speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

Cities across Denmark are using heat generated by crematoriums to warm nearby homes. As The World's @joshuacoe.bsky.social learned, it's part of a broader sustainability effort known as waste-heat recovery.

Philip Larkin, St Hilda's Street, Hull, photo by Jane Bown.

“The premise is simple yet brutal: Open the can — bulging with explosive gases from fermentation, much like champagne — and eat the aged fish without throwing up.”

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

It's a well placed fear. Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Denmark saw big protests against the US over the weekend. Feelings of anger and concern are growing as the Trump admin persists with demands to take Greenland. As one Danish veteran who fought alongside the US said, there's also a sense of betrayal by a longtime ally. theworld.org/segments/202...

maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

You may be cool, but you'll never be "Freddie Stone & Larry Graham on Ed Sullivan" cool.

I have friends and family members who, for nearly 30 years, have asked me to explain legal matters. I have stopped doing this with Supreme Court rulings because it’s all made up and the only answer is “they’re doing this because they’re Republicans and they want to advance Republican priorities.”

Wow, this is so good.

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force. You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

New York Times, February 26, 2021. Gift link. The source is a declassified CIA report. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...

The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.

On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them

Do criminals not have a shift button on their keyboards?

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

This is brilliant satire — moral outrage as humor.

Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.

Happy birthday to Bootsy youtu.be/IHE6hZU72A4?...

Highly recommend the new book by @billjanovitz.bsky.social, “The Cars: Let the Story Be Told.“ It’s about a band and its time and its place, and it’s about The Cars as musicians, pop stars, and — my favorite part — as people. I have a suggestion for Mr. Janovitz‘s next book: a memoir of Buffalo Tom.

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

Lu grew up in Bedford.

You said it.

If brains were dynamite, this guy couldn’t blow his nose.

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Even the credits are funny.

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls. Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

The "military is woke" stuff actually started because they didn't help Trump do a coup in 2020. That's what their actual issue is and why they gave that speech. They want to purge the military of anyone who might not follow an order to kill other americans

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Heading to Porchfest this weekend? Here are 10 bands to check out ranging from “indie alt emo” and “original traditional folk” to “psychedelic dance party” and “everybody’s favorite tunes.” brookline.news/going-to-por...

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are hellbent on silencing any speech that hurts their feelings. This isn’t just cancel culture, it’s state censorship. And it has no place in our democracy.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

Every Apple event

That car is directly in front of St. Ignatius, a parish known for welcoming and serving Catholics from around the world. bcheights.com/222274/news/...

Ken Dryden, the legendary Montreal Canadiens goalie from the 1970’s, passed away at the age of 78. Dryden won six Cups and five Vezinas in only 8 seasons in the NHL. Story on @theathletic.com ⤵️

don’t forget to subtract the job of whoever compiled this report

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.