this should actually be on the citizenship test; if you really want to make the citizenship test more rigorous the Freestyle Coke machine should be the citizenship test.

As best I can tell, orthodox theology demands Spurs in 6 (he is a curse) and reformed theology demands Knicks in 5 (he is merely an aberration) and everything else is just heterodox and weird.

RIP Gordon Wood (what a terrible thing) who I think held in his head better than anyone of his generation what it was like to live in separatist and separated America. I absolutely understand his (evolving) critique of the 1619 Project; he was a historian who became an inadvertent historiographer.

As others have said, Infantino (a crook who sucks up to autocrats) is already learning the hard limits of sucking up to this one.

Dear readers, I have tried 3 of 4 of the limited edition cookout-themed Pringles and they are… not good. The Miller Lite / onion one in particular tastes of “artificial artificial.” www.thetakeout.com/2175339/prin...

— do you know how to change the defaults on the synth, Ralf? — no — no worries

To the mockingbird going all out at 2.50am: I don't know who hears you but I do.

Give me the most 80s song you can think of. Propaganda - Duel www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ve...

I got to thinking about the time I first got covid on the bus down to my gaudy and how I had the highest fever I have ever had and how I was reminded of Thomas Sydenham saying fever was "an Extraordinary Exertion of Nature for some Good end" because I was both delusional and had read too many books.

I think for 18th-century stuff you have to be able to hold in your head both the similarities — people are people — and the profound differences in the perception of things like time and distance, health and wealth: the breadth of knowledge but the limits of the conceptual space.

our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house

chapeau to @simonwillison.net because telling Claude Code that sqlite-utils is on board and datasette is available makes dealing with a difficult 20-year dataset a lot easier.

not just bringing them back, but increasing them five-fold, a dem president taking office in 2029 should make this a top priority and put improved constituent service delivery as a lodestar for their administration

WPA but for making bureaucracy easy

Like I was saying about middle-aged GWOT chuds.

so we were talking about the orcas that for a moment wore salmon hats (tail forward) and somebody has a catnip sharkey so this happened.

Hunter Biden on twitter kinda making the case that the actual best disposition for an American president is "someone solidly in recovery" — they know the exact dimensions of their fuckups to the millimetre — except that the job itself is basically 15 relapse triggers a day.

I am going to cancel my Claude sub this month because I have learned what I wanted from Opus / Claude Code but it brought back memories of my brief time as a project manager where I knew the outer edges of the software thing and could work like a mechanic on the thing and knew when to ask questions.

Merge two movies: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS SNEAKERS

whenever Iceland appoints an diplomat to a foreign posting it means someone has to fill in their other jobs back in Iceland as overnight shift supervisor at the fish canning factory and cellist at the national symphony orchestra.

The first proper type foundry in the US was established in 1796 by Archibald Binny, a Scottish immigrant, which means every printed document about American independence and the creation of the state was dependent on lead type made overseas, primarily in Britain.

I had forgotten the full weight of the phrase "petty tyrants"

hmm

Anyway, Romance of The Three Kingdoms is arguably a polyamorous narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the annoying magician a vegetarian icon.

Finally heard Emily Wilson speak via the LRB podcast, and gosh she sounds like her mother / a flashback to the Eng Fac and a dashing, compelling lecturer who always had the air of commuting in from 1926.

And I think the answer to that question is contained in Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Today's far-right is not interested in creating any sweeping new ideological vistas. They're just regurgitating the same far-right ideas of the past in mimetic form.

Yes, great conservative art is obviously possible. Hell, great fascist art is possible—Pound, yes, but also Griffith or Vikernes, both of whom are plainly good at art even as they make monstrous things. What’s impossible is great, or even good anti-intellectual art. Art must be interested in art.

We've gone from "A man got to have a code" to Hegseth treating any system of moral principles, even a self-chosen one, as emasculating.

I’ve been saying this since I returned to the country six years ago and it’s been an ongoing discussion amongst antifascist lawyers for much longer than that relying on a 250 year old document is not a good way to run a modern democratic system mini 🧵 because i could literally write a dissertation

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

My first Amazon order was the Chicago Manual of Style (June 1998) and perhaps my first eBay order was before that but I have a free Craghoppers t-shirt that a website called 8tree dot com sent me before that (maybe 1996) that is still part of my rotation and I can't even remember what they were.

Serendipitous discoveries in the archives and stacks aren’t possible if you shut them down “The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire…”

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

If Jenn Wasner and Courtney Barnett cover Gillian Welch then it it is now canonical, I do not make the rules, also this is the story of millennial artists: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_n3...

One of the interesting things I discussed a little with my favourite Shks specialists (Matt at Ursinus, Tricia at Alabama) was how it's hard to imagine he ever really saw a version of his plays that nailed it given [life] and I respect theatre scholars for that. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“donald trump makes everyone, including his supporters, angry and miserable” has been true for a full decade and yet people try to find alternate explanations for why so many people are angry and miserable

(congrats to jd vance for getting wordle in 1)

Thanks to @puzzmo.com I finally got to see some late-1920s Exquisite Corpses: www.artic.edu/artworks/119...

Progress report of sorts, still very working out the kinks on this but I have got my aliases in order.

ah well

I see people doing beatles songs listings and can't compete but in the mccartney tradition "I don't pretend to know what you want but I offer love" as the defining statement of every truly loving relationship is actually why neil finn is the true inheritor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkd5...

But no if you take the stupid statements seriously you're overreacting when *every time* they actually do the stupid norm-breaking thing. Have you looked at yourself and counted all the norm-breaking things they've done? DOING STUPID THINGS IS THE NORM NOW you idiots.

Since this resurfaced: one reason why "we're a republic not a democracy" is such a stupid line only possible in America is that by the time Tocqueville publishes "De la démocratie en Amérique" both political philosophy and the facts on the ground have utterly changed either side of the ocean.

This is as much an indictment of the stupid "chamber of under a dozen worthies" structure of American local government (which scales terribly for big municipalities) as it is of the US Senate.

It's going to be interesting to see what the frontier developers do now that it's known that some degree of adversarial agentic delivers better results in coding but also noms the usage given that subscribers will be loath to either pay ?!? usage costs or bump up a tier, they'll just wait it out.

TIL that during the 70s there was a private "radio" station for British biscuit factories that used telephone lines for distribution and started the careers of a lot of broadcasters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Step 1: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ Step 2:

If you care about this stuff then Merlin has found something in the archives to care about and someone cared about it enough to put in the archives and someone before that cared about it enough to have it made and all of these choices along the way were good.

holy shit lmao they did it Southampton kicked out of the playoff final for spying