just play bloody cricket already

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Test Match Cricket eh? What a great sport. 25 days and the series ends in a draw. Every match went to the 5th day. And at the end a guy with a banged up knee ended up playing against a guy with a dislocated shoulder to split the honors.

Shubman Gill. That's the post.

An obituary for Jimmy Carter by the @nsarchive.bsky.social, complete with declassified national security documents that reveal tough-minded, detail-oriented president: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo... RIP

@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social I think the most horrifying thing about the US Civil War was that the leadership was either Napoleon Nerds (Lee, McClellan, Sherman, Jackson, and Halleck) or philosophy nerds (Grant and Scott). The first of them read Hegel and decided to become the Weltgeist.