Like on the summer 2024 riots and hotel protests, why legitimise the actions of a bunch of people who were often serial criminals when you could have pinned Ref as the part of hooligans.

Post an image you can hear

On 2028 primary polling, I quite like how YouGov do this; they break down “who would you consider voting for”, “who would disappoint you as the nominee”, “who would be your IDEAL candidate” and “who do you think would be most likely to win the GE”, which I think is all quite interesting

At the risk of triggering the thing where bluesky thinks a descriptive statement is an endorsement: it feels pretty obvious that Gavin Newsom has run by far the best 2028 campaign at this extremely early stage

Fondly remembering when people were insisting that the Mets were punting the season like a month and a half ago

1) Give new character a new ship 2) Blow up new ship and replace it with older established ship for nostalgia purposes 3) Replace older ship with newer ship again because enough time has passed for this to serve nostalgia purposes The Circle of IP!

Tolkien’s original plot notes for the Bridge of Khazad-Dum had Gandalf survive because the bridge was less high up than it looked and he seemingly landed on the balrog and crushed him

I feel bad for the pilot here but you can’t tell me you aren’t a little curious about exactly how agonisingly awkward that conversation and ride back was

Good Morning!

Like we’re just straight-up becoming QAnon, and for the same reason: too many mainstream progressives are deeply uncomfortable treating their fringe as persona non grata

The number of people on the left who will not only argue that Epstein was obviously an Israeli agent, but who will treat you as somehow part of the conspiracy if you criticize that view, is, uh, not great

SNY has announced the hiring of former WaPo baseball writer Chelsea Janes as their new MLB Insider. Excellent hire and exciting news for Mets fans.

I wonder if this news will feature in tomorrow’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Crushed this didn’t end with “AVENGERS DOOMSDAY”

Ben Quadinaros will return in the upcoming video game STAR WARS: GALACTIC RACER

Never has a game so clearly had “late Arsenal winner” written all over it

Christopher Tolkien deserved some sort of medal.

Wait, the new Game of Thrones spinoff has *already been coming out*!? How is there literally no discourse about this?

Two things that are both true: 1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe. 2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.

The most banal, normie take you can have which is anathema to online leftie discourse is “police are good”. Note that this does not mean every actual existing police force is good, it does not mean reforms are not incredibly important, it does not mean police cannot be (and are not often) bad etc.

Woke 2.0 will either fund the police or lose to actual fascism.

Matt Goodwin pulled out of yesterday's hustings in Gorton because the group who organised it weren't impartial enough for him. I thought he'd debate anyone, anytime, any place. Not very marketplace of ideas of you, Matt.

Well of course. Biden may have pressed the 'Make Prices Go Up' button but Trump campaigned on pushing the 'Make Prices Go Down' button and then didn't do it! Unforgivable!

Had heard rumblings of this but it really is exciting - a lost eighth century Syriac world chronicle which seems to contain among other things an independent source tradition on the Arab Conquests!

Well this is bloody exciting, potentially. New chronicle covering Near East/E Med discovered. medievalworlds.net?arp=0x004102d6

Oh cool good for Cba- EXCUSE ME HOW MUCH???

Right-hander Chris Bassitt and the Baltimore Orioles are in agreement on a one-year, $18.5 million contract, sources tell Jeff Passan

we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1

The “AI = NFTs” comparison is honestly so utterly detached from reality that I genuinely find it hard to engage with the people espousing it because it’s so fundamentally silly

The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.

A very real dilemma: you really can’t a lot of stuff this administration puts out BUT reducing trust in government in general is very bad for progressive causes and ultimately great for the populist right

Bluesky in a nutshell. Some context: BLS released its jobs numbers today, which were better than expected, and resistance libs would rather stay mad/conspiratorial than listen to actual on-the-ground experts that the data is still reliable.

Just want to point out as well that SF has quite possibly the best anti-fare dodging ad campaign based on their baseball team’s fiercest rivals being the Dodgers.

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

So Lindor, Holliday, and now Carroll. What is going on?

(Please be good please be good)

This is exactly it. On essentially every issue, this Labour government is either too leftwing - a bunch of anti-business measures that nobody cares about, an infrastructure binge at a time when it should want downward pressure on rates, etc. etc. - or too rightwing (as set out below).

it'll drive me mad forever how *even within the dark timeline we're stuck in* this easily could have not happened Trump could have just not given rfk anything he doesn't care about fulfilling his promises Bill Cassidy could have voted no in committee but instead here we are

Also new lows today per Silver, Cook Political, and NYT (all between 40 and 41). He still hasn't passed the record first-two-years low in net approval from Biden and Trump (1), but he's close - and he's starting to pull away downward from same-point Trump (1).

The single biggest improvement I’ve had in my user experience on Bsky has been restricting replies to people I follow. I’m sure there is a trade off in missing out on new people I would enjoy following, but man, so many fewer dumb arguments

I don't actually think this is true, I think people on social media talk a lot about average dipshit tankies because they're on here too, they often disproportionately shape the discourse, and they're usually in your mentions sending you death threats and calling you slurs.

couldn't even make it to pitchers and catchers

Verlander finishing up (presumably) with the Tigers is the way it ought to work. Be cool if he went Full Kershaw and helped bring them a title.

Right-hander Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers are in agreement on a one-year contract, per Jeff Passan

I’m sort of curious whether as 2026 rolls on, the discourse sees any sort of tension between “Democrats are fucking up everything at all times!” and Democrats being on course for an increasingly massive landslide in November

Warren Sphan has 363 career wins - 356 for the Braves, four for the Mets, and three for the Giants. He also has 363 career hits - 356 for the Braves, four for the Mets, and three for the Giants

Incredibly funny to describe lyrics by a wildly popular artist in the second most widely spoken language in the county like some obscure archaic code which must be painstakingly deciphered by crack specialists

Happy PECOTA Day to all who celebrate

That famously rapid thing that happened super quickly, the fall of Rome

reminded of that post that was like "subtle difference! Catholics think suffering is good and Protestants think pleasure is bad :)" and increasingly worried about our Protestant-coded times