99% of what was wrong with the Tour of Norway was Carlton Kirby presiding over its coverage: he spent the entire race sharing with us his self-devotion & his absorbing & fascinating interior monologue—only occasionally surfacing to notice there was a race going on in front of him.

Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky

Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back [1/2]

Mississippi adults can freely access Bluesky again, but there's a catch: They must verify their age. Bluesky blocked access after Mississippi's age verification law took effect in August. Meanwhile, Facebook, X and other major social giants still haven't implemented the state-required age checks.

Welp... I guess I'm not using Bluesky any more... no way am I gonna give them this info lol

age-gating has arrived at Bluesky.

I think we should take notice of the fact that we don't even react anymore when we see the phrase, "banned words".

Hope Colombia doesn't have oil.

so while I was out shopping, the US Navy started seizing the oil belonging to another country.

@chadbourn.bsky.social hope you're doing ok now.

Trump out there sexing up all the Nazis. he should be so proud.

this may explain why BS has pushed out an update that requires us to provide an "accurate" date of birth. I'm pretty sure that by "accurate" they are delicately saying "verifiable". In case we live in a nutso state like Mississippi where new laws like this are coming into play. What to do, folks?

I updated Bluesky on the iPhone to version 1.111.0. It has instantly demanded to know my "accurate" date of birth. or sign out. fairly stark choices. I haven't yet decided what to do. Do I get arrested if I lie? Now my iPad is being asked to update to the same version. I'm not decided there either.

Most of us here are very close to losing our shit, but it isn't treated as breaking news.

somebody's been kicked upstairs and it ain't the Ravens.

I'm having a hard time keeping up with Cam Newton's hat collection.

Trump was selected as the character to be burned with the devil in Guatemala as part of the annual tradition to put all bad things behind them before Christmas. (Reuters)

An unusual peek behind the curtains into how hard China works to track its dissidents abroad: sabotaging, smearing, terrorizing, black-mailing...even murdering, according to this former spy now hiding out in Australia. good luck to him. 👀👀👀 www.cbc.ca/news/world/c... News Morning Brief_15984_2083826

Bengals up on the Bills in Buffalo.

A glimpse into Trump world

long-standing principle often referred to as the US Constitution. ffs the cowardice here is mind-blowing.

“Longstanding principle”? Who the fuck is your god damn editor @npr.org ? You don’t even need to read a book to research the claim, just one sentence. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States".

so now we know how many of us need to stand up to them: 138 million of us.

it's unfortunate for Doug Gottlieb that this story has been out there since last night & has been around the block already. He had to wait until just now for his radio show to come on: so that he could explain that he wasn't throwing the chair, he was just putting it away a little too impatiently.

A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?" Bill Nye said "Evidence." Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this." I think about that a lot.

this announcement appears to mean that the Maggie & Perloff Show is getting the axe. although their show is never mentioned here, it's their time slot that's being taken over by this guy. earthquakes are happening in the #3 network in the sports radio universe.

Bart Winkler—soon gone— is talking about this rn on his radio show. CBS Sports Radio, not long ago, became Infinity Sports Network. Now it's changing again: being swallowed up in a huge corporate merger—& becoming part of Westwood One. all of this presumably to compete with ESPN & Fox Sports Radio.

Super Bowl 60 is looking better & better. & also funnier.

Antonio Gramsci was right. "The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."

every once in a while there's something pleasant to read about on here.

when you start using the word actually a lot it means you've probably been up all night doomscrolling thru the firehose.

not hard to guess who the blacked-out names belong to.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

We'll spend the next 3 years—or forever—in the futility of knocking down each new lunatic theory the MAGA fever swamp dreams up—with every hallucination more absurd than the last. until no one knows or cares anymore what's real. I DON'T believe that's the point—there IS no point. it's just insanity.

is the reporter by any chance the lady on the right who's looking dumbfounded at the stupidity at that remark?

"questionable". jhfc these people.

if NBC weren't click-bait searching, they'd lead with the information that the man was a diagnosed schizophrenic who was obsessed with going to Africa & taming lions; had even hidden in the wheel-well of a plane in the hope that it would take him to "Africa". The victim here is a freaked-out lion.

yet another entry in the Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession Sweepstakes:

From @meiselasb.bsky.social: "In the span of about one hour around midnight on Monday, Donald Trump posted and reposted approximately 400 messages that included some of the most deranged conspiracies." Um, this is not OK. www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-atta...

IDK how many other schools contribute multiple QB's to NFL rosters--QB's who play in the same era & end up playing against each other. lately you can't turn around without seeing an Oregon alumnus duking it out with another Oregon alumnus. Tonight it's Mariota and Nix. I don't know who to root for.

annnnndddd now you know why I can't stand the Raiders.

Raiders coming off of 5 straight losses, but somehow I trust the Chargers to be the team that allows them to break that streak.

33 and feels like 10. crazy conditions in Cleveland & Purdy needs to figure out in a hurry that this needs to be a running game.

this is several pages of a young woman saying that she's just here to make the holy sandwiches.

for more cheerful news about a former president, here's an update on Joe Biden, detailing a recent appearance in Nantucket & telling a bit about his cancer treatments.

it's pretty clear that the US military are A-OK with following illegal orders.

"My mind is my favorite thing about me." holy cow.

In 10 days Trump has slurred 4 female reporters as “Horrible” “Piggy,” “Ugly” and “Stupid.” people.com/trump-snaps-...