Would you like to know some absurd stories about the man who gave over $250 million to Stanford? Well, I've got some.

Great story. People tell me similar troll accts obsessively post about "pedo" Jack Trice (ISU's first Black cfb player who died in 1923, stadium named after him) to claim his wife was 12-14 years old. Editing wiki, etc. Reality = was older than him. Not surprising: accts also strongly support 47

This story involves an Iowa tshirt company, a basketball star, a Boston Globe reporter, online trolls who piss on walls, a lot of toxic masculinity and a lot of insight into the state of men. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This is Buzz. He performs a big stretch ritual before enjoying his daily ice cube. Please do not interrupt. 14/10 (IG: goldenhrbuzz)

Still thinking about this so decided to do the deep dive. It turns out that's the actress Hiroko Yakushimaru who starred in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981), an iconic satirical take on the yakuza. 🧵 1/5

BAT! (best read in Matt Berry's voice) Gouache on paper. Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

A 24-team CFP is the AI of college football: We didn't ask for it, and we're told it's inevitable despite massive unknowns. I wrote about the impact of expansion and ditching conference title games. We don't have to do this! Four rounds and Flex Weeks: the way forward. www.espn.com/college-foot...

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

One of my favorite characters of all time. It's from the Beep Prepared (1961) cartoon, which was the only (!!!!) Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon nominated for an Oscar Direct link to that specific gag, starts around 15:15

Brother I think staying might beat the traffic

Saw this the other day. The short video from the story mentioned a similar experiment in the Great Barrier Reef saw fish populations double in six weeks

Saw this the other day love the festive vibe of this Minneapolis dairy company football jersey from the 1930s (eBay link in ALT has a picture of the milk truck)

Was looking something up and came across historical ski jumping in Chicago artsandculture.google.com/story/fwVheE...

Friction. You need friction

I love when humans respect animals

Did NOT expect this, but tbh, only supports my very correct 11-1 thesis. Rocco was an interesting case study, felt like a good chunk of his passes were not thrown well, but caught by elite NFL receivers, but he was clutch #bluecy

BREAKING CFB NEWS: Huge win over Iowa for JFR's first year at ISU, joining the iconic Chizik in becoming the only ISU #bluecy coach in the past forever to beat the Hawks in their first season. Also put in the rest of ISU's 2026 schedule and, folks, we're going 11-1 this year #ThisWon'tBackfireOnMe

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

Just remember kids, crime always pays. (It was quite a wild game, the roughneck miners firing off guns every time a call went against them, dessicated field didn't have one speck of grass, etc. Pop Warner leaves for UGA later that year.) #bluecy @hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social

Beautifully spun words by @thelitcritguy.bsky.social My spouse worked on a show and would run into Fallon from time to time and felt he was one of the most insecure people she ever met Cavett clip w/ the iconic Baldwin is great too. "They want me to become an accomplice to my own murder"

i like when amanda reshares old stories because it can help everyone here get up to speed on important parts of foiaball lore

this genuinely broke my brain

Will go down as one of the strangest ISU #bluecy players ever. Great player, All American, yet kinda bad? Casual observer, but felt like a schism between other players w/ perception (?) of rewards not aligning with effort level. Would've told her to get the bag anyway cuz not sure WNBA is her future

Can't emphasize enough how @archive.org Wayback Machine helps my research and fights disinfo w/ sites blocking it due to disingenuous "AI concerns" while AI is scraping away and some of those same sites are already in partnership with AI. Billionaires trying to warp reality again archive.org/donate

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

now this is baseball I can support

completely normal and very natural evolution from popular wool sneakers to an "integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutions provider"

In breaking news* the new Toronto WNBA team name was revealed today and altho WNBA team names are often iffy, I'm not sure this works at all * breaking to me, but from 2024, no idea how I missed it news.sportslogos.net/2024/12/05/t...

Emperor Kublai Khan knew ball

I donate to ProPublica and told them I will stop my donations depending on how this goes

I've always loved the Assyrian empire's art, especially the winged bulls, the British Museum's collection was a real highlight for me. Their power stretched from Egypt to Iran and, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, I'm remembering when ISIS purposefully destroyed the ancient city of Nineveh

The Utah Mammoth have a new Zamboni skin (via Mammoth)

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Polygon ran a good feature wayyyyyyyyy back in the day by @mattleone.bsky.social (who is doing great work btw for @designroom.site) web.archive.org/web/20121028...

So I learned that Davidson College's football field had a rather large tree (On a hill!!!! With a staircase!!!!) in the endzone, as seen in this 1922 game Can see a very large version at Digital NC: lib.digitalnc.org/record/2210?...

Photographer Frank Relle revels in Louisiana’s otherworldly swampland, which he's been captivated with since childhood. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/fran...

bumping this from last year, will never get tired of space and moon photos

fixing college sports is simple, require all schools to use vintage cartoon mascots in various outfits and poses (ebay link in alt)

charming, need a New York City version asap

I just got back from a road trip that ended with one of the most awe-inspiring settings I've ever visited in my travels. Turns out that I've been missing out by not getting into caving sooner. #Photography

This was just a fabulous story by @billoram.bsky.social about how former U of South Carolina #cfb star RB Marcus Lattimore (you know, the one who had his knee explode) moved to Portland to become a poet www.oregonlive.com/sports/2025/...

If you can help: www.coonhoundrescue.com/FOSTER.html If you can't help, please share to your networks? A foster home for two strays is a tall order, and the most important thing is to get them into safe homes, but I'd hate to see them separated after everything they look like they've been through.

Literally the only preview needed for the ISU #bluecy vs Tennessee game tomorrow. Gotta think the line probably moved a few points in UT's favor here Critically important that he was a rescue as well

lol Florida, never forget their coach is a massive creep and should've been fired @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social

ISU vs Kentucky #bluecy thoughts: 1.) After KY's early lead (18-6), rest of game was all ISU (76-45) 2a.) Buchanan fabulous game, very active defense, 4 OREB 2b.) KY only had 5 OREB total 3.) Lipsey+Toure = 8 STLS, KY only had 4 total 4.) Even when we backed off on D, KY = jittery, seeing ghosts

my wife worked on a show and said Mr. T was one of her favorite people, very down to earth and would shoot the breeze with the peons

ISU vs TN St #bluecy thoughts: 1a.) JJ said it's a low ankle sprain 1b.) #rainbowsandsunshine 1c.) Beat KY then S16 return??? 2a.) Toure? Yes. 2b.) NIL just went up big time for next year 3.) TJ pls pull starters earlier 4.) Pleta will be really good in future 5.) Heise = HAS to stay aggressive