Free idea: Din Tai Fung, but for all the dumplings. Yeah, let me get xiao long bao, ravioli, pierogi, mandu, and a Cornish pasty all on the same plate. This restaurant would make a billion dollars and no one can tell me otherwise

AI continues to provide super helpful answers

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M. Miller Jr.:

What is the perfect breakfast, and why is it two slices of toast with peanut butter, one banana, and a cup of black coffee enjoyed on a cool spring morning

This is my most millennial take and I will stand by it

People love to speculate and come up with stories about what happens in inclusive churches and, like... sometimes queer inclusive Christianity just looks like a bunch of people standing in front of a Bishop in an 1100 year old church, you know? It's not special, except for the ways that it is...

Wait. Wait wait wait. The voice of Ms. Frizzle was LILY TOMLIN???

I need the A Line to the middle of Lake Michigan to start construction immediately

Every few months I remember that Andrew Cuomo’s first response to COVID was to create a one mile quarantine zone around a synagogue in New Rochelle where the National Guard was going to deliver groceries to everyone who lived inside. What a fever dream

This @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social piece on our aging grid is so good. There's a real gestalt shift needed here, as with so much of our politics, from zero-sum thinking, where we divvy up ever smaller slices of the electric pie, to thinking of the grid as a machine that we can make work differently

How did Chicagoland become the gummy capital of North America? Between Haribo just across the border in Wisconsin and Albanese just across the border in Indiana, the greater Chicago area has to control 80? 90? percent of America’s gummy supply?

I have sampled the new Triple Double Crunchwrap and regret to report that there is such a thing as too much Crunchwrap. This is a situation where Taco Bell did in fact perfect the ratio the first time and additional meddling didn’t just have diminishing returns, but negative ones

This is incredibly well reported, very comprehensive, and also very sad. Well worth your time and highly recommended.

One of the biggest scams of getting older is “oh this part of my body hurts now how do I fix it” and the answer is always “exercise!” and then exercising makes NEW parts of your body hurt that you then have to do NEW exercises for, ad infinitum

Clocking in for my shift at the emotional devastation factory

Something I've been working on based on some important world events :))) #art #illustration #artemisII #WIP

Easter Vigil is kind of like Jesus Christ: The Eras Tour

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Let’s use government to do more cool stuff (help people, explore space) and less bad stuff (pointless wars, racist and illegal immigration policies).

Wheeeeee

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Artemis II is about to return to Earth: Here's how NASA tested their Orion capsule for re-entry before even sending one to space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvA21...

This is what is so inspiring about Artemis vs. the recent proliferation of billionaire vanity rockets. Artemis is a mission of humans, exploring space to make Earth better, not to abandon it like an old plaything we’re bored with.

Former NASA civil servant here. I do think part of what is inspiring about Artemis is the fact that We the People are the ones that did it. I think these days it matters that government can still do great things.

I feel like Florida has many contenders, but Miami takes the cake. The land actively wants to be underwater (from the sea on one side and swamp on the other), it’s oppressively hot year round, and, particularly in the last decade, it’s really leaned in to being “Disney World for Bitcoin Bros”

The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!

The Great Vigil of Easter is always going to be That Girl™️ for me, but I realized this morning I think Holy Saturday may have become one of my favorite liturgies of Holy Week.

Having acid reflux is like living through Fred Armisen's "straight to jail" bit. Fatty food? Heartburn. Lean food, but spicy? Heartburn. Undereat? Believe it or not, heartburn. Overeat? Also heartburn. Undereat/overeat.

A random servant girl to Peter two thousand years ago:

or could they go to Alexandria? Seems not too bad there. here, the freedom fighters won't back down. They provoke the occupiers and then they retaliate, and everyone suffers. when you research 1st century Judea under Roman occupation you start to think thoughts like "the land remembers".

and then they have a long sad conversation about whether it's time to leave. Can the kids really thrive here? It is their country but this shit just isn't stopping and they're not political people. She has a cousin in Damascus who seems to be doing OK, and would take them in until they got set up.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

I think about this a lot. The shock of the crucifixion isn't that it was such a grotesquely bespoke method of execution. It was that the state killed Jesus just like they killed everyone else.

No sleep, bus, liturgy, another liturgy, another liturgy, taxi, next day. No sleep, no fear.

holy smokes

Sure, you've felt shame, but have you ever felt the shame of Arby's sending you an email through DoorDash to thank you for your positive review of mozzarella sticks?

We can send people to the moon, but not even the collective knowledge of the smartest people in the world can make Outlook something other than a pile of hot garbage

Today we sent people TO THE MOON! Me! You! Us! We the people funded a rocket ship to fling four people as far into the stars as any human being has ever been, something we could only do together. If we can do that, we can absolutely do daycare, healthcare, etc. It’s a matter of will, not can.

Surprising exactly no one, three Eastern theologians, John Wesley, and CS Lewis form my top 5 (and Calvin and Barth take dead last; sorry to all of my Princeton Seminary friends/acquaintances)

“America doesn’t build things anymore” WRONG. You know how I know? We put our best scientists on combining Gushers and Nerds Clusters into the same product and by god, they’ve done it and they are beautiful

Tapping the sign

In the “excuse me, what?” department, the hotel I’m staying in tonight just… doesn’t have desks in their rooms?

In Wisconsin during Lent, so yes, my dinner did include both lake perch and walleye

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Important community note: Costco is selling 2 pound bags of Nerds Gummy Clusters for $10.

A great fun fact for your next engagement with a Christian Nationalist type is that Charles Spurgeon, the 19th century überBaptist known as the "prince of preachers," was an avowed pacifist.

Everyone involved in the death of this man should never feel an iota of peace for the rest of their days knowing what they did to this man.

I’m flying out of LAX at 7 am tomorrow. It’s going to be like Mad Max in there, isn’t it?

After this week’s episode, I am more confident than ever that this is true: