WAITAMINNIT

(sneeringly) you fool, Bluesky is a SYMPTOM

Our spineless leaders can't even muster half-hearted condemnation of this cartoonishly evil savagery on display every day in the Middle East's only democracy

is... there

galvanized steel raised garden beds or corten steel, that is the question

The way Trump and his retinue half-asses everything — including wars! — rendered it overdetermined that the Great American Graft Fair would have negligible attendance and a stage that falls apart in a breeze.

We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur

there's a version of The Game where you lose every time you recall That Essay by Podhoretz, and I just lost

torment nexus ass startup

Apparently it’s 11 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

torment nexus ass startup

he's gonna be real mad when he realizes they aren't "Large Legs Models"

made brownies in a bid to use up ancient ingredients in my pantry and the malt drink powder i caramelized in the butter formed crunchy but chewy little chunks dispersed throughout the gloriously fudgy creation and oh my GOD

extraordinary account. follow at once

HIGA ✊

are Americans being weird abt British food again

my favorite thing abt English food culture is that it has embraced every cuisine on earth without being weird about it... genuinely cosmopolitan

I have said it before, but I like to teach ancient texts topographically. That's what makes ToposText so fun. Every toponym from Livy, Thucydides, and over 800 more authors—plus trans. & links to the original Greek or Latin—from Spain to India. Such a cool thing to teach & read with. topostext.org

there's a version of The Game where you lose every time you recall That Essay by Podhoretz, and I just lost

i sleep in a big bed with my wife :(

This is the right decision and suspect others will now follow, but very interesting timing on this

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Fox endorses DSA (again)

i think all five penalty kicks should happen simultaneously

From a utilitarian perspective Belgium losing to Senegal is a no brainer, clear maximisation. If the Belgian players are in any way ethical they won't even bother contesting the second half.

God is punishing me for my hubris

the smaller football nations are getting shafted by refs in the last 10 min of every match

feels like a 0% chance Senegal gets that called a penalty if positions are reversed

what the fuck

this is a disaster

getting the impression I'm being spared some moral injury by not seeing Belgium – Senegal

To think that there are parents—even on this website—who make excuses for the systematic dehumanization of children

must... not... click...!

forever associated with the Hotmail address you created at age 15

They say hell is other people, but it is very funny to me that, in Matt Goodwin's case, hell is just himself, all day every day. What an utterly miserable existence he's chosen for himself—his own personal bespoke and deeply lonely hell.

The only thing flat earthers fear... is sphere itself.

Bizarre story: Two journalists were removed by police from a corporate-sponsored Freedom 250 event in Brussels after they asked US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White about his threat against an American citizen/Belgian resident who had emailed Zac Brown Band urging them not to perform at the event.

this terrible phenomenon forms the core of one my most beautiful memories from med school in northern Sweden because no place in the west has been spared its inimical influence

When you have a lookalike who's a highly respected and instantly recognizable geologist—that's a rocklegänger

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

Some good news: a former refugee from Somalia who made Bristol his home 15 years ago, studied in the U.K. and represents his ward since 2021, pushing for improving local conditions, now fills the ceremonial role of Lord Mayor of Bristol.

Why Labour MPs are still on X

When he said, "Get ready babe, urine for a treat," that was a warning

GUYS i am freaking out!! last month i almost quit trying to learn guitar bc i got so frustrated not being able to correctly play a C chord, like my fingers wouldn't work right i just played it for the first time where it sounds correct im so happy i could cry omg

It’s not often that I edit a story that makes me tear up, but here we are...

I was giving a talk to a law school class last year and asked them if any of them had seen Clueless, since I wanted to reference this speech, and I got blank stares in response. I was devastated.