More good stuff from @markhasty.bsky.social. The blogging combination of Big Ten football and remembering some cars is a real sweet spot. My family was definitely a K car family all through the 80's. broomcornsweep.blogspot.com/2025/09/lets...

I love it... this by @markhasty.bsky.social is my favorite college football writing on Iowa in the 2025 season so far: broomcornsweep.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

This is the best podcast, the only one I have set to auto-load to the top of my queue

Damn, I hate an honest evaluation of the Hawkeyes chances in the CyHawk game. broomcornsweep.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

It embarasses me to think how much time and fandom I've spent on the Kirk Ferentz era of Iowa football. But I can't seem to help myself. Glad the previews are starting to roll out, like this one from @markhasty.bsky.social broomcornsweep.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

We are a mongrel nation, and so long as we remain so purely impure, we will continue to eat the world's lunch

It’s tough because I largely agree with people saying we should have a better balance on here between politics and other things but then the President declares war or a bunch of people get kidnapped and it feels a little silly to finish typing out “what’s your favorite Futurama episode”

The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

The Monday, May 12, Yo La Tengo show at the Chapel in SF

Being the global leader in science has been the foundation of American economic strength for decades. The intentional dismantling of this is economic suicide.

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

Just watched a hawk get one of the doves that hangs out in our manzanita bush.

part of recognizing that all peopel are human is recognizing that all people have the capacity to be shitty humans.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

Bike licensing does not make streets safer. In fact -- because bike licensing laws are just a route to more police harassment for the people most at risk -- bike licensing makes streets less safe.

Took me too long to get them in frames, but I'm quite happy with the original drawings I got this year from @marcusjmerritt.com‬ (left) and @davidbrace2.bsky.social‬ (right). Wouldn't have known of either of them without being on BlueSky.

Amazing set of playlists from @fluxblog.bsky.social. My whole youth is represented here. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...

Does Tom Brady keep calling it the "Red Area"? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Great piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social about the overinflated self-worth of the founder class. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Awesome! @thenatewolf.bsky.social read my review on the latest episode of the @nafmcpodcast.bsky.social podcast. It’s such a fun show, I look forward to it every week.

in a country founded directly on "no kings, fuck kings in particular" it is beyond insulting that supposed "originalist" judges are taking seriously the proposition that the President is in fact a king

Request from JesusGetsUs bsky account.

Killing prisoners shouldn’t be a legitimate power of government.

Think about how difficult it would’ve been to steal an ape at any other point in human history. We live in an age of wonders.

I temporarily took the paywall off this post on the new wave of antisemitism so more people can read it. Please share: theracket.news/p/the-actual...

Every person on earth — every baby, every middle-aged man, every elderly woman — deserves peace. There is no purpose to our lives if not to liberate one another.

View from birthday dinner in the hills above Pietrasanta.

"When I die, I hope it will be here in New York, the promised land, surrounded by my brothers: all the different peoples of the world." johnganz.substack.com/p/the-trap

*watching new Luther movie on netflix* “More like Andy Jerkis, amirite” *crickets*

Not sure how can take more of this after that 3rd turnover. Am I just hate watching now #hawkeyes?

#hawkeyes need to play it perfect to win this game in the first place, having the refs against them isn’t helping at all. Can we get a turnover?

After being a dedicated lurker on Twitter I think I'm going to try to post more here. Old habits are hard to break, though...