In the 1970s, no British actors could do a convincing American accent, and now they all can. It's like how birds learned to drink cream through milk bottle tops.

And more of it feels like a beautiful reward up until the point that it doesn’t.

Mariners win

Amplifying in case any of my author friends has a good recommendation.

Humpy!

Meet the current absurdity on its own terms.

Not gonna lie, this #Mariners win is bittersweet for me. I wish Olga was alive to see this. She was the real fan. I’m trying hard not to get worked up about all the great thing she’s going to miss, and I’m going to miss enjoying with her, but … this would have made her SO happy. 1/3

Yay

This game is so long they let Humpy win the Salmon run. 😂 #Mariners

This game is deranged.

My butt fell asleep three innings ago. And I’m on my couch at home. Hope the folks in the stadium are okay. #Mariners

This is kind of genius, actually.

As a Mariners fan, it is definitely both.

As a native English speaker, once you realize this, you can’t un-hear it, and it becomes immediately obvious that you’ve always done it this way without thinking.

Total aside but it remains one of my favorite "English language is bizarre" factoids that there are not just one but *two* adjective ordering rules that every native speaker religiously follows, has never heard of or thinks about, and getting it wrong makes the sentence sound insane

Well, I wasn’t sure I’d turn out, but if you put it that way …

I should tell you about one of my favorite artistic practices: Lectio Divina. Originally a form of contemplative prayer. 1. Choose an image that speaks to you. 2. Spend a good deal of focused time meditating on why it speaks to you. 3. Create something in response, from that depth of feeling.

Stock image sites are overrun with ridiculous AI slop. Someday someone is gonna get this garbage tattooed on themselves and try to pass it off as a parasauralophus because their artist didn’t know better. #paleoart

wtaf are you talking about

Just saw someone say "Dr Pepper fans are the soda equivalent of people whose favourite colour is purple" So now I have to ask: Are you a Dr Pepper fan? And if so, is your favourite colour purple? (For the record, my answers are YES and YES)

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Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

Said before and I’ll say it again: GOP platform boils down to: “Dying is good, actually.” (As long as it’s you dying, not them.)

Trenchant analysis here. Video essay as well: youtu.be/yVS10nrdWu8

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be? A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR. TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

.@morganevelyncook on TikTok is trying to figure out why Trump is sending troops to Portland, Oregon, and her video is the greatest thing ever 🤣

Alternate morality. We see an obvious conflict of interests between Kushner as private citizen versus as agent of the US — and other governments? They see someone with a proven track record of “making deals” with these countries. To them, it’s an ~alignment~ of interests, not a conflict.

Today is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, a day to remember the effect of the Canadian Indian residential schools on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. Don’t forget to wear orange!

happy 30th birthday to one of the best TNG episodes ever, Darmok 💕

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

So, let me get this straight: The military is weak and soft and it needs to return to its core mission of killing people and breaking things? Meanwhile, Trump is canceling all the foreign wars so we can focus on having them do that in American streets?

reject modernity (Sora), embrace tradition (JibJab)

For years it was the official policy of the United States to forcibly separate Native children from their families and send them to boarding school. Force them to learn new languages and culture and strip them of their identity. It remains one of our nation’s greatest injustices.

If you see this picture, post a random image from your device.

It has taken me 135 days of mostly procrastinating, but I finally have the downstairs den cleaned up and my late wife’s fabric and craft supplies stored away neatly in bins. It’s not (entirely) a grief thing, I just need the space. I feel like the curator of a weird little museum.

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

This right here. Supreme Court got it wrong: Impoundment is a misuse of public funds. This President is a thief and he and his entire cabinet are jackals. No money for jackals.

This is our year, #Mariners

Artist & composer Matthew Wilcock looks for patterns in the everyday (traffic, bees swarming, kids swinging on swings, people riding escalators) and creates music from them. [kottke.org]

I am in a weird friggin’ mood right now.

Mariners? M A R I N E R S ! Oh … I wish Olga were here to see this: The day her mom battles back from a heart attack, her beloved (and beleaguered) Mariners clinch a playoff berth. What a weird, terrible, wonderful world. Perhaps we are the baby, and there is too much liquid in all of us.

An anthology I’m part of came out today! Enjoy a collaboration of stories written by bi authors about bi characters! My contribution is titled Caught in the Middle, and it’s an MMF workplace romance 🥰❤️

They died because US leadership has determined there is no strategic advantage to using our surplus resources to foster good will internationally; rather, we have decided to cultivate hatred, resentment, and desires for revenge as broadly as possible.

Essentially this has been my intuition for a while. Nice to see I’m not alone, and in good company. I don’t know what to do about it, unfortunately. I am hesitant to embrace broad social conflict, even in the face of grave danger. I’ll have to listen to the full podcast for details.

There's too much liquid in the baby.

“How can fit 80 vaccine into tiny bebe?” says Dr. Drinkenbleach

Over-sweetened cup Must finish it anyway The coffee, decaf

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

And now I’ve got “Big Rock Candy Mountain” stuck in my head.

Zig Ziglar’s “Secrets of Closing the Sale”