly with Liu's incredibly joyful and exuberant performance, it's one of the better illustrations of the importance of expression, artistry, and feeling in the sport as opposed to, yeah, the aol mail avatar doing stupid little computer animated jumps

CATO: “.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the “who’s paying” question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

I wrote my objections to Kevin Kelly’s pro-surveillance piece a dozen years ago. It felt as if the panopticon was already completed, but its depth & intimacy has vastly accelerated, alongside the increasingly barefaced ill will & omnicidal trends among the tech feudal lords.

Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein: "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

Wretched hive of scum & villainy.

As an American of half-Chinese heritage, it brings me so much happiness to see Alysa Liu win the gold.

Alysa Liu!!!!!!!!!!!! GOLD!!!!!!!!!

Holy shit is right, Alysa Liu! Happy crying during a WFH day!

A 9-year old girl traveled to Florida for a vacation at Disney. Then, she spent four months imprisoned in Texas. Gutting story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it."

Honestly, on an emotional level, I find the parents being at worst mildly perturbed rather than soul-crushingly haunted by the death of their child more upsetting than the disease itself, silly as that sounds.

while I wish we too had Consequences For Horrifying Crimes over here, Andrew and Trump are like the two most famous, powerful and well-protected men in that whole file and it’s impossible for this not to change the math completely. other men will be afraid today who weren’t yesterday

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Working & watching the women's free skate at the Olympics. Ideal work from home day.

In 1309, Yuan painter Zhao Mengfu gifted a memory, "Autumn Colors by the Magpie Terrace (鵲華秋色圖)", to a friend. With calm, calligraphic brushwork, he set the jagged rise of Mount Hua Buzhu beside the gentle slopes of Mount Que, the two peaks cradling a river bathed in autumn light. 1/2 #painting #art

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year. Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

I continue to believe that the inevitable J.D. Vance presidential campaign will be destroyed when someone fills one of these awkward pauses by simply yelling "you suck, dork!"

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!

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

Excuse me but the New York Times assured me that the viral AI fight clip was 100% real and authentic and people all over Hollywood were screaming, crying and throwing up over it because this was going to change everything and Oh wait. Oh shit. Did the New York Times...LIE to us? Again?

To paraphrase William Gibson: justice, like the future, is not evenly distributed. Apropos of nothing.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

You can tell the talking point sheet they were all given on this told them to emphasize the beer thing because they all are saying it. Crucially however the right to beer is not in the constitution

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

Here's a list of all the places Trump is building concentration camps to brutalize non-white men, women, and kids—including many in the US legally and some who are citizens. Most will be sent to die in places they've never been to or to be tortured by Trump pals. # = Prisoners.

a live look at the mood on bsky.app, the One Thing In Particular App

FBI once again (!) confirming, in public, that they plan to make being transgender a federal crime - and it's crickets at best from the Democrats and the media.

This would be the worst calamity to hit the American economy since 1929!! It's very weird that it is never treated as such!

I personally know an immigrant with a legit asylum case who was picked up in Chicago and released in Kansas with NO ID, no money and no way home. Thankfully, he had a friend who was able to pick him up and get him home. This is not unusual. As always Fuck ICE.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

It’s a muppet muppet muppet muppet world.

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

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"At The Muppets Of Madness", where they're mounting an expedition to excavate a forgotten Antarctic civilization of regular people "Whatever they had been, they were Muppets!"

"Hop in, bitch, we're taking down the government."

In reporting this piece on the epigenetics of ancient humans, I got to find out what happens when archaeology guys get to work with fresh bone for the first time. 😂 Because you see, fresh bone still has marrow...which makes BLOOD. www.templeton.org/news/the-evo...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Copyediting is a lost art.