Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it. Don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.

"Been-smacked Biyombo" long live the Bodega Boys.

cornball shit

As a lifelong MMA fan, this shit sucks so much. We should not have a gladiatorial pit on the White House lawn like some kind of Temu Rome For decades, MMA was my mindless escape from personal and political stress. Now it's work. They turned the only sport I like into work

wtf is happening with the spacetime continuum? i am reasonably certain that 3 and 5 seconds are short periods of time in any context except sports. using public roads is not sports. just. take. the. time.

"Radical Bike Lobby"

This is going to be your most fun quiz yet: What denomination do you belong in based completely on your aesthetic and consumer choices. 📕

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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i am old enough to remember the days when i read the newspaper but newspaper did not demand to read me.

This is a cat check point: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

i'm gonna go live in the stacks of a library and never use a computer to find anything ever again. why is everything good and comprehensible and the same to everyone being turned into something bad and opaque and different for everyone? intentional splintering of reality is bad, actually.

TIL about rice cookers & phase transitions here on Bluesky the MMA & other sports app:

what in the wemby was that 3

People seem to struggle with the idea that you can be generally pro-labor while taking issue with the tactics or demands of specific unions, but this is genuinely not complicated. I also support universal suffrage even though I don’t like how a lot of people end up voting.

these should be illegal.

All aboard the ‘bike bus’: Some Baltimore students have a new ride to school

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

"Who is 'they'? is a fundamental question for our times:

Christopher Nolan's "TENET" is climate fiction.

I appreciate this, but I don't think a lack of policy ideas is really the problem. We know how to push back against car-centric development. It's just that most Americans have been marinating in pro-car propaganda their entire lives & cars have made them selfish & sociopathic.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Deadwood The Wire Battlestar Galactica Homicide: Life on the Streets Newsradio Schitt's Creek Seinfeld Friday Night Lights Farscape The Muppet Show Doctor Who X-Files Monty Python's Flying Circus The Colbert Report The Good Place

yes. i do want to be left behind. thank you.

i remain conflicted about how much i enjoy watching fights. is this due to something about me? something about where/when i grew up? does it mean anything? do people just like what they like and rhis is no different? i am so anti-suffering the rest of my life...but i love the fights. wtf, world?

goddamn, Sean Brady. i did not know you had it like that. one of the few modern UFC fights that teaches me about jiu-jitsu.

yes. and from my experience walking/biking/driving in DC & the Maryland suburbs which are suffuse with road-calmed and often un-center-lined narrow residential streets/roads: **everyone** needs better education on where their vehicles end!! (optimistically maybe they just need to learn to share?)

omg back on the jiu-jitsu mats today after about a month off for various reasons and i'm the kind of tired where my body is constantly considering vomiting and my brain is wondering if i took too many edibles. good times!

hundreds of thousands of deaths. because "empathy is a sin." and chainsaws and shit. goddamnitall.

This sign is wild. The church is encouraging people to park in a new protected bikelane. In that context, “supporting cyclists & pedestrians while preserving what matters most” … is what matters most referring to convenient church goer car parking?

BROKE: May the 4th be with you WOKE: Sorry, nerds, 5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day BESPOKE:

ah. i see that i am continuing my brand from twitter

i am sufficiently nerdy about the english languague that i do not even know what this is correcting:

new house. same idol.

this Olise is pretty pretty good. ...and this PSG v BAY game is a toasted everything bagel with butter.

a) you have heard of "chess boxing"? i'd start a go-jitsu gym/promotion. 5min go 5min jiu-jitsu 5min go 5min jiu-jtsu [...] compete until someone concedes or taps. gonna have to work out timings for go to prevent too much "stalling & mauling." b) combo coffee shop/bar/library/gym.

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

no no informants are supposed to do it for exposure not $$ oh wait that is artists i mean they're supposed to do it for experience oh wait that is interns i mean they're supposed to do it for the public good oh wait that is volunteers. lotta expectations for free labor under capitalism...

my goodness someone out here just posting something core to my being that it took me decades to understand about myself and how that actually makes me different from the surfaces of some other beings

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Only a particular kind of "voter" apparently doesn't respond well to condescension and contempt and those voters are apparently not on the lefts. They are only and always "moderates" and "conservatives." Leftists always appreciate being insulted and talked down to.

robert moses nodding from the afterlife recognizing game has not changed.

🔭 Paper day, and it’s a big one! We have found the most metal-poor object known in the universe. It’s a star, and it comes to us from our nearby friend the Large Magellanic Cloud. Out in Nature Astronomy today: rdcu.be/fbylI

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Reading through The Odyssey and one thing that's repeatedly hammered is the responsibility to treat strangers and guests with respect. I wonder why the Classics Respecters contingent doesn't apply this reasoning to immigrants, legal or illegal. (i know why)

star time, robert johnson, songs of freedom, citizen, and message in a box are foundational to my tastes in music:

monstrous miles of expensive garbage polluting a river

"i want to be a good boy" ass president

UK-based Yemini artist Asmahan A. Mosleh, known for her hugely intricate mandala artworks #Womensart