Trying to figure out the best way to dissociate tonight.

Pro sports franchises should be forcibly confiscated from billionaires by the state and turned into community assets.

Artificial competition for resources is a fertile breeding ground for hate. Keeps people fighting each other for scraps (and from banding together to fight the actual resource hoarders).

I have gone semi-viral on here and I don't recommend it. Notifications have become useless.

Hard to believe that it's been 32 years since the last time we hosted a World Cup and... I'm just not interested in attending games. FIFA is so gross, and our fedgov is also gross, but our gestapo is "providing security" at matches. I hope stadiums are well under capacity.

Incredibly soft foul call there.

Oh, Miles.

The World Rally Championship would benefit from more manufacturers. I'd like to see more diversity in makes at the top of the leaderboard. The top five being Toyotas every event is kind of boring.

Darth Vader in the finale of Maul: Shadow Lord is just oozing aura. Bro fighting a Jedi Master, Padawan, and former Sith Lord and not even breaking a sweat.

My toxic trait is thinking I could've been a decent rally driver, if I had the opportunity.

I *hate* these AI "deep fake" videos. I'm not a huge fan of creating obviously fake/funny shorts. But making the Spurs nuns dance? Don't. Just don't.

I'm such a little boy sometimes. My favorite (sci-fi) ships are light airborne troup transports. LAAT and U wings. The Blackhawk helicopters of Star Wars.

Mando and Grogu is like season 1 of the TV show (complementary)

Takezo the Unrivaled cheats. He cheats! This dude is about impossible to beat. He one shots you, he's crazy fast, and even a perfect dodge might not give you a chance to hit him. Fucking crazy. I'm gonna lose my mind.

I had this pegged a while ago, from my MPA background. Our government institutions are no longer fit for purpose, and need to be reconstituted. We've been struggling for a long time, but the modern GOP has completely broken the system (and trust in the institutions).

I love how Star Wars turned a paper thin character in Episode I into a very complex and interesting character via the animated series. About 2/3 of the way thru Maul: Shadow Lord and I'm really enjoying it.

Is it the weekend yet?

Today's Framed.wtf is hilarious. So many of this director's films look *identical*, and you can see people struggling with this when you look at the guess distributions. I pegged the director immediately, but was quite confused at why I hadn't gotten it right immediately.

Rode my motorcycle to work today. I left my laptop in the office (expecting to come in), and Morgan needed the car. 🫠⛈️

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these congresscritters from the swift completion of their lucrative grift

Incredible. No notes. Dying to know the chat group name.

Most interesting about this is the laundry list of terrible people who have endorsed him, but his own sister (also a Republican lmao) has encouraged people not to vote for him. Lolol

Nightmare GP for McLaren. I almost wish I hadn't bothered watching after I got home from the Crew game.

"I fill her up - ballons!"

Redman eating chicken in the video for Scenario by A Tribe Called Quest. Dude is incredibly funny.

This remains one of the greatest songs/videos of all time, IMO. youtu.be/7T_KKiQiolk?...

A brick built Sega Genesis? OMG, serious nostalgia. Memories of spamming the air horn celebration repeatedly after scoring on my brother in NHL when we were kids lolol

This peak Michael Jordan behavior lmao

So, do I buy one @supportersupply.co USA kit before I go to Germany during the group stage, or two?

I should mention that my technology politics are... complicated, but I'm generally "Luddite" in the sense that most technological innovations have not been applied to improve the human condition but rather to enrich parasites, and I'm a skeptic.

"Businesses should pay for their externalities" is a completely justifiable position. But I suspect I'm autistic because I get all twisted up by the cultural zeitgeist conflating "data centers" with "LLM based generative AI". We are all using data centers right now talking on bluesky!

Holy smokes, Antonelli was crazy aggressive in today's sprint.

The cold open to episode 1 of Maul: Shadow Lord is incredible

Ok, well. Not terrible. A little unlucky not to be up 1-0, but also puzzled at how NYCFC's good chance was only 0.2 xG. Need more teeth going forward in the second half. #Crew96

It's exactly this. #Crew96

It'll be interesting to see exactly how we line up. I could see a 3-4-3 with that personnel. Also, no Gazdag. #Crew96

"Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses."

What are we doing?

It took until page 44 of book 7, but I finally read an achievement description in Dungeon Crawler Carl that elicited an audible "oh my fucking god" reaction. The AI is deeply, deeply disturbed. @mattdinniman.bsky.social, are you OK, dude?

Learned a new term today: anarcho-tyrrany, a right wing term used to describe a state that doesn't police street level crime but instead polices free speech (presumably of patriots). It's linguistic nonsense, as politically it has nothing to do with anarchism.

I do wonder what Berhalter could do under this ownership group. He did a lot with very little under previous ownership. #Crew96

Not me, obsessively reloading the library website to see if my hold on the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book is ready for pickup or not.

Well Rydström is out. I wasn't calling for his head - I do think we have structural roster issues that are a big factor here - and I was rooting for him to succeed. But it seems like there were some fundamental locker room issues at play here too. Sigh. Rooting for Courtois now. #Crew96

Finally finished Andor, and holy fuck.

Fuck off that was not a foul

Farsi came out, and then we completely fell to pieces. #Crew96

Indiana Vassilev looks like he's from the 1880s, and has a name to match

My god, Farsi has completely changed the complexion of this team. #Crew96

I don't know what game this dude is watching. Wild no call on that corner. #Crew96