The obsession with getting instantaneous election results is weird and unhealthy, serves no real purpose, and feeds conspiratorial nonsense. Increasingly thinking we might be better off just embargoing all results for like a week.

NEWS: Debbie Hiott has been fired as general manager of KUT and KUTX in Austin. This follows a public dispute with the University of Texas at Austin over the KUT Festival held last month.

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

Recall that “you’re not allowed” doesn’t mean you will be jailed or sued or prohibited; it means that other people will exercise their First Amendment rights in response to yours, to express their views and defend their neighbors. But that violates Free Speech Culture.

Look, I’m from Maine and I know we’ve got more people than the children/relatives of current elected officials that could run for office.

wut

“refusing to take the L” remains the surest path online to madness

Well, it happened again. I got put on the jumbotron at the grocery store and everyone booed my groceries

damn this watch looks like ass

Austin's Bikeshare service has been shut down since a May 23 fire inside a battery charging room at a CapMetro facility on Ben White. The same day, a Bikeshare bike caught fire on South Congress. The role of batteries is being investigated in both. www.kut.org/transportati...

I followed one of Austin's dead animal men around for a day to find out what happens to the animals after they die. This was not fun to report, but oddly heartwarming. (I recommend *listening* to the story): www.kut.org/austin/2026-...

Just once, it would be cool if imposter syndrome struck and actual imposter. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/b...

If the 60 Minutes thing is proving anything it’s that a lot of people in positions of power think there is no crime greater, no injustice more profound, than being called out for being incompetent when you’re clearly fucking incompetent

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

I guess Bilton was intimidated after all

gross

seriously, this is weirdo shit.

It’s me, the consultant who keeps texting you this.

ABC News senior White House correspondent:

Austin folks: our next ATXplained Live is coming up THIS THURSDAY at Bass Concert Hall. So many cool things planned for this show — great new stories and a ton of surprises. It’s our 10th show — you should be there! TICKETS: texasperformingarts.evenue.net/event/UTP26/...

Austin folks: our next ATXplained Live is coming up THIS THURSDAY at Bass Concert Hall. So many cool things planned for this show — great new stories and a ton of surprises. It’s our 10th show — you should be there! TICKETS: texasperformingarts.evenue.net/event/UTP26/...

The woke college students did not appreciate my commencement address “you will all serve me as I collect your precious fluids” guess another institution of higher learning failed to prepare them for the reality of having a job!

The ambiguity of these alerts is really not helpful. There has been a series of, apparently, random shootings this weekend in South Austin and police are looking for a suspect.

There’s a big part of elite society that has entirely inverted the meaning of free speech. This guy has a right to say whatever he wants, of course. No one has a right to make people listen.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Probably shouldn’t let executives talk to people anymore.

Man, when you put it like this, no one really dies of anything.

found this guy on Tiktok who has discovered carpenter's speed squares make an insanely satisfying noise when you bounce them off tires or wood, called @lostcoastedc on there

Hell yeah brother

Struggling to stay awake until midnight to watch the Infowars drop.

BREAKING: Camp Mystic, where 27 people died in flooding last July, says it will withdraw its application to operate this summer.

Janet Mills is OUT of the Maine Senate race. Graham Platner will be the nominee.

If we can shrug off hundreds of school shootings where many small children are killed, we’re probably going to shrug off this hotel shooting where no one was killed.

the horse race is the easiest and laziest way to generate content

Isn’t a unilateral indefinite cease fire just another name for giving up?

Yes, we should ban gerrymandering nationwide!

Texas' grid operator, ERCOT, forecasts electricity demand in the state could more than quadruple by 2032. The vast, vast majority of that forecasted demand comes from data centers. interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/58...

Repeating "Oh no. Toilet" to myself all day.

crimepope

lol www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

adobe i am a loser. i puked in my bed and got all these tribal tattoos. i need to you to morph me into rock and roll tony, the famous musician

when someone calls themselves a "creator" its fuckin sad. have some respect for yourself! say you make videos or art or write or whatever! "creator" means "i produce chum for platforms in the way they require for better engagement" it means you "chase the meta" and this makes you Not Artistic !!!

Trump wrote one of this trademark Truth Social posts 2 weeks ago saying he was about to endorse in the Texas GOP primary for Senate, & demanding the person he doesn't endorse drop out. The deadline for 'officially' dropping out & ending the runoff passed today with no Trump endorsement.

This is insane.