'Tis the season never to write "'Tis the season" in any headline, ad copy, whatever. Burn it like a Yule log.

Fave moment from Q&A following NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE screening: Woman in balcony says, "I'm a music educator and I would be remiss if I didn't try to get us all to do a sing along!" Matt Johnson: "Absolutely not. That is not happening."

Tarik Skubal is a back-to-back AL Cy Young winner. He's the first repeat winner in AL since Pedro Martinez in 1999 and 2000.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

So this would be 20ish miles from the the massive Open AI data center that was just announced and no data centers in the county would be a lot more awesome than two. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

can we get Grandpa McRamblypants gone now please

MUTE

Love to love sports but not either of these teams.

Opened the Halloween candy and grabbed a random bag to check for razor blades or fentanyl. Will need to do this a few more times throughout the day.

oh good one moving into the county; the coming rate increase is easy to find in this story at least www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Genuinely surprised this morning to discover the mob hadn't just moved into hedge funds.

you up yet, @billoram.bsky.social

🎵ain't that America🎵

Not the point of this @pablo.show episode, but @foxworthshow.bsky.social is all of us encountering our old writing. youtu.be/C5N397aXSmM

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

That TV commercial that shows the lady asking an AI assistant on her phone for help buying flowers is especially annoying because it appears that she is *standing in front of a flower shop*. She could, y'know, *ask the florist*.

That AI slop is like a story a 3-year-old makes up when they get mad at another toddler: "Then I put on my crown and get into my airplane. It says on the side that I'm the king. I fly up so high over the stupid people. I throw poop down all over the mean people. They cry and cry, but I just laugh."

one more on the scoreboard for team "you're 12"

One thing about this new Springsteen film. A bunch of folks who never heard of it before or gave it a shot are gonna get into “Nebraska” and what I wouldn’t give to have that brand new obsession all over again.

Recommended: Sitting in the shade on the bank of the Tennessee River awaiting MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee, and Jason Isbell.

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Jump Around?

I mean come the hell on… The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Nice work, Tigers.

Love anything as much as the Tigers love striking out with runners on base.

Can you lose a series 1-1? I think the Tigers have lost this series 1-1.

honestly this is the vibe in every major vocation right now

It would have been impossible for Steven Kwan to get to that ball and I still expected Steven Kwan to get to that ball against Detroit.

“Police said there is no ongoing threat to the public.” I see this in every story about a shooting. Which means I see it every day and man it does feel like there is an ongoing threat to the public.

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

After doctors stopped treatment on my dad this summer, a well-meaning friend started sending Mom all kinds of quackery, which, filled with hope, she'd send to me to get my thoughts. Ivermectin included. I've never hated people as much as I hate these fuckers.

This one *almost* feels like it could really be a wrong number. S

The Washington Post may've shed most of their great writers, but at least the ones who remain can enjoy pointless AI interjections in their stories. (If you click on the link in today's FEMA story, you get a list of suggested questions AI can answer. The answer is just the info from the story.)

A friend gave me an old (from the 90s!) point and shoot this summer. Took it out west.

This was the year I finally got into baseball and man I wish I hadn't. #Tigers

FINAL #Tigers

Colt Keith representing many of us.

btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

Announcement: my good friend @nedl.bsky.social and I have joined forces on a new project called @vinylcut.net. It's a newsletter wherein we review new vinyl releases and report on news from the world of vinyl records creation and collecting. Our first couple of posts are now online. Subscribe!

In light of today’s news, here are my interviews with Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan on ‘Electric Nebraska’ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I'll note that my kid's teachers are putting an emphasis on handwritten note taking and I love them all for it.

Good morning.