michaelangelo didn't spend three years lying on a scaffold fifty feet in the air painting dicks for you to not look at them!

. @lopatto.bsky.social had it right www.theverge.com/business/793...

chat is it good when a powerful catholic priest is asking in the headline of his essay whether you should be burned at the stake? legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

guys it has been miserable hot this week. 90 degrees. in march.

customer slopport. is this anything

Liz Lopatto wrote about the Andreessen thing! Yessssssssssssss.

I love to have fun online www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...

Everything about Maine politics seems weird until you remember that Stephen King wrote all his characters that way because those were people he saw around town

Oh man, the hit at Ras Laffan has taken almost 20% of output (i.e. roughly 3% of global LNG volumes) offline for *3-5 years*.

the dumb home wins again

me to my editor yesterday: oh I'm just going to write a quick little goof! word count on the quick little goof: ~2800

SCOOP from @anthonycormier.bsky.social & team As Lutnick Sold Cantor to His Children, Tether Gave Them a Loan Reps for Tether and Lutnick's family declined to reveal the amount. An ethics expert said the loan may be ‘another favor his family owes Tether.’ 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

accidentally used too much hot sauce on my lunch, now have the hiccups

if i had legs i’d kick you (2025)

honestly put him on mt rushmore

I wrote about insider trading on prediction markets again www.theverge.com/business/896...

why is every fashion brand trying to get me to dress like little house on the prairie

cat just attempted to steal a tortilla chip

"Dead empires have all the best stuff. A living empire, meanwhile, is less appealing, because it looks like the United States." johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

it’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible lawyer

steely dan has many jams but I stand with my previous RT

One Battle After Another has all the dressings of "revolution," but at its core it's actually a conservative—even regressive—attempt to get you to fess up that Steely Dan does have at least one jam.

it's 80 degrees outside but the cat wants to sit on my lap so I guess I'm just gonna sweat

ANDREESEN: Introspection is fake. I silenced my inner monologue with a lobotomy. I'm the first 'dehuman.' I revere the locust. If I dreamed, I'd dream of being the Alien from Alien. INTERVIEWER: Would you call yourself a 'philosophical zombie'? ANDREESEN: [mucosal snort] I don't do philosophy.

There are no references to anything called or recognisable as "The Moon" in any sources prior to 1950.

Call me crazy but I am of the opinion that there should be a cost -- transparency, time, effort, actual $ -- to being a public company and people/companies who whine about quarterly reporting should give back the money they raised and stay private www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

I urged Pope Leo to launch a formal independent inquiry into the alleged abuses, staffed by lay and clerical experts I also asked that he reopen the canonisation of the group’s controversial founder Josemaría Escrivá, who was made into a saint in 2002

Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group A THREAD 🧵

this is some of the funniest inadvertent anti-Protestant propaganda I’ve seen in quite some time

Hegemonic suicide

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

This is my all-time favorite piece of science writing. Still find it moving. orionmagazine.org/article/deep...

I've run into rattlesnakes several times while hiking and I've never had an issue. they politely rattle to tell me to leave them alone, and I do. anyway, I liked this article. did you know rattlesnakes have rattlesnake friends? www.texasobserver.org/consider-the...

oh no the guy who ruined people's lives is being made fun of online

snooze

This slaps

he has his heart set on killing it himself

man I've owned this waterman carène less than a month and its cap ring already broke. sucks! it's a gorgeous pen and I really like the smooth nib

oh boy when I find out how anything works at all there's a long list of people who will be In Trouble

doge really did select hires on the basis of "too young to understand that they will likely have personal legal liability" didn't they

In DC comics there is a character named Jenny Sparks, and her superpower is to be the living embodiment of the 20th century with all of its complexities, progress, and setbacks. This is what Adrian Chiles is to me, he is the living complicated and triumphant spirit of Great Britain

skill issue

ooooh temu figured out it's now shorthand for "cheap off-brand garbage" and is not happy about it